STRIKE OF HOTEL WORKERS SPREADS
Ticocnvcd Thursdav, 7 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 20. * Ovor 2(10(1 waiters, chamhcrmaids and kitcluMiliands at eight Westend hotels, arc iunv idlc. but the hotels have coxitrived to maintain reduced serviees. Park Lane, Kitz, and Warldorf hotels hecame involved last night and also ronnuught Rooms, a big bauqueting centre v.'liere the guests were aiready gatheiing i'or sixteen banqnets whe n .'ino waiters walked out. More than 150 guests at Park Lane liotel were served mily tlie lirst course. An einergeiu'y meeting of the London District Comiuittee of the National Uiiicm of General and Municipal Workers to whom the strikers belong, meets todav to eonsider paying a strike benelit which would imply for the iirst time, I'nion reeognition of the strike. Orowds of strikers tliis inoruing outside the Savoy sang: "Money is the root of all evii. " Workers at the Covent Garden and Smithfield niarkets refused to handle food for hotels all'ected by the strike. A pusser-by in the Slrand today gave oue of the pickets a eheque for £10(3 for Ihe strike hinds.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 October 1946, Page 5
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