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...fiercely nationalist countries of Africa, but so it was. Meeting in Accra, President Nkrumah's Ghana government and a consortium of aluminum companies headed by U.S. Aluminum Maker Edgar Kaiser signed a historic agreement. Under the deal, Kaiser will raise $178 million to build an aluminum smelter. Ghana will supply the power by building a $168 million dam on the Volta River. "It could mean to Ghana what TVA and the railroads meant to the U.S., coming all at once," said one Washington official last week over the news. Then he added reflectively: "The problem is making sure...
...depression in the lead and zinc industry forced Bunker Hill, the nation's second largest lead producer (first: St. Joseph Lead Co.), to cut its work force in Kellogg-the first time management had had to exercise the layoff clauses in the contract with the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers' Union. When the contract expired May 6, 1959, a deadlock ensued over job security, grievance procedures, seniority, safety regulations and shift schedules...
Montana. Plodding, conscientious Lawyer Don Nutter, 44, a self-styled "pretty progressive Republican," is catching up on Democratic Lieutenant Governor Paul Cannon, 58, who has a reputation for zany unpredictability and some unpopular ultra-liberal ties, e.g., the Red-lining Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers...
COPPER-STRIKE pact was agreed upon by Anaconda Co. and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, ending a 177-day walkout. Anaconda's settlement all but ended the strike, which shut down 80% of the industry. The three-year contract provides 4,785 Anaconda workers with hourly wage boosts from...
Meantime, another $275 million would be spent to develop Ghana's bauxite reserves and to bolster rail lines running to the Tema area, where a smelter would turn out 220,000 tons of aluminum a year. The metal would be shipped from a port abuilding at Tema...