"Socialism in one country'- by kind permission of Daimler Benz W European firms plan £400m Soviet plant

Workers Press no. 239, 26 August 1970 · scan page 5

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ALMOST 100 shop • stewment has announced plans to build a giant truck Office workers, top, leaving Sankey's Wellington factory while, above, strikers hold an informal street-corner meeting. plant in the Soviet Union.

Backed by government credit guarantees, a consortium of W German monopolies headed by Daimler-Benz intends to construct a complex, which when completed in 1974, will out 150,000 trucks a year. plante as ected teen dise a real cussed with Soviet officials. town or aber ente Volga town of Celny. timated the procee been stimater nillion and €460 million Bonn spokesman Conrad Ahlers stated on Monday that burier-Benz are interested Daimler-Benz are in the project.

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LIKE HAWKS Press. 'We are far behind other parts of the country. Nobody Ruling classes of the Cape hasks for are aching 'With ten hours' overtime on nights, some workers might thạt bureaucracy ush their wages over £30, can tuis si to toeir Lanks ut generally £25 is considerer advantage situation the German Kan lins snub Present wage rates-according to the company's 'weighted gimethe Bonn-Moscow average' 8s 7d an hour to ils 9from diplomatic re ention Highest wage for a 40-hour Dorted in the Slee German Germany week-for a skilled man on the leading rate-is only press. £23 15s, after acceptance of for job-evaluation and the threat German Council A monumental press cam- Ministers on treaty was paign against the strikers has enrinted Moscow fir failed to weaken their deter- Pravda' yuestio") with passages omitDespite "Times' leaders, a ese errakings sim desh ull-page company advertise. nent in the local 'Shropshir and we Germany make neces- berween Sided Bid coverately the company's case, there is no sign of a break in the Sankey Germany).

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