Troops Used To Drive London Buses As More Men Strike
LONDON, April 21
The hitherto small strike of London busmen tonight assumed serious proportions, threatening the capital with the greatest transport hold-up since the complete stoppage in the Coronation year, 1937. Troops, for the first time in the history of the London transport, were drafted in today to drive buses on various routes. This has created resentment among working employees, many of whom tonight joined the strikers.
The Minister for War Transport has arranged to replace all strikers with soldiers, and. where necessary, to use military lorries some of which already ,are being employed to shift rush hour crowds. <
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Northern Advocate, 22 April 1944, Page 5
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