Three construction workers who climbed up a 30 metre-tall tower crane in Dalian last Saturday in a dramatic attempt to force their employer to pay them overdue wages were arrested by police for disrupting social order, reports Dalian Evening News.

The three migrant workers stood atop the crane and threatened to jump if their boss refused to pay the wages owed them, while hundreds of passers-by and fellow workers gathered below to watch. Several other construction sites in the immediate vicinity had to bring their operations to a halt during the stand-off.

Police arrested the three men and two other workers who had put them up to the stunt.

Two of the three workers, Zheng and Zhang, later confessed that they had once successfully received overdue wages using the same tactic at another construction site

The five spent three to five days in police custody.

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