BRITISH ULTIMATUM TO WORK'S IN GERMANY
Received Friday, 9.15 a.m. BERLIN, June 9. The works counci s of e even Ruhr synthetic Plants have un.il midnight on Sunday to withdraw their opposition to the. British dismantling orders, otherwise thej Will be closed. Major-General W. H. A. Bishop, regional commissioner for Ihe North Rhine and Westphalia, said today that he did not wish to close the works, but the Mi itary Government could not tolera e the challenge offered by the refusal to obej the dismantling orders. , The German authorities said that generally the works managements of the affec.ed plants and trade union councils wanted to ston the dismantling by legal measures, but strikes and other tactics were being advocated in the plants, where Communists were in the majoritj on the works councils. Senior British and American officials in Frankfurt today refused to accept a letter from the Christian Democrats. Social Democrats and Liberal Groups on the Bizonal Economic Council, asking that the dismantling be discontinued.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1949, Page 5
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