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BEIJING — About 30,000 Chinese steelworkers clashed with police in a protest over plans to merge their mill with another company and beat the company’s general manager to death, a human-rights monitor said Saturday.
Several hundred people were injured in the clash Friday in the northeastern city of Tonghua, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said in a faxed statement.
Employees of Tonghua Iron and Steel Group object to plans for Jianlong Steel to take control of the company, the center said. Beijing-based Jianlong controlled the company temporarily last year, and employees blame Jianlong for financial problems.
