The border vidette., 1933-09-16
COPPER CODE ASKS FOREIGN
EMBARGO

| on Imported red metal, EN- oargO
foreign copper until domestic
production and consumption are
equal, freeze the present surplus
until consumption increases and
distribute r0duction quotas by
states rather than by industrial
units. was submitted to Presi-
dent Roosevelt today by three
Arizona copper associations.
The code was signed by l.. @.
Shattuck, president of the Ari-
zona Domestic Copper Prod ucers
Associations; G. w. VanDyke,
president of the Arizona Devel
oping Mines Association, and
Albert Steinfeld, president of
the Arizona Prospecting Miners
Association.
The new code organizes the
copper producing industry into
four classes-domestic producing
mines, development mines, in
ternational copper and prospect
mines. Each group would be
allowed equal representation on
a proposed state C d Q com.
mittee, the latter to be organized
in each of the copper producing
states.
To the committee is referred
production quotas, fair practice,
and other matters of interest.
Appeal from decision of the
committees only can be taken to
the courts.
The code requests the Presi'
dent to limit imports of copper,
copper products. ores, alloys or
articles containing copper. to
such quantities as when added
to the volume of domestic pro
duction it will equal the volume
of domestic consumption and
such quantities as may be per
mitted to enter the United States.
The buyers shall pay thereon an
import duty of 10 cents per
pound.
II also states that during the
existing emergency 10 order to
Immediately re-open the copper
mines of the country for the
| benefit of those dependent there
on, all sales of copper and all
articles of copper for domestic
consumption, must be secured
from current primary produc
tion."
ALLEGATION of production quotas
is proposed to be made by
states, and to various producers
by the state code committee.
The proposed code provides
that quotas may be issued to the
international copper group and
the prospect mines group. but
such quotas shall not exceed 200
tons of copper per annum for
each producer in each group.
Another article of the code
states that it is necessary to
limit foreign imports. to limit
the current market sales, to
spread ALLEGATION equitably and
to establish such price for cop
per as will permit as large a
percentage of the copper indus
try to reopen as will not entail
a hardship on the consumers.
1t recounts that for the 27-year
| period from 1908 to 1880. the
weighted average price received
| for all copper sold in the United
States equaled 1876 cents per
pound.
Quoting the United States tariff
commission, the proposed code
says that a price of 10 5 cents
per pound would reopen 35 per
cent of the domestic mines on a
cost basis; 1914 cents per pound
would reopen an additional 70
per cent; ii 63 cents would re
open 90 per cent and rs would
reopen 100 per cent of the do
nestle mines. The code then
stipulates that the minimum
price for which copper shall be
sold is Is cents per pound.
10 connection with the rights
of labor, the code is verbatim
quotation of the national recov
cry act and establishes the 4O
hour week as maximum, and
the scale of wages in use on May
/, 1921, as the minimum a "a 81
wage for miners, 81 90 for muck
ers, the lowest rate being $3.50
for laborers.
The code sets forth q detailed
list of employees and rates in
mine. mill, surface aud power
plant departments.
1t also lists what are consider
ed unfair practices. both between
companies and between em
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