NOVELTY IN STRIKES
We had a new kind of strike here this week—a strike by the public against the insolence of certain railway companies which regard comfort aiid safety as negligible things (writes the Paris 'correspondent of the Hull "Daily Mail"). A number of passengers who arrived to take their train found every carriage chock-a-block, people standing squeezed like sardines in a box. One bright youth among them suggested that they should go along the railway track in front of the trad" and sit down until more carriages were provided. They did. There was whistling and excited running of guards and station porters, but the people refused to.budge, and clearly the train could not run over them.- At last the company deigned.to produce more carriages, and everybody was comfortably accommodated. That might just as well have been done at first.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 7, 8 July 1931, Page 17
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140NOVELTY IN STRIKES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 7, 8 July 1931, Page 17
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