LIFTMEN STRIKE
Skyscraper Workers In Radio City Mount Stairs 70-STORTCY BUILDING Rec. 11 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 23. Thousands of office workers trudged up endless flights of stairs in 12 buildings comprising Radio City following a strike of lift-drivers. The area embraces some of the tallest buildings in the world. The police formed queues of thousands of persons waiting in the lobby of the 70-storey R.C.A. Building, "where only two of the 40 lifts were working. Other skyscrapers were completelv without lifts. The strike affects 27,000 regularly employed in the buildings, which are visited by 60,000 people daily.
In addition to the liftmen who have broken away from their union, the charwomen have gone on strike.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 227, 24 September 1943, Page 3
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