Dunedin strike end expected
[PA Dunedin I The 338 Dunedin City !Council labourers who have [been on strike for three [weeks and a half are expected to return to work today. | The labourers will meet at [8 a.m. and a recommendation [that they return to work is [expected to be put to the (meeting by the secretarv of ■the Otago Trades Council. Mr |p. O’Flanagan. ! The secretary of the [ Labourers’ Union. Mr R. E. Mogenson, said last evening [that he would support the (Trades Council’s recommendation. * Mr Mogensen was told last evening of the time for the compulsory conference ordered by the Minister of 'Labour (Mr Gordon).
it The South Island Concili-( lator, Mr L. Fortune, rang Mr I ?!Mogensen last evening to ar-i “ range a meeting for 2 p.m. 51 today. -( Mr Mogensen said . he! -(would tell the labourers of] developments and would re-!' ['commend a return to work be-| i; fore the compulsory confer-j **ence between union-represen-] ;; natives and the City Council. f'The meeting's chairman will r(be Mr Fortune. Mr Gordon requested a re--5 turn to work by the labourers ■ .when he called the compul- ’ sory conference on Friday, e! The strike began on July -|l9 after a breakdown in wage negotiations between the City t* Council and the union. The e i council offered an increase of ei 11.73 per cent and the union f was pressing for a *25 per I cent increase.
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