Welcome back to part two of our double episode on the Hong Kong riots of 1967.

If you haven't listened to part one, I'm talking the waiting day,

so we can be a general strike.

The response by the colonial authorities was just heavy-handed repression and violence.

According to Cho Yat-Kang, I remember there was a guy who was beaten up by the police to death,

and his name is Lay-on, So three police together beat him up and then he was, he died in the

police station. So I also have heard that when he was arrested from the Shaw studio, he was

already beaten up once and then in the police station he was

already beaten up again and again and that's why he died later. So the people trying to

charge the police for the violence but then failed. The police were not prosecuted or sentenced at last. So there was

a nickname for the police station in Wang Dysin, which was the district next to the Sampokong

gone, the factory district. So the police station in Wang Dijin is called Yim Wang Dean, meaning the hell.

To try to persuade workers to keep up the action, the unions took the unprecedented step at that time

of paying strike pay. And according to Cho Yikang, during the general strike, the workers

participated are actually supported by the union. The union

will give out money as a living cost for these workers, so to encourage them to continue the strike.

However, because the colonial government has never stopped suppressing the activities of the unions.

For example, they beat up the union members. They hit a lot of people. There was a lot of violence.

And all these contributed to them. Result that the strike didn't continue for too long.

It's difficult to find out detailed information about the strikes.

For example, the Hong Kong Labor Department keeps records of numbers of strikes and strike days every year, except for 1967.

But records seem to show that early on in May, the Wildcat strikes were widely supported.

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