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...Such occurrences as that which happened at the Anaconda copper mines (TIME, Nov. 23) seem to indicate that America is not yet old enough to become a world power when certain groups would discriminate against a group of Americans as loyal as the Negro...
Cause of the hurried trip was the flat refusal of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local No. 1 at Butte, Mont, to allow Negro workers down the shafts of Anaconda Copper. This was in grim defiance of C.I.O.'s strong pro-Negro policies. It was also in defiance of the U.S. Army, and of an Administration patently striving to promote amicable Negro-white relations among the labor forces of this country...
This week the Anaconda copper mines were still open, though not operating at full capacity for want of labor. The Negroes were still in Butte, but all above ground. The C.I.O., the Army and the Administration were sputtering. Anaconda, for once no one's whipping boy, could say with Daniel M. Kelly, mine manager: "We're just on the sidelines in all this show." Said Mr. Byrne of Local No. 1: "We're going on the theory that this is still a democracy...
...last week Berkeley Bunker came up with some news that really put B.M. into the big time. He said he had heard "reliably" that huge Anaconda Copper Co. was buying B.M. "lock, stock and barrel" for $75,000,000, that its former owners were getting $1,000,000 from Defense Plants Corp. on the deal, although the Government's bill for building the plant would now run over $100,000,000 rather than $70,000,000. Even so, said Senator Bunker darkly, "the Government can consider itself lucky to get out of this thing...
...week wore on Berkeley Bunker's big news was surrounded with hunks of silence: B.M.'s President Howard P. Eells Jr. said no one could talk but Anaconda; Anaconda said it had nothing to say; Jesse Jones did not even say that much. But if Senator Bunker's information was right (and at week's end no one had yet denied it) it was important: for the first time one of the great old-line metal producers was getting into light metal production...