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Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr Fong Chan Onn said his ministry was
maintaining a neutral stand and would not interfere in the dispute.
<p>“I hope that the MTUC will be united and all the problems will be settled
internally,” he said here yesterday when asked to comment on the split
in the congress. </p>
<p>It was reported that a group of about 20 unions calling itself the Malaysia
National Workers Orga- nisation had formed a pro tem committee to “change
the face of unionism” in the country, claiming that the current MTUC leadership
was “weak and ineffective.” </p>
<p>The pro tem committee is led by Railwaymen’s Union of Malaya pre- sident
Abdul Razak Hassan.
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