Business: Up Wages, Up Ceiling

In the cacophony of coal, steel and railroad shutdowns, the shrill cry of alarm from users of copper has gone unheard. Yet by last week the four-month strike of copper mine, smelter, and refinery workers threatened to shut down makers of refrigerators, washing machines, radios, telephones, vacuum cleaners, etc. Copper output was down to one-third of normal, while demand was at a peacetime peak.

Both big and little business have been crippled. General Electric's Charles E. Wilson announced that virtually all his company's operations using copper will be shut down next month if the...

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