STRIKE AVERTED
TRANSPORT DISPUTE PARTIES REACH AGREEMENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 13. The stop-work meeting called by the Wellington Drivers’ Union for tomorrow morning has been cancelled after all-day negotiations to-day for the settlement of the transport dispute. The men employed by Munt Cottrell and Co., Ltd., who have been on strike since last Friday, will go back to work to-morrow morning, and the firm has reinstated the driver whose dismissal created the dispute. These steps have been taken on the understanding that the man’s dismissal will be referred to a committee representative of the employers and the workers. The agreement averts the danger of a shortage of coal for gas manufacture and a consequent rationing oi gas. which at one stage was contemplated. It also relieves the threat, of a major transport hold-up, involving numerous unions in the transport industry.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26077, 14 February 1946, Page 4
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140STRIKE AVERTED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26077, 14 February 1946, Page 4
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