The Reserve Unit was called out to the Mei Foong Dyeing Factory at 112 Penang Road yesterday afternoon and several Chinese were arrested when strikers of another industrial concern in the vicinity attempted to force the employees of the factory When their attempts failed the strikers, 60 in number, tried to wreck the place. A call was then put through to the Gordon Road police station. Members of the Reserve Unit, who were also called, were not required to intervene. Station policemen evicted the rioters and arrested the ringleaders. Nobody was injured in the riot.
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