The ten-day strike of some 250 workers at the Shell Oil Company installations here ended this week-end following mediation efforts by Labor Minister Golda Myerson, who stepped into the picture when gasoline and other petroleum supplies reached a dangerous low. It is understood that the union and the oil company agreed on a pension scheme and other social security benefits.
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