SAVOY HOTEL STRIKE
PICKETS AND POLICE CLASH Rec. 9 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 12. Visitors for the Royal wedding are arriving continuously at the Savoy Hotel, where the management appeared to have no worries over the effect of a staff strike on food supplies, says the Daily Telegraph. Clashes between strike pickets and the police occurred outside the hotel last night when the strikers tried to prevent’ two lorries from delivering oil The police arrested one striker on charges of assaulting the police and using insulting words and behaviour , Mr Arthur .Lewis, organiser of the General and Municipal Workers’ Union, threw himself on the road in front of one lorry. The pickets did likewise. The police carried them out of the way several times, but they returned each time until finally the driver agreed to take the oil back with him.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26617, 13 November 1947, Page 7
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140SAVOY HOTEL STRIKE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26617, 13 November 1947, Page 7
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