European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June the stars and stripes Page 3 strike wave idles thousands in european Industry Hungary oks state control Over schools june 17 hungarian parliament nationalized Church schools yesterday Over Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty threats of the vote was in an uninterrupted eight hour government speakers renewed offers to negotiate with the the threatened demonstrations against the parliamentary action in the Battle Over control of the schools failed to the City was earlier Mindszenty had or dered special masses and the tolling of Church Bells for when the parliamentary vote but it was not known whether these demonstrations still would be minister of culture Gyula or sponsor of the said he hoped the Vatican would now reach Ari Accord with but he warned that with passage of the nationalization anyone who agitated against it would be offending democratic Law and must take the con smiting through trouble 21 reach us in czech plane june 17 air ministry announced that 21 including women and arrived by air at a Kent Raf Field today the air ministry said the refugees arrived at Manson Raf the same Field on which peasant Leader Stanislaw Nikolajczyk landed on his flight from Early this month the czech government announced that per Sims had fled their Homeland since the communist coup last lands unexpectedly the a landed unexpectedly during the Early hours of the its Crew included two one a wireless and a flight other occupants were two women Tad an 8 and a 14yearold Seth other passengers were identified As men of military some it them married to English women still in this an Raf office rat the Airport they were Allex remely pleased to get most them left the country because Friey had English fumes silence italian radio june 17 radio Irloa casts in Central Ana Southern Italy were baited temporarily today i Wrhen two ammonia tanks exploded it the Rome station and forced All walkouts spread in hit port of London a wave of strikes throughout Europe idled thousands of yesterday in three the general strike which began in Cle Montferrand wednesday had spread to Marseille and Triode than 25 other French and More than workers were away from their f fifteen thousand dockers arid Steve dares were on strike in virtually paralysing the in and were closed Down for the Day with an estimated steelworkers striking for higher j Betty swedish Beauty Queen and her three Earold son appear a dismayed at the news in a Paris paper disclosing that her estranged husband was arrested for theft in reigning As miss Sweden from 1940 until 1944 came to Paris to enter the miss Europe contest but was disqualified on the grounds that she was Zapotocky promises czech overhauling june 17 Antonin Zapotocky today told parliament his new Cabinet would reconstruct czech Economy from top to Bottom to bring it into Harmony with Russia and the Eastern in an 85minute program the communist Trade Union chief his predecessor Klement had Laid the foundations for the Peoples democratic at istrian to get More food june 17 in crease in amount of food to be furnished the austrian government by the during the ration periods was announces by Geoffrey Ufa during each of the next three ration the will furnish the equivalent of nearly 70 per cent of the total amount of food distributed in the present contributions will total billion calories for each of the coma ing three this is ten in crease of billion calories per period Over the amounts furnished in task of the hew Cabinet was said to be the Basic five year plan which formally declared on czech Independence Zapotocky said the plan will reconstruct the whole of czech Industry a Hung Days of starvation diet june 17 of gaunt gis laughed off to Chow hounds promised to be among the first in Ihie a Myra Chow Fine today As they included a voluntary 35day Star Yarion diet of special pm rations to keep men alive under total of 11 Ord were the sur Tevora of a Crew of 20 thai began be grueling five weeks Here in metropolitan Hospital on welfare the others dropped out for frs Oral or medical go water the the men were pro in Good health although All had lost an average of 25 pounds each on the special 900calorie diet of and a protein biscuit Liose composition the pm labelled the men agreed that the first 10 Days were the most irritating As they still remembered full meals they had and suffered from stomach during this time the Lusty pinup girls that covered the Walls were pictures Juicy steaks and spa Ghetti and meat As the the physical activity of the men de creased 1 and agriculture to eliminate every vestige of the capitalist system and to take full account of Czecho Slovakia position As a full fledged member of the democratic Zapotocky program will be de bated i parliament and is a foregone conclusion it will be the new Premier asking for a parliamentary vote of Confidence for his also that Czechoslovakia will not be Able to fulfil All sectors of the current two year plan by because of Jack of raw a effects of last years and obstacles from political events before f integration of Small and artisans into Overall economic and Protection of private Enterprise Small business and Small Complete transformation of the whole educational that the basis of Czechoslovakia foreign policy would continue to be its alliances with the Union and the Peoples democratic based not Only on a desire to secure our selves against possible German a but also on a desire to collaborate Hungary to sign pole pact june 17 was officially announced Here that a hungarian government delegation arriving in Warsaw today will eign a pact of collaboration and Mutual assistance with Poland june 17 were snowballing across France to idling More than work ers and affecting More 25 throughout the night troop and police reinforcements moved trains and planes toward five regiments had already arrived More than 200 persons were taken to the Hospital following yester Days Daylong clashes in Clermont Ferrand Between striking rubber workers and workers at the Plant of a manufacturer of paper Money in Cle Montferrand struck in sym Pathy with the rubber strikers still occupying the big Michelin tire factory police slept inside another from which they ejected strikers red plan reported Paris press reports said the com planned for several months the of strikes that began strikes have been called in the Metal trades printing Tobac co rubber factories and most of the demands were for 20 per cent pay observers predicted today the current strike wave would not reach the same proportions As the strikes six months ago when some workers walked off their jobs and 22 persons were killed in riots throughout the Parley in Brussels reaches impasse june 17 Gium in the throes today of the biggest strike since the end of the More than arsenals and workshops were closed Down As workers struck for the second negotiations Between employers and workers had reached a deadlock last but government quarters today predicted they would be re the continue to act As mediator in the t an authoritative source said last night the government had issued secret orders to employers asking them to stand fast and not give in to the workers on any it was believed the move was taken to prevent a Chain reaction in other workers were one labor Leader to stick by their june 17 thousand striking dockers and stevedores today All but paralysed the 50 Miles of London where More than 100 Laden Lay More than stevedores and another dockers joined the strike today and prospects were that the ports dockers and stevedores would be Idle by night the now in its fourth was without Union it Gan when 11men refused to Load dirty at the regents canal the Dock labor Board suspended the men for a tribunal called to consider the Case failed to agree on a stevedores join strikers stevedores today joined the Atrik ing dockers for the first time and without Union the dockers Union advised its men to go Back to work Only at two of London major unloading Points were dockers an estimated tons of meat destined for rationed Lay in the holds of the the was in refrigerator ships and not Likely to Masaryk Exen Voy says june 17 czech ambassador Juraj Slavik today exp Weed the opinion that Czechoslovakia foreign ister Jan Masaryk was i believe hews killed and it is probably True that he was killed on orders from Slavik he disclosed there was evidence that Masaryk killed in 4 fight with the police and medical evidence showed he must have been dead when he was thrown from of Czernin nationalized Gas voted june 17 House of commons passed last without a record the labor governments measure to place under Public ownership Brit Ains separate Gas installations with an Overall invested capital of now goes to the House of world food chief fears social crisis in shortage june 17 Bruce of chairman of the world food warned in London last night of a world food shortage which would Lead to unrest and social upheaval which might Well destroy our modern such a he told toe House of will mean untold suffering and misery for millions of b will place in the hands of communism the most potent weapon it who was speaking during a debate on the world food Situa said reports reaching the Council he Heads showed that 1951 food production would approximate that of out world population will have increased by in that he said the possibly could be averted if All governments took immediate wide Visioned and statesmanlike on plans for increasing their food production by More intensified of and the opening up of new areas of m