Hungry Horse news., 1954-06-25
PayroIIs Zoom at AAC Plant

/ Payrolls from Anaconda Alum
mum Co. plant construction once
more are pulsing through the
Flathead.
Jobs at the plant Thursday
reached a total of $50. Next week
payrolls are expected to pass $70,-
000 Jobs last week totaled $50.
Rapid comeback of men work.
ing follows the June IA settlement
of the strike between J. A. Mcneil
Co., excavations and foundations
contractor, and the six basic crafts.
The strike started April 5, and
idled l,100 men who had been
making over 100000 a week.
CONCRETE AGAIN
Concrete placement has resum-
ed. Baker MITCHELL Thwing, con-
crete supplier, turned out 142 Gu
bic yards Wednesday for place
ment by J. A. Mcneil crews in
foundations. Placement is to soar
once more to 400 cubic yards a
day. About half the $4,000 cubic
yards of concrete needed to build
the S60,000,000 plant has been
placed.
Mcneil employment a week ago
was 100. Thursday it was AIT, and
Friday is expected to be about 435.
Mcneil subcontractors and sup
pliers have another 81 men work.
ing. They are Baker MITCHELL
Thwing, concrete; Lovett Plumb
ing and Heating; Fidelity Electric;
O'Connor Construction, gravel
Glenn Geary, excavating subcon-
tractor, is moving back on the job.
First Mcneil payroll was Wednes-
day with $8,500 paid out.
A check Thursday noon showed
no indication of any major con-
struction activity as yet on Sat-
urdays.
STEEL RISING
While Mcneil men were placing
concrete and building forms, Am
erican Bridge division of u. S.
Steel Corporation had so men on
the job, according TO c. o. "Slim"
Edmunds, superintendent.
Into the air this week went
structural steel for the electric
shop that connects the machine
shop and potline No. 1. Steel con-
tinued to be erected in potline No.
/, the first of four 1,100 foot long
buildings that are So feet above
their main floor. Friday or Mon
day will see start of steel column
placement for potline building No.
2.
American Bridge was half done
Thursday with strA& dral steel for
the transformer untanking build
ing, a four to five-story high
structure.
NEW PAINT CONTRACT
d. H. Line and Co., Chicago,
have been awarded a subcontract
to American Bridge to paint struc-
tural steel. They start this week
and relieve Jamar-Olmen Co.,
Chicago, who have been handling
this former Foley phase, tempor-
arily. Jamar-Olmen has 81 men
working, and will start enclosing
potline No. shortly.
Supt. Neal Lange and William
Jurden, vice president of Vinnen
Inc, who furnished and erected
steel in a number of plant build
ings last winter were here this
week. Vinnell put up the structur-
al steel for the warehouse, machine
shop, office building change house,
boiler house, and will return about
July 10 to start steel up for the
paste plant, carbon building and
remaining structures except for
the potlines. The plant will have
25 buildings. About half the struc-
tural steel is in the four potlines
being erected by American Bridge.
A. T. Klemens, Great Falls, has
six men working this week on the
roofing contract for the whole
plant.
TRACK LAYING
A Great Northern crew Of II
men were at work on permanent
track within the plant. There will
be about five miles.
Westinghouse Electric engineers
IN the job total three with V. c.
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