the parties to reach agreement, but this offer
was refused by both sides.
ourside
Disorders broke out on the 6th May at one
of these factories which was situated in Kowloon
Then Some of the dismissed workers attempted to
interfere with the movement of produete from the
-Factorys The police intervened to maintain law
and order and, as a result, 21 persons were
arrested. Subsequent efforts by the Labour
Department to bring the parties together to discuss
their differences and try to reach an agreed
settlement were frustrated by the outbreak of
further disorders on the 11th May in the vicinity
of the same factory. The police were called in to
restore law and order and 60 persons were arrested.
There were more disorders in the same area until the
14th May. About 400 in all have been arrested
and the law requires that they should be brought
before the courts for trial.
have been released on bail.
Meanwhile
...
persons
The Hong Kong Government's policy is to make
available the specialist services of its Labour
Department to give impartial help to management and
trade unions to settle any disputes which may
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has
arise between them. They have already done so on
do
this occasion and remains ready to continue to all
it
they can to facilitate a settlement.
In the same
way, the Hong Kong Government has an inescapable
duty to maintain law and order as impartially and
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as
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