LEFT-WING LABOR REACTION TO LIQUIDATION OF MACAO BUS COMPANY

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Left-dingy- Labor Reaction Lo
Liquidation of L.scIo Bus Company
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_a. The Government should force the company to play the workers :3i.x months' wages
as severance pay.
b.. ' The workers should be allowod to run the company d.urinlg its liquidatict,
sra~re naw nsue o+sraieur~oru
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the &acao Bus Company? which in the latter part of 1.951 had
been opera ing with a monthly loss of Fiore than 10,000 patacas, announced
that it would suspend business on 1 January 1952, and requested the ;iaoac
Government to auction off the compa: yl s3 assets. On 30 December, LIU Chih-pinl?
leader of the pro-Communist workers i , the u.s ca o bus Company, called a meeting
at which it was resolved to demand special wages from 1{he company, and to
destroy the busses if the demand was r'afused. At the compary's recquests police
were posted to protect the busses.
T hen the yaoao bus Company stopped operations on 1 `anuar; and paid all workers
their wages for "ecember and January, the lef tv-wing workers, on instructions
from the caaoao Labor Union, refused to accept the wagon. About seventy of
these workers held a meeting is front of the bus ~;ara ,e to elect representatives
who should ask the ziacao Government to allow the wor.cers to run the bus companyy,
For several days after this ueeting sons orty left-w:nu workers stayed at the
company garage with the intent of stealing the busses and driving them into
Communist Cis. ina
a? After two more meetifigs., one of which was disperse, by the l acao Police, the
left-wing_,, workers seat representatives to the -acao (h-uer iment with the following
requests,, none of which was -ranted-
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o~ The Government should guarantee that any now company world employ all
the old workers,,
4, The Macao Labor Union sent cables to Peiping sad Cantonn .r?equesti.ng support
for the bus workers,, A local Supporting Committee was formed on 11 January,,
The Macao Labor Union requ0sted donations for the workers,, and various prom
Communist labor associations contributed over 3,000 patacas to tNiz ouuse.
6r MA Van-oh9i, vice chairman of the l aoao Chinese Chamber of Commeroet, went to
Canton to report the bus strike to the Swangtig k'rovinoie1 Labor Union,.
which subsequently ordered the wacaso labor Lnion to fight to the ead~
On 18 January the Macao Bus Company was sold for UK $350?000 to the Fu Li
tj) Bus Company,, Limited. This new company was organized by P. J. Lobe,-
LIANG Ch"angc CLUNG Tau-kuang9 HO lieien? and LIU Heng-ohung,,2 On the same
day LIU and Peter PtiSNQ ( `1) went to the #aoao Bus Company to take over all
the equipwsznt i'or the new company,, which intended to res at operations on
all lines an 21 January, after the busses had boon repaired, The right''wing
(sic) workers were dismissed with an additional three months' wages-3
$? Comment, The dismissal of the left-wing trouble---makers would
appear more reasoaableg and may have been what occurred,, However,, the
Lobo group have been consistently reported as conciliatory to the Chinese
Communists in Ueoao~
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