Wolfgang Hedler, former Nazi and suspended member of the Bonn parliament whose acquittal of charges of making an anti-Semitic speech led to a series of protest strikes, was expelled today from the German Employees Trade Union. The union acted under a provision of its constitution providing for the expulsion of all Nazi elements.
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