Miners in Albania, Europe's poorest country, struck last month in support of demands including higher wages, shorter working hours and more holiday pay.
They were apparently jolned by oil workers, information about Cis dispute is scanty.
On 22 December, the government called for crisis talks on the grounds that miners were undernining "economic reform and foreign irestment Reuters news agency reported that a number of the 6,000 strikers at the Bulgiza chromium mine in the north of the country went on hunger strike in protest against porco use orare emmunion and rubber bullets in an effort to drive least two injuries and several arrests.
An angry crowd at Bulgiza besieged the mayor's office on December 23, throwing stones and the name of an arrested strike leader threatened to use the full force of work by December 25. Albanian radio has claimed general com. pliance.
President Sall Berisha and his vemocratic Party were neavin praised in the West when they took had ruled the country since 1944. Now the "Gemocratic" mask has slipped.
Meanwhile, Nexhmije Hoxha, widow of the country's longtime Stalinist ruler Enver Hoxha, who died in 1985, is to go on trial for corruption and abuse of power. LOBBY SE Region TUC Demand action to defend Saturday January 16 9am, Congress House, Great Russell St London WC1 January 16, 1993 Page 5