Bar-girls march to Mayor’s drum-beat
NZPA-AP Manila Escorted by motorcycle police and drummers, hundreds of bar-girls and prostitutes marched through Manila’s red-light district on Wednesday, chanting slogans supporting Ferdinand Marcos in next month’s special Presidential election.
Some pedestrians and bar-girls jeered the marchers, shouting "sipsip” (boot lickers) or countering the “V” finger signs flashed by the marchers with the opposition "L” sign for “Laban” (fight). Most of the marchers wore street clothes. None were in the scanty bikinis
worn by most bar-girls on the job. Some bar owners and employees said that couriers sent by the
Mayor, Mr Ramon Bagatsing, had made the rounds of dozens of bars in Manila’s Ermita tourist quarter late on Tuesday night with messages that their licences would be revoked or not renewed if they did not participate in the march.
“For some reason, our Mayor’s permit is being held up,” said the day manager of a bar, who asked not to be identified. “So we sent all our girls and other employees and had no business this afternoon.”
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Press, 24 January 1986, Page 6
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