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"Elwro" factory had their original production plans changed. The export of sub-assemblies to the rouble area began, amounting to tens of millions of subassemblies per annum.
After the visit of the Soviet Minister for Agriculture, our Agriculture Minister, Barcikowski, began the deliberate dissolution of this department. We became an exporter of grain and meat to the USSR. In the published works of researchers who dared to draw up our grain balance, 4-6 million tonnes per annum is missing.
Transporters carrying grain to East Germany and Czechoslovakia for so-called "milling" return empty.
Continued next week ALL INDUSTRIAL action in the dispute between the Dutch government and the unions over proposed cuts in public spending has been called off this week. This follows a week in which the courts have been used extensively to break many more strikes in Holland. As a result, the number of workers taking action was very much reduced, and union leaders responded not by calling for all out action against the court intervention, but by halting the strikes still in progress.
This retreat is not unexpected. The role of the union leaders throughout the dispute has been miserable : their eventual sell-out has long been on the cards.
AND orm Films 1983 utionary socialist politics Ireland created by the Protestant working class's hostility to nationalism.
Hackney Trades Council is sponsoring the showing of the film "The Cause of Ireland' on Wednesday 14 December at 7.30pm at the Trades and Labour Club, 98, Dalston Lane, London E8.