STRIKE TROUBLES

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1937, Page 5

STRIKE TROUBLES

LONDON BUSMEN

COMMENCED AT MIDNIGHT.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON, May 1. The London ’bus strike has started. It began at midnight on Friday. Simultaneously one hundred and twenty thousand provincial busmen were called on to cease work in order to support tile unofficial strike of busmen in the provinces. This strike has already affected ten counties. Except for the strikers, outside of the garages, cat-calling, and booing the drivers of the trams, the first, morning of the strike was uneventful { though it scarcely was so for the regular ’bus patrons, who had to fight to get places on the packed trams. Most people had to trudge to the nearest railway, while thousands of people walked or cycled to work. The taxi cabs reaped a harvest.

BRITISH MINERS TO STRIKE

LONDON, May 1

A special conference of delegates of the Mine Workers’ Federation has been called for the declaration of a national coal strike, for May 22.

This follows on the breakdown of the negotiations in the coal industry.

FOUNDRY STRIKE ENDS

SYDNEY, May 2

At a meeting of the moulders arid iron workers, it was decided to accept the proposed terms for settlement of the dispute, and work will resume on Monday, after a six week’s stoppage.

There is no official disclosure of the terms, but it wais stated at the meeting that the employers have agreed to a wage increase of 3s per week, and that the union’s embargo on overtime is to cease under specified conditions.

HOLLYWOOD HANDS STRIKE

HOLLYWOOD, May 2

Three thousand striking technical workers, including hairdressers, painters and draftsmen, affiliated to the American Federation of Labour, have "Ticketed the major cinema studios' here. The Screen Actors’ Guild, with a membership of three thousand, and of which Air Robert Montgomery is the President, will decide at a mass meeting to-night, whether to join the strike.

The pickets did not attempt to prevent the' actors from penetrating n closed shop. Clark Cable, William Powell and Jean Harlow and Greta Garbo wove among those unable- to obtain breakfast, dut to the chefs striking. Marlene Dietrich applied her own makeup.

The film 1 studios are 'concerned, as there are now fifty pictures (a record .number) in the course of production.

NELSON DISPUTE-

NELSON, May 1

A dispute among packing-shed workers in the Central Packing Sheds, Tasman, has arisen out of the alleged wrongful employment of non-unionists. The employees ceased work. A request by the manager for workers to resume pending a decision, was declined for several hours.

The application of thn principle of direct action is being investigated by the Labour Department, and in the meantime work is proceeding.

BIG CROWDS

CAUSE TRAFFIC BLOCKS

(■Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 2.

'flio presence of 'Clip Tie crowds combined with the usual crush of Londoners led to remarkable scenes in tendon at midnight. Crowds relying on the tube railways for getting borne in the absence of buses } found the stations already blockel and trains packed. J£‘any were'stranded on the platforms when the last trains departed and sought taxis in vain. These were all engaged and thousands of people had a .long tramp home. All those possessing cars used them to go to theatres, resulting in unprecedented traffic blocks when file audiences poured out into the streets again.