Cypher
PRIORITY
SECRET
INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)
D. 9 June 1967 R. 9
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No.808
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Washington No.175
## Peking No. 325
"P.A. Singapore No.170
(C.O. please pass to all)
My telegram No.776 214
Hong Kong disturbances.
L.I.C. assessment of the situation as at 1200 hours 9 June is as follows:
The principal features of the Communist confrontation with the Government over the past three days have been:-
(a) Token Strikes: There was a revival of stoppages
of work, mainly in protest against Government action in taking down posters, which affected tally-clerks and workers in the Taikoo dockyard, the tailoring trade, one of the electric companies, the main wharf company and Government waterworks. As a result of the stoppage by Government waterworks employees notices of interdiction were served on twelve workers, following which some 300 workers at the Kowloon Branch walked out.
(b)
The partial stoppage of work at the Government slipway, operated by the Marine Department, has continued. As a result it has been possible to man only about 30% of the launches operated by the Department.
(c) The continued display of posters (on a somewhat
reduced scale) and newspapers containing inflammatory material by a number of concerns under Communist control. Employees of the Star Ferry Company went on strike on 6 June 1967, following action by police to remove posters which had been put up again on ferries. All floating staff of the company (about 4,000)have since been suspended and the Company is now inviting applications for re- employment but has no intention of re-engaging the 60 persons believed to be behind the trouble. On the morning of 8 June employees of the Government Maintenance Garage in Kowloon and the Kowloon depot
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