ON STRIKE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 22 October 1945, Page 5

ON STRIKE

SINGAPORE DOCKERS Support For Indonesian Uprising Rec. 10.30 a.m. SINGAPORE, Oct. 21. Seven thousand dock labourers struck this morning in sympathy with the Indonesian movement in Java, says the Associated Press correspondent. The entire wharf is idle and no ships are being unloaded. The labourers are reported to have struck against loading ammunition destined for Java, also against insufficient wages. A crowd of 1000 demonstrated outside police headquarters when the police detained ten members of the Labour Union Propaganda Corps trying to enter the wharf area this morning. The police dispersed the demonstrators. The Associated .Press says the first groups of liberated Dutch prisoners of war are leaving Singapore to-day for military service in Java. They are mainly army and naval personnel who, after refresher training, have been armed by the British. • Fifty British marines, working under a naval provost marshal, Major F. Little, have cleaned up the grog racket in a week. Raiding parties, working day and night, broke up Chinese "hooch" gangs. Although there were 22 deaths and two cases of blindness from alcoholism when the round-up, began not a single case has been reported since. The Superior Court has sentenced to death the first of Singapore's terrorists who have been carrying on a campaign of murder, abduction and torture under the guise of purging the city of collaborators, says Reuters correspondent. ~-.-.