Gang attacks protesting workers

A GANG of more than thirty young group pounded a organisation of displaced person workers, a single a lady in her 80s, with knives as well as iron pipes in Shanghai yesterday morning. Several of a workers, who had been looking remuneration of long-delayed salaries, were injured. Police arrested most of a purported enemy as well as are still sport for a others as well as a male pronounced to have hired them. The attack, which witnesses pronounced was similar to a stage from a mafiosi movie, began during around 10am when 3 vans forsaken off a squad in front of a offices of a cashmere clothing association in Minhang District. Witnesses pronounced a young group - each wearing a red badge scored equally round their arms to distinguish themselves from a "enemies" - jumped from a vans as well as rushed in to a building. Led by Gao Yuanshu, a team of displaced person workers had been occupying a third-floor bureau in a bureau bureau bureau building given final Wednesday in protest during a owner, Dong Jian, who they pronounced due them salaries which were 4 years overdue. Peng Daihua, a single of a victims, pronounced which a aged woman, Xu Kezhen, was stealing in a kitchen when a group pounded a workers with knives as well as pipes. But she was soon spotted, as well as a enemy pulled her down a stairway, with her head as well as back repeatedly conflict a steps, Peng said. Some witnesses told military they saw group flog a aged lady after she was pulled to a ground in front of a bureau bureau bureau building whilst a rest of a squad threw some of a workers' luggage as well as quilts out of a window of a bureau they were in. The aged woman, 4 workers as well as a neighborhood security worker perplexing to intercede as well as stop a disharmony received injuries which enclosed cuts as well as critical bruises to their heads, arms as well as knees, according to witnesses. One of a workers had his hamstring cut, according to colleagues. The harmed were all taken to hospital after military arrived on a scene. Dong, ! a associ ation owner, had not shown up to talk with a workers given they began occupying a office. Gao told a military he listened a single of a squad shout: "Spare no effort. The boss ordered us to hit them dead." The workers pronounced they were looking income payments totaling about 2 million yuan (US$300,548) from a building a whole plan 4 years ago. Dong had outsourced part of a plan to a workers, including a aged lady who had worked as a janitor on a building a whole site. But after a plan was completed, Dong didn't transparent a income payments because he pronounced he wasn't confident with a plan quality, a workers said. They recently detected Dong additionally operated a clothing association in Minhang as well as sent representatives to demand settlement. Before a attack, a internal court was mediating between a two sides after a workers filed a legal case against Dong.