Show az bonanza mine workers strike about sab workers are idle at the american GlIs onite company mines of bonanza as a result regu aa gu t of a strike between company a Y c and the united M steel i workers of Ai america A labor contract between the coin company pan y and union expired july 1 negotiations prior to thu this date tentatively bottled settled an all issues with the exception of the union demands for or increased po pay and increased fringe benefits last Satur saturday dar the union voted to go on strike continued aed on page 4 BONANZA MINE WORKERS STRIKE continued from page 1 I the company offered the union unton and the union refu refused sect to accept a an increase os of five cents per hour on an basic wages plus approximately cents cent per hour for or increased shift differentials diff the increase for example would give the miners a straight time wage rate of 1656 per shift the Machin machinist bt and electrician rates 1720 per shift and the laborers rate 1304 per shift 6 negotiations between the company orn parly and union have been clouded by an issue now pending before the national labor board on june 15 a maj arity of the employees at crat cragg colorado petitioned the NLRB N L for debert Icat ic fort of the bonan ra za local to represent them ws w in craig by Y the on july a 8 A representative of the petitioning cragg ral g e employees m p 1 ay ces testified that the e distance dis t an e e of mile miles between craig and bonanza made it t nearly impossible for them to 0 attend union meetings that are areli held eld at bonanza and to be p adequately d e q asi t ay represented in int the union U n to the NLRB has hot liot yet acted upon the petition |