COMMUNIST CALL FOR STRIKE IN AUSTRIA FAILS
VIENNA, Oct. 5 (Recd. 7 pm).— A Communist call for a general strike against the Austrian Governments new wage price agreement failed almost completely yesterday _ , Less than 5 per cent, of Austrias 1.500.000 workers cam? c’>t on strike and a mass demonstration in front of Vienna City Hall last night broke up quietly less than an hour after beginning. ' The Communists had hoped to make this demonstration the main signal for widespread unrest and a general strike throu.gghout Austria. Some Allied observers said there was evidence that the Russians were tending tc withdraw their support from th? strike effort
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 October 1950, Page 5
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