LONDON HOTEL STRIKE
POLICE AND PICKETS CLASH (XO am) LONDON, Nov. 12. Visitors to the Royal wedding are arriving continuously at the Savoy Hotel, where the management appears to have no worries over the effect of the staff strike on food supplies, says the Daily Telegraph. Clashes between strike pickets and the police occurred outside the hotel last night when the strikers tried to prevetn two lorries delivering oil. The police arrested one striker on charges of assaulting the police and using insulting words and behaviour Mr. Arthur Lewis, organiser of the General and Municipal Workers' Union threw himself on the road in front of one lorry. The pickets did likewise. The police carried them out of the way several ti me&. They returned each time until, finally, the lorry’s driver agreed to take the oil t)ack with him.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22484, 13 November 1947, Page 5
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139LONDON HOTEL STRIKE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22484, 13 November 1947, Page 5
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