The World - News from Oct. 20, 1985
More than 250,000 trade unionists demonstrated peacefully throughout West Germany to protest record unemployment of 8.6% and cuts in welfare programs and to call for a huge job creation program. Speakers at rallies in 17 major cities marking the end of the unions’ “Week of Action” demanded that the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl restore welfare and government-funded employment programs. They also called for a shorter working day.
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