Cologne - for Ford and other metal processing plants in Cologne, burns the tree. The metal in the Eleventh Plan for the Eleventh a strike ballot. They want more money. Eight percent. Otherwise, there are strikes.
Thursday night. Others lie in the warm bed. Not the Ford Nachtschichtler. Shortly after four, they dropped pencil, hammer and screwdriver. For outside the halls of music suddenly sounds from the speakers. Hard rock of AC / DC: "Hells Bells" ( "Hell is ringing the bell"). From all sides the night shift workers flock to the street work, colleagues, give them torches and set them on fire.
"We are the workers."
The march of several thousand torchbearers goes to the "gyro", a meeting point at the plant in Niehl. Many men raise the red flags IGM. It is emblazoned the Ford plum in the murky November night.
"8 percent" written on th
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