Show COPPER TAKES SUDDEN SLUMP Large Barge Agencies b Dispose of lO O OOOO Pounds at t s 8 8 Cis at N. N T Y I Feb 6 Ton Ten Ten million New e York was vaa sold hero today toda pounds of or COPP copper b by br lar large u and nn small mall selling a agencies encle reduced tho the price from when the former 18 cents a pound with 23 3 cents to small lots selling Bellin- as low low- lowas as ns 18 cents cent according to conservative estimates in market circles the trading tho the since inco consequence z first of or nn any sl signing of or the Iho armistice paved tho the way for fOl an nn open market was not heavy hc that It marked copper dealers asserted the Iho beginning of or business on a u. peace scale Tho The abandonment of oC tho the cent 23 price which in to December succeeded th the for tho the rate ralo of ot 16 to cents agreed upon war Nar period b by 11 the producers and tho o government was coincident with an I announcement in Butte Dutte Mont that tho the reduced big copper companies had wages a dollar a n da day In conformity With the th between e bett n and employers that pay pa would bo be based Lasell upon the tho selling pi price Ice of or tho the The two reductions were regarded ed an nil sl significant u in view of oC tho the statement and depart depart- at it tt a conference of oC miners neat of or labor officials at Washington earl of the tho week that the in n J the tho early part earl su den termination of or tho the war had hall eft left the tho country countr with a I. I stock of or ono one pound pounds In to contrast to an nn oUI- oUI less accumulation of or cl ll estimated han than OO pounds a It year ago aro the tho new As far tar as could bo be learned to domestic busl- busl price rice applied only association ies tess tho Copper Export till still quoting tho the commodity at 31 cents However It was abroad or or shipment association that committee of or tho the said raid a now In Europe might ml ht revise u the tho conference with t ox port price after aCter a potters lowers |