Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikers were demanding not higher pay, as the Duke thought, but union recognition ot their Union of General and Municipal Workers. Recalling the recent triumph of organized labor at Buckingham Palace (TIME, June 3), one banner in the Savoy Hotel's picket line proclaimed: "What's good enough for the royal household should be good enough for the Savoy...
Henceforth the Royal Family will enjoy the blessings of trade unionism right in their own home; Buckingham Palace has been organized. Two hundred and fifty-six of the 260 royal domestics have joined the Civil Servants Union, which is now negotiating with the Trades Union Congress for affiliation. In collective bargaining with His Majesty's servants, Sir Ulick Alexander, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, and Sir Piers Legh, the Master of the King's Household, will represent the King...
...Besides Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace and Marlborough House (Queen Mary's residence) will also be organized. Sandringham and Balmoral are personal residences, so the servants there do not come under the head of civil servants...
General Joseph T. McNarney was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Bath by George VI at Buckingham Palace...
...Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Marlborough House some 200 of George's 235 footmen, valets, cooks and pages joined the Civil Servants Union en masse. They demanded better pay, a cost-of-living bonus and equal status with other government employes. The Government, responsible for paying the King's help, promptly offered a 30-shilling increase, but the servants turned it down flat. Their bargaining position is strong-for months now toothy Lieut. Colonel, the Honorable Sir Piers Legh, Master of His Majesty's Household, has been scrabbling through London's employment agencies begging...