New ecomonical difficulties in Berlin, Laborers receive no salary Tue 03, 1953 (b/w photo)

Fourty - thousand laborers in Berlin will receive no payment for the last month. They are all working in the Soviet occupied zone of Berlin, but are living in West Berlin. The Advisory Board of the West Berlin Trade Union has officially announced that “all the money has been transferred to the Soviet zone where it is regarded as troll. In the meantime, East Berlin Finance authorities say they have not yet receive an order to pay the amount of money on stock there. Photo shows one West Berlin laborer who tries to obtain information at the Trade Union Advisory Board, West Berlin.