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suspension could be withdrawn. The workers refused to be cheated however, and immediately turned down his offer.
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Meanwhile, to cover up the truth and to decive our Chinese compatriots in Hong Kong and Kowloon, the Hong Kong Bri tish authorities spread word yesterday through certain reactionary newspap crs and radio net-works that some 500 workers were suspended from duty' while over 200 worked as usual' and that all craft were
running normally'. To turn fiction into truth' a special launch was sent by the 'Marine Department' at 4 a.m. yesterday to carry pressmen from reactionary papers and the television company. They took pictures of a launch setting off from the slipway, the crew-members of which were under the threat of plainclothes agents. Furthermore, those alleged to be 'working as usual' were only the 30-odd late comers held back by the police and the European.
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a matter of fact, 90% of the workers had left to take part in the condemnation rally against the mean action of the Hong Kong British authorities, and all the launches were lying inactive and un-manned in the dockyard.
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The policemen who went yesterday were fully armed 'riot squads'.
The weapons with which they slaughtered our compatriots wicker shields, tear gas shells, carbines and steel helmets all hidden in police trucks on the spot, A small unit had al so been sent to station in bigger launches off the dockyard.
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At 2 p.m. yesterday, the Anti-Persecution Struggle Committee of Hong Kong and Kowloon Compatriots in All Circles convened a meeting to comfort the workers of the 'Marine Department' Those who attended spoke in succession and warned the Hong Kong British authorities:"If violent suppression is waged, it will certainly be met by violent opposition." (ccw)
Wen Wei Po
3rd June, 1967
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The entire workers of the Green Island Cement Co., Ltd. held a mass rally yesterday to denounce the management for continuing to plot intrigues and for lacking sincerity in bringing about a settlement of the dispute. The workers indignantly said that the Fascist atrocitics perpetrated by the Hong Kong British authorities to suppress their Chinese compatriots must be atoned for. They unanimousl;
ly expressed their determination to respond to the call of. the Anti-Persecution Struggle Committee of Hong Kong and Kowloon Compatriots in All Circles, to participate in the anti-persecution
struggle, and to carry on the struggle until complete victory was attained.
The workers pointed out at the meeting that the management had recently made use of the propaganda machinery of reactionary newspapers to announce that it was prepared to send ex-gratia payment' directly to the workers. Making an attack on the management's intrigue, the workers said furiously: "We people of the labouring class are not afraid of hardship or death. We will certainly not be allured by a 'monetary policy' We will not be
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