REMARKABLE SCENES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 423, 3 May 1937, Page 5

REMARKABLE SCENES

LONDON’S BUS STRIKE PACKED TABLE TENNIS Unprecedented Traffic Blocks press Association —Copyright. (Received 11.5 a.m.) London, May 2. The bus strike is now on. Five thousand buses carrying 5,000,000 passengers a day are involved. Provincial busmen, numbering; 120,000, were called on to casework to support an unofficial strilkei which has already affectedl ten counties. The presence of Cup Tie) crowds, combined with the usual crush of Londoners, led to remarkable scenes in London at midnight. Crowds relying on the tube railways for getting home, in the a toseen cs of t'h e buses, found t|he stations already blocked and the trains packed. Many were stranded on; the platforms when the last trains departed, and sought taxis, but in vain. These were, all engaged, and thousands of people hadi a long tramp home. All those possessing cars used them t o go to the theatres, resulting in unprecedented traffic blocks when the audiences poured out into the streets again. Except for strikers outside garages cat.calling and booing at the drivers of trams, the fl'rst morning of the strike was uneventful, though scarcely S o for regular bus patrons who had to fight to get a place on the packed trams. Many had to trudge to the nearest railways, while thousands walked or cycled t 0 work. Taxicabs reaped a harvest. The Minist-ery of Labour has set up a Court to inquire into the strike.