RED DEFECTOR DESCRIBES HONG KONG RECRUITING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000100020018-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 29, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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kmg Kong Recruiting
..By George Chu members have also raised nists cut the pay from $2.80
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-that amount within to '`$2.40,' and finally wages
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.9'laI, Aug 26-A Hones were broiiglit down to 35 cents.
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Ong , Communist ?leader who port the Comm ttee's x ,,? 4s ,,the organizers had fore-
ions, which are responsible
e ed t e Qr amza!tion be for terrorism, smuggling andprotested bitterly.
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;lgl}va ,re,CeatiY was chair- g store, they would get free
## and terrorists from among
lean o the propaganda section meals and lodging, and their;
those who are dismissed' after
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g Koxrg s AxLti- pa would be raised to ? ngg unofficial strikes at factories, $1.7
5.
?an tr, 1e Committee. This, as in the case of the 186 work- Eventually 400 workers ac
sa}~ was dart of the stoxy ers at a British owned arti- cepted the offer.
1xn .he. Communist led dis ficial flower factory in Kow? This squeeze technique en-'
ers loon.
17te,$ t r u g g 1 e Committee, abled the Communist organiz
Communist officials at once
w h.dilgeets terrorist a ' offered to pay them $2.80 a ers to recruit 1700 workers,
do , , has receive,o . about .$0 day-roughly equivalent to accommodated in other Com-
ld
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ings, by,
U n Chine,e,Nafipnal .lc,abor Then came the squeeze. July.
Union. The Committee's. 28 Within a month, the, Commu- At this point the rumor was
M =_ spread that, because of inform.
ere among ;them, many had
been'-put on police blacklists.
.They were reassured that the
Struggle" Committee would
protect them so long as they
eafrl'ed out * orders. Disobedi-
ence would mean the threat
4 police arrest.._
workers were invited to , vol
unteer for acts of violence,
for which they would be gen-
erously paid. Many, felt they
had , no gitojc , and accepted
~oiaders to 'sta, streetcar and
bus ; t rixers, throw bombs and
commit arson,
?Acenrdirng to Wu,- even the
,most 'extreme groups in Hong
Kong are now, convinced that
their, successes in Macao,
Whej t O . i guese colonial
administration has many Com-
niunist demon s capitulated )
to-cannot be. repeated in Hong x
Fong. But he predicts that the
1700 paid agitators, now job- '
tees a d desperaxe, are likely
iit?iaity_more acts;
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