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Mill workers' hartal observed

Staff Correspondent
A dawn-to-dusk hartal in the city and elsewhere passed off yesterday without any incident of violence.
The Jute, Cotton and Textile Mills Employees' Action Committee enforced the 6:00am-6:00pm shutdown in protest at the lay-off of state-owned mills and factories.
The main opposition Awami League (ALL the left-leaning 11-party alliance and Sramik-Karmachari Oikya Parishad (Skop) supported the hartal.
Several hundred industrial workers and employees paraded the city streets during the hartal hours demanding withdrawal of the lay-off decision.
Police intercepted a Skop procession in front of the entrance to rhe General Post Office while it was proceeding towards the Bangabandhu National Stadium at about 11:15am. However, police allowed the procession to advance after a hot exchange of words with the workers' leaders.
Although the AL supported the general strike, none of its leaders and activists picketed the city streets. However, a procession led by AL presidium member Abdur Razzak and leader Obaidul Quader joined a rally of the Jute, Cotton and Textile Mills Employees Action Committee in the afternoon, expressing solidarity with the action committee's demand.
The left-leaning 11-party alliance, Workers Party of Bangladesh, Communist Party of Bangladesh and Skop brought out separate processions in support of the hartal in the city. The processions mainly took place in Paltan, Muktangan and Motijheel commercial area.
The hartal supporters chanted slogans criticising government policy ofclosing down mills and factories and rendering thousands of workers jobless.
Government offices in the city remained open with a thin presence of officials and employees. Private offices functioned partially
Most shopping centres kept their shutters down, but many wayside shops remained open. Agood number of buses and auto-rickshaws plied the city streets during the hartal hours and movement of rickshaws was as usual. No inter-city buses operated.
Train service to and from Kamalapur Railway Station was normal. The Zia International Airport also operated normally
Around 4,000 law enforcers were deployed at different strategic points in the city to avert any untoward incident.
At the end of the hartal, left-aligned political parties held a rally at Muktangan in the city. Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon, CPB President Monzurul Ahsan Khan and General Secretary Mujahidul Islam Selim and Gono Forum General
Secretary Saifuddin Ahmed Manik addressed the rally
Our Khulna correspondent says hartal was observed peacefully in Khulna city and elsewhere in the district.
Apart from rickshaws, other modes of transport stayed off the roads. Shops and academic and financial institutions remained closed. Production in the jute mills at Khalishpur and Atra industrial belts remained suspended during the hartal hours.
Our Chittagong correspondent says hartal was observed partially in the port city and adjoining areas yesterday.
Barring educational institutions and commercial banks, other establishments went about their business as usual and all modes of vehicles plied the roads.
Biman and railway sources said all flights and trains to and from Chittagong operated on schedule.
No untoward incident was reported till 4.00pm, said Chittagong Metropolitan Police sources.
Our correspondent from Bogra reports the dawn-to-dusk hartal was peacefully observed in the district. Shops and private offices remained closed.
All types of motor vehicles, including BRTC bus, and trucks were off the road. Hartal supporters took out a procession and held a meeting in the town.