5,000 Yugoslavs Protest Pay Cuts
Reuters
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia —
About 5,000 striking factory workers demonstrated angrily Friday outside the Federal Assembly (Parliament) to protest pay cuts, shouting “We want bread!” and calling on the government to resign.
The workers from the Zmaj tractor factory outside Belgrade marched through the streets waving huge red banners and pictures of the late Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito. Onlookers cheered and clapped as workers accused the government of corruption and incompetence.
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