Position Worsened by Decision of Provincial Labour Court Duisberg, Nov. 24.
The iron and step! "barons," who recently refused to accept the ar= bitrator's award granting a wage increase ranging from two to six Hennigs an hour, have lost their appeal to the Provincial Labour Court that the award is illegal. The employers will now appeal to the Supreme Court at Leipzig.
Thus another month is likely to. elapse before the dispute, which volves 220,000 iron and steel workers in West Germany, is legally settled.—Reuter.
Cologne, Nov. 25.
The deadlock in the Ruhr meta industry has been intensified follow~ ing the decision of the Provincial Labour Court that the arbitrator' award of a wage increase ranging from two to six pfennigs an hour ti This decision has not. improved the chances of the independent: efforts of the Government Commissioner of the Duesseldorf district to arrange settlement.
Tu some quarters it is considered unlikely that the works will be opened this year. Meanwhile, practically every industry in West romany is affected by the lock-out. thousands of workers, excluding: the 250,000 metal workers, having: been rendered idle.
The granting of relief from public funds has up to the present pre= vented any serious disturbances, but the men have no money to spend: for the Christmas festivities and may be driven to desperation, Al~ reedy several armed robberies have
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