(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
8,000 Jewish textile workers have joined the general strike proclaimed in the textile industry here.
The number of the strikers in Lodz, the center of the Polish textile industry, is 100,000. The workers demand a 25 per cent increase in wages; the employers are willing to grant an increase of only 8 per cent.
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