Show Park Par It City Miners Go on Strike I Ifor for Cent 9 Wage Hike Pension PARK CITY CITY- Ono One hundred sixty miners struck United Park City Mines Co Tuesday in a bid for Increase increased ed wages and a pension plan The Tho miners all members of Local of the United Steel SteelWorkers SteelWorkers Workers of or America voted unanimously unan to strike at a meeting in tho the Memorial l Building here according to a spokes spokes- man The strike followed elx six weeks of or negotiations bet v between en the miners min ers and the compan company TIle The present present present pres pres- ent contract t h had d expired expired ex ox May 1 the minors miners m had been working on n a r day day day to-day basis since Tho The strike amounted to a arc re ye Section of or a year three nr contract offered by the company Monday That offer provided for increased in increased creased wage a and aDd cj shift shirt differential tint payments Even before t the tho e miners' miners meeting meet meet- ling I ing Tuesday aft morning shift workers had n not t shown up at the job Miners I Protest George J. J Wilde Wildo Salt Lake City staff representative for the United Steel Workers said eald the miners felt the tho offer was not high enough that the miners I want their wage level brought to ko o the level of miners employed I by other zinc lead mining com corn in the area In addition they want a pension pen sio sion elon plan and shift shirt differential payments equal to that offered by other firms he said S. S K K Droubay y vice president I and general manager of United Park City said saia failure of the workers to show up for the morning shift shirt amounted to an unauthorized strike He said the conf company any had not received any proposal from tram the union The company company had been I without strike since 1950 j Mr Droubay said the com corn pany's offer was for a seven seven- I cent hourly W wage g increase this year with six cents hourly being I II added in each of at the second and I third years of the contract I Mr Wilde said the workers I want a year one-year contract only with a wage In increase re se of at least i 19 9 9 YI cents hourly to bring their wages up to s standards of other mines caJe Mr Droubay said the firm offered of ot a shift differential of 5 I cents the same as the present for the afternoon shift 11 cents compared to the present 10 cents for the graveyard shift shUt I and 8 cents compared to the present 7 71 cents for the inter mediate shift The Tho union is asking for differentials differentials differ differ- I I of 6 12 and 9 cents respectively respectively respectively res res- I for each category Mr Droubay said the company I had promised to study possibility of a pension plan during the next two years and if economic conditions conditions con can permitted then we would I seriously consider Inaugurating a 1 aplan I plan Mr Wilde said the average I wage now Is 1889 for an eight eight- j hour shift The company offer 1 would make that 1945 The Tho j I miners want 1964 j United Park City last year I went into the ski business with I j construction construction of a gondola lift I I chair lift activities center and andi i restaurant I I The facilities were the first phase of a year round recreation complex complex that the mining company com corn pany has undertaken as market prices have waned However little work was pres under way in the recreation development Mr Droubay not ed Salt Balt Salt Lake Tribune |