Big wages movement in S Vietnam

Workers Press no. 300, 12 November 1970 · scan page 5

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We do not mourn the death of our enemies. Our task is to prepare the victory of the working class over them. reception in 1966. LEADERS of more than 10,000 American-paid construction workers in S Vietnam yesterday ended the biggest strike of the Vietnam war after a Saigon government promise to press their demand for higher wages.

The RMK-BRJ construction company-a combine which handles almost all US government construction work in S Vietnam-has been paralysed for a month by the strike.

The strike paralysed for a pany some £4 million, and tied up work on bridges, military installation and roads.

Labour Minister Dam Sy Hien promised on Tuesday to press the wage demand, which is for a 30 per cent rise for the lowest-paid workers (who earn about lld an hour) ranging to 10 per cent for foremen and supervisors.

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If the deal goes through it will apply to all the 120,000 Vietnamese employed by the US government and its contractors.

Currency inflation in S Vietnam is causing a big wages movement, especially among lower-paid workers who suffer the brunt of rising prices.

This movement is clearly extremely worrying to the US and its puppet government, which wants at all costs to avoid provoking the working class.

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• In neighbouring Cambodia, the troops of US puppet Lon Nol have been under severe pressure in an area less than 30 miles from the capital Phnom Penh.

National Liberation Front forces fought a two-day battle for control of Highway Six, the north-bound route out of the capital.

After fierce fighting, they succeeded in demolishing a vital road bridge. In other parts of Cambodia there has also been heavy fighting.

The provincial capital of Kompong Cham came under fire on Tuesday night.

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