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Show INCREASE IN WAGES FOR MINE LABORERS BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 2.--In the East Helena smelters of the American Smelting Smelt-ing and Refining company the wages of common laborers were raised yesterday. yester-day. About 90 per cent of the force is affected af-fected by the increase, which will be about 7 per cent. Men working a ten-hour shift, getting get-ting $2 a day, will hereafter receive $2.25; those under the eight-hour day receiving $2.25 to $3.25 will get 15 cents more a day. The total increase will be about $20,000 a month. |