GAMES DISPUTE SETTLED
CARPENTERS GIVEN WAGE RISE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, April 19. The dispute which threatened to hold up the Melbourne Cricket Ground Olympic stand and other Olympic Games projects has been settled. The men working on the jobs will receive £1 a week above award rates. The settlement plan is to avert delay on the building of the stand. Carpenters building the stand formerly received a margin of 7s. Last week they threatened to strike unless they were paid an extra 36s a week. The secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (Mr D. Woodhouse) said that members of his union employed on Olympic Games jobs had agreed to accept the increase as an interim amount. The society would continue negotiations “for such rates as would enable sufficient labour to be obtained to complete the Olympic projects in time for the Gamfes.” The president of the International Olympic Committee (Mr A. V. Brundage) last week criticised building progress at the Games site.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27639, 21 April 1955, Page 10
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