BIG DANISH STRIKE
No Butter For Britain (N.Z.P.A.- Reuter—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, April 12. A wage strike by 40,000 Danish dockers, seamen and transport workers yesterday paralysed two-thirds of Denmark’s trade, stopping butter and bacon shipments to Britain. At midnight 95.000 metalworkers joined the strike. The strike threatens the transport of vital supplies, especially to Greenland, and it is expected that the Government will intervene if it continues for more than a few days. A spokesman for the Danish Agricultural Council said butter exporters were looking for other routes to keep the British market supplied. Britain’s stocks of Danish butter would last about eight days.
In London trade circles said however that it was too early yet to gauge the strike’s effect on butter supplies to the British consumer.
The metalworkers’ strike will paralyse wide sections of industry and could cause a nation-wide general strike. Already strike warnings have gone out for key industrial maintenance staff and other sections of the labour movement
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29488, 14 April 1961, Page 20
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