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Show REDUCTION UNDERSTOOD. Owing to the fact that the government govern-ment accumlated something like 800, ( 000,000 pounds of copper during the war, and the further fact that the de- i maud for the red metal has fallen off, ' it is incumbent upon the producers of ( the United States either to reduce wages or shut down the mines and f mills. After a conference, in which mine owners, government officials and representatives of the union participated, par-ticipated, it was decided that the adoption of the former course would ( be for the best interest of all concern- 1 ed. The government has agreed not t to break the market, and will allow ; the producers to supply nine-tenths ; of the copper demand, thus insuring work for the miners. Prices, however, how-ever, are declining, and it is no long- " er possible to pay the war scale. ' This being the case, a reduction in ' wages was inevitable if the properties r continued in operation in the face of t a limited demand. The miners, being c in full possession of all the facts In 1 the case, have accej,;ed the situation with fc,onl r;u e in l.'iah and else-, where, lor they realize that shutdown shut-down was one of the alterative propositions. pro-positions. In the opinion of Charles II. Mover, president of the International Internat-ional Union of Mine, Mill and Smeller Workers. the producers have done the right thing. The I. W. W. element has attempted attempt-ed to cause some trouble as usual but will find as little sympathy as it did in the Seattle strike failure. Common sense and a level head will get more results now than the revolutionary re-volutionary methods of the Reds. |