GREEKS WANT FOOD
THREAT OF GENERAL STRIKE GROWING Recd. 6 p.m. London, Jan. 6. Greek workers, instead ol demanding a readjustment o£ wages in terms i of drachma, now insist on payment in foodstuffs, or a counterpart at present I prices, says Reuter's Athens corre-! spondent. i The threat of a general strike which has been hanging over Greece for the I past week was brought closer to-day , at a meeting of representatives of Athens workers, when a tragic lure was drawn of conditions throughout Greece. Labour leaders reported that four workers died of hunger in Kalamata, in Peloponnesus, and 132 i workers had been incapacitated by a lack of vitamins at the Thracian port of Mavalla.
Speakers contended that the present wages represented less than 10 per cent, of pre-war wages, and declared there were 70,000 people workless in the Athens and Piraeus area, representing 80 per cent, of the total employed in the area before the war.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 6, 8 January 1946, Page 5
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