West Arm Dispute Not Settled
(N.Z. Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Sept. 15.
The dispute over the sacking of a Jugoslav miner at the West Arm site of the Manapouri power project will be referred to a dispute committee in Dunedin on Wednesday.
A committee representing 749 West Arm workers in 14 unions met Labour Department officials and Utah representatives in Invercargill on Saturday but no decision was reached.
Mr I. Montgomery, district officer for the Labour Department, said today that no more action would be taken until Wednesday. The workers had threatened a stoppage at midnight tonight, but the Bechtel Pacific Corporation’s resident manager in Te Anau (Mr M. S. Morris) said he did not expect any strike action.
Mr Montgomery said today that at the Dunedin meeting the arbitrator would be Mr S. N. Armstrong the Conciliation Commissioner from Christchurch.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31785, 16 September 1968, Page 1
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