Word: springbok
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...descended a thousand feet into the dim stopes of one mine, drove up, level by level, some 1,000 sit-down strikers. Backed by a law forbidding gatherings of more than 20 natives on mine property, police quickly smashed mass meetings. Other cops swept through the Communists' and Springbok Legion's (a progressive veterans' organization) offices throughout the land. Most of the Central Committee of the puny Communist Party, together with known trade-union leaders, were arrested. Investigation showed that the calling of the strike was opposed by Communist and union leaders, who were overruled by rank...