European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes a world Friday november 12.1993 government should subsidize pay if hours Cut German Union says Berlin a the German government should subsidize pay to preserve workers income if a four Day workweek is introduced the head of Germany s Power Ful metalworkers Union says. The Union and Volkswagen Europe s biggest Auto maker opened talks thursday on the company s plan to move to a four Day week at the beginning of 1994. Vow says 30,000 of its 103,000 jobs Are surplus and the Shorter workweek could save them. Klaus Zwickel head of the in metall Union said Inan interview published thursday by the Munich based Sii Deutsche Zeitung that workers could not take the Cut in income and still pay rent and meet other obligations. The state is automatically in the same boat if it comes to layoffs Zwickel was quoted As saying. If 30,000 vow workers were Laid off the government would have to pay 2 billion Marks $1.2 billion in an Nual unemployment benefits and would lose workers payroll contributions to social funds he said. Zwickel said the Federal labor Agency should pro vide subsidies to keep workers incomes As High As pos sible. Asked How much loss the individual worker should Bear Zwickel was quoted As replying nothing As much As possible or very Chancellor Helmut Kohl has said repeatedly that germans have to work harder and longer to compete internationally. . Wartime crash site found in Tibet Beijing up Hunters in Tibet have found the wreckage of a . Transport plane from world War hand the apparent remains of three Crew members that were Frozen for 50 years official Media reported thurs Day. The discovery was reported by chinese vice foreign minister Liu Hua Qiu to the . Government during talks last week in Washington the official news Agency said. At the meeting China handed Over photographs and videotapes of the crash site it said. Xinhua said Hunters in a mountainous area of South Ern Tibet found the e site in mid september on a Hima Layan Glacier where the wreckage had been locked in deep Snow until a warming uncovered it and the re Mains of three people believed to be the . Crew. Officials did not identify the plane but said it was believed to have crashed in april 1943. During world War a the . Military flew a suppl route Over the Himalayas known As the Hump to help the chinese army fight the invading japanese. Cabin honouring danish immigrants Burns Copenhagen Denmark a a log Cabin museum dedicated to danish immigrants to North America burned Down thursday in a National Park where the largest fourth of july Celebration outside the United states is held each year. The Cabin built in 1934 with logs from 40 . States contained a collection of Indian and american Pioneer artefacts. An Independence Day Celebration has been held since 1912 near the museum in the rebuild National Park 155 Miles West of Copenhagen. The fire alarm went off just after Midnight said police officer Ole Peterser. But firemen could t put out the fire before it had reduced the logs to ashes he said. The cause of the fire was not known police said. Jens Ole Christensen of the rebuild National Park society said an Appeal would be made in the United states and Denmark to help rebuild the Cabin and gather artefacts for a new museum. 2 German officers killed in train at austrian Border i Vienna Austria a two German Bor Der police officers were shot to death during a gunfight Early thursday after they uncovered explosives hidden in the Luggage of two men on Atrain from Austria authorities said. The suspected gunman was captured when police stormed a House in the Border town of Sank Florian about 135 Miles West of Vienna the Austria press Agency reported. A neighbor Leopold esp Ernberger said he heard what sounded like two gunshots from the House which the suspect had broken into was no immediate word on whether any one inside the House was Border police officers Ages 20 and 32, were killed about 1 . Aboard a night train from Linz just before it was to Cross the German Border in route to authorities said the officers had taken two men with hungarian passports to a police compartment for a routine customs Check. As their Luggage was opened one of the two me opened fire with a pistol. The assailant was wounded in the leg during the Exchange of fire but he managed to flee the train the other suspect also was wounded an was hospitalized in the austrian town of schording. Authorities said grenades explosives and fuzes were found in the baggage but they gave soother details. A police spokesman in upper aus Tria said hungarian officials believed the suspected gunman s passport was a forgery. 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