Gas and Electrical Workers Strike Against Retrenchment

Grey River Argus, 2 October 1948, Page 5

Gas and Electrical Workers Strike Against Retrenchment

(Received October 1, 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. The correspondent of the British United Press at Paris says: Gas and electricity workers here staged a fourhour strike in protest against a Government order to cut down the staff in the industry by one-tenth. The union officials said that they Would call an indefinite strike if the order was not cancelled. British Stop Russians’ Arrest of French Official VIENNA. September 30. The first secretary of the French Embassy, Raymond Proussard, was arrested at th? point of a tommygun by two Russian soldiers on the road to Innsbruck and told to drive to the Soviet Kommandatura in Vienna, because they alleged his passwas out of date. Passing through the British sector of Vienna, Proussard stopped the car and ran towards two British. military policemen, crying: “Help me, I am being kidnapped!” The British police held all three of the cars and their occupants until they showed their identity passes, and, then handed them over to their , respective military police.