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The Key West Citizen
Key West, Monroe County, Florida
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Berlin's elevated railway workers ended their strike on May 25 after Soviet command agreed to pay 12,000 employees in western marks, resolving a dispute over Soviet mark wages. Western Berlin fares will use western currency; Russian troops withdrew from the west.
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Railway Strike
In Berlin
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, May 25.--The 12,000 employes of the elevated system in Berlin ended their strike today when a spokesman for the Soviet command in Berlin announced that the command had agreed to pay the men in western marks.
One western mark is worth four Soviet marks, and it was for that reason that they received wages in Soviet marks that the elevated employes went on strike.
The spokesman said further that, as wages will be paid in western marks, travelers on the trains in western Berlin will have to pay fares in that currency.
A detachment of Russian soldiers that had been in the western zone to protect railway property returned in trucks today to the Soviet zone.
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Berlin
Event Date
May 25
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strike ended; agreement to pay wages in western marks; fares in western berlin to be paid in western currency; russian soldiers returned to soviet zone
Event Details
The 12,000 employees of Berlin's elevated railway system ended their strike after the Soviet command agreed to pay wages in western marks instead of Soviet marks, due to the exchange rate disparity (one western mark worth four Soviet marks). Travelers in western Berlin must now pay fares in western currency. A detachment of Russian soldiers protecting railway property in the western zone returned to the Soviet zone.