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Garbage Strike Makes City Hum

Series

Series Name
British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.
1690
Date Released
12 May 1947
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Garbage Strike Makes City Hum
  2. 2US Hold Derby Day
  3. 3Belgium Revives Sacred Festival
  4. 4TUC Urge Attlee Raise Coal Target
  5. 5What a Cow

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 5
Summary
Refuse accumulates as thousand City Corporation workers strike in protest against non-Union Billingsgate policeman’s promotion to sergeant. Authorities burn rubbish as health safeguard.
Keywords
Health and medicine; Labour relations; Local government; Crime
Locations
London; England
Library number
16193
Credits:
Camera
Arthur W. Farmer
Camera
Edward Henry Hawkins
Camera
Ian Duncan Struthers
Length of story (in feet)
129
Story extras:

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Film Archive

Name
Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
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Web
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Phone
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Address
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Notes
British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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