The Jewish Central Committee in the U.S. zone of Austria today submitted a formal request to large factories where Jewish slave labor was used during the Nazi regime urging that the administration of these factories pay the Jewish workers for the time they were forced to work.
The request will have to be acted upon by the Austrian Government since the factories, such as the former Goeringwerke and others owned by the Nazis, have been turned over by the American military authorities to the Austrian Government for trusteeship management.
The Jewish Central Committee also pointed out that Jewish slave laborers not only worked in war industry, but were forced to build roads and new apartment houses for the civil population and perform various other tasks from which local municipalities benefited. For this work, too, the Committee requested payment to surviving Jewish workers.
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