A demand was voiced in parliament today for the disciplining of workers who recently struck against the return of a nationalized factory in the town of Mohelnice to its pre-Nazi Jewish owner. The workers charged their employer with being pro-German.
The parliamentary sub-committee investigating a strike at the Warnsdorf plant of Emil Beer, a Jewish industrialist, whose employees went on strike for the same reason, today heard a Socialist spokesman urge the breaking of strikes against “legal restitution orders.” He charged that the Warnsdorf strike was incited by Communists.
A Communist Party spokesman told the committee that Beer was pro-German, and charged that the judge who awarded the plant to the industrialist was violating the restitution law, while the workers who struck the plant were actually upholding the law. The Warnsdorf incident is slated for parliamentary debate next week.
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