1400 On the 7th of Jamary, President Nyeroroe deported Victor Meello, general secrotary of the Tanganyika Plantation Workers Union, and enother official to the Sumbawange settlement, which is on the border with Northern uhodesia, This comes after a wave of strikes by sical plantation workers in protest against now wage contracts, which aimed at speeding up production, and reducing wages in the process, Strikes are illegel in Tanganyika and likello supported anti-strike legislation when it was put through parliamont, But this has not saved him from being banished when the plantation workers struck to defend their conditions,
Tanganyika is to all intents and purposes a ono party rezimo end it is clear that Nyerere does not intend evon subservient T.U. leaders to become focal points for expressing discontent. However, with the precarious state of the economy it remains to be seen whether the governmant can afford an all out clash with the sisal workers, whose product forms one of the foundations of Tanganyikan exports,