forcing the South Shore property to compromise during last week's industrial action.

The hotel concluded its managers and workers would be hard-pressed to fill the gap created by striking housekeepers if the dispute carried into yesterday when 86 visitors were scheduled to check out and 120 were to check in.

Despite the success of the union's housekeeping pressure, the hotel's agreement to automatically deduct union dues from workers' paycheques fell far short of union demands that triggered the two-day dispute.

Sources interviewed yesterday indicated that while both sides compromised for peace, the hotel only gave in on a point it had all but conceded two weeks earlier.

The only change in the hotel's position on union dues deduction was its agreement to do so automatically from all paycheques. Two weeks earlier in New York, the hotel's owners offered to deduct union dues from the paycheques of any worker who requested it.

While the concession allowed the union to begin receiving dues of up to $8,000 a month, there was little change on the larger issue of the hotel recognising the union.

Union negotiators during the ten-hour marathon session on Friday demanded the hotel fully recognise the union and that it implement the collective bargaining agreement arbitrated early this year by American Professor Ronald Haughton.

The union also demanded the hotel publicly apologise for causing the dispute.

But the demands went unmet. Instead, the union acquiesced to have the Essential Industries Disputes Settlement Board meet as soon as possible "to address all areas in dispute''.

The hotel's efforts to break its ties with the BIU led to acrimony, threats, and finally the disruption of Thursday's breakfast in the main dining room. A group of workers occupied the dining room and kitchen all day before leaving the hotel about 8 p.m. The next morning, the hotel locked out protesting workers, who set up a picket line. But the Labour Ministry persuaded the two sides to meet at Stonington Beach Hotel.