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Show UTAH COPPER CO. EMPLOYEES GET 25-CENT RAISE The nonferrous metals commission com-mission of the national war labor la-bor board has granted 4022 employees em-ployees of Utah Copper company a 25-cent a day wane increase. The company filed the request for the increase, retroactive to November 1, 1942, on March 2i). Employees to benefit include workers at the company's Bing-ham Bing-ham mine, mills at Arthur and Magna, the B. & G. railroad and the Garfield water company. Those workers represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen are excluded ex-cluded from the wage increase, since they are represented by a different bargaining agency. The commission began study of the request after 1300 members mem-bers of the Independent Association Associa-tion of Mill Workers at the Magna Mag-na and Arthur withdrew a strike threat. Charles Graham of Denver, Den-ver, commission chairman, said the national board had approved the commission's rejection of a . previous joint application of the company and the union, whicti was ordered disestablished February Feb-ruary 20. W. Reed Dameron, president of the Independent Association of Mill Workers, was quoted as stating that the 25-cents a day raise was gratifying, but is not all the union is requesting. An appeal on the order of the commission com-mission disestablishing the Independent In-dependent union has been filed with the circuit court of appeals. |