EXCLUSIVE CLUB WORKERS IN ANOTHER RIOT
(Rec. 9.30) NEW YORK, March 30 There was a clash between the police and pickets to-day outside the exclusive Harvard Club, where 120 kitchen and dining room employees are strixing. The trouble began when police ordered that only three pickets at a time could parade outside the club, were disregarded, and the strikers began assembling en masse, carrying placards. There was a fifteen-minute melee when the police begain pushing the strikers off the pavement. Union placards were torn, and leaflets strewn ove rthe road.
The pickets swung their fists and the police their batons but nobody was hurt. The struggle ended when police reinforcements arrived. The strikers are demanding a ten per cent., pay increase.
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Grey River Argus, 1 April 1948, Page 5
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