LONDON STREETS LITTERED FEET HIGH
W (Special Correspondent.)
LU.MJU.N, iViay 3. With a ten davs' accumulation o litter and refuse in the streets an around the markets, the result of th strike of street cleaners, the City. 6 London has an atmospfiere toda reniiniscent of its earlier medieval his torv. The main thoroughfares are stil sui prisingly tidy, but in many alley and bvways wliich have been used a lemporary rubbisli dumps the litter ii [ilaces is feet high. The situation hai become so serious around Leadenhal market that yesterday tenants of shopand> ofiices in the area organised thei. own rubbish destruction, and afte giving due notice to the City Corpora tion, piled up two large bonfires and se. iire to them.. Striker pickets lookod oi and threatened that they would caus«. iurther trouble because liremen wli guarded the blaze afterwards ffushe' lown the streets. The situation at Billingsgate iist. .narket caused increasing concern ti ihe city health authorities. Piles o. fish heads and tails and other matador iiis refuse from fish stalls created an utmosphere comparalile to that of ai. .•iastern market. The sinkers enliste.l the support of employees of thi Stepney' Borough Council, who threat •ned to extend the strike if the Citv poralion brought in outside lielp tc lear tlie refuse.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 May 1947, Page 5
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