MORE TROUBLE IN ADMINISTRATION OF BERLIN CITY
(Rec. 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 13. When the Berlin City Administration met today to consider the resolution calling on the United Nations to secure the release of all Berliners arrested for political reasons during the present crisis, Dr Ferdinand Friedensburg, Acting-Lord Mayor, objected to jthe presence of Cr Waldemar Schmidt, chief of the city authorities’ labour department. Dr Schmidt,.a member of the Com-munist-led Socialist Unity Party, was dismissed from office by the City Assembly on October 8 for having refused "to recognise the pro-Western independent trade union organisation. When Dr Schmidt refused to leave the council chamber, Dr Friedensburg announced that the meeting would adjourn and reconvene in the British sector.
The Soviet-licensed news agency reported that the Socialist Unity Party members would not participate in the meeting when it was' reconvened in the British sector.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1948, Page 7
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