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Show DISASTER STALLS MINE-UNION MEET Labor and management of the United States Smelting Refining and Mining Co. agreed Monday to call off their proposed Tuesday Tues-day contract negotiations because be-cause of the disaster at the company's com-pany's Lark mine shaft. The talks had been set for Tuesday at 10 a.m. to seek a new working agreement between the company and United Steelworkers Steelwork-ers of America, CIO. Dan Edwards, state labor mediator, me-diator, met briefly with company com-pany officers Monday and suggested sug-gested the parley be postponed until fulltime rescue operations at the mine are ended. He pointed point-ed out many company officials are standing by at the mine shaft on an around-the-clock basis. Arthur Mullett, union staff representative, re-presentative, said late Monday, "There seems to be no need to negotiate until the trapped men are rescued and fire put out in the mine shaft. We realize the company's leaders are too busy." The strike had idled some 1335 men at the company's Midvale plant, Lark and Bingham mines. A new date for the contract talks will not be set until all rescue operations cease. |