LONDON BUS STRIKE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19315, 4 May 1937, Page 5

LONDON BUS STRIKE

OPENING OF INQUIRY STRAIN OF LONG HOURS APPEAL FOR RELIEF (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. May 4, noon) LONDON, May 3. A perfect spring day helped trudgers to accept the bus strike philosophically. The tube trains coped with the extra pressure.

The official court of inquiry into the strike opened this morning.

A representative of the union stressed the irregularity of the men's life, the uncertainty of their meal relief and the intensification of their work through the speeding up of and the increased size of the buses. These circumstances induced ill-health. A shortening of hours was an absolute necessity.

Dr. James Woodhall, the chief medical officer at Manor House, the Labour Hospital at Golders Green, said there were exceptionally large numbers of cases of gastric trouble and duodenal ulcers among busmen. The drivers complained of headaches and dizziness following traffic jams. These symptoms were consistent witn. carbon monoxide fumes. The court adjourned.

DISPUTE AT HOLLYWOOD

SPREAD OF STRIKE DECISION BY UNIONS HOLLYWOOD, May 3. The striking cinema workers have increased to 6000, due to the votes of 11 unions. Nine studios are affected. Then new strikers include engineers, moulders, plumbers, >eostumiers, machinists, boilermakers, and welders.

The Screen Actors' Guild met and voted to defer action in the strike for a. week to permit the board of directors to confer with the producers. Those who attended the guild meeting included Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, Joan Blondell, and Adolphe Menjou. The press demands that the actors be .allowed to continue to penetrate the picket lines pending a report. It is likely that the production of films will be virtually halted.

ATTITUDE IN BRITAIN SETTLEMENT AWAITED (Reed. .May 4, noon.) 'LONDON, May 3. One of the leading spirits in the attempt by Hollywood actors to gain recognition of the Screen Artists'. Guild is the treasurer of it, Mr. Noel Madison, known on the stage as Nat Madison. He is at present in London. He inquired from the secretary \)f the British equity concerning the attitude of that body* The latter replied that equity members would be instructed to refuse employment at Hollywood pending a settlement of the dispute.

HOTEL EMPLOYEES FIVE-DAY WEEK DEMAND SAN FRANCISCO, May 3. When the employees went on strike (5000 guests at 15 of the largest hotels in San Francisco were left without lift and telephone services. The strikers demand a five-day week and preferential hiring. •- The film actor, Oliver Hardy, slept overnight in a chair in a. hotel lobby, refusing to walk 20 flights of stairs to his room.