4.ronors.....s..... Business VW's Decision MI Advantage CD Pressures Firms New York (JTA) — Volkswagen's deci- sion to establish a fund for Jewish slave laborers ups the ante on other German companies to make similar payments. Just three weeks after the German car company rejected demandS to compensate 30 Jewish slave laborers who had worked for the company during World War II, the auto manu- facturer agreed to set up a fund. According to a history financed by the company two years ago, Volkswagen employed 15,000 slave workers to help in the German war effort. Hailing the move as a "bold step" and a "breath of fresh air," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said, "We now hold up VW as a corporate leader" in making amends to slave laborers. 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In May, the Karl Diehl armament company agreed, under political pres- sure, to pay $552 per month in back wages to each slave laborer. While it was unclear how much money Volkswagen would pay rive- laborers, von Muenchhausen was quoted as saying his clients would seek $2,200 for each month worked. Volkswagen gave no indication of why it reversed course. A statement released by the company said the deci- sion was "in recognition of its histori- cal and moral obligations" to the slave laborers. Company Plans Iraq, Iran Sales Jerusalem (JPFS) — An Israeli- Jordanian company dealing with Dead Sea minerals plans to supply its prod- ucts to Iraq, Iran and other Arab Cooper noted that in 1995, countries without ties with Israel by Volkswagen led a campaign against a next year, according to the company's Japanese publishing company after director. one of its magazines published a He said businessmen from Saudi Holocaust-denial article on the 50th Arabia and Syria are also interested in anniversary of the liberation of the products. Auschwitz. Jordael, a company established two Klaus von Muenchhausen, the years ago, began producing Dead Sea lawyer who had threatened a class- products a year ,go under the Sea of action lawsuit on behalf of the 30 labor- Life label. Annual sales have grown to ers, all of whom were employed by the a few million dollars a year. firm as teenagers and now live in Israel, The company has a joint manage- said he would pursue similar action ment based in Arad and Amman and against Varta, a battery company, and draws its raw materials from the Hochtief, a construction company. Jordanian side of the Dead Sea. The But whether these or other compa- mud is transported and then nies would follow the.lead of VW, processed and packaged at the compa- which has recently completed the ny factory in Arad. The salts are acquisition of Rolls-Royce and is in processed in the Amman facility the process of purchasing The products, including mud for Lamborghini, an Italian car manufac- health spas and salts, are being sup- turer, remains unclear. plied to health centers in Europe and "There's no way this announcement North America. Sales were also recent- is popular in the boardrooms of ly launched to China and Taiwan. German and Austrian companies," Small quantities are also being sold to Cooper said. Qatar, Oman, and Dubai. Many of the estimated millions of The packages say the products are slave laborers who worked for co-produced in Jordan and Israel "to Volkswagen and other companies help develop the peace of tomorrow under the Nazi regime have died, and between the people of the Middle the issue of making payments before East." much more time elapses is crucial