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IMMEDIATE HONG KONG TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
Telno 506
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22 April, 1968
مام (۵) امام هر روش آن
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RECLAD IN
HIVES No.63
22 APRI968
Addressed to C.0. telegram No. 506 of 22 April. Repeated for information to: P.A. Singapore
Washington
HWD
Peking Canberra.
For Commonwealth Office and Cabinet Office for JIC.
Following from LIC.
Weekly assessment of the situation as at 0600 22 April follows in two parts (Part I only for Canberra and Peking)
Part I.
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The principal features of the period have been:-
(a) Further meetings at Communist Unions concerning return to work at which the theme that the reinstatement of a few would represent a victory has been repeated. Yeung Kwong, Chairman of the F.T.U. and of the A.C.A.P.S.C. attended three and at one meeting pledged continued strike pay until re-employment was achieved. The Kowloon branch of the Communist Motor Transport Workers' Union is forming a Committee to carry out reinstatement negotiations and 40 groups of pickets are being organised to be on call to stage protests if the management delays negotiations. During a Union Meeting of dockworkers it was stated that when reinstatement was achieved there could be a
go slow in repairing American ships and those destined for South Viet Nam.
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(b) A report by members of eight Communist Unions, who returned recently from a ten day visit to China, that the Vice Chairman of the Kwang tung Provincial Revolutionary Committee had told them that the
return to work' policy was 'correct' and that China would continue to support them.
(c) An announcement by the F.T.U. that Labour Day celebrations will take the form of variety concerts at the F.T.U. Workers' Club. A Textile Union is organising picnics as a cheaper form of celebration than dinner parties.
(d) Visits to Government Offices by 11 small delegations representing various Communist Unions, including four unions of Government employees, to demand reinstatement of strikers' and protest
Similar against interference with the importation of gift rice'. approaches were made to three utility companies. A delegation from a Communist school called at police headquarters to demand, the release of their headmaster from emergency detention. All were orderly.
(e) An incident on 17 April in the New Territories during which several members of the M.T.W.U. were slightly injured in a clash with a group of unidentified persons from a Right Wing village following an argument in a local restaurant.
(f) Continued picnic parties in the New Territories by groups of Communist supporters from the urban areas, although on a reduced scale.
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