SINGAPORE DOCKERS
7000 CUT ON STRIKE
REFUSE TO LOAD ARMS
(11 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 wharves are idle and no ships are being unloaded. The labourers are reported to have struck against the loading of ammunition destined for Java, also against insufficient wages. A crowd of 1000 demonstrated outside police headquarters when the police detained 10 members of the Labour Union propaganda corps trying to enter the wharf a,rea. This morning the police dispersed demonstrators. The Associated Press’ says the first *roups 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.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21850, 22 October 1945, Page 4
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