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RMG workers clash with cops: 15 hurt

Staff Correspondent
At least 15 garment workers were injured in two separate clashes with police and factory staffers in the city's Uttara and Adabar yesterday.
Several hundred workers of those two garment factories staged demonstrations on the busiest Airport and Shyamoli Roads demanding their out-
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FROM PAGE 16 standing dues and protesting assault on a female worker.
During demonstrations traffic movement came to a standstill for about one and a half hours as workers put barricades on those two busy thoroughfares. In Uttara workers of the garment factory Palmal Style alleged that the general manager of the factory slapped Jesmin, a factory worker, after an exchange of hot words over work.
As the news spread several hundred workers of the factory staged demonstrations and clashed with the staffers of the factory at about 10:30am. As the workers blockaded the road halting movement of vehicles police rushed to the spot.
At one stage factory staffers and police launched a combined attack on the agitating workers, workers of the factory said. At least 15 workers were injured in the clash,said locals
The factory authorities, however, later removed general manager Altaf Hossain on charge of assaulting Jesmin.
Uttara police said the irate workers left the road at about 12:00pm after the factory authorities assured them of removing the general manager from his post.
Meanwhile in Adabar, the workers of R & S Garment Factory at Shyamoli under Adabar police station staged demonstrations demanding their outstanding salaries.
The workers of the factory put barricade on Shyamoli Road at 10:30 am that lasted for about one and a half hours.
At one stage, the demonstrators got unruly as police clubbed the agitating workers. In retaliation workers also pelted stone and brickbats on police turning the entire area into a battlefield. Factory workers also beat the workers, they alleged.
Of the injured, at least five
were female workers. They were admitted to different local hospitals and clinics. Police also picked up six workers who were later released.
During the agitation and road blockade, several hundred vehicles had to remain stranded on the road resulting in untold sufferings of the people.
Sources from police and factory workers said the authorities had not been paying salaries of workers since the Eid-ul-Azha under the pretext that the owner of the factory, Rashed-un-Nobi, was abroad.
The situation returned to normalcy as the mother and two brothers of factory owner Rashed-un-Nobi rushed to the spot and assured workers of paying off their dues.
Later sub-inspector Mir Sabbir Ali of Adabar police station said, the authorities paid off the dues or workers in the afternoon.