Truck strike over
NZPA Sydney The New South Wales Premier (Mr Neville Wran), said last night there were no winners in the truck drivers’ dispute, and only one loser — the Australian public. The big Australia-wide blockade ended where it began — on Razorback Mountain, 100 km south of Sydney. At 11.30 a.m. yesterday, tired and sun-dazed truck drivers agreed to clear the Hume Highway and return to work. By 4.30 in the after- ■ noon a police spokesman was I able to say the last of the big I rigs had moved off the moun-
tain and oil spilt on the roadway had been cleared. Scores of policemen directed the 700 trucks which headed off along the highway, bound mainly for Sydney and Melbourne. They were dispatched at intervals of five every 20 minutes, and hundreds arrived at Sydney at the evening peak hour. After a final meeting of the Razorback Mountain blockade men at 1 p.m., the truckers’ leader, Mr Ted Stevens, told reporters: “We have won our fight, won the right to arbitration, which is the greatest victory this industry ha* ever had.”
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183Truck strike over Press, 12 April 1979, Page 4
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