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Show COPPER WORKERS GET REDUCTION IN WAGE SCALE Announcement is made of a reduction re-duction in the wage scale of its employees by the Utah Copper Company. The reduction is stat ed as twenty-five cents per day for niaehanies, and 'venty cents per day for laborers, effective ef-fective May the tenth. No announcement an-nouncement of a change in working work-ing time has been made. It has been expected that the wage reduction would come along with an announcement of full time work, but this is not the case. The reduction of four cents per , ound in the price of copper fail-,1 fail-,1 to reduce the surplus on hand is greatly as was desired, and it now appears that until these toeks are reduced there can be no good reason fo rinereasing production. |