The World - News from Aug. 13, 1989

Striking ethnic Russian workers in the Soviet Baltic republic of Estonia pledged to continue their protest action against a new local voting law that disenfranchises recent immigrants, many of whom are Russians. Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, said that 40,000 workers are on strike. A spokesman for the Estonian Popular Front movement, set up last year to promote autonomy and democratic reform, told Reuters news agency in Moscow by telephone from the capital, Tallinn, that there was no sign of any disruption in the city. However, Vladimir Vinogradov, a spokesman for the Russian group Interdvizhenie, organized as a counter to the Popular Front, said the strike against the new election law will continue.