4 group of Rhodesians waving bannors, which bore slogans condeming Southern Rhodesia as a Police State, protested against tho "hanging bill" on Tuesday Feb, 12th. The demonstration took place during the arrival of the Govrornor at the House of the Legislative issembly in Salisbury to open the session, Large numbers of police were called cut to suppress the demonstrators, The “hanging bill" - an “amendment to the law and order maintenance act" would give sweeping powers to the police to suppress the African resistance, hanging would be introduced for pecple convicted of throwing gasoline bombs and other explosives. In a speech opening the assembly, the Governor Humphrey Gibbs, declared that the amendments were 2lso designed to prevent remirgence of political movements and of political lenders who had boen banned for their activities.
"The Malayan Federation Government announced on Feb, 14th, the detention of jhmad Boestamam, who is s member of Parlisment, leader of the Malayan People's Socialist Front and chairman of the Partai Raayat Malaya, according to a Kuala Lumpur report, He was arrested that afternoon, in an official statement, the Malayan Government branded Boestamam as having carried out "subversive activities", and charged him with expressing support for the Brunei People's armed uprising which broke out lest December. Several days ago, the Singapore “internal security council" which was composed of british, Malayan and Singapore officials, ordered the mass arrests of leaders of opposition parties and cther progressives, totalling more than one mindred and sixty persons,"
The success achieved by the Railwaymen's Union of Malaya after the recent 23}-day-strike of its 14,000 members, has led to an announcement by the Government of the Federation of Malaya that it will soon put its 56,000 daily—paid workers on a monthly scale, at the new rate which the railwaymen are now receiving. Thus RUM has not only won a victory for its own members but for the Malayan trade union movement as a whole. The strike ended wirn a settle ment was reached after the intervention of a mediator, a Professor of the University of Malaya in the negotiations, The terms of the settlement included the reclassification of the daily—paid workers cn monthly rates based on 27 times the daily wage. In addition the monthly—-paid staff roceived considerable wage increases.
About tenthousand people in Kelimantan(Indonesian Borneo) were ready to go to North Kalimantan(North Borneo ; Sarawak and Brunei) to help the people there in their struggle for independence, according to Antara reports from Samarinda recently. These people, who are now gathoring to wait for orders, are of the Iban Puman and Kenjah tribes of the Dajak Netionality, It is reported that apart from the first group, other groups of the Dajak Nationality would also arrive later, According to Radio Samarinda, many people in the interior of Kalimantan hove registered as volunteers and asked to be sont to support the North Kalimanten pecple in the fight for independence. The first group was reported to be led by its own Tribal chiefs and to be armed with primitive wonpons.e