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read out a press statement
and announced the occu-
pation.

We celebrated our vic-
tory with slogans. There

was a crowd in front of the
factory. Workers, the press
and our people greeted our
just struggle.

Later on the police
started to blockade the fac-
tory. They told us to leave

the factory. We had made
our decision. We would
not leave without the ma-
chines. The police went to the new owner of the factory and tried
to get him to make a complaint but we had already talked to him
and he did not lodge a complaint. The police were forced to with-
draw.

Immediately we started to check out the factory and the situ-

ation was worse than we had expected. The clothes-making and
ironing workshops had been completely emptied. A lot of the
thread had been removed or plundered and what was left to us
was mainly cotton and older models of machinery that they could
not remove.

For five months we had not been able to contact the bosses
but we did that day. We told them that we would end the occupa-

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