Sec. 562, P. L. & R.U. S.POSTAOE

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LET US GIVE THANKS!

WE picked out this picture of soldiers' boots trudgingthrough the mud of ~ foreign I~nd because we thought thesight of it might encourage all of us to realize that, in thehappy festive season which is now before us, our own peopleare putting up ~ real fight far from home.

A year ~go we probably would have decorated this p~gewith a picture of a happy family gathered around the stuffedturkey or ~ small smiling child sitting down "efore a mincemeat pie. And we would have given thanks for the multipleblessings of our country; we would have noted that, in spiteof the fact that there were troubled times in other parts ofthe world, we were still sitting pretty.

All that is over now. We al'e in the thick of the greatestwar in the history of the world. The recent communiques in-dicate that the tide may now be turned in our favor. But thisis no time to sit back and figure that the war has been won.

The only thing that will win it for us is the greatest andmost complete war effort, on the part of every man andwoman and child in this vast country of ours. Hitler andMUlsoli"i and Hirohito don't think we've got it i" us.

W. WORder what the fighting men i" far distant lands

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are going to be talking about at their Thanksgiving dinners.Probably quite a lot of them will be voicing the wish thatthey c?uld be back home around the table loaded with goodfood. They probably wish they could jump in a car and drivearound to visit their friends. They probably wish they couldroll into a comfortable bed at night without being awakenedby the drone of bombers and thunder of guns. But, we'll riska bet that quite a few of them will ask just what the folksback home are doing to finish this job so that the fightingmen can return to their homes and their families. We won-der what the fighting men themselves can find at Thanks-giving time to be thankful for--our guess is that it isn't much.They can probably thank themselves ch~efly for the hope thattomorrow will come and with it the long awaited help fromthe American people.

So, this ycar. let's cut out the fancy trimmings that gowith Thanksgiving. Let's tighten our belts and make oursacrifice along with the fellows who are doing a fighting job.The Thanksgivings of the future are "ot going to be preservedby forgetting the needs of the present. Let's give th.anksthat all of us have the courage to f~ce the tri~ls bef-or. us,and let', wast. no more time in facing them _

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...CONTENTSCOVERFor our cover this month, we havechosen an official United StatesNavy photograph of dive bombers inechelon formation. You can't flybombers without copper, and let'snever forget it.

STUDENT STOPES..•....••.....•......... 4;rhe Company is training men to be-come miners. With the need forminers so great, "student" stopeshave been opened up in many mineswhere newcomers to this community!,geta practical course.

fMAN AWA Y FROM HOME .........• 7IBiliHerbert is one of the many men!Who has come tto Butte to help usproduce copper. Bill mined gold foreighteen years with the Homestake,and he's doing a lot besides for thewar effort. Let's visit him and saynello.

HOW ABOUT IT ..................•...... 8Let's not let the small gains of ourarmed forces lull us to sleep. Thislis going to be a long, tough war.

oJ. Many of the boys on the fighting!fronts are asking whether the folksback home really know how serious!this whole situation is, and what. !they are doing about it.

SHOOT THE WORKS 9Oscar Landet is one of several of theboys at Anaconda who believes inIkeeping in shooting trim. We paid13 visit to Oscar's home and to the!Anaconda Rifle and Pistol Club and'Saw a bunch of marksmen ready todefend the home front if the timeever comes.

/TURN ON THE 'UICE 10IThe government needs not only cop-per but also zinc, and at Great Fallsrthe boys are completing a new elec-trical sub-station to step up zincproduction. Uncle Sam has askedfor it and the boys at Great Fallssay that Uncle Sam IS going to get it.

rOUCH CUYS .....•........................• 2The jungle Commandos are calledBushmasters and- they make themtough. And, they lead a hard lifemanning the defenses of our coun-try.

BIC SCRAP .....•... _ 13In order to supply the many needsof the Company for the war effort,vast amounts of scrap must be gath-ered. At the Foundry at Anacondathis scrap is converted into manyvaried uses for the mines, smelterand refinery.

WHERE DOES COPPER CO? ... 14What happens to the finished cop-per when it leaves Great Falls? Wethought you'd like to know so we!paid a visit to one of the plants ofthe American Brass Company andIfound some of our fellow workersthere making shell and cartridgecases. Don't kid yourself. all thecopper we dig and smelter and re-)fine is being moved fast to the war!fronts of the world. And UncleSam needs more iIOd more of it.

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COPPER COMMANDO is the official newspaper of the VictoryLabor-Management Production Committees of the AnacondaCopper Mining Co., at Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls, Mont.

COPPER COMMANDO is run by a board of nine men, six fromLabor and three from Management, chosen by the Labor-Man-agement Committees at the three locations. Its policies aredictated by neither side, but are established by both.

COPPER COMMANDO is edited by Bob Newcomb; its ~hiefphotographer is Bob Nesmith. Its associate editor is MargSammons. Its safety editor is John Boardman, and its staffphotographer is Les Bishop. Its board of editors consists ofDenny McCarthy (CIO), John F. Bird (AFL) and Ed Renouard(ACM) from Butte; Tom Murray (CIO) Joe Marick (AFL)and Bayard Morrow (ACM) from Anaconda; Jack Clark (CIO),Herb Donaldson (AFL) and E. S.. Bardwell (ACM) from GreatFalls.

COPPER COMMANDO has its offices at 112 Hamilton Street.Butte, and the telephone number is 4444. Folks are gettinginto the habit of dropping in to get acquainted and we like it.Whenever you are in the neighborhood, come on in and sayhello to the gang.

Here'. a typical shot of one of the stude .... i..OM of the studellt .pes.

Student· StopesMen interested in becoming miners art! now given a helpful courseat one of many "student stopes." This practical training, which fol-lows a tour of the Mining and SafetY Exhibit, starts the new manoff on the right foot. Here is a picture story of student stopes andof the fellows who are joinin g with us to help win the' war

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FOR the past two years the Company has been trainingstudents. The idea is to give them a good working idea ofwhat mining is like before they actually go to work.

But, in view of the war. it was decided that conditionscalled for stepping up of training because of the tremendousdemand for copper production.

Three issues ago we took you on a picture tour of theMining and Safety Exhibit. which is located at the old Penn-sylvania Mine in Butte, under the direction of Jimmy Doran.This exhibit, as you know, gives a visitor a good general ideaof mining operations. But that, of course. is not enough. To-day there are a number of "student stooes" in all the mines inButte. These stopes do not differ from ordinary stopes ex-cept that they are manned by the trainees.

The new men first go through the Mining and SafetyExhibit and are then assigned to a student stope at one of themines

On the next two pages we show various scenes taken byour staff photographer, Les Bishop, and tell you a little bitmore about these new men who are coming in to learn the

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mining business and help us win the war The new men tellus. for the most part. that they find this advance course mosthelpful-when they are finished at the student stapes. mostof them feel that they have a good working knowledge whichthey can then apply to mining. They realize. of course. thatthey are not veteran miners when they are finished. but theyare off to a flying start. They have a good general picture of thewhole operation by then.

If you have a friend interested in aiding the war effortthrough increasmg copper production. tell him to go first to .the Butte Mutual Labor Bureau, 815 East Broadway, and ob-tain a rustling card.

Students will be sent first through the Mining and SafetyExhibit (see COPPER COMMANDO. No.4. pgs, 4-6) . Follow-ing this course they interview the hiring foreman at the mine •they prefer and are assigned then to a student stope. Thecourse of instruction lasts four to eight weeks. depending upon'the man's ablltty. and includes not only stopmg, but otbenphases of mining. At the end of their training. students are.employed as miners in regular work. Students are paid!throughout the course of undergrOUnd instruction.

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Student ShotsHERE are some more views of places where men havebeen assigned to get practical training in mining. At the up-per left we find two students installing a set of timber at-the Anselmo Mine. The man at the left is Ernest Simon; heused to work in the smelter and has now started to workin a mine. He is shown with William Warren, who hasworked two years above ground in Butte. Bill says he "likesmining best."

Over at the right at the top is Foreman E. R. lyford,who has charge of student stopes; he is ringing the stationbuzzer to call for the cage. To the right we get an ant's-eyeview of the manway at the Anselmo. You are lookingstraight up. This manway was timbered by students takinginstruction there.

Down below t.es Bishop got us a fine picture of Wit.:liam R. Paine operating a scraper in a student stope. Billcame to Butte from Minneapolis after spending a year atthe University of Minnesota,

You might like to know that the man whose pictureappears at the top of this article, which begins on page 4,is Harold Hill. Harold came from Ironwood. Michigan, acommunity from which many miners have hailed for a greatmany years. He migrated west and after a course of in-struction at the student stopes. following a complete tourof the Mining and Safety Exhibit, he was rated a first-classminer and has now gone to work at the leonard Mine.

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Student Close-UpsD ERE are six pictures of new men who have gone throughthe Mining and Safety Exhibit and then moved on to actualmining at student stapes. Some of these men have alreadygraduated into regular jobs at the mines. Nearly all of themsay that their training is both good and sound.

At the upper left we have Walferd Hanni, instructingTom Fitzpatrick how to run an underground team motor.That's Tom in the driver's seat-he was raised in Butte. butlived for a time in Seattle. He has been back here severalweeks. Walferd, the instructor, has been running motors inButte for two years. He says the men take to the new workvery readily.

In the center picture above is Monroe W. Dunfee. in-structor. showing Harold Peterson how to operate a mechan-ical loader in a student mine cross-cut. Monroe has beeninstructing on cars. motors and track for three months, buthas worked at the mines for seven years. Harold has beenworking for six months as a motorman and wants to get drift-

ing and cross-cutting experience. He is a Butte boy.At the upper right we see Ed Andrews learning to drill

with a "buzzle." Ed hails from Ironwood, Michigan, and hasbeen here only a short time. He says he finds the new workmost interesting.

Down at the lower left is Harry Kinart, fixing floors inhis stope after a blast-this was Harry's fifth shift. He camefrom Rockford, Illinois; he had no mining experience before.We saw a picture of Harry in our Issue Four going throughthe Mining and Safety Exhibit.

In the middle picture at the bottom is Jacob Tyynisnaa,Harry's partner. He is shaking down the are pile after ablast-Jake came here from Marquette, Michigan. where heworked five years in the iron mines.

At lower right we see Carl Kennedy and Frank Sopkoplacing a "cap" for a set of timber. Carl hails from Seattle;he says this work is fascinating. Frank is from Ironwood.but worked in Milwaukee prior to coming here.

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Man AwayFroID HOlDeWHEN you're ,a World War veteran yourself and, in ad-dition, have given three stalwart sons to the armed forces,you'd be inclined to figure you're doing your share. But BillHerbert, who has landed among us from the HomestakeMine in South Dakota, doesn't figure it that way. He rea-sons that he can help dig copper, too.

Bill got into town only a few weeks ago, part of thatgroup of miners ~ho signed up here from Lead when the goldmines shut down to relieve the pressure on the copper situa-tion here. He's on the job now at the Mountain Con, andeven though he finds a lot new about copper' mining, hethinks he's getting into the swing of it. At least he's doinghis best, and he says the boys at the Con and at other mineshe has met are friendly and helpful. They want to win thiswar, he says, just as much as he does.

William P. Herbert is the full handle, and he's forty.one. He worked eighteen years at the Homesrake, with fiveyears during that period as an acetylene welder in Detroit,BIll probably has another record in that, in addi tion to the

MAKE THEM WELCOMEBill Herbert is only one of a growing number of men

who have either been furloughed from the Army or who havecome here of their own will frQm other locations to work inthe mines of Butte. Some of these men have had miningexperience; a few have had none at all.

But they all come here with the honest intention of re-lieving the labor shortage in the Butte mines so that copperproduction can be increased. Uncle Sam has asked them tocome. Uncle Sam knows that, because of the drainage ofexperienced miners we have suffered over the past severalmonths, these mines need men and need them badly.

Let's m.ake these fellows feel at home. Bill Herbert is onefellow who says he is getting a very friendly reception fromthe miners. He says he likes Butte hospitality. Let's makeall these men away from home know what Butte hospitalityis really like.

three enlisted boys he has given to Uncle Sam, he has twosets of twin boys, eleven and sixteen. His wife is still inLead. where they have a home, and we dropped in on Billwhen he was writing a letter to her. The Herberts have ninechildren all together.

BIII's oldest boy is Arthur: he is 22 and a staff sergeantwith the Air Corps overseas-Arthur enlisted two years ago.Fred. who is 21. went into the Navy a year ago and is now aseaman second class-Fred was in the Coral Sea battle. Theyoungest boy in service is Ralph. who is twenty. and a ship-fItter. third class. with the Navy.

BIll. as we've remarked. is a World War veteran. Heenlisted in April. 1917. only a few days after this countrydeclared war. and served unttl after the fracas was over, withthe 147th Field Artillery. To make the service record com-plete for the Herberts. Bill will remind you that his daughter,Marguerite, is married to an ambulance driver with the Med-ical Corps.

Bill had a lucky break in Butte in that he found a wel-come home with his sister in-law and family: they live on LaPlatte street in Centerville. We found Bill in the kitchenpenning a note to his wife, while his niece (also Marguerite-her last name is Labranche) perused her favorite news-paper. Also on hand was George Labranche. Marguerite'sbrother. who is an engineer in the EngIne Room at the Moun-ta'n Con

This visitor from Lead is a stocky fellow of averageheight. who likes to chin about the mining business, and who.smokes a pipe with enjoyment. He takes the war businessseriously- after all, he has a right to, consrdering what he'sgiving to it. When the gold mines were closed, he said tohimself: "Tve got a job to do in this mining busmess, soI'm h~,ding for Butte to mine copper. That's what the coun-try needs now."

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How About It?RECENTLY, at ~ dinner given in honor of one of the aviation heroes ofthe war in the Pacific, one of the hecklers in the audience got on hisfeet after the flier had spoken.

. .- He said: "I wonder, since y.ou are so important in the war effort,

just what YOU are doing here talking to us business men?"

The officer rose to his feet and said: "I have been wondering thatmyself all evening. I have listened to your small talk about your trivialworries; I have listened to your complaints about the state of business;I have listened to your little petty political discussions. And'i wish toGod J WERE. back fighting with the men who are fighting a REAL war.

"You men sit here, with your bellies itt your laps, eating muchbetter food than the men on the firing lines get. Yet you seem sowrapped up in your own piddling little concerns that you give no thoughtto the war EXCEPT AS IT BENEFITS YOU. To answer the gentlemanwho challenges me, I would like to say that I will be glad to get out ofhere and get back on the firing line. Perhaps he will be good enoughto tell me when the first train or plane leaves. I wish he had theprivilege of coming along."

In recent weeks we have been seeing too many evidences of peoplethinking in terms. not of winning the war, BUT OF HOW THE WARCAN HELP THEM PERSONALLY. They think in terms of not whatthey can give to preserve the democracy, but just to what extent theycan slow down the wheels of the war effort so that they may enjoy, fora little longer, the fruits of peacetime.

Let's start facing a few facts: THIS IS NOT A PRIVATE WAR,operated by a few men courageous enough to fight our battles. Thesoldier or sailor who marches off to face possible death is no employeeof yours or ours. He has either enlisted because he believes in thepreservation of his country or he has accepted a draft because he ISman enough to know that the country needs him.

EVERY MAN WHO GOES AWAY RISKS HIS OWN LIFE. It mustbe small comfort to him to learn, when he is far away in some genuinehot spot, that the folks back home are quibbling over the petty details oftheir own self-preservation. It must be quite a shock for him to learn thatthey still wrangle over the free and easy privilege of a peacetime com-munity.

MOST OF US SHOULD BE HEARTILY ASHAMED OF OURSELVES.MOST OF US HAVE GIVEN DAMNED LITTLE TO THIS WAR. TOOMANY OF US, IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT CHEERFUL NEWS, WILLBE INCLINED TO BELIEVETHAT WE HAVE TH~S WAR AND CON-TINUE TO DO NOTHING.

,These are no random sentiments based on guesswork. These are

the views of the boys who are fighting our war against heavy odds. Theywould say to all of us: "Why don't you do a fraction of what we aredoing. and we could finish this wh~e business in pretty short order?"

"They sure would be a sensation if we could just get 'em over to America"

READERS WRITEFamily Page

Quite a lot of the wives and fami lies of the folks in Butte think that afamily page with recipes and household hints would make interesting readingfor the folks. COPPER COMMANDO so far has been very interesting to manyfamilies I know among the miners but I thought it would be a good idea if youwould start a family page. Please give this suggestion some thought.

SHIRLEY McKINNONButte

The daughter of Bun: McKinnon of the Butte Miners' Union has comethrough with a real idea. We will look into this immediately and hope that ina few issues we will work up something that will be interesting to all of you.

If anybody else has any suggestions for a family page, let's have them.EDITOR

Thanks a Lot

Please change my address on the COMMANDO.

E. F. O.Great Falls

Thanks a lot for letting us know. We have quite a bit of trouble in keep.ing our mailing list up to date .-nd it is not yet in the shape we would like tohave it. When you move, drop a post card to COPPER COMMANDO. 112Hamilton Street, Butte, and let us know about it, A good many of the com-plaints about non-delivery arise from the fact that when people change theirlocations they fail to notify us. EDITOR

Ar. We Complacent?While a lot of people in Montana wllI.say that we are doing everything

we should for the war effort, I doubt that we are yet war conscious. For myfellow Montanans I will say that we are inland and that, because we have nowar activity near us, the war is not brought close home to us. I think thatarticles such as "A Dying Jap Speaks" which appeared in your issue of October7. is the type of thing that WIll make us see how important winning this war is.

Please give us more material of this kind, but do not change the COM-MANDO because it is excellent.

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This is one of many favorable comments we have had on ••A Dying JapSpeaks," Most of us rcalixe the seriousness of this war and your editors feelthat material of this kind will holp bring the war issues doser home to us.N.,tur.,lIy it is plcasing to us to know th3t so many of our readers agree.

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Shootthe Works!

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OUT at the Anaconda Rifle and PistolClub the boys figure that a good marks-man is an asset to his country.

Oscar Landet, metallurgical clerk inthe Engineering Department at the Smel-ter, is one of the prime movers of theClub. and he has won more medals andcups than you can shake a stick at. Wedropped in on him at his home a fewweeks ago and later joined him on a visitto the Rifle and Pistol Club a few milesout of Anaconda, where some of the bestshots you could hope to see practice reg-ularly .

Oscar, who was born in Anaconda,has worked in practically every branch ofthe copper industry-not only in Mon-tana but in Arizona. Wyoming and Utah.He won his first medal at Fort Missoulain 1928-he has been shooting sinceabout 1926 in matches. He is equallyskilled with pistol or rifle but he shoots a.22 rifle now on which he has a telescopicsight. One of his prizes is for a perfectscore target-ten out of ten shots.

The Club nestles in a valley betweentwo peaks and is maintained by the Clubmembers, all of whom chip in and workhard to keep the place looking right.

Mrs. landet, while she doesn't shootherself, is interested in Oscar's hobby andencourages him in it. She seems to takemore pride in his many medals and cupsthan Oscar does himself.

One reason why he believes so firm-fy in gun practice is because he thinks itis excellent training for boys and youngmen. Oscar says: "I think we ought tohave in this country some form of com-pulsory training with firearms for boysand young men. It's a cinch that, if wehad had some sort of program in ourschools, we would not be in the posinonof having to teach shooting to Our sol-diers today. Becoming a good marksmanisn't tough-it takes patience and steadynerves. We fellows at the Club feel that,by keeping up our rifle practice withoutusing materials needed for war, we are,preparing ourselves to protect the homefront if the need ever arises. Furthermore,if the Army ever wants a bunch of us oldguys to jump in and help in this scrap,I think we have got the stuff to do it."

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•The war effort needs zinc, too, and up atCreat Falls a new electrical sub-station isbeing rushed to early completion to stepup the power in the Electrolytic Zinc Plant

As most of us know. copper is not the only vital war ma-terial we are asked to deliver in great quantities. Zinc hasmany uses in the war effort. and the boys engaged in the z incside of the industry deserve not only a pat on the back for thefine job they are doing but also the rest of us need to remem-ber that zinc is highly important in the war effort.

Up at Great Falls the boys have been busy Duilding a newsub-station to increase power for the Electrolytic Zinc Plant.In a nutshell the idea here is to step up the power so that the \production of zinc in the plant can be increased for the wareffort by increasing the capacity of the zinc electrolyzing.

Our more technical readers would like to know that theyare adding eight mercury arc rectifying units to the presentrotary converters. They will be operated in parallel with thepresent rotaries.

At the present time the rotaries are putting out 10,000amperes each; when these rectifiers or ignitrons in the newsub-station are completed. the output of each rotary will be

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increased by 3,000 amperes. The rectifiers are newly devel-oped-they were originated about 1937.

You don't need to be an electrician to understand thatthis addition of power will mean a great deal to the Elec-trolytic Zinc Plant, where the government is watching opera-tions closely and asking for more and more zinc.

The new sub-station is a spotlessly clean place where theboys are very busy putting -the finishing touches on tlie job.The sub-station will be completed and hooked up in just afew days.

We started off with our pencil, pad and Bob Nesmith,our cameraman, to get a shot of Rudy Polich and Ray Stanich(you can see them up at the upper left hand corner of pageten) pulling wire into the junction box. That's Rudy on theleft and Rayon the right. These electricians are doing a bang-up job on a complicated piece of electrical installation.

Down below at the right on the same page you can getanother idea of the complexity of this job by having a look atPercy Cox. We caught him sitting on the floor doing a wiringjob on part of the control panel.

While this is chiefly an electrical job, it takes experts ofall kinds to complete it and this job won't be finished untilthe paint has been applied. That's how we happened to graba snapshot of two of the painters working at the new sub-station and you can see them at work in the lower left handpicture on page ten. That's F. W. Larson at the left and theman lying on the floor, doing a tricky piece of painting, isC. W. Kisselburg.

Our photographer happened to pass Silvio Tinelli as hewas hooking up the rectifier control panel. We got a shot ofSilvio through the board. Silvio told us that this was not a par-ticularly tough job--he has enjoyed working on it and likes tosee the sub-station coming to life. Down below, in the lowerleft hand corner on page eleven, you'll see two of the electri-cians hooking up a conduit in the pit. The picture was takenquite a distance above them to give you an idea of the typeof spot these boys work in. ·At the bottom of the picture iselectrician Ted Jordan-that's his helper, Rodger Dunlop, atthe top.

At the right we find EarlWeber and.Dick Hurst.Nice going, boys, and we'll be seeing more of you soon.

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T:ough Guys!A jungle Commando is called a Bushmaster.,He's tough. When you talk of a hard life,think of the guys living- it the hard way

THIS modern war has creat~d many' new forms oi fight-ing. We have all heard of the Commandos and the Rangersand the Bombardiers; now step up and meet the Bushmasters.

These Bushmasters are rough, tough guys. They con-centrate their fighting in the jungles. where they must trghttheir way through jungle mud and tropical marshes. Few menin our fighting forces have tougher assignments than theBushmasters. who must fight. their way every inch' throughthe dense bush country:

Over at the left you get an idea of how tough the goin~can be. This is a hot country and the walking is mighty dif-ficult, as you can see.

In the picture below we see these crack jungle Com-mandos attacking.

Probably none of us envy the job these fellows have todo. They are all looking to us for the materials of war theyneed. so that they can leave the jungles behind them and re-turn to their homes and families.

The pressure is on the United States to provide moreand more tool's of war, because the amounts we are sendingto the outposts of the world to support our Allies are not. anywhere near sufficient. It may be true that we will winthis war in the long run, but delays in supplying our men willmean greater and greater loss of life.

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Rig S~rapScrap is needed for the mines, smelter andrefinery, loo-a vast pile at Anaconda isbeing converted all the time to their uses

WE'VE all been hearing a lot about scrap salvage lately, andthe folks at Great Falls and Anaconda and Butte have beendoing a splendid job in getting out scrap for the war effort.

Perhaps you would like to know that a great deal of scrapis salvaged by the Company itself for use in its own operation-this scrap comes to the Foundry at Anaconda and all of it"is used for Company operations-it is converted into equip-ment for the mines, the smelter and the refinery. Between1,500,000 and 2,000,000 pounds a month is brought into theFoundry Department at Anaconda to be converted into manyitems of equipment for Company use.

At the right, we find two burners, D. J. Villian and EdSletton, beside one of the largest piles of scrap at the FoundryDepartment; in the picture below you get another shot of.D. J.and Ed looking at another section of the pile.

Down below we see the huge magnetized crane liftingscrap from one of the piles beside the Foundry. The man inthe cab is a Brown Hoist operator-unfortunately we couldn'tget him in the picture but we figured we'd let you know hisn'ame-Burl Hughes. That's Wendell Peterson, his helper.standing in the foreground.

Among the many things which the scrap is turned intoare chilled cast iron grinding balls for the Hardinge mills atAnaconda; up to half a million pounds of gray iron are usedfor ·the liners of the milis; the scrap goes into repair partsfor machinery at the concentrators, roasters, and other plantsat Anaconda; air conditioning equipment, heat absorbers andradiator assemblies for the Butte mines; castings fpr anodemolds, gears, gear pinions, etc., for the reduction works at

_ Great Falls. These are only a few of the vast number of usesto which this scrap is put each month.

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Where Does(;opper Go?

W ELL,for one th'ing it goes intoshell and cartridge cases, and wethought you folks who dig the oreand smelter it and refine it wouldlike to. see copper doing one of itsmany jobs to help win the war:

Here are some views taken inone of the plants of the AmericanBrass Company. Because it is a mili-tary secret we cannot tell you whereit is located, but that doesn't matter.

In the upper left hand picture.we find two American Brass e~-ployees-Walter Maciejewski andKarl Daum. This operation is knownas hot rolling and it reduces castbrass bars in the production of stripmetal for cartridge .cases. In the pic-ture in the center we got a goodclose-up view of two other men-get acquainted with Gregory Lainoand Steve Szoka. This operation isknown as cold rolling and interme-diate annealing. which produces thefinished strip from which brass discsare stamped.

Down in the lower left handcorner, we have a look at RichardClark. Dick is operating a powerfulpunch press in a plant of the Ameri-can Brass Company. This pr.essstamps out the brass discs which wiltbe shaped in the shell cases. And, inthe lower right we see this mate-rial on which all of us-we minersfrom Butte. smeltermen from Ana-conda, refiners from Great Falls-have worked in company with thefellows from the American BrassCompany. In case you'd like toknow, that's an official UnitedStates Army Signal Corps photo,showing the gun being placed. Afterunlimbering the gun, the men lowerthe platform Supports and get thegun readyfo fire. So that's whereyour products are going, fellows-tothe big guns and big tanks and bigbombers.

NOVEMBER' 20. 1942

OH/ i K~OUJ EVERyBoDYeAN1- Se ,~mE:. AR..MY·tUl- WOULDNT IT ~E. NICe IFCIVILIA~SWE~t DECORATeDFoR.lHi::u;~.. PAr2_.T I~ THE:..WAR: EFFO£..T? WAlT.

I ALN\O~' Foe.Go"T rr' !

1H1~ DANee WILL.. Be soeOLOR.rUL..! ~o MA~YMe~'''' U~IFo~ -wn« -mere.ME.DALS A~D DEeoRAiToN~

THE FIREBUG'S CHANTBetween the night and the day shift,

When the ghosts come out ·toplay,

And your footsteps echo down thedrift,

In a spooky sort of way.

When you're all alone with justyour thoughts,

And you know nobody's around,And you're punching the keys in de-

serted spots,And you jump at the slightest

sound.

When you go through the stopes andthe powder smoke

Hangs heavy in the air,And you cough and sneeze and

damn near choke,And you breathe 'a silent prayer.

When at last you've made yourlonely trip,

And you're out on the station oncemore,

You say, as you listen to the bang-ing skip,

"There's TY patriotic chore!"BRUCE "ROY" MASON

(A !ll'ebug as most of us know, isthe fellow who goes through tbe mineafter shift to detect signs of fire.-Eilitor.l

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A man who ran for sheriff got55 votes out of 3-.500, and the nextday he walked down Main Streetwith two guns hanging from his belt.

"You were not elected, and youhave no right to carry guns," fellow- .citizens told him.

"Listen. folks." he replied. "aman with no more friends than I'vegot in this county needs to carryguns."

• * •A kindly visitor was one day

going through an insane asylum.Presently he saw a fellow sitting be-side a flower bed. fishing with hisline dropped among the plants.Thinking to humor the patient, thevisitor asked, "How many have youcaught so far, my poor fellow?"

"You're the ninth today," hesaid. '

• 0 •Mother: "Really. daughter. you

shouldn't go out with men that youhave not been formally introducedto."

Daughter: "But ma, what dif-ference d?es it mak~tl)ey both actthe' same way when you get outwith them."

Take a Bow!Readers of COPPER COM-

MANDO will be interested, we be-lieve, to know that the men atButte. Anaconda and Great Fallsare being nationally recognized.

The work of the Labor-Man-agement Committee of the threelocations in sponsoring COPPERCOMMANDO brought a rave twoweeks ago from "Business Week,"one of the country's leading businesspubl ications.

The article reproduced threepages from COPPER COMMANDO.The fellows whose pictures werefeatured are John Knighly, Butte;Mike Lescantz, Anaconda; Ed Las-sila, Great Falls. That was thecover page of issue one. From issuetwo there were two pages used-the "Meet the Union" page and the"Here Comes the Ore!" page. TheUnions shown were the ButteMiners Union, CIO, and the AFLrepresentatives at Anaconda: BillBowling of Anaconda was shown inthe ore unloading pictures.

• • •"Could you give a hungry man

a bite to eat?" asked a tramp at thedoor of a tavern called "George andthe Dragon."

"No, positively no," snappedthe landlady, slamming the door.

Soon the tramp was back andagain the landlady came to the door.

"Could I have a few words withGeorge?" asked the hungry man.

Contractor: "Son. what wouldyou like for your birthday?"

Billy (aged ') : "A baby sister."Con tractor: "Your bi rthday is

only two weeks away. I can't getone in time." •

Billy: "But. papa: couldn't youput more men on the job?"

Pa : "I think I'll have to ~odownstai rs and send Nancy's youngman home."

Ma: "Now. Elmer. don't behasty. Remember how we used tocourt."

Pa: "For gosh sakes: I hadn'tthought of that. Out he goes."

•••Manager (to new stenog l : "I

hope you fully recognize the. im-portance of punctuation."

N. S.: "Sure. I always get towork on time."

Hail Creat Falls! .We're mighty proud to tell you

that Great Falls, too, crashedthrough with an over-the-top 100per cent participation in the voluq-tary Payroll Allotment Plan for thepurchase of War Bonds and Stamps.

Each and everyone of the1,757 men employed in the GreatFalls Reduction Works is buyingWar Bonds regularly. A sp~ifiedamount of each weekly pay checkwill be withheld. Each man, indi-vidually. each week will take apunch at the snoot of the Axis.

These soldiers of productionare fighting on their own front nightand day by producing copper andother vital war materials. Theyknow the boys on the other frontneed-and must have-supplies forthe firing lines. These men aredoing all in their power to furnishthese suppleis. But that is notenough for the boys at Great Falls.They want to do more. They realizethe need for money to keep thoseguns firing and the ships flying.

Remember in the September23 issue of COPPER COMMANDOwhen we told you that Anacondahad gone over the top? At thattime we also told you that GreatFalls was not far behind in the 100per cent representation in the pur-chase of W~r Bonds and Stamps.Then there were eighteen reportednot buying. Now these eighteenhave joined the other boys and. aregoing to keep right on buying bonds.regularly. They say buying WarBonds is not a sacrifice, but a sac-rifice-aid. They back up their s!at~-ment with their 100 per cent record.

You know it is one thing togo over the top and anothe; thingto keep on going over the top, whichis just what the boys on the firinglines must do. We must all keepright on buying Bonds regularly, andif it's at all possible we must alloteven more than the specified tenper cent of our wages each week.Only in this way can we keep thosepunches headed at the head of theAxis.

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II\'/. DEeORA((ON! 'MYlOo(o PAy~OLL~AVIN6~BuT-ro~_

THE MINER'S SONGI have stoped in Ari%ona,In Colorado, too,Drove drift in California,And also in Peru.I havG raised in old NevadaAnd did it full of mirth-But I'd rather. earn my livingOn the Richest Hill on Earth.

I've mined sifver at Eureka-Worked in the Iron Range.Dug coal in OklahomaTo get a little change.I've been in so~e warm placesTo decrease my growing girth,And I'd rather earn my living

. On the Richest Hill on Earth.

I've run motor in the Belmont-Timbered in the Elm Orlu,The cages in the Leonard,And worked in the Mountain View.I'~e wandered o'er the countryFar from my family's hearth-But I'd rather burrow deeperIn the Richest Hill on Earth.

Now the hanging's getting heavyFor I've toiled for many a year,And I like to sit in tavernsTanking up on bottled beer.·But now that there's a war onAnd of miners there's a dearth-I'U stay and produce copperOn the Richest Hill on Earth.

GEORGE TEMPERLEy.'

-Last time we did it we missed a. shift.-EDITOR. .0.

Robin Redbreast: "Who's ~he.guy. on that park _bench, downthere?" . . .

Mrs; Ditto: "He's the bozo w,hC)._shot at us yesterday."

The Baby: "Well, wot are wewaitin' for?" -

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Interne: "Have you a chart ofthat young man's progress?"

Pretty Nurse (blushing) : "No.. but I can show you my diary."• • •

Jones: "Smith left the banquettable last night when Brown startedtelling a dirty story."

Mrs. Jones: "How noble of him.What- was the story?"• • •

Marine: "Can you read .mymind?"

Sadie: ·'Yes."Marine: "Well, go ahead."Sadie: "No, you go ahead.'

Parson: "But. Tom, I can'tpray for your floating kidneys. I c.anonly pray for spiritual things,"

.Tom: "But, Reverend, I call.to'mind thaf last Sunday "you prayedfor the loose livers."

William Stanaway Patrick Stenson.,.,.'1 ....

Elmer Vicar)'

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Thomas Richards

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Guy E. Stalker ...

A~~identsCanse Loss of Copper Prodn~tionMining is listed as a hazardous occupation. The min~r is subjected

to nearly all of the ordinary risks of industry in add'ition to the dangers. of loose rock and inadequate lighting. Yet we know positively that acci-

dents in mines are preventable, and that by skillful work and by care• and caution, they can be reduced to a minimum.

I rThe accidental injury rate of the Butte m.;nes in 1939 was only

three-quarters of what it was in 1929, and the accident rate of 1942,for the first nine months, was only two-thirds as high as it was in 1939.Or, if we wish to compare the first nine months of 1942.with the year1929, we find that the rate for the first nine months of 1942 wasalmost exactly one-half as high as the rate for 1929.

Someone must be responsible for this very gratifying accomplish-ment. If we say that accidents are prevented by skillful work and bycare and caution, then this better rate must be due to the fact thata whale of a lot of Butte miners have been more skillful, morecareful, and more cautious, and so we looked around to find some ofthese skillful, careful and cautious men; and we found a lot of them.Some have not had an accident for a year, som~ for five years, or ten,or twenty years. But we had space for only a few, and we asked fiveof them who have never had a lost-time accident to permit the use oftheir pictures in COPPER COMMANDO. Here they are:

William Stanaway, now employed at the St. Lawrence Mine. hasbeen continuously employed in the Butte mines since 1901, filling everyjob about the mines •

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Patrick Stenson. employed as a watch miner at the Badger StateMine, came to Butte from Ireland in 19()8. and has worked in Butte.mines uninterruptedly at general mining work.

Elmer Vicary started his work in Butte in 1921, and is now drivinga drift at the Leonard Mine. He has filled every job in the mines.

Thomas Richards started his Butte mining career in 1913. He isnow a shaft miner at the St. Lawrence Mine. He has worked in everymining job.

Cuy E. Stalker has been em.ployed by the Company contin!Jouslyin Butte for the past twenty-six years. He is now a shaft miner atthe Tramway Mine. He has .filled all the jobs about the mines.

Each of these men has gone through all of the daily huards ofthe mining game. Thei, records are not 'due to employment on the lesshazardous jobs. Therefore, we asked. each one of them to make a briefstatement of what he considered the reason he had worked so manyyears at mining and yet never met with an accident. When we putthese statements together to get the common meaning of all of theminto a few sentences, they agree that success in safety depends upon aman being careful all of the time. Keep the working place clean andorderly. Think about the job to be done, and take no unnecessarychances; and even when a chance must be taken, provide the best pos-sible means of getting out of the way if an accident, such as a fallingrock, happens •.

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NOVEMBER 20, 1942