The climax of the situation was reached where the police opened fire on workers in one estate in Kedah. This incident clearly marked a watershed in labour relations and signalled more serious collusion between employers (and now) the security forces than had hitherto been the case. … Read More >The 1947 Kedah Strike
[By Charles Hector] Many of the leaders of the labour movement were arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced. SA Ganapathy, for example, who was the first president of the 300,000-strong PMFTU, was hanged by the British in May 1949. … Read More >How the British suppressed the Malayan labour movement (Part 3)
