15,000 Yugoslavs Strike to Gain Back Wages
About 15,000 workers went on strike in Belgrade’s main industrial suburb Monday to try to force Serbia’s Marxist regime to pay back wages to hundreds of thousands of state enterprise employees, union officials said.
Workers at engine, tractor, refrigerator and machine tool factories in Rakovica, six miles southwest of downtown Belgrade, reported to their plants but refused to perform their jobs, demanding their January wages, said Dobrivoje Lazarevic, an official of the strike committee of the Rakovica Trade Union.
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