POLICE DEFIED
EVACUEES FROM GIB.
AN EJECTION STRIKE
LONDON. Nearly 500 evacuees from Gibral- • tar staged a sit-down strike in their ■ West London centre when police 1 called to eject their leader, Mr G ' Bellotti. ■■■-' On their behalf Mr. Bellotti a former city councillor, had protested against a rule forbidding them to cook extra food in their • rooms. Later he was given notice to leave the centre. "I am nearly seventy, and if they turn me out of here, I have nowhere to go," he told a Daily Herald reporter. Scores of women and children sat down in the corridors, defying the police to walk over them. Mr. Bellotti's bed and were removed, but fellow-evacuees lent him blankets, and he slept on the floor of his old room. The able-bodied men in the centre formed an all-night picket. Dr. H. N. Wright, a local solicitor, is to take up the case of the evacuees and their conditions.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 27 September 1943, Page 6
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