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Internal Revenue. In Cobh, Eire, Rachel Finn paid a shilling for eggs, took them home, broke one, found a shilling inside.
At the moment, the servants are bargaining for a 48-hour week (before the war they worked every other day, but the wartime servant shortage changed that; on occasions of state, they are often obliged to work until midnight). Robert Anderson, Deputy General Secretary of the C.S.U., has already obtained...
That was too much for the crowd at North London's ugly, red brick Harringay Stadium. Someone in the two-shilling enclosure vaulted the barrier onto the track, shouted: "Come on!" Three or four hundred others joined him. The mob started five bonfires of broken hurdles and fencing, dumped...
But last week it was the Fourth of July; Winant and the girl clerks were gone; and Prince's Gate rang again with the tinkle of party glasses and the blare of a dance band. G.I.s had come with their girls-a few clerks; a few debutantes, and many...
At 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...