Possible Clues:

• Stand outside work before power strike
• Interruption at work means reduction in pay
• Industrial action attendant on good man getting work
• Sunday best on hotel employee in strike perhaps
• What halted the coach pop went off in?
• It might cause a strike to try to halt the little servant
• Don't go on at the little servant because of the hold-up
• Deduction (from wage); cessation
• Onstruction in pipe or interruption in game
• If there's a strike, tell the young servant not to go away