Reporting on the strike of municipal workers in Jerusalem, the London Daily Express, in a cable from Israel’s capital, says not only have employees not been paid for several months, but the City Council owes the water company 100,000 pounds and the electric company almost as much. Both companies have threatened to cut off supplies to Jerusalem, the cable says.
The report states that Jerusalem’s garbage collectors are among the strikers and that refuse is accumulating. “Principals of 60 elementary schools say they will send the pupils home, unless money is found for immediate repairs to leaking roofs and broken windows, which are endangering the health of the children,” the cable adds.
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