The African Mine workers strike of 1946
… Chamber of Mines, AMWU began to decline after 1937. In 1940, at the instigation of Ray Alexander at the CPSA’s … organise. But the party, with a total membership of 280 in 1940, was unable to work with the miners, half of whom were … ANC’s minister of labour, followed this up with an open letter to ANC members in all four provinces, making the same …