AUSTRIAN METAL WORKS
TAKEN OVER BY RED ARMY (Rec. 8 a.m.) VIENNA, April 25. When a trades union deputation, headed by Rauscher, the new Minister of Economic Planning, called on .the Russian authorities to ask why many large metal works had been taken over by the Red Army in the past few days it was told that the occupied factories were regarded as German property, which, under the Potsdam agreement, belonged to Russia as reparations, also that pending a decision on the future of the factories Russian control had been introduced to prevent the machinery and raw materials being taken away. Rauscher later said: " Austrians cannot regard the industries _as German. They were built with Austrian materials and Austrian sweat, but we are ready to nationalise them. We will only be really able to plan reconstruction when the whole question is decided by the Allies."
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Evening Star, Issue 25776, 26 April 1946, Page 7
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145AUSTRIAN METAL WORKS Evening Star, Issue 25776, 26 April 1946, Page 7
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