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(C) HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT OF A POLICE CORPORAL, TAKING SUMMONS
ACTION AGAINST A DUAL PURPOSE VAN DRIVER, BY A SMALL CROWD OF
COMMUNIST SUPPORTERS. THE DRIVER AND TWO ASSAILANTS WERE ARRESTED.
(D) A MEETING AT THE FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS ON THE
AT WHICH A VERY SENIOR COMMUNIST LABOUR OFFICIAL, SPEAKING TO
OTHER LEADING PERSONALITIES, CRITICISED THE UNRULY BEHAVIOUR
OF SOME DELEGATIONS, EXPRESSED DISAPPROVAL OF THE RECENT ATTEMPTS
BY STRIKERS TO DISRUPT PUBLIC TRANSPORT CPARAGRAPH 1 CC) OF
TELEGRAM NO. 715) AND SUGGESTED THAT INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE
COMMUNIST HIERARCHY WERE BEING MISINTERPRETED BY SOME UNION LEADERS. (E) FURTHER MEETINGS OF COMMUNIST UNIONS AT WHICH THEMAIN
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THEME WAS RETURN TO WORK'. AN OFFER BY THE MANAGEMENT OF A MAJOR
DOCKYARD IN KOWLOON TO RE-EMPLOY 'STRIKERS' ON AN INDIVIDUAL
BASIS THROUGH COMPANY LABOUR CONTRACTORS WAS REJECTED BY THE UNION
CONCERNED WHEN THE MANAGEMENT REFUSED TO EMPLOY KNOWN AGITIATORS.
ANOTHER DOCKYARD UNION HAS ANNOUNCED THAT 'WORK GROUPS' OF
'STRIKERS' WILL BE FORMED TO OBTAIN TEMPORARY ALTERNATIVE EMPLOYMENT
SEMICOLON MEMBERS WILL CONTINUE TO DRAW 'STRIKE' ALLOWANCES.
THE MAJOR COMMUNIST TRANSPORT UNION HAS PROPOSED A LOAN SCHEME
TO ASSIST 'STRIKING' MEMBERS, SUPPORTED BY EMPLOYED MEMBERS WHO
WILL BE ASKED TO SURRENDER TWO DAYS' PAY A MONTH TO SUBSIDIZE THE
'STRIKERS'.
CF) ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA IN THE COMMUNIST PRESS, WHICH
GAVE DAILY PROMINENCE TO DELEGATIONS AND MEETINGS DEMANDING THE
RELEASE OF PRISONERS AND COMPLAINING ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT.
NO REFERENCE WAS MADE TO THE STREET DEMONSTRATORS CPARAGRAPH 1CR))
NOR TO THOSE DELEGATIONS CONCERNING REINSTATEMENT. THE AGREEMENT
ON STERLING RESERVES CONTINUED TO BE STRONGLY CRITICISED,
AND INDIVIDUAL GRIEVANCES IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION, RESETTLEMENT
AND HAWKERS WERE GIVEN PUBLICITY. BY THE END OF THE WEEK THE USE
OF HONG KONG AS A BASE FOR U.S. AGGRESSION HAD BEEN ALMOST ENTIRELY
DROPPED AS A THEME.
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