SACK FOR 600 MORE ENGLISH WORKERS

Grey River Argus, 20 August 1949, Page 5

SACK FOR 600 MORE ENGLISH WORKERS

(Rec 11.40) LONDON, Aug 19. The Standard Motor Company announced, yesterday, the dismissal of 600 workers from the tractor branch of its Coventry works. These workers were told, at. a mass meeting that dismissals would continue at the rate of 150 weekly. Sir John Black, the managing director, said that currency difficulties had made the dismissals necessary. He said. —“There is a sterling hold-up in London.” He added that this reduction of tractor output was bound to affect the firms supplying their raw materials.

WEST BERLIN LIKELY TO BE IN WEST GERMAN REPUBLIC (Rec. 9.5 >. LONDON. August 18. “The incorporation of the Western sectors of Berlin into one federal republic that is now being set up in Western Germany is being discussed at Governmental level by Britain, the United States, and France”, says the Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent. In authoritative British and American quarters in Berlin, it is learned that, when representatives of the republic ask for the inclusion of West Berlin, there is every prospect that the Western Powers will approve. Coalition Sought For West Germany LONDON, August 19. During a one-hour secret conference between Dr Konrad Adenauer, the Christian Democratic leader, who is generally expected to be West Germany’s first Chancellor, and Dr Kark Arnold, the Christian Democrat Minister, President of North Rhine. Westphalia, it was decided to ask the Social Democrats to join a Coalition Government. Dr Arnold and other prominent members of the party are reported to have urged a coalition with the Socialists. More Germans Protest At loss of Factories In Allied Zone (Rec. 10.30). LONDON, Aug. 19. The British United Press correspondent at Berlin reports: The Catholic Bishop, Monsignor Godehard Machens, also the members of the Town Council of Watenstedt and the State Cabinet Ministers, led ten thousand workers in a protest meeting against the dismantling of the Salzgitter iron and steel plant at Watenstedt. Bishop Machens said that Hitler violated the laws of humanity, but that did not give anyone the right to follow him.