Note for See. of State.
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BONG BONG
Recent Disturbances
A pow note of militancy h's been discernible in suveral labour
disputes involving left wing unions that have oocurraŭ since the facad
inoidenț. A common feature of those disputes hao huon the unusually
noisy and truculent behaviour of left-wing elements (the ohanking of
quotations from the worke of Kao Tse-tung, singing of revolutionary song a
and the brandishing of copies of "quotations from Chairman Mao") and the
prominenos given to them in the Hong Kong left-ring Prons. Such Press
coumont has in general characterised the notions of the Hong Kong
mithorities as "suppression of patriotic workers and ocupatriots" and has
referred in open or veiled teras to the parallel of Maomi.
Disrute în Artificial Flower Factories,
2. One of these disputes sterted in April in two factories under the
game management promcing artificial flowers, oze în Kowloon and the
other on Hong Kong Island. It concerned wages and conditions of employment
and involved some 650 workers, Direct negotiations between tho
managerent and workers wero inconclusivo. The affected sections of be
factories more closed and the workers were dismissed. The Labour
Department offered ita services, but was rebuffed by both sides.
3. On the 6th lay there wore disorders outside the Lowloon factory
when about 60 pickets obstructed the loading and departure of lorries
with finished prožucts. The Folice intervaned and in all 21 arrests.
were made arising out of those incidents.
The Union involved formulated on the 8th May the following demanda
which were prominently featured in the left-wing proas: ·
(a) Immediate release of workers arrested.
(b) iunishment of evil-doers and compensation for those injured,
(c) guarantee of the workers' personal safety
(a) no interference benceforth by the police in 1-bour disputes,
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