Sobsi protest to Singapore Government over mass arrests (Arrests: Indonesian groups protest)
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ARRESTS:
INDONESIAN
GROUPS
| PROTEST
JAKARTA, Tues.— The
| big Communist-controlled Sobsi Trade Union Federation has cabled a protest to the
Singapore Government for its mass arrests of leftwing elements on the island last weekend.
The cable read,in “an behalf of three Indonesian labourers = condemnz strongly e arrests and demand the immediate release of the detainees.”
The extreme leftwing Partindo (Indonesia Party and the Gerwani Women’s
Movement, have also protested against the arrests.
—Reuter.