STRIKES IN GERMANY
Chances Seen Of . Settlement FRANKFURT, August 12. The first breaks appeared today in the strike stormclouds hanging over West Germany. Strikers at one South German industrial plant are all going back to work this morning, a compromise pay offer has averted an agricultural strike in the north, and there are new hopes of ending the eight-day-old strike of public utilities employees in Hamburg. Work is resuming at Schweinfurt in Bavaria, where the West German ball-bearing industry is concentrated. The men have accepted a temporary pay increase of about IJd an hour, pending an agreement for all Bavaria. Nearly 100,000 forestry and agricultural workers ip Schleswig Holstein, who threatened to strike in support of their demand for 10 pfennigs—about 2d—an hour rise, agreed “for the sake of industrial peace” to accept a compromise increase of four to five pfennigs. At Hamburg the strikers and the city government are expected to put their pay dispute before a newly setup tribunal. Last week a Court awarded the men five pfennigs (about Id) an hour increase. They demanded seven pfennigs.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19540813.2.103
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume XC, Issue 27427, 13 August 1954, Page 11
Word Count
179STRIKES IN GERMANY Press, Volume XC, Issue 27427, 13 August 1954, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in