SKYSCRAPER STRIKE ENDS
LIFTS RESTART. NEW YORK, November -1. The strike of lift operators in 25J New York buildings, which threatened to involve every city skyscraper lias ended in a victory for the unionists. The tabloid papers in fanciful mood had pictured the typists in lofty office blocks fainting on the stairways and being urged to renewed efforts by their fellow-typists, saying, “Cheer up, there are only 12 more •itoreys to go.” Hail the strike spread, employees
an the top floors of skyscrapers, such as the famous Empire State building, with its 102 storeys, would have had io spend half the morning walking upstairs to work and half the afternoon walking down again to get home.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 December 1934, Page 3
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