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island, and 1,000 workers, affiliated to the Hong Kong and Kowloon Tailoring Trade Workers (Sai-Fung-Tong) Union (TU 216 – L/W), and 2,000 machine-sewing workers in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
Workers of Marine Department
Workers of the Marine Department continued their stoppage of work yesterday in protest against the Hong Kong British authorities' sending of special agents to tear down their anti-violence 'big character posters' and threats of 'interdiction from work' with a view to forcing them to resume work. They refuted the rumour, manufactured and spread by the Hong Kong British authorities, that the slipway workers of the Marine Department had resumed normal work. They expressed indignation over the 'appeal' by the Radio Hong Kong, which, they said, was an intrigue aimed at deceiving and alluring the workers and breaking down their solidarity. (pcwk)
Star Ferry workers
About one hundred marine 'riot squads' and 'marine police' marched to the Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry pier around 7 p.m. last night to engage in their illicit, sneaky activities in the dark with the help of the Star Ferry management. They tore down the big character posters and placards pasted up by the Star Ferry workers in protest against the Fascist atrocities of the Hong Kong British authorities. The cabins where the workers lived were illegally searched and some personal belongings of the workers were taken away. behaviour of the Hong Kong British authorities is no different to that of pirates,
The presumptuous In protest against this serious challenge by the Hong Kong British authorites, the workers immediately resorted to a gradual stoppage of work after 10 p.m. last night. By 11.20 p.m. two routes of the Star Ferry had completely stopped running. (dyn)
Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po
7th June, 1967
Taikoo Dockyard workers' demands
The manager of the Taikoo Dockyard tried to intimidate the launch workers in the dockyard two days ago by saying: "Tear down those posters in the fast as you can.
ships as Otherwise, not only will the Police take 'legal action' against you, but we shall discharge you all!"
This is clearly a challenge on the part of the Hong Kong British authorities. It also signifies that the Hong Kong British imperialists in the Taikoo Dockyard have broken their promise 'not to intervene in the matter of the workers big character posters'. Workers were thus forced to engage in bitter strife with the challenger.
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Cassels, manager of the Taikoo Dockyard, and T.K. Duncan, the assistant manager, finally had to bow to admit their guilt under the righteous trial of the workers after a struggle of more than eight hours yesterday. Besides giving assu- rances not to intervene with the pasting up of posters in the launches, they signed to accept the just three-point demand of the Taikoo Dockyard Workers' Struggle Committee.
The three-point demand reads as follows:
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