STRIKE IN HUNGARY

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28129, 19 November 1956, Page 11

STRIKE IN HUNGARY

Appeal Made To Workers

(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, November 17. Hungary’s Soviet-nominated Communist Prime Minister (Mr Janas Kadar) seemed to be resorting to trickery to break the nation-wide general strike, the “Daily Telegraph” said today.

The Hungarian Radio has broadcast an anpeal in the name of the so-called Central Workers’ Council of Budapest to all Hungarian workers to return to their posts this morning. In spite of its high-sounding title, the council did not seem to command the support of more than a small minority of workers in the capital, the “Daily Telegraph” said. The back-to-work appeal was said to have been issued after delegations from several factories had visited Mr Kadar for consultations. The anpeal. using the language of the patriots, said: “We solemnly declare that we will not move a finger's breadth from the basic aims of our national uprising. We are convinced that questions still unsettled can be solved by common efforts.” Reuter’s correspondent in Budapest said the appeal had a mixed reception

among workers in the capital. Somo agreed that to continue the strike in face of threats of hunger, poverty and winter cold could weaken them more than the government Others thought the strike should continue because their leaders had not yet won sufficient concessions. Budapest Radio reported later in the day that many workers had resumed work. But tram traffic in the capital was still out of action and would not start until all workers resumed. The radio said that individual terrorist groups were still hindering workers who went back. In Pestszentloerinz, workers who had obeyed the call to go back to work were fired on by terrorists. the radio added. The British United Press said deportations to Russia continued. Most of those deported were students, but entire families were now being arrested, apparently for deportation, the agency said. Four thousand of the 30.000 Hungarian refugees who fled to Austria have already found homes in other Darts of Europe, the Inter-govern-mental Committee for European Emigration announced in Rome. Switzerland took 2118 of them. The first of the 500 Hungarian refugees will leave by air next week for the United States.