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Show Page 10-THE HERALD,Provo, Utah Friday, October22,1971 600 To Be Laid Off At Kennecott Nov. 1 A company spokesman said the firm hoped to return to full employment and a seven-day smelting schedule as soon as possil ble. L.L. Nielsen, a United Steelworkers of America : epresentative, said the layoffs were not unexpected in view of similar action at Kennecett’s Nevada mines last week and at New Mexicoinstallations in August. In its quarterly report Tuesday, Kennecott laid a large pa:t of the blame for the drop in profits to a 92 cents an hour wage hike won by copper work- SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Kennecott Copper Corp. Thursday said 600 of its Utah workers will be Isid off Nov. 1 and the firm's smelting schedule will be cut to six days a week. J.P. O'Keefe, genczal manager of Kennecott's Utah Copper Division, said the cuts which came two days after announce- ment of a $39.5 million drop in quarterly profits were made necessary by an increasing backlog of raw copper. “The inventory of concentrate has been building up since the end of July, despite smelter op- eration on holidays and some ers after a strike in July. Kennecott has cut back its shipments to other smelters,” he said, “Now we haveto bring operations before, in 1957 and the inventory into better bal- 1958, when more than 1,000 workers in four western states ance with our smelting capacity, were laid off because of low Kennecott Tuesday reported copper prices. The whole Utah Copper Diviits third quarter profits for this fiscal year were $7 million, or sion went to a six-day week 21 cents a share, down from from September 1962 to October $42.5 million, or $1.28 a share a 1963 because of a glut of copper on the market. year ago. 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