Speaker 1: On this Day and Working Class History the seventeenth of
Speaker 1: January and on the seventeenth January two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: fifty eight striking workers at the Russell Islands Plantation estate
Speaker 1: in the Solomon Islands were arrested after clashing with police
Speaker 1: at the Yandina Wharf as the employer attempted to export
Speaker 1: Copra and co co using scam replacement workers. Police attacked
Speaker 1: workers with pepper spray and workers responded by throwing stones.
Speaker 1: The workers were charged with causing bodily harm to two
Speaker 1: police officers. The incident was part of a long running
Speaker 1: dispute where strikers were demanding the dismissal of the estate
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