WORLD IN BRIEF : EAST GERMANY : Farmers, Foresters Demand Higher Pay
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
More than 5,000 East German farmers and forestry workers drove tractors, combines and logging trucks into West Berlin to demand higher wages and job security, but the Bonn government said that rapid raises could slow economic recovery as the socialist system is converted to Western-style capitalism. The farmers and lumber workers said they would start a nationwide strike today.
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