SKYSCRAPER LIFTMEN ON STRIKE
NEW YORK, September 23. Thousands? of office workers trudged up endless flights of stairs in the 12 buildings comprising Radio City following a lift-drivers’ strike. The area embraces some of the tallest buildings in the world. Police formed queues of thousand.-? of persons waiting in the tabby of the 70-story R.C.A. Building, where only two of -10 lifts are working. Other skyscrapers arc completely without litis. The strike affected 27,000 regularly employed in buildings which are visited liy 60.000 persons daily. In addition to lhe liftmen, who have broken away from their union, the charwomen are on strike.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 310, 25 September 1943, Page 7
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102SKYSCRAPER LIFTMEN ON STRIKE Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 310, 25 September 1943, Page 7
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