Yugoslav Workers Protest Plant Closure
About 2,200 workers from central Yugoslavia on Saturday protested the government’s closing of a food-processing company implicated in the country’s largest financial scandal.
The company’s workers arrived from the town of Velika Kladusa on Friday and gathered in a sports stadium in the capital. They demanded that authorities allow the bankrupt Agrokomerc firm to resume production.
They also asked that a former company manager, now on trial, be released from detention and that details of the reported fraud be made public. The company reportedly issued some $1 billion in uncovered promissory notes before being closed.
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