Strikes? Lies. — says Tass
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The Soviet news agency Tass last week added its voice to the strident official denials that widespread strike action last month halted production at the giant car plants at Gorky and Togliatti, whose combined workforce is 370,000.
The press has carried letters from workers at the plants alleging that the reports of stoppages were lies mspired by US intelligence agents.
INTER COMN At the same time a party of Western businessmen claimed to have actually witnessed a four hour strike at the Kama truck plant, allegedly over food shortages in the Volga River area.
While there is no doubt that these reports appear to be timed for the run-up to the Olympics, it is not unlikely that the Russian proletariat is in fact showing itself ready to fight the attacks on their living standards brought about by the bureaucratic deformations of the nationalised economy.
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