Word: smelter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike-leading United Steelworkers union and a subsidiary of American Metal Climax, Inc., have agreed on a new contract for A.M.C.'s huge Carteret, N.J., smelter, source of 10% of the U.S. domestic supply of refined copper. Terms: a $1.07-an-hour increase in wages, pensions, health and welfare benefits, raising hourly pay to a range of $3.11 to $4.24. It was the second settlement in three weeks. Sixth ranking Copper Range Co., which normally extracts about 6% of the nation's annual output of copper ore from its 2,000-ft.-deep mine in White Pine, Mich...
...waste is saved and reprocessed at the plant itself; the rest comes through the scrap and salvage industry, which buys up wastes from plants, offices and homes. The copper in a skillet, for instance, may have an indefinite series of incarnations over a cycle of many years, moving from smelter to refinery to brass mill to the factory to housewife's kitchen to junk collector to a secondary refinery where it is smelted into ingots and sold back to the factory. Overall, only an estimated 15% of all the copper ever mined has been lost...
Among the scrub pines and lakes of the Manitoba wilderness, where only the cry of the loon could be heard a few years ago, the stillness was shattered by the hissing and hammering of the world's largest nickel mine and smelter. In the Alberta foothills northwest of Edmonton, the ring of sledge hammer on steel counterpointed the polyglot curses of Portuguese, Greek and Italian gandy dancers, pushing the Alberta Resources Railway 111 miles north to the coal and gypsum deposits of the Peace River country...
...years the huge (1,100,000 members) United Steelworkers of America (A.F.L.-C.I.O.) and the small (40,000) but noisy International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Independent) have been deadly enemies. The Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union goes back to the turn of the century and a 1905 hookup with the radical left's "Wobbly" movement and its leader, William ("Big Bill") Haywood. In 1917, Haywood jumped a $20,000 bond and fled to Russia rather than face charges of violating the Espionage Act. Half his ashes now rest in the Krem lin Wall, the other...
...however, the two old rivals have signed a mutual assistance pact, agreeing to observe each other's contracts and to quit raiding; meanwhile, talks leading toward complete merger, as the United Steelworkers of America, would go on. Why? And why now? Said a Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers official: "Everywhere you look, unions are finding it necessary to get together and present a united front against ever bigger financial and management empires...