The workers grew suspicious that they would not be paid.

When asked whether the Government was to blame for their hardships, one angry worker grew suddenly quiet.

But these workers - about 420,000, or 11 percent of the 3.9 million people employed by the states - has not grown much in the 1980's.

But as the day progressed, the workers grew tired and exasperated.

Many workers grew to have debts due to the job brokers.

Officials stressed that the worker was growing the virus in very large amounts.

Recruiting new workers is growing more difficult, Ms. Chen said.

Peasants and workers who had provided their traditional political base grew deeply tired of the fighting.

At home, its workers have grown militant in demanding more from the nation's prosperity.

In the 1600s each agricultural worker grew enough food to feed about 1.25 people.