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| Casualty :A police detective, his face and clothes smeared with burning petrol, a victim of Hock Lee bus rioters. He died later. |
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On 18 and 24 April, SBWU workers in the Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus Company staged lightning strikes to protest against certain actions taken by their management. In the first instance, the workers alleged that the management had breached certain terms of an earlier agreement between the bus company and the SBWU. They were also unhappy with the number of Hock Lee Bus Employees’ Union members being employed as spare workers. In the second instance, the workers objected to the management’s refusal to allow members of the SBWU to operate the spare buses. In response, the management dismissed all 229 SBWU workers in the bus company
Hock Lee bus strike and riots ,Stephanie Ho, 6 August 2014
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Basically, then workers of the Hock Lee Amalgated Bus company who were also members of the pro-communist Singapore Bus Workers Union (SBWU) went on strike due to the new work rosters and the formation of rival unions.
Averlynn Lim,Tuesday, 10 December
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The riot resulted in four people dead and 31 people injured. Corporal Andrew Teo Bok Lan of the Volunteer Special Constabulary was beaten to death and his car overturned and burned. Detective Corporal Yuen Yau Pang died from injuries sustained after the vehicle he was in was similarly attacked.19 Other victims included American press correspondent Gene Symonds and a 16-year-old Chinese student, Chong Lon Chong, who suffered a gunshot wound.
Hock Lee bus strike and riot.Stephanie Ho .6 August 2014
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| The Straits Times, 28 April 1955, Page 115 BUS STRIKERS INJURED |
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article.aspx?articleid=straitstimes19550428-1.2.12
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| The Straits Times, May 13, 1955 |
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| Death of journalist , MediaCorp News Group. © 2014 MediaCorp Pte Ltd. Date NIL |
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The riot subsided in the early hours of 13 May. Later in the day, the government closed three Chinese middle schools – the Chinese High School, as well as the Chung Cheng High School and its branch school. The government stated that this action was taken because of the “deterioration in the strike situation and the increased participation in that situation by pupils of these schools in particular”.22
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