Negotiators discuss national strike Danish unions prepare second wave of strikes

NEGOTIATIONS were under way in Copenhagen at the weekend as the national strike and lock-oüt involving some 250,000 Danish workers entered its sixth day.

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They were held under the auspices of the mediator appointed by the social-democratic government, Sigurd Wechselmann, who met both sides for an hour on Friday.

It was the employers' rejection of a compromise proposed by • Wechselmann which precipitated the confrontation.

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The British Stalinists sent delegations to the Sudan under Numeiry to boost the regime:

Idris Cox, of the Party's International Committee, wrote an article in the 'Morning Star' in October 1970 under the heading "This government backs the trade unions' Yet. Numeiry's first act on taking office in May 1969 was to introduce the death penalty for strikers!

Two weeks after Cox's article appeared, the regime jailed Mahgoub and purged left-wing officers from the armed forces.

Numeiry has now graduated to attacks on the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

The United States State Department congratulated him for his treatment of the Black September kidnapping of two American diplomats.

Numeiry claims Al Fatah, the largest Palestinian guerrilla organization, staged the kidnapping and subsequent assassination of the diplomats.

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The strikes and lock-outs are the most extensive to hit Denmark in 37 years.

The 250,000 engineering and transport workers already involved are to be joined on April 3 by a second wave of office workers, shop assistants, airport and power workers.

Long queues formed outside wholesale and retail grocery stores.

Motorists were stockpiling petrol which will be virtually unobtainable once the petrol station workers strike.

The strike comes less than three months after Danish entry into the Common . Market under Anker Joergensen's minority social-democratic administration.