September 27, 1957
GEORGIOS KARTALIS: According to a report from London, the leader of the Democratic Party of the Working People, Georgios Kartalis, has died there of heart failure. Kartalis had gone to London two weeks ago for treatment. Born in Athens in 1908, Kartalis was from a prominent Volos family that had played a major role in the liberation of Thessaly. He had studied mathematics in Leipzig for nine years and was made an associate professor there. He later studied law and political science at Kiel and economics in London. He was elected to Parliament in 1932 with the People’s Party. In July 1935 he was appointed deputy labor minister in the Tsaldaris government and then headed the Labor Ministry in the Kondylis government. After the war he served as a minister in various posts in the governments of Georgios Papandreou, Themistocles Sofoulis and Nikolaos Plastiras. He founded the Democratic Party of the Working People with Alexandros Svolos but after failing to be elected in 1953, the next year he was elected mayor of Volos. He resigned in 1956 and was re-elected to Parliament.
