| STRIKE OF HOTEL WORKERS Striking hotel and restaurant workers with placards outside trade union headquarters. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6240 |
| Catalog #: | 368919 | |
| Clip Number: | 368919-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 385 B | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Great Britain | |
| Year Shot: | 1915 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | LABOR UNIONS: Strikes | |
| Description: | STRIKE OF HOTEL WORKERS Striking hotel and restaurant workers with placards outside trade union headquarters. Hotel workers strike; c. 1910s; Britain. Group of men gathered outside building as one puts up sign on building. CU signs: "No Profiteering in Liberty Cafe" and price list w/ a few different menu items & prices. Young woman pounding nails on sign. Strikers w/ picket signs march down sidewalk and gather in front of camera holding up signs. Complaints are low wages and excessive working hours (14!) Also "We refuse to work with Scabs" etc. Group of several women w/ suitcases cross the picket line to enter hotel. CU 4 laughing young women holding sign "You Pay High Prices; We're Paid Low Wages". Pan to man holding sign "If We are Soup Servers We are Not Dished Yet". There is a sign for the branch office of the union on one of the buildings there; but all the action implies that they are outside the hotel; maybe hotel is next door. | |
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