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Clerks go back

2 June 1959

CLERKS GO BACK
Several hundred clerks at the Standard Motor Company's three main works at Coventry, who struck on Friday in protest at the dismissal of a works policeman, decided yesterday to return to work to enable negotiations to take place with the management

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