Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Maker: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1945-10-08
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.115027

Inscriptions:
COPYRIGHT. / PLANET NEWS LTD / 3. JOHNSON'S COURT. / LONDON, E.C.4. / PHONE: CENTRAL 3671/367[illeg.]Credit: [star] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORKCaptions: Verso: WWII Eng-demonstration / MORE THAN 5000 OF LONDON'S BOMB REPAIR MEN MARCH THROUGH WEST / END IN TOKEN STRIKE AGAINST SUMMER TIME CHANGE / More than 50,000 of London's bomb repair men downed tools and / went on a half day strike and then staged a protest march / through the West End of London - the biggest march seen in / London for years. Bearing hundreds of banners and accompanied / by scores of foot and mounted police the procession passed from Hyde Park into Park Lane and along Piccadilly. / The men are angered by the change from Summer Time back to / Greenwich Mean Time, which they say will cost them thirty / shillings a week by loss of overtime. The men behind the / move are urging that builders should ask for another 10d. per / hour to make up the money lost through shorter hours of work in winter. / PHOTO SHOWS:- The bomb repair men on the march through Piccadilly / during their token strike in London. / Dav October 8th 1945 PN / 4739B5 / 31Markings:Verso: WWII Eng-demonstration / MORE THAN 5000 OF LONDON'S BOMB REPAIR MEN MARCH THROUGH WEST / END IN TOKEN STRIKE AGAINST SUMMER TIME CHANGE / More than 50,000 of London's bomb repair men downed tools and / went on a half day strike and then staged a protest march / through the West End of London - the biggest march seen in / London for years. Bearing hundreds of banners and accompanied / by scores of foot and mounted police the procession passed from Hyde Park into Park Lane and along Piccadilly. / The men are angered by the change from Summer Time back to / Greenwich Mean Time, which they say will cost them thirty / shillings a week by loss of overtime. The men behind the / move are urging that builders should ask for another 10d. per / hour to make up the money lost through shorter hours of work in winter. / PHOTO SHOWS:- The bomb repair men on the march through Piccadilly / during their token strike in London. / Dav October 8th 1945 PN / 4739B5 / 31

Tagasauris Keywords: Aerial View; Beret; Bomb; Crowd; Day; Demonstration; Face; Group of people; Group of people; Hyde Park, London; Landscape; London; Male; Outdoors; Panoramic; Park Lane (road); Piccadilly; Protest; Suit; Waist-Up Portrait; Walking; World War II; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: WWII ENGLAND / DEMONSTRATIONS AND STRIKES
Retouching: N