Tear Gas Used as Workers Throw Beer Bottles Dispersed After Long Siege Tear was bombs and empty beer bolties flew when Settlement Police sought to break Into the Union Brewery in Tchang Road on June 22 to eject about 200 strikers. Several policemen and strikers received minor injuries.
Although broken beer bottles tered the street and the factory compound, only two tear gas bombs wore tured by the police in dispersing the strikers who occupied and controlled the entrance. The rest walked out of the plant laier without doing any Jdamage {0 the machinery. A number: of windows were broken, however.
COfMeials from the Bureau of Social Affairs of the Shanzhai City Govern. ment are to mediate the dispute between the management and the strik~ ers The workers are demanding. among other things, a monthly bonus equivalent to four days' exten pay.
The strike began shortly afler 10 am. afler the management had. asked the workers to remain peacefully at their jobs.
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