Journal of the group meeting

What we discuss in the group meeting
First meeting 1 September 1.30 pm to 3 pm
We went through all the sources and sorted them out. Continue our research on the sources by the next meeting.We finished all our sources that day.We found out how the people suffered and the unfair treatment.  We explore more about how the Hock Lee Bus riot started. We also discussed how the new government had to tackle the challenges posed by a strengthened Communist movement which organised regular industrial disputes and strikes. One strike that turned 
violent was the Hock Lee Bus strike. The Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus Company was one of several small bus companies operating in Singapore in the 1950s. The bus workers belonged to two unions, Singapore Bus Workers Union and Hock Lee Employee's Union. Finally, we also discussed how the country and the people were affected by the riot and how the riot affect its country development in the future.

Second meeting 7 September 2014 1 pm to 3.30 pm

Discussion question: Why should we remember the hock lee bus riots?

Well it served as a lesson for the people. The people under circumstances will not go on a strike unless it is really necessary as they might have the possibility of losing their job and might even be jailed or fined. What I feel that caused the strike is because the hock lee bus company didn't handle it well and enrage the people thus from a strike it turned into a riot.Also, we saw that life was unfair in the past, those who were Chinese educated were not treated fairly as those who were English educated, such that even with the same qualifications and positions in a company, the Chinese educated worker would be paid lesser than the English educated worker. The government also funded the English schools more than the Chinese schools, with Chung Cheng being one of them in the past.David Marshall tried to hep but people misunderstood him and thought he was against them.