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Show CUT IN VAGES OF BUTTE HERS EFFECTIVE Reduced Scale Becomes Operative Op-erative Without Disturbance; Disturb-ance; Larger 'Forces BUTTS, afloat.. Fab. I. Reduced wage eala, announced tha la t tar part of Da cember, waa put Into effset In lha Butts district without any dlstarbaaca or comment com-ment from tha miner a. At tha time of tha decision af tha mining mi-ning companies to cot wagaa appreciation waa expressed at tha course of tha opera-tora opera-tora In giving their employe a month mora under tha wartime scale,, when tha reduction, so far aa tha minera wara concerned, con-cerned, coald hava been put Into affect immediately,.- aa Xha- Winer a, while noma 'factions aaaert they hava union, have no contracts with tha companies a.1 though other crafts employed at tha mine have. A thirty -day notice la required in th contra ?te with tha unions which hava agreement a In caaa an annulment Is de-el de-el red. and aa a cancellation waa necessary ta cut wages, tha notlco. waa given, and. In consideration of tha minera t hey too wer allowed thirty daya mora under tha aid acal. Downtown erafta ahortly will have their wagea cut by t he employers' aaeoclalion, now that tha mining erafta are under tha reduced ac ale, and tha cut will ba made to correapond na tiueely aa poaeibla to that bad at tha mines, Hummary of tha varloua mine ah owe a total employed aa. aiufaxav ia ana atiXiaas and underground la tha Bulla district of approximately 7090 persona Viva weak a ago thia total atood at S00 leaa. Kvan though tha aala of property of tha Alice Hold and Hllver Mining company to tha Anaconda Copper Mining company haa been annulled by tha United Htatea an-preme an-preme court, lta status will net ba much rhanged. aa Anaconda also owns all but about per cent of the Alice ot,ock. The- dectaton. Mi brfef. relate that tha Anaeond company In Issuing fl.toaaea of Its stock for this property paid too little notwithstanding th fact that a majority of tha Alice atock had been acquired earlier and turned over to the Itutta Coalition Mining company for ti.0oa. When tha Montana copper merger waa later accomplished under the wing of tha Anaconda company tba Alice, along with properliea formerly belonging to tha Butte Coalition Mining company, waa Included and operated aa a unit of tha larger prop-arty. prop-arty. About twenty years ago th Alice company, com-pany, then controlled by the Walk era of Halt I-ake City, waa a profitable producer of silver and was able to pay dividends for a time. It ahut down In 103 and from that time until after tha Anaconda company com-pany discovered Its proraa for handling refractory ano orea, tha property remained re-mained Idle. At no time sine tha Anaconda company aawumed control haa the Alice company, it la understood, operated profitably, and a a result haa never contributed to dividends divi-dends earned and paid by tha larger corporation. |