Communist Sponsored Strike Fails In Calcutta AKA Strike In Calcutta (1948)

Calcutta, India MS Interior of Indian Government Employees Union Offices where part of a wider Communist sponsored strike of the labour force is continuing. Here a “stay in and pen down“ stoppage is taking place. (3 shots) MS Exterior of Government buildings, guarded by police and troops. Mounted troops moving men on from the gardens and street. (7 shots) MS Arrested strikers sitting on the ground at the entrance to the Lal Bag police station. (5 shots) LS Supply Office MS Exterior and entrances to Government building. Employees passes being checked by Gurkha troops as they enter the buildings. (7 shots) MS A man arrives by car and is formally greeted (possibly a politician or religious leader). MS Military and police trucks parked on the pavement obstructing the entrance of the government building for the employees. LS and MS The Calcutta docks, an empty warehouse and cranes stand idle. (5 shots) LS Sacks of commodities wait on the quay, some workers back to work. MS Workers b