CINEMA EMPLOYEES
STRIKE EXTENDING. [B\ CABLE—PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT, j LONDON, April 17. The Electrical Trades 1 Union executive has ordered a strike throughout Great Britain and ! Ireland. Thousands are expected 1 to obey, affecting studios and possibly power stations. Bank holiday crowd's going to the cinemas in London and elsewhere find pickets distributing leaflets explaining the grievances' of thei projectionist strikers. The cinemas l are _ all showing with emergency projectionists, but some of the public after reading the leaflets', did not enter. • The Cinematograph Exhibitors’ Association declared that every cinema was open in London. Business was good. Nearly all at Hull and Manchester were open. The electrical union, barely half of whose members have struck, controls under half the London cinemas. The strikers can be replaced. The strikers toured the West End with loudspeakers on vans, urging the public to support them.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1938, Page 7
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