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result of an acute difference with Mr. Madeley, the Minister

of Posts and . Telegraphs. Resignation was apparently his only way of getting rid of Mr. Madeley, who had refused to resign. In direct disobedience to General Hertzog's instructions Mr. Madeley had received a deputation from the I.C.U. (native trade union) to discuss the wages of native postal employees. Only a few days before General Kemp had refused to allow the I.C.U. to intervene in a dispute between the Department of Agriculture and its native employees. Thus a conflict of principle was created in the Cabinet. Mr. Madeley argued that he was merely standing up for trade unionism, but General Hertzog's view was that the I.C.U. is not really a trade union, but a kind of political organization by no means confined to manual workers.

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