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Show KENNECOTT RECALLS MANY MENTO WORK Several hundred Kcnnecott Copper Corp. employes returned to work Monday following a two-month layoif. The increase in the work force followed a return Monday to a j six-day operating week at the company's mine, mill and smelter. smel-ter. L. F. Pett, general manager of the Utah Copper division of Kennecott, said "a marked im- j provement in demand for copper j in the second quarter of the year , has made possible the longer op-! op-! crating week." I Company officials declined to I make any estimate of the exact i number of workers recalled I Monday. They would be called ' back as needed. ! Approximately 650 workers I were laid off on March 15. At that time the company cut operations oper-ations down to a five-day week. Workers were laid off on the basis of seniority. Company officials of-ficials said they would be hecall-ed hecall-ed on the same basis. Employes will continue to work on a five-day week despite the fact that the company will operate on a six-day week. Earlier Ear-lier this year the company operated oper-ated on a seven-day week with employes working a six - dqy week. Properties at Ruth, New; Ray, Ariz., and Chino, N. M., also are returning to a six-day operating week Monday. |