STAFF STRIKE AT LONDON'S BIG HOTELS
LOXDON. Nov. 9.
Pickets are on duty at the statt entrance of the Savoy Hotel today on the first day of the official staff strike. The management said about 250 of the 300 on the staff reported for work. Ihe strike leaders said that in the whole Savoy group (Savoy, Claridge's, the Berkeley and Simpson 's Restaurant) about J000 are on strike. A strike official said soldiers from the local barracks volunteering for part-tiine jobs at the Savoy group hotels were ' ' greatly annoying the striking ex-serviv.e- [ men." The union had asked the War Office to prevent it. A later message states, according to the Sunday Dispatch, that the War Minister (Mr. Shinwell) after the complaint made by the Savoy Hotel strike leader (Mr. Arthur Lewis M.P.) telephoned the commanding offieer of the Wellington Barracks last night forbidding him to allow the Coldstream Guards under his command to "blaekleg" in the West End hotel strike.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 November 1947, Page 5
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