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How did the Labour Front Government push for Internal Self-Government?{1}
How did the Labour Front Government push for Internal Self-Government?
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David Marshall's relation with the British Government {1}
LF formed a collation government with the alliance party
David Marshall was Chief Minister
adamant on taking his role as chief minister full-time
The rendel constitution laid down that the governor should consult the chief minister
did not specify that he must act on the chief minister's advice
How the Governor treated him
Gave him no due respect
not given an office to work in
he threatened to sit under a tree in front of the secretariat until he was allotted a room
A figurehead
the government did not get full british support
LF was not the party that the British had expected to win
LF won the most number of seats in the 1955 elections
Not the majority in the assembly
Hock Lee Bus Riots 1955
Hock Lee amalgamated Bus Company
one of several small bus companies operating in Singapore in the 1950s
Bus workers belonged to 2 unions
Singapore Bus Workers Union{SBWU}
Hock Lee Employee's Union
Both led by Lim Chin Siong and Fong Swee Suan
April 1955
SBWU went on strike
Better Wages
Better working conditions
Hock Lee Bus Company dismissed 229 workers in response
Workers gathered and sat in front of the gates at the company's Alexandra depot
Prevent the buses from leaving the depot
27 April 1955
An agreement was still not reached
the police were called in
What the strikers did
Blocked the gates
Threw stones at the police
What the police did
Used batons to clear the crowd
15 people were injured
Chinese school students supported the workers
more than 10000 of them arrived daily in lorries
Offered food
entertained the workers
Songs and dance
Chief Minister, David Marshall attempted to settle the dispute
a Commission of Inquiry was set up to no avail
No agreement was reached
Protest continued
Workers from other Chinese Bus Companies joined in the strike against the government's treatment of fellow workers
Police was called in again
fire hoses were used to control the strikers
12 May 1955
known as 'Black Thursday'
20 lorries carrying students arrived at Alexandra
Support the workers
at 4pm, the strikers threw stones, bricks and bottles at the police
at 3am the next morning, the Hock Lee Bus Strike had came to an end
31 injured
4 people were killed
14 May 1955
Sacked workers got their job back
First Merdeka Talks 1956
Tunku Abdul Rahman, leader of the Alliance Party in Malaya led the 'Merdeka Mission to London
Negotiate with the British for the Independence of Malaya
was successful
In the 27 July 1956 election
The British accepted the Merdeka Mission proposal for independence of Malaya on the 31 August 1957
Marshall was inspired by Malaya's success
In 1956, Marshall led a group of men to London to negotiate for internal self-government
He threatened to resign if the British was not willing to grant Singapore internal self-government
Before the talk began, he was very confident
he said that he would resign from his position if the talk failed
he demanded for internal self-government for Singapore by 1957
Insisted that matters of defence and external affairs be left in Singapore too
The British was not confident that Marshall could deal with the communists threats in Singapore
The talk failed
Singapore was not granted internal self-government
Marshall stepped down as Chief Minister
David Marshal's reaction with the British government
The British did not feel confident could handle the communists in Singapore and protect the British interests
Marshall seemed unwilling to arrest and imprison them
David Marshall wanted to have more powers for his government
turned down by the Governor
External affairs
all were under British control
internal security
Finance
External defence
Law
wanted the local ministers to control all internal matters of government