01545nam a2200205 i 450000500170000000800410001702000390005804000250009708200150012210000490013724500410018626400530022730000720028033600210035233700250037333800230039852008090042160000810123065000280131120220919115916.0220919s2022    my     g      000 0aeng d  a9789672693802cRM 49.50qpaperback  aPPAKbengcPPAKerda04223a070.920 aNuraina Samad,cDatuk.eauthorejournalists.10aTuesdays With Bapak /cNuraina Samad 1aKuala Lumpur :bBru Publication Sdn. Bhd.,c2022  a376 pages, [12 unnumbered pages of plates] :bphotographs ;c23 cm.  2rdacontentatext  2rdamediaaunmediated  2rdacarrieravolume  aHow did Bapak do all that?

Well, the story was that there was a "go-slow" industrial action by the editorial staff of the Straits Times in Kuala Lumpur.

As Malaysia was still under the emergency laws enforced following the May 13, 1969 riots, the European-dominated management in Singapore thought that the go-slow would definitely end without much ado.

It was illegal, for heaven's sake. So the management thought that they could hold out by asking for arbitration in the Labour Department.

Basically, they were unyielding. They wanted to tire out the journalists, thinking and perhaps, also hoping, that the journalists would eventually give up. Their spirit broken, and their struggle along with it.

They didn't realise that the journalists had Bapak on their side. His sympathies were with them.00aAbdul Samad Ismail,cTan Sri,d1924-2008.tMalaysian journalist,vbiography.10a Journalistvbiography.