WAITERS LOCKED UP.
While guests waited for dinner to be served in a block in Mayfair recently police officers were trying to persuade 50 waiters in the building to unlock a room in which they had barricaded themselves in a lightning strike. The police threatened to break in the door. Then the waiters emerged, only to be escorted from the building. The incident occurred in Mount Royal, Oxford Street, W., and a skeleton staff of maids and other servants served dinner. An official of the flats told a representative of the "Daily Telegraph" that trouble had been brewing for days. "We really do not know what the waiters want," he said. "There seems to be discontent about a certain employee of the hotel, and I have heard that more money is demanded. It was with great reluctance that we called in the police. We could not have 50 men barricaded in a room without taking drastic action. All of them will lose their jobs, and arrangements "already have been made to replace them."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 18
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173WAITERS LOCKED UP. Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 18
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