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High Country News Vol. 12.22, Nov. 14, 1980 = = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 2-Hi h Count News - Nov. 14 1980 Anaconda ... (continued from page 1) . their mutual ignorance of the impend- ing shut-down. He has worked for what Montanans call "the Company" for 32 years? an association that predates ARCO's ;nvolvement by more than a quarter-century. Before that his father was a blue-collar employee at the smel- ter. "I was raised with the people that work up here," said Stokke. "I'm in- volved morally and socially." He thinks ARCO pulled the plug too quickly, "without looking into (alternatives) in depth ...It should have been researched a lot more." Barkley, Stokke and the rest of the town, are still in shock. The company had reassured them earlier in the year that it planned to keep the smelter open Ph.... and invest in improvements. "",-y "It hit US like somebody had suddenly of the died:' said Lutheran minister Kirby Anaeonda Nave. ;There was an initial reaction of Leoder disbelief and numbness." The surprise announcement set off a flurry of activity to find a quick fix. "A lot of people came in here just before the (Nov.4) election. promising money," said Alberta "Kraus, who works for the Anaconda Local Development Corpora- tion. "Then they left after the election. MEL STOKKE (upper left) runs the Anaconda omeltorworks. Despite the fact that it is not expected to operate again, strikers continue their vigil at the front gate. - Now we're having trouble finding any I . to people come in and invest:' I _Not surprisingly when over 70 per- vey now under way is expected to show back to the 18BOswhen Marcus Daly power to toy with Montanans'lives was cent of a community's payroll has been further decline. "Most of what we've got started building his copper empire. never forgotten. - - wiped out, retail businesses in the tOWI1 hereare family businesses," said Lutey, In fact, the town endured troubles In 1915, Standard Oil relinquished of9,000 are suffering. "We"'e lost about "which can cut back and survive. But it uncannily similar-to today's in the its ownership 'of Anaconda. Sixty years four businesses so far. and more are on looks like if. going to be a long. 1890s, when Daly sold his Anaconda fater. Anaconda's grip on Montana's the brink," said Gene"Lutey, owner of drawn-out situation." Co. to the Amalgamated Copper Co .. a economy had weakened considerably, the Lutey's Furniture and president of Lutey noted that Anaconda stilI owns subsidiary of the Rockefellers' Stan- as had its inter-nat strength, and it was the All-aconds Chamber of Commerce, much of the town -- property. mineral- dard Oil Trust. At that time, Anaconda bought up by-another giant, AReO. Two weeks after the closure. a survey rights and water - and might be con- owned enormous properties throughout Montana;;s blame ARCO, the corpo- of local business showed 121 jobs had sidering .some limited venture in the the state and aU but one of Montana's rate outsider, for the closing af the already been eliminated. A second sur- future, like reprocessing tailings. "But daily newspapers. -lt also controlled smelter. Many say that ARCO's huge now that ARCO's left," he added, "I most of its legislators. When new-: earnings in oil made it easy for the par- don't think anybody's going to want owner Amalgamated desperately ent company to close a marginal smel- them back." wanted a law passed in 1890, it simply. ter operation, that a smaller company High Country lews shut down everything but the newspap- might not have. A LONG RELATIONSHIP ers. "We didn't buy it originally (in 1976) The IDdepmdent That meant 20,000 workers laid off- with the intent of wrtting'it off," said aa__ ·blwee1dy Lutey's remark reflects a bitterriess over three-quarters of Montana's wage- ARCO spokesman Curt Burton. "Even of tile Booldeo towards corporate power that has been earners. To no one's surprise, a special if Anaconda were not a part of ARCO aroused often in Montana's past. The session of the legislature quickly con- they would have been (aced with the Published biweekly at 331 Main, state has had a long and ambivalent vened and passed the desired law. But same situation ultimately. Anaconda Lander, Wyo. 82520. Telephone relationship with Anaconda, dating the ability of an out-of-state corporate 307-332-4877. Seconde1aoo postage might have sought to keep it open pOI at Lender. (USPS No. 087480) All rights to publicotion of articleS berein are reserved. PublUher TIl....... A. Ben Editor GecJ«rey O'Gara 8tafrWritera M1ehaeJ._ LouUa WID""" AuocIate Editor Joan Moe ContributiDll Editor Peter WIld Correapcmdeato PbIIIp WhIte 11mothy LaDle Buelnea. Mana,er Jaomyn McDonald ProductloD Kathy BQI8D Phofolraphy Sara Hunt.er-WIlee ClreuIatlon WID Marphy Beloy 8chIme1I>fenll fh:hc IpCkllll 'lI.OO per year . ............ 71 ...... Call fbr permission to reprint any articles or ill_tions. Conlribu- _(manuseripto,pbotoo,artwork) will be weleomed with the under- standing that the editors <8JIIIOI. be held reaponsible IbrI... or damage. Articles and lettero wiU be pub- li&bed and edited st the di&enltion of tha editors. To have a _le.eopy ....t io a friend send us biB .. her ecIdreo .. Write to Box' K;'Lander, Wyo., :~·ft~eW:~ 82520. * . THE ANACONDA COPPER CO• ......cted a viaitor 'center, replete with reHcs from the old days, Then their entire o~aff~~':;i:i~~oi'iaa'~a:e~reHc. ,",~.J~ - ~~. u ~. .. " ._ ""----' \ Photoby DavidS_ ,DOWNTOWN ANA<;ONDA has quieted since the smelter shutdown. The Chamber of Commerce reports that four husy,es8es have closed and others are , on the brink of collapse. due to competition with imports. That tential for::profit in Anaconda's wastes». longer with variances (on pollution ARca builds a new facilityj said Bur- ;t;:,.laws), but they wouldn't haye offered ton, 'it will be near navigable water, program could provide support for over I - sifting through mill tailings for 'more ayear and retrain wor.kers for-newjobs... ,'tI: copper; collecting traces of:.copper, . the same benefits, (wben-ctbey shut which will "sharply cut tranSportation ...· . down):' costs. ARCO has also, given -the com- silver, gold ana arsenic in dust. orpro- . munities of Anaconda and Great Falls?". cessing electric slag. Burton called.the shutdown "strictly . But in a move that manyAnacondans (a larger city to the north where 500 ' Local businessmen talk of a plant to an environmental story." He acknow- find difficult to fathom, ARCO has de- workerswere laid om an outright grant build sewage and air purifying systems ledged that federal air quality laws cided that until itbuildsa new smelter, of $5 million. - .somewhat ironic in view of give copper smelters leeway in com- it will ship ore-from its Butte mine to That kind of economic cushion is not Anaconda's history of air quality prob- plying with standards, and that the modem smelters in Japan. Even consid- enough for most Anacondans, however. lems - and 81800£ converting the smel- state has been willing to grant com- ering transportation costs to and from Joe Pickett, who worked for Anaconda ter's foundry to produce wood stoves or pliance extensions. Yet Burton insists the foreign facilities, this option is for 15years, said, "Some of us are really - wi nd machines. thatARCO studies show that even with cheaper than keeping' the Anaconda too old to go look for a job somewhere, But local officials are still in the expensive retrofitt~ng, the plant would smelter alive, according to company of~, but you have to. Your home ain't worth . planning stages. They have received, a not be assur:ed of meeting emission ficials. a dollar. I was thinking of heading out $100,000 grant from the Economic De- standards. SEVERANCE PAY for Minneapolis or Seattle, I don't velopment Administration to help Stokke offers a slightly different in- know. Like a woman in Butte said to them .. Micone of the governor's office terpretation. He noted that the com- Odd though it may seem for uneinp- me:'Butte !lotthe mines, but \naconda said they are setting up a task force to pany had invested $70':80 million in' loyed workers to be on strike, the con- 'got the shan:"' rejuvenate an area that includes plant improvements since- 1971, and tract dispute between Anaconda and its Before the election, anything seemed Anaconda, Butte and Deer Lodge to the that the "heart of the operation" is modern and in good condition-He also r-'''£.....o'~-~---------~--~-----------,north. takes exception to a study bya German "Butte got the mines, Action in the upcoming legislature is , a possibility, Like other solutions, the firm indicating that it would cost $400 . but Anaconda got the shaft." '. legislative fix starts at a conceptually million to meet air qualitystandards c- l--;--:-.:-'""' '- . --:=- ,,---,-1 grand level but in the end is likely to be ,a' figure Stokke said was-inflated by ARCO's insistence that the firm unions continues because' it includes possible: Pollution standards would be fairly minor, Jerry Plunkett, director of .guarantee full compliance after the re- about 1,500 workers at the copper mine thrown out and the" smelter would Butte's Montana Energy and MHD Re- I trofitting. and concentrator in Butte who will go reopen; new industries would locate in search and Development Institute, Additional evidence that environ- back to work when it is settled. The new Anaconda's old shelI; the state or fed- would like to see the state dip into its mental problems were not the only fac- contract's provisions on severance pay eral government 'would provide huge growing coal severance tax fund to seed tor in ARCO's decision came from WiIIbe the only ones that matter for the financial gifts, new industry in Anaconda.
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