Miners “demonstrate in Germany

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from D.P.A. 2,500 West German coal-miners held a rally and demonstration in Essen (large city in the Ruhr) on May 21st, demanding a wage increase and protesting against short-time work enforced by employers. Placards carried by the demonstrators demanded an immediate halt $o short~time work and opposed the Government and mine-owners attempts to shift the burden of the mining jndustry crisis onto the workers! shoulders. Walter Arendt, chairman of the West German Mining and Power Workers! Trade Union, declared at the rally that the miners would carry on the struggle and take strike action if necessary. In countering the a,gravated sales crisis of hard coal, West German employers are resorting more and more to short-time work, Wages lost by the miners from Short time work reached about 2,500,000 marks since the beginning of this year.