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NEWS AND COMMENTS ON LABOUR MATTERS TRANSLATED
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H.E. the Governor
Honourable Colonial Secretary
Honourable Secretary for Chinese Affairs
Commissioner of Police (for Director, Special Branch) Director of Information Services
Registrar of Trade Unions
Wen Wei Po
6th Jure, 1967
Work stoppage by Kowloon motor bus workers
RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 63
20 JUN 1967
HWA 24/2
The following notice of work stoppage was posted yesterday morning at all depots by the Anti-Persecution Struggle Committee of the Kowloon Motor Bus Workers.
"To intensify suppression, the H.K. British authorities tore down or obliterated the anti-violence posters of Kowloon motor bus workers. They threatened our fellow-workers in the Service Department and interfered with our legitimate interests and rights. All morning-shift workers of the Service Department in the Castle Peak Road depot, the Lai Chi Kok depot, the To Kwa Wan depot and the Kuntong depot will stop work today to express the strong protest of all Kowloon motor bus workers!"
After they had stopped work, a thousand workers of the Service Department joined together to hold a pledge conference. Angrily they accused the H.K. British imperialists of gathering together workers and threatening them with guns before the posters were scraped off or obliterated. Strong protests were raised against H.K. British provocation in forbidding workers to go to their posts. The workers also denounced the evil collusion between the management of the Kowloon Motor Bus Company and the H, K. British authorities, and announced the one-day stoppage of work as a punishment. More and better poster would be put up in future, whether on buses, at the depots, or in the general office, the workers said.
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During the conference, YEUNG Kwong, Chairman of the Anti-Persecution Struggle Committee of All Circles, made a speech. He emphasized that: "the H.K. British blood debts of over a hundred years have to be uncovered and settled one by one.
We have to act fast and strengthen our preparations for a vigorous and powerful counter-attack.".
-P
(cow)
Wen Wei Po
6th June, 1967
Star Ferry and Kowloon Wharf workers fight together
Mobilized and banded together, the workers of the Star Ferry Co. and the H.K. & Kln. Wharf and Godown Co. marched at 10 a.m. yesterday to the general office of the two companies to ask questions about the provocative action of the H.K. British authorities in sending 300 policemen to remove the anti-violence posters
/on the ferries.
Serial :
103 of 6th June, 1967