AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT This is an amendment to the Employment Agreement (the "Agreement") entered into on May 13, 1997, by and between General Cable Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), GCC Corporation, and Stephen...

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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.6

                                  AMENDMENT TO
                              EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT



         This is an amendment to the Employment Agreement (the "Agreement")
entered into on May 13, 1997, by and between General Cable Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (the "Company"), GCC Corporation, and Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
(the "Executive").

         The Company, in its own right and as successor by merger to GCC
Corporation, and the Executive, in consideration of their mutual agreements,
agree as follows:

                  Paragraph 3(b) of the Agreement is amended by deleting the
                  phrase "which is not less favorable than the opportunity
                  provided pursuant to the 1997 Incentive Bonus" from lines 20
                  and 21 of that paragraph.

         The parties have caused this amendment to be duly executed by them this
16th day of March 1998.



GENERAL CABLE CORPORATION



/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary




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