GREEK WORKERS

Evening Star, Issue 25685, 8 January 1946, Page 6

GREEK WORKERS

OEMAND FOODSTUFFS AS PAYMENT (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 6. Greek workers, instead 'of demanding a readjustment of wages in terms of drachma, now insist on payment in foodstuffs or their counterpart at the present prices, says Reuter’s Athens correspondent. The threat of a general strike, which has been hanging over Greece for the past week, was brought closer to-day at a meeting of representatives of Athens-- workers when a tragic picture was drawn of the conditions throughout ' Greece. Labour leaders reported that four, workers died of hunger at Kalamata. in Peloponnesus, and 132 workers were incapacitated by lack of t ,vitamins at the Thracian port of Kavalla.. ■ The speakers contended that the present wages represented' less than 10 per cent, of the pre-war wages, and declared that there were 70,000 people, workless in the.. Atbens-Pirseim area, representing 80 per cent, of the total employed in the. area, before the war;