HOTEL EMPLOYEES’ STRIKE
GUESTS AT SAN FRANCISCO INCONVENIENCED [United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copy right I SAN FRANCISCO. 3rd May. When hotel employees went on strike 6000 guests at 15 of the largest hotels were left without lift or telephone service, or heating. The strikers demand a five-day week and preferential hiring. The film actor, Oliver Hardy, slept the night in a chair in a hotel lobby, refusing to walk 20 flights of stairs tG his room.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 4 May 1937, Page 6
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