STUDENTS AGAIN IN ACTION
Some 50,000 municipal workers in the major cities of Greece temporarily suspended their strike February 1 in order to give the government time to pass legislation that will presumably grant the concessions they had been.demanding:.on: wages and pensions. The effects of the strike became quite perceptible during the nine days the workers: were out as. hundreds of tons. of garbage accumulated in: the streets. por
Troops were brought in by the government in a move directed against the strikers...Some. baked. bread: while: others drove buses and collected garbage. They proved insufficient, however, to make up for the labor of the, 50, 000 workers on strike.
-More than 2 ,900 students met at the University of Athens — February 1 in order» "to defend trade-union and pos vere ty rights. " Among the slogans were: - "For free university. unionism"; "The ‘struggle of the students is a struggle for social justice"; "Fascism , shall not pass";, "Democracy!" se
The students acclaimed Georges Papandreou, the premier ousted by the king last summer, demanded the resignation of the new administration and called for new elections.
When the students set out through the streets to visit the national ministry of education, the police refused to let them march in a body. Fighting broke out in which seven students and eight policemen were seriously injured. aes ‘The violence of the police was denounced by the journals of organizations favoring a return to democracy in Greece.
The strike of the municipal workers and the reappearance of Athenian students in the streets may herald a resumption of the _ struggle that shook the monarchy last summer.