STRIKE OF LIFT MEN
$ IN WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDINGS WEARY STAIR-CLIMBING IN NEW YORK (By Telegraph- —Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 23. Thousands of office workers trudged up endless flights of stairs in the twelve buildings comprising Radio City, following on a lift drivers' strike. The area embraces some of the tallest buildings in the world. The police formed queues of thousands of persons waiting in the lobby of the seventy storey R.C.A. building, where only two out of forty lifts were working. In other skyscrapers all lifts were out of action. The strike affects 27,000 persons regularly employed in the buildings, which are visited by 60,000 persons daily. In addition to liftmen who have broken away from their union, charwomen went on strike.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1943, Page 4
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