Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-01-15 | Page 10 | Mining Companies Increasing Wages

'mm compiles " INCREASING WAGES Based in Montana on 20-cent 20-cent Copper; Iron Miners Get Raises. HL'TTK, yUint., Jan. H. A vuhnitaiy wap inTr;i?e of '1 .-cots a tay was nintori today to o,0CK) mine and mtioU-iiiLi' mtioU-iiiLi' employees in iButtc. Anaeonda and Grt-at Falls. The order for the increase in wapps, whii-b tho notirc states bc-anirj bc-anirj rftV-.Hivo January 1. was reccive( from tho New York offices oi: the Ana-f-onda Copper companv. Tho Bntto k Superior company, the A. Clark ronipanies and otlir roncorDs, it is an-nourved, an-nourved, have aprncd to the increase, which will remain as loii as copper is L!(J cents or more a pound. DUIXTH. Minn.. Jnn. 14. All the larger mininfr companies oreratin in Minnesota and Michigan iron ranges have announced an approximately 10 per cent increase for all miners, effective Fobruary 1. The increase -will affect about 22,000 employees of the United States Steel corporation. The rreat Northern Ore company, "Republican. iTon and Sdecl and Pickets and other companies have followed the ntcel corporation's ox-ample, ox-ample, and from $000 to 10,000 of their men will be benefited. Thongh it could not bo confirmed last night, there has been a persistent rnmor in mining circles that wag-es of copper miners in Utah would be increased in the near future.