Hundreds of Foxconn employees living in company dormitories in Chengdu, China clashed with security staff Monday evening. [Want China Times has more details: ](http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120606000112&cid=1102) >The world’s largest electronic contract manufacturer called in the police to calm down the crowd and dozens of those who took part in the disturbance were arrested, according to Molihua, a news website advocating democracy and human rights in China. > > The clash broke out at a male dormitory for Foxconn workers in Kaoxinxi district in northwest Chengdu. When two security guards called out to stop a thief, some employees with grudges against the security officers took the chance to hinder them and forced them away. > > The situation quickly escalated out of control with up to one thousand workers joining the fray, throwing trash bins, chairs, pots, bottles and fireworks from the upper floors of the bulding to the ground and destroying public facilities. Foxconn’s Chengdu plant made international headlines last year after an explosion at the factory killed two workers and injured 16 others.