- Dalgleish Report
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In 1947, the British Government set up a commission to examine the colour-bar in its colony of Northern Rhodesia.
The outcome was the Dalgleish Report, which recommended the progressive abolition of the colour-bar and that Africans should be allowed to do work previously reserved to whites.
In 1952, Lawrence Katilunga of the African Mineworkers' Union explained the link between the conclusions of the Dalgleish Report and his union's negotiating stand: "'The Dalgleish Report is still on the shelf, 'Katilunga told me, 'and we want it taken down and implemented. Until that happens, we are goint to press for more and more pay increases. In the end the companies will be compelled to let Africans operate more machines and do more skilled work. otherwise they will simply have to pay us high wages for low-skilled work. It's up to them'"[1]
Notes
- ^ Campbell, Alexander: page 195, "The Heart of Africa", Longmans, Green and Company, 1954
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