Show I MAY iA y ANTICIPATE STRIKE Rumor of Closedown of Big I Property Comes Conies From Butte jI DOUBLE PURPOSE SERVED Time of Labor Trouble Opportune f v v tune for Decreasing Copper Copper Cops Cop- Cop s per Output T News relating to the thc copper situation shun situa tion which came caine over the Pollock i- i wires yesterday esterday w was s reassuring ou only ony from the standpoint that it is alwa always a darkest just before leforc dawn From New NewYork York came camo tho the word that at ot the Metal Oleta exchange copper was wa-s reduced re one half cent on n bid and anti asked prices for all l grades making lake lale 16 to 16 1 2 1 cents cent electrolytic tIc 15 2 1 to 16 cents Piled Plied i on top o of this to make male good goot measure in were Butto Butte dispatches saying I In effect that if It Amalgamated did dIU not soon close down altogether it would nt tit least cut Its production to 40 10 per pel percent cent of or normal It was further said raid that the present production Is only 75 per ter cent of normal r The possible closing closing- down of or Amalgamated Amalgamated Amal Amal- is taken seriously here It ItIs Is pointed out that a double purpose may b be accomplished by it Tho The first o course is the effect upon the metal I II v market in reducing production the S second Is to tu anticipate a great strike I on the part of the Butte Miners Miners' S. S t I union t Strike SuJlo at nt Butte Butto l Possible os i lc S remembered that when r. r r.r. J It will be r. r l I i the tho wages of Butte miners were a f tv w months ago o voluntarily an ad advanced ed there f S a stipulation upon tho the part nt of th the mine owners o that the advance c 1 s 11 remain in effect so Ion long lon a aj aa j 1 copper should sell at IS cents or hot bet tt ter r. r Cop Copper has fallen below tho the 1 15 IS- IS SU S- S U cent mark marl The miners mInel'S have become becomes s sj to receiving the higher If that they were almost ly rei 1 i tt to MI ike ike e for another advance and advance and Itcan it itcan can be Ima imagined what will happen when tho the big companies s suggest i i 1 t turi to the old schedule S Since nc the slump in copper and coppe copper cop cop- per pe- stocks has hns gone as far as ns It has thc r re are arc few who have the hardi- hardi to even predict that the end is nC nar But It may be nearer than anyone any- any ono one Imagines The situation Is Is' Is hut but another instance of the eternal V IA S.- S. J. S of or supply an and demand having ha 11 is i's Z ii liLs In Lu spite ot or tr an com i- i I wim When abnormal abnormal- conditions 3 are arc br created r the rho pendulum must swing c ft to the other extreme before the normal nor nor- mal is re tc It is just a n que question of ot how long It takes It to get S-c back bick At this time timo It Is ge generally goner gener r- r ally admitted that tho the overpowering o pi IH u p of the tho country countr as as' as asa a whole should hasten readjustment |