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Show INCREASE IN PAY BECOMES EFFECTIVE Salt Lake, Nov. 1 Verifinyg tho report yesteida that the Utah Copper Cop-per company would increase wages of the workmen employed at the Magna nnd Arthur mills, D. C. .Tackling, vice president and general manager, gavu out a signed statement. The pay f switchmen and locomotive cn'neer'1 and firemen will also bo raised. The new scales becomes effective today. It was learned at Bingham that tho switchmen will receive an Increase of 20 cents and the engineers and firemen fire-men 25 cents a day Last April a grievance committee of railroaders applied for an Incieaso of more than this, but the company agreed on a compromise. U was understood that tho corporation Intended raising wages as the price of copper advanced. |