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PART V PERSONS INVOLVED
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remaining in Malaya. He attended primary school until 1960 and on leaving school joined the South Sea Textile Factory; he then had three months as a printing apprentice; following which he took an occasional job of knitting sweaters, and then become an apprentice for knitting sweaters at 253 Castle Peak Road for one year. After that he worked for one year in the Cheung Fat Knitting Factory at Man Sang Building. He left, he said, because he had trouble with some Chiu Chow people and went to work at unregistered factories for a short while. From there he went to the Golden Gate Bakery for 20 days and then resumed work as a knitter at another unregistered factory. He subsequently tried a job at a plastic factory for three months getting approximately $700 per month until he joined the Prisons Department in July 1965, which he left in December, having been reported three times for misbehaviour. He went back to knitting again at the Yick Mee Knitting Factory in Kwun Tong, but left shortly afterwards as he was paid only $10 a day. Finally he was employed by a friend at a coffee stall at Cheung Sha Wan Road where he was given $4 a day together with meals and cigarettes, but left after two months when the stall was leased to some other person; he was then unemployed for ten days. He contended that he did not stay long at jobs because wages were low and, with a mother who was sick all the time, insufficient to keep her as his father had not been sending remittances. At the time of the riots, he was a co- tenant at the 10th Block, of the Shek Kip Mei Resettlement Estate with one MOK Lok Wai. He had to move there, he said, because the wooden hut which he owned in Nim San Village had to be let to clear the debts of his mother.
354. In the early hours of 6th April, he heard a lot of noise outside his flat. It came from the anti-ferry fare increase demonstration. He followed the crowd up Castle Peak Road, mainly, he said, out of curiosity as he had no clear knowledge about the Star Ferry increases. He continued with them to the Star Ferry, the crowd getting larger, he said, as they walked down Nathan Road. He estimated the number in the procession to be roughly about 1,000 when they got to the Star Ferry. There, he said, Mr. SUTCLIFFE told ‘a person named RAGGENSACK' who was one of the crowd that they would have to leave within five minutes or the police would take action against them; this contrasts with RAGGENSACK'S conten- tion that he had gone home before then. Some of the crowd started to leave, but there was a scuffle and he heard that Mr. SUTCLIFFE was assaulted. He saw, he said, 'uniformed policemen and detectives and also a superintendent attacking the public with clubs' and saw five persons arrested, but the crowd then dispersed. He left the area with MOK Lok Wai in a taxi and went home and was pleased with himself, he said, for having taken part in the demonstration.
355. The following day, 6th April, at MOK Lok Wai's suggestion they went to the Reform Club, arriving there shortly after 9 o'clock, and he met Mr. WONG, the organizing secretary, and subsequently made a statement. He accompanied LO Kei in the subsequent visits to Government House and the South Kowloon Magistracy. Having learned from LO Kei of the meeting at the Reform Club
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