The Federation of West German Trade Unions with a mombership of over 6 million has demanded a wage increase for all industrial and office workers, The Union of Public Service Workers and Transport and Communications, the Union of German Emplye®s and the Railwaynons" Union have demanded a wage increase of 34 per hour. The Postal Workers Union has demanded a 6 -—8 % wage increase. The paper Noue Rhoinzeitung reported that the Trade Unions were coming out in a United Front. Their demands for wagg ingrsases were prompted by a considerable growth of prices for food, higher fees for municpal services and rent.
International Bulletin / The BulletinThe Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 9, 1 March 1963
West German Workers Demand Wage Increase
The scan: tb-v02n09-1-mar-1963.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)
Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Tesseract OCR) from a scan of a stencilled typescript and has not been corrected. Expect misread words; titles in particular are often garbled where the issue printed no contents list. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: capitals heading; heuristic; title from the OCR of the heading.