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Strikes
5 December 1968
DAILY MIRROR
Strikes
The Standard Triumph factory in Coventry will close down tonight for a long weekend, because of an overtime ban by 100 workers in support of a woman cleaner's claim for a change of job because she suffers from arthritis.
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