Persons without any defined profession, attracted by the vision of gold, have flocked to Johannesburg; unable to find employment, they have become a discontented proletariat.

These are the true adventurers, if the word be taken in its worst sense.

Mr.Krueger and his agents choose them as colleagues and pit them against the "wealthy metal-hearted mine owners." This is the policy pursued by Dr.Leyds in Europe, where he has been clever enough to excite alike the capitalist and socialist Press against the hated mine owner.
Mr.Rouliot continues, that it is not within the province of the Chamber of Mines to provide work for incompetent workmen.

It was, no doubt, from among these men that Mr.Krueger had raised the signatures of the counter-petition which so "emphatically" declared the administration of the South African Republic "to be all that could be desired." 5 .-- _The Petition and the Despatch of May 10th._ They were _bona fide_ workmen who took the initiative in the petition of March 28th, 1899, called forth by the murder of their fellow-workman, Edgar.

We see, from Mr.Rouliot's report, that the Chamber of Mines regarding the petition as compromising, disassociated itself from it.
Nor was that all.