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Show WSB RATIFIES PAYJNCREASE Denver, March 27 The Regional Reg-ional Wage Stabilization board Thursday approved . collective bargaining agreements between the Kennecott Copper Corp., Salt Lake City, and locals of 15 unions un-ions affecting 7712 employes of the company's plants irt Utah, Nevada and New Mexico. Board chairman Dr." Edward J. Allen said wage increases of 4c an hour were authorized for hourly paid employes; $7 a month for salaried workers under Fair Labor Standards Act coverage, and $10 a month for nonsuper-visory nonsuper-visory employes not covered by the F L S A. The joint petitions of the company com-pany and the unions covered plants at Bingham Canyon, Magna, Mag-na, Arthur and Garfield, Utah; McGill, Nev., and Hurley, N. M. The company is engaged in min ing, milling and smelting of cop-per, cop-per, molybdenum and zinc. Allen said approval of pay increases in-creases for 4244 employes at the company's Utah locations and 1429 employes at McGill, Nev., was based on the board's cost-of-living formula. Although the board could grant cost-of-living increases of only 4c an hour to 2039 employes at the Hurley, N. M., location, Allen said, an additional ygc an hour was authorized to correct an intraplant inequity between this group and other company employes. em-ployes. . . . s |