Show UTAH STEEL PLANT RESUMES OPER work was resumed at the midvale plant of the utah steel corporation on the with a new wage scale representing a flat reduction of 15 per cent about men will be given employment in the billet and finishing mills of the big plant the finishing mill now being in full operation the reopening of the plant is said to be due to the receipt of large orders and in anticipation of more to follow in the near future in making the announcement of the resumption of work general manager M S of the corporation declared that planned improvements at the plant will cost between and they include the installation of continuous heating furnaces plane conveyors and other efficiency increasing equipment mr says that general buying conditions in the steel market are constantly growing better and that the exhausting of steel supplies in the west is resulting in considerable active purchasing of steel the announcement of the reduction in wages carried a statement from company of ficiala calling attention to the fact that most steel plants in the country were making wage reductions of from 15 to 25 per cent and asking for the operation cooperation co of employed emp loyes in giving efficient service the management promised to exhaust every other means of economy in operation before proposing further wage reductions |