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Growing Labour Unrest in Hong Kong
The tense labour situation in Hong | guarded premises lucked by the tram-
Kong deteriorated last night when busmen sent an ultimatum to their employers, threatening to strike if their demands for higher pay and better conditions were not met by Saturday.
Other public utility workers met to discuss the position-brought to a head by tramway company dismissals for go-slow tactics-but no immediate action was proposed.
Troops Stand By
ways company and erected barricades.
A military spokesman said that the garrison would probably be called in to help run public concerns
broke out.
if a strike
The tramway company dismissed about 600 conductors and several hundred other workers after a four-day go-slow strike over the Christmas holidays for higher wages and improved conditions.
About 200 were on a sit-down strike Two inside one company building. thousand others, described as extremely angry," refused at a meeting yesterday to accept the dismissals, but were meeting officials of the Government Labour for further talks. Department later Telephone, electricity, gas, and postal workers were also involved.
Lorry loads of armed Commando troops earlier moved into police head- quarters in a "routine security exercise " as the general strike threat developed. Royal Marines were already standing by Sympathisers" from Communist-held ready to protect the dockyards against Canton had also arrived, threatening to possible industrial trouble, while police | shift the dispute to the political sphere.
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