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Show Titled Celebrities Volunteer Workers During Big Strike LONDON, Oct. in. (inii By Th ) Associated Press.) One development o( the great rnllw sirjeo n which tlifl public took an Intense interest was the appearance of titled and other celebrities celebri-ties among the volunteer workers who j responded to the government' s call for I help. -Most of these high-p)acd resident ol Mayfair ehoss Paddlnffton station a the. scene of their activities and many of them performed their duties as porters port-ers and mllk-pall shlftera at such vi early hour that few of the curious were ever able to catch them In the act of doing manual work By the time London Lon-don wns properly awake, the early morning morn-ing rush tit PjddinRton was over and Visitors invading tho ffrave yard-like quit t of the strike-affected station saw only I deserted platforms buttressed with countless milk cans, empty and forlorn. Not a peer was to be seen, not even a baronet. Lord rortnrllngten. Lord Ilenply. Lord Annesley and the Earl of Alnwick wero among the daylight shift of porters. I dressed in overalls and aprons and pre-! pre-! tending that hard work was a ' lark." Enrl UroKheda was there for a mornln or two, and it was rumored that the Duko of Wellington also was present on cue occasion. Whether the duke tackled any of the milk paJla was not revealed. There was no doubt about the yeomnn work performed b army officer volun-tei volun-tei i j. at Paddlngton and elsewhere;. They were to be seen at their Jobs all day lonK Major-Oeneral Stuart-Wort -ley lent n hand al loading up the mail". Captain (Jllbcy and other officers of the guards were also engaged in the wo.k. A few Americans, long residents In Lnplund. also offered their services, including in-cluding Miss Eleanor Rsan. the tennis expor! "I Just bid to come down '.c e Ixird rorturlin,Hon doln his bit, and sign on myself,'" 6ho told tho re-pnrtfrsi re-pnrtfrsi Famous cricketers, among thorn tha Hon. H L. Tennyson, and other sportsmen sports-men swelled tho ranks of the volun teers. One exceptional figure was the Rev. W Pollock-Hill, former president of tho Oxford Ox-ford University Athletic club. He was an army chaplain during? lhr war, and was waiting to get out to a post In K.K.vpt when the strike came on. "So I'm just doing a little porterine in this emcrgcnc." he remarked, loau-ing loau-ing his pip.j with cut plug. "Moet of us find the work all right, but the fish loads are a slimy Job. We get to Pad-dlngton Pad-dlngton at i 30 and work In shifts. I have always been used to hard work and can claim to bo the only Oxford Ox-ford man who has won the mile and three-mile events In the same afternoon. after-noon. True, tha full milk churns niak one's back a bit stiff, but I'm 53." Mopping hla brow, he trundled off a truck piled high with a woman's big-Mge. big-Mge. ' The Liverpool Street Station also boated many notables anions Us volunteers vol-unteers On the underground district railway were to ne found several members mem-bers of parliament, working as moior-mcn moior-mcn ami signalmen, ami a number of distinguished officers ot the rojai air force. |