In South Africa's textile factories, white girls, most of them Afrikaners (of Dutch descent), work willingly alongside half-caste and Negro girls. The man mainly responsible for such amity is a 50-year-old Russian-born Jew named Emil Solomon Sachs. Secretary of the garment workers' union for 24 years and known to its 20,000 devoted members as "Solly," Labor Leader Sachs has helped raise their average weekly wage from $3 to $24 over the years.
His nonsegregation policy, however, incurred the bitter enmity of Dr. Daniel Malan's race-purity government. Last week the government branded him a Communist and ordered him dismissed from his...
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