OVER 30,000 WORKERS MARCH DEMANDING SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND JUSTICE

Accusations of corruption by the ruling party in Mozambique, FRELIMO, complaints to the Head of State, Armando Guebuza, and demands for fair wages today marked the parade of Mozambican workers on the occasion of International Day of Workers.And 20 000 and 35 000 workers, according estimates of the Organization of Mozambican Workers, marched today from some of the main avenues of Maputo to the Square of Workers in the downtown of the capital, main stage in Mozambique of the celebrations of International Day  Workers. Standardized with t-shirts with inscriptions alluding the date and shawls (fabric used by African women to cover the waist and legs), the workers waved banners, posters and badges with complaints about poor working conditions, corruption charges to the ruling party and direct complaints to the Head of State Armando Guebuza, and the Minister of Labour, Helena Taipo absent from the ceremony. "FRELIMO return the money he stole from '` madjermanes, "read an enormous banner that former Mozambican workers in the former GDR.A phrase is a way of expressing dissatisfaction with the fact that the Mozambican government had allegedly not paid all the compensation channeled by Germany arising from rescission of Workers. Service workers cleaning the city of Maputo opted for a direct demand to the Head of State reminding him, "Guebuza, the people are hungry." The alleged indifference of the Mozambican authorities in relation to poor working conditions was also reported during the parade, in which employees of Banco Comercial de Investimentos (BCI) of the Portuguese group Caixa Geral de Depósitos accuse the government of "knowledge workers' problems, but prefer to sit on top." Speaking to the press, the spokesman of the Organization of Mozambican Workers (OTM), Mazoio Francisco, described the anniversary as "a day of party, but also a day of life. "" Through these messages and signs, the workers show the expectations of seeing their wages improved living conditions and improved their working conditions improved, "emphasized the Mazoio. Francisco its predecessors, the current head of the Mozambican state has never in 12 years as chairman, participated in the ceremonies of the International Workers Day, a move seen as a way to avoid exposing the President to demonstrations that each passing year has been marked by posts.Num more hostile to the parades of May 1, the former head of state of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano was insulted in broad square Workers Tribune by former workers in the former East Germany, and the Chairman responded at the time also in terms interpreted as insulting by some analysts.