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Show PUERTO RICANS ARRIVE TO ACCEPT JOBS ON COPPER On Thursday 300 native Puerto Ricans arrived in Salt Lake City for work at the Utah Copper; company's open pit mine in Bing- i ham Canyon. Late Thursday at-1 ternoon the imported laborers ar-rived ar-rived in Bingham via B. & G j ldLas1y summer 200 Puerto Ri-cam Ri-cam came to Utah to work at the Bingham copper mine under a six month's contract, and the need for additional workers is so acute that the company again sent employment representatives to Puerto Rico this spring to recruit re-cruit the group arriving Thursday Thurs-day These workers will help somewhat to relieve the manpow er shortage which has kept copper cop-per production at a much lower figure than the record production produc-tion in 1943. "The Puerto Ricans will be employed in the track department depart-ment at the mine," it was stated by Louis Buchman, general superintendent, sup-erintendent, "and will reside in rooming houses near the mine at Bingham". The majority of the 200 Puerto Ricans who came to Utah last year to work at the Utah Copper mine returned to Puerto Rico, and it is expected that the new croup coming here for work this summer will include many who worked at Bingham last year. Adolph Soderbcrg, engineer of mines for the company, and E. ? McFarlane, mine employme.it director, who did the recruiting in Puerto Rico, left Salt Lake City in March. |