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An Ex-Butte Miner

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Tells his own story in his own wordsLt: John F. Mufich

IAM an ex-Butte miner. I know what it is to go under-~round, and I know what it is to help get out the ore. I am aformer member of the Butte Miners' Union, and I hope someClay·to come back !o Butte, when this war is over, and have a.ood job.

But right now I am a fighting man. Right .ow I am inthere trying to do the best I can to bring the Japs to their knees.),here are millions of guys just like me-I am no exception atall. All of us are sick and tired and fed up with this war andwant to get it over with and get home again.

Recently I visited Butte on a-leave after more than a yearIn the Pacific fighting the Japs, afte1' more than eight monthsof actual combat service where you go up "and neve, know justhow you're going to come down. There's a message I'd like toleave Butte (by the time this appears I will already have goneback on the job again). That message is: Cet over the ideathat this war is won or anywhere near won. Cet over the ideathat you can play till your heart's content and let somebodyelse do the fighting for you. That. type of thing isn't going toadd up in the long run.

Take it from me, those Japs are tough. I fly a Liberatorbomber and I've been on a good many bombing missions. Thosefellows want to win the war iust as much as we de>--some-times you get the idea they want to win it more. They hate usa whole lot worse than we hate them, which is too bad. Wemay be -able to knock Cermany out of the fight-but I don'tthink it's going to be done by Christmas or maybe by !'extChristmas-but after we're done with her we have to concen-trate all our attention on Japan.

The Pacific command is working under terrific handicaps.Nearly all the available supplies go to the western fronts and.as General MacArthur recently said, the boys who are fightingthe Japs are getting only a trickle. Maybe we feel a little bit

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EDITOR'S NOTE: lieutenant Mufich, whohas prepared this article especially for COPPERCOMMANDO, is a former Butte miner, He wasdrafted in June, 1941, and after five months i,nfield artillery applied for training as an air cadetand was accepted. He graduated in August,1942, and a month later was on his way over-,eas. He went first to Hawaii and then to theSouth Pacific-Australia and New Guinea. Hewas overseas for more than a year and he has hadover eight months in actual combat service.

We got to chinning with lieutenant Mufich~hile he was on leave recently. His views aboutthe war and what needs to be done to wm it im-pressed us so much that we asked him to put histhoughts down in writing for use in our Labor-Management Committee newspaper.

Thanks, lieutenant Mufich, for telling uswhat you think. We feel sure that every readerof COPPER COMMANDO will appreciate yourdirectness and sincerity. Good luck to you andcome back soon.

The picture to the right is that of a Libera-.or bomber, the same as Lieutenant Mufich flies..2.

sore about it and maybe we don't. Maybe we feel that Cer-many must be licked first and then we'll take on Japan.

lut we don't make the decisions, folks .. We iust do thefighting. We doas we're told. It isn't often pleasant and itisn't always e:asy, but we still do it. Licking the Japs is noeasy job.

The lap is a tough, dirty fighter. He hits you below' thebelt, so to speak, when you're not looking for it. He is the sortof a guy who ,is a dirty wrestler-he doesn't follow the rules.Well, in a war like this. that is probably all right .. We can bejust as dirty as he can, but we've got to have the stuff to bedirty with. You can't imagine the feeling a guy gets standingon the gr()und while the Japs.lace hell out of his field, not hav-ing..anything to fly out and chase him in. It's like standing ina prize fight ring with an opponent and having your hands tiedbehind you while he slugs you in the chin. Believe me, we fel-lows who have seen the real thing in the Pacific have seenplenty of that.

You can slice th'at any old way you want, but the reasonwe can't fight back is because we haven't got the stuff to fightwith. We don't have the guns and the planes and other thingswe need in sufficient quantity to do II mop-up job on Tojo.And that proble'm falls right in the laps of the fellows who aredoing the producing. The reason we haven't got thes.e thingsis because th«!y aren't being produced in a large enough quan-tity to give the Pacific area its quota.

During my visit to Butte I heard quite a few people remark" that the war was pretty well over, what with the surrender of

Italy and recent victories in Europe. That sort of talk givesme a laugh. but it's a pretty grim laugh. This is going to be along, tough war. It's going to take every ounce of everything

~ everyone has got to win it. We are going to need more copperas time goes on, not less, because we are taking 'the offensiveand we've got to have the materials.

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COPPER COMMANDO is the officialnewspaper of the Victory Labor-Manage-ment Production Committees of the Ana-conda. Copper Mining Company and its

, Union Representatives at Butte, Ana-conda, East Helena and Creat Falls, Mon-

I ....tana. It is issued every two weeks. . ••COPPER COMMANDO is headed by a,joint committee from Labor and Manage-ment, its policies are shaped by both sidesand are dictated by neither .•.. COPPERCOMMANDO was established at therecommendation of the War Departmentwith the concurrence of the War Produc-tion Board. Its editors are Bob Newcomband Marg Sammons; its safety editor isJohn L. Boardman; its staff photographeris .Les Bishop .... Its Editorial Board con-sists of: Denis McCarthy, CIO; John F.Bird, AFL; Ed Renouard, ACM, fromButte; Dan Byrne, CIO; Joe Marick, AFL;C. A. Lemmon, ACM, fram Anaconda;Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson, AFL,and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, from CreatFalls •••. COPPER COMMANDO ismailed to the home of every employe of

IACM in the four locations-if you arenot receiving your copy advise COPPERCOMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Street,Butte, or, better still, drop in and tell us.This is Volume 2, No. S.

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U. 8. MARINE OORP PHOTO

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The front cover shows Lt. John F. Mufich,,an ex-Butte miner, who now flies a lib-erator bomber for tlie United States AirForce. His views about the war and whatneeds to be done to win it made an im-pression on us, so on page 2 of this issueyou'll find lieutenant Mufich's ownstory told in his own words.

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It's the job of the carpenters at CreatFalls to keep ail the departments in re-pair and operating full time. If there is ahitch in the many departments becauseof lack of repair work having been done,then that means a slowing down of thematerials to our Armed Forces.

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Remember we told you we couldn't showyou all around the Central Dri"s Shop inButte in one issue, so here is t.he secondpart to the story. It's mighty importantwork that the boys are doi ng in the Dri IIShop. for if the drills aren't kept in tip-top shape, the ore isn't kept rolling.

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The War Department is now releasingactual photographs showing the treach ..erous work of the Japs.When we sawthe pictures shown/ on page 12 of thisissue, we felt a new responsibility for thewinning of this war. We couldn't getthose pictures out of our minds-and wewondered what those boys thought.

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Mrs. John Donovan of Anaconda is a cOOKof the old school. She has sons in theArmed Forces and- she wants to do every-thing in her power to co-operate withUncle Sam .and help to bring them back ..In this interview she told us ways to saveon meat points that we had neverthought about.

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It's a real job to keep track of all the"time" on the Hill at Anaconda. ButJerry Kelly and his boys do a swell job ofit. Punching in and out is just the firststeo, for after the time cards are gath-ered. that's when the work begins..3.

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The Reduction Works at Creat' F~lIsmust be kept running without a hitc,h if"ital war materials continue to roll to themen in the Armed Forces. In order forall operations to continue runningsmoothly, it's necessary to make repairsand additions to the plant. It's the jobof the carpenters to keep the departmentsin repair and operating full time •

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THE Carpenter Shop in Great Falls isin a building to itself, for it takes a lotof room to construct everything neces-sary to be made from wood for the manydepartments 0' the Reduction Works.There are fjfty or more jobs under con--,struction at all times. If an emergencycomes in, some of the routine jobs aredropped and the emergency job is givenpromp't attention. It takes a hundredthousand feet of lumber a month to keepthe plant in repair so production recordscan be maintained.

Let's take a look at the boys whowork with wood. Carpenters work allover the Hill, so it wasn't possible to get

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them art in for the picture, but in theupper picture, left to right, bottom row,are:" Jack Miller, John Ward, GeorgeDeHaan, Jake Wertin, Joe Davis, FrankOgrin, Joe Weyer, Ole Stocke, and DaveGrant. ~In the middle row are Bill Cava-naugh, Dolf Yelocan, superintendent,Johnnie Peters, Bill Blannin, George Hal-verson, Clarence Lease, Andrew Gruberand Walt Matthews. In the top row are

. Carl Wattnem, Henry Ungerer, RobertSeward, Tony Kowell, foreman, and JohnFerda. There are ten carpenters, twelvehelpers and four laborers at the Low lineShop. At the Electrolytic Copper Refin-ery there is a small shop with three menstationed there to keep repairs made.

The Zinc Plant has sixteen car-penters and eleven helpers on hand allthe time to do needed repair workaround the Plant. Everyone knows howimportant it is to keep the Zinc Plantoperating full blast. Zinc is one of themetals that Uncle Sam needs if our boysat the Front are to be kept supplied. Andwe can't let them down. Oscar Renmanis foreman of the Zinc Plant Shop.

It keeps two carpenters busy at theWire Mill to keep it in tip-top shape.

In the middle picture, oppositepage, Bill Blannin, carpenter's helper, andJack Miller, carpenter, are making boxesfor a trap which is used on the steamlines.

Johnnie Peters is using a speedmaticsaw in the lower picture, opposite page.That's a portable electric skill saw. John-nie was cutting lumber for boxes to beused for shipping cadmium balls. Eachball weighs one pound and the boxes aremade to ship one hundred balls. Threeboards can be cut at one time by the saw.Sometimes there are four or five car-penters making boxes, but they had allbeen sent but of the Shop on other jobsthe day we were there.

George DeHaan is gumming out acut-out saw, in the upper picture. He'sthe saw filer for the Shop. Occasionallyhe calls on Johnnie Peters to help out. Acut-off saw is used in cutting off timbers.After the saw is worn down from toomuch sawing of timbers, it is necessaryto gum it out to lengthen the teeth.George was a regular carpenter before,taking over the saw-filing assignment,but the boys keep him busy fi ling sawsnow.

Walt Mathews, shown-in the lowerpicture, is the pattern maker. He has hisown shop just off the big shop. That's. the Missouri River in the background.Thousands of patterns have been madeby Walt throughout the years. Whenwe asked him how many they probablyhad made, he said: "Well, we averageone pattern a day. Now for two hundredfifty days a year for the last thirty-fiveyears, how many would that be?" Hemakes the patterns of wood from whichiron castings to be used on the Hill are

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made. In the picture he is working on ajig for turning down armatures for theelectrical department. Later an ironcasting wi II be made from it.

the Dorr tanks and other tanks used atthe Zinc Plant and the E. C. R. TankHouses, but he can also run the resaw,cutoff, or any other r:nachine in the Shop,

Henry Ungerer is a top notcher onthe moulding machine, which is betterknown as a sticker. First he grinds theknife to f.jt or suit the molding, then in-serts a square board and it comes out the -finished product.

It takes a lot of planning to keep theHill in repair. The boys in the carpentershop give full credit to A. J. Yelocan, su..perintendent. He's better known aroundthe plant as "Dolf." Dolf started to workin the shop in 1905 as an apprentice andworked for many years as a carpenter. Hewas made superintendent in March,1940. Dolf and the boys do a fine job inkeeping the Hill in repair so that everydepartment can operate full blast in turn-ing out needed war materials.

Tony Krowell is the new foremanof the shop. Tony was the cabi net makerand outside carpenter prior to his promo-tion. He has a reputation for turning outexcellent work and they say that thereisn't a job along his line that he can'tmake a good suggestion on, for he knowsthe business.

lake Wertin is the all-around ma-chine man of the Shop. Because he'sworked in the Shop since 1905, Jake sayshe was born and raised on shop machines.There is a big planer at the Low LineCarpenter Shop which is used for makingsolution tanks-either round or square.This planer takes a sixteen-foot board andit is planed in less than a minute. Jakeoperates this big planer which makes all .5.

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If the vital ore is to be loosened, andstarted rolling on its way toward the Fir-ing Line, the drills which the boys use inloosening it must be kept in tip-topshape. At the Central Drills Shop theyare completely dismantled, repaired andreassembled before they are returned tothe mine which sent them over.

THE Centr~1 Drills Shop in Butte has anaverage of twenty-five machines broughtin each and every day for repair. Each iscompletely dismantled and thoroughlyexamined and tested. Broken or wornparts are replaced and then they arecleaned and reassembled, At this Shopmachines from all the mines are repaired-that includes stopers, or buzzies,drifters, and jack hammers. Of course,there are more buzz ies than any' of theother machines.

Benjamin Ham, shown in the pic-ture above, has been foreman of the Shopfor the past seven years. He likes tocheck the parts himself to make sure thatnone of them are worn or broken. In thepicture, we caught him examining parts

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removed from a drifter that Ho~ard Pas-coe had been working on. In the backrow, left to right, are a chuck bushing, afront head, a chuck driver and a piston.Then, right to the left, in the next row,are a ratchet bar, a valve, a part of thevalve and at the extreme left is an anvilor striking.block. The nuts and bolts arethere, too, for each part must be exam-ined thoroughly for wear or damage.

In the lower picture, opposite page,Final Brandis is putting cup leathers onthe feed piston of a stoper. These leath-ers carry the air to feed the machine indrilling. The feed piston lock whichholds the piston in the feed cylinder isshown to his right on 'the work bench. Itsnaps on over the end of the feed pistonafter the leather cups are put on.

Frank Pirnat is testing out a stoperafter finishing the repairs in the upperleft shot. He tests it to see that the rota-tion is right and the air is right in the feedpiston, for raising the machine in thestope.

Layton Carpenter is repairing a con-trol handle on a stoper in the upper right.This handle controls the feed of thestoper' which raises or lowers the rf\a-chine. This is the last step in repair' be-fore the testing of the air feed to the legto see that there is the proper feed to themachine for the raising or lowering of it.

Howard Pascoe is. repairing a drifterCP 60 in the lower picture. It's a hand-cranked drifter. The picture shows theshell and cylinder of the machine placedin the stand for repairs. He is examiningthe piston and rifle bar to determinewhether they are worn or damaged.

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RESPONSIBILITYTAKE a look at the pictures on the ba.ckcover-take _ another look-and thenanother. It's hard to tell that those areAmericans, isn't it? We don't like tobelieve it, do we? Those pictures onlyshow three young Americans, but thereare thousands of others who have diedas a result of Jap air raids. Do you feelresponsible for their death? If there hadbeen enough equipment on hand at leastsome of those young Americans wouldhave been alive today.

But then it's easy for us to dismissthe thought of them, for we don't knowwho they are. That's it! We don'tknow. It may be your son-or brother.Would you feel responsible then? Thoseyoung men felt responsible for you.They gave their lives for you-that youcould continue to live in a countrywhere it's free-where a guy can besomething and get somewhere-where aguy doesn't get kicked around.

What do you suppose those youngAmericans thought while they lay dyingin mud-dirty, wounded and no onethere to comfort them in their last few

. minutes on earth-the freedom forwhich they were dying? Do you supposethey thought petty thoughts? No, ofcourse not. They thought: HI didn'twant it like this. I'm young. I had mywhole life to live. Why can't I have achance? I don't want to die. I want tolive. I want to see my mom and popagain. I Wt1ntto have my own home. Iwant to see my girl again-she said shewould wt1it. But I guess now she won'thave to. I wonder if they'll ever knowhow much I wanted to see them-justonce again. I wonder if they complainbaek home-some of their leHers-suchlittle things, too. I wonder if they knowhow much we need what they can giveus-wonder if they are in there pitching-every day-every hour. If only Icould tell them before it is too late whatit's like to die-alone-not know-. "Ing .•.

It's up to you-and you-and you-and me to assume responsibility forthe lives of those young Americansshown on the back cover-and thou-sands and thousands of others just likethem. They didn't have petty thoughts.Neither did they complain of littlethings. Let's try to live up to their hopesfor us. That's our responsibility..8.

People .(;-' Pla·cesIN case you don't recognize him incivilian clothes-that's Moon Rogers inthe picture below with his brother, Jim-mie. Moon was discharged October 2after having been in the hospital in 4us-tralia for several months. In all, hespent eighteen months in the SouthwestPacific.

Remember when he wrote back,·'T ell the boys to put the long steel to it.We need a lot of copper yet. Keep theskips going ... "? A lot of things havehappened to Moon since then, and alsoto members of the Montana Regiment ofwhich Moon was a member .. Three percent of these Montana boys were casual-ties when Moon was shipped to the hos-pital in California. His buddy from WolfPoint, Montana. came ahead of Moon,but he came back with only one eye. Theother was lost in active combat.

Moon isn't forgetting the things hesaw and experienced there. He said:"For the boys' out there, I'd like to makethis plea. GIVE THEM ALL THE STUFFYOU CAN. THEY NEED IT IF THEYARE EVER TO GET HOME AGAIN."

He said: "No one knows except theboys out there what it means to dig in atnight in order to be alive the next morn-ing. There's no protection-just a holedug in the ground-and it rains all night-every night, it seems. Any movementis a signal. One move and it may meanyour life. The Japs move at night. Theyperch in trees and wait for a stir in thestillness. The Japs are treacherous. Thereis only one good Jap and that is a dead

Jap. The boys out there need help in win-ning this war-if it is to be won-andthe help they need is ammunition. It'smore important than anything else in theworld that civilians fight in their way bygetting out ammunition so that the boysdigging in when night falls can at leasthave a chance."

jimmie, Moon's younger brother, isa corporal in the Marines and insists heis going to carryon where Moon left off.The first thing Jimmie noticed was a pic-ture on the COMMANDO wall of an "Al-ligator." That's an "Alligator" on page3. The reason for his interest-Cor-poral James Kelly Rogers is on duty withthe First Armored Amphibian Battalion.

Jimmie said: "Our new ArmoredAmphibians are a lot heavier than the"Alligators"-need a lot more metal,too. You know, they travel on land orsea and are used to clear and secure thebeach before the Army moves in. Theyare moved by ship to about two milesfrom shore and then they just take off inthe water on their own. The principle isthat of the old Mississippi River side-wheeler showboat-a metal tread goesaround all the time. But gosh, when wehit land, all you do is just throw it intolower gear and continue right on. Justlook at one and you know how necessarycopper is for its construction. Believeme, I appreciate what the boys here inButte are doing when they keep theloaded ore cars rolling."

Jimmie has a two weeks' furloughand then he's off to tryout some of thearmored amphibians.

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OCTOBER 29, 1943

CEN. MARSHALL'S REPORT

"Reviewing briefly the military situ-ation as we find it on July 1, 1943, it willbe remembered that our entry into warwas marked by a succession of seriou.sreverses, at Pearl Harbor, ~, the Philip-pines and through the Malaysian Archi-pelago. It was a time .for calm courageand stout resolution on the part of thepeople of the United States. With ourPacific Fleet crippled and the Philippinesoverwhelmed at the outset, we wereforced to watch the enemy progressivelyengulf our resistance to his advances.One year ago the German offensive inRussia was sweeping through the DonetsBasin, jeopardizing the whole of southRussia and the Caucasus and ominouslymenacing the Allied positions in the Mid-dle East, particularly the oil supply atAbadan on which the naval forces in theeastern Mediterranean. the Indian Oceanand Australia depended, in addition tothe air and ground motor requirements inthose theaters. Rommel's Afrika Korpswith selected Italian troops had the Brit-ish with their backs to Cairo, threaten-ing the lifeline of the British Empire.Our successes in the Coral Sea and atMidway and the repulse of the Japaneseforces in the Aleutians had not preventedthe Japanese from carving out a vast em-pire from which they threatened India,Australia and o~r position in the Pacific.Just a year ago also the ability of theUnited States to transport its power insupplies, munitions and troops across the--Atlantic was being challenged by subma-rines which in a single month had sunk700,000 gross tons of shipping.

"July 1, 1943, find~ the UnitedStates Army and Navy united in purposeand in operation, a unity shared whenthe occasion demands by the British Com-monwealth of Nations, the Chinese,Dutch, French and other fighting· ele-ments among our friends and supporters.Across the Atlantic the enemy had been. driven from North Africa, and Europehas been encircled by a constantly grow-ing military power. The Russian Army,engaging two-tftirds of the Germanground forces and one-third of the Ger-man air fleet in deadly a~d exhaustingco~bat, has dispelled the legend of theinvincibilitv of the Cerman Panzer di-visions.

"The British Isles are stronger thanever before and a new France is arisingfrom the ashes of 1940. Strategicallythe enemy in Europe has been reduced tothe defensive. In the Pacific the Japa-nese are being steadily ejected or rathereliminated from their conquered terri-tory. Our progress may seem slow but itis steady and determined."

REMEMBER: A steady and deter-mined progress means a vastly greateruse of men and machines. This war is farfrom won. The need for copper and othervital metals is greater than ever.

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MRs. JOHN DONOVAN of Anaconda,shown in the picture below, IS a cooklike we'd all like to be. She doesn'tmeasure her ingredients for, as she says:.. , can just tell when things are in theright amount." We finally pinned herdown though and got some suggestionsfrom her as to how she stretched points.

You'll notice that Mrs, Donovan hasa large piece of suet on the stove in thepicture. She renders it out and thus savesa lot of points which otherwise would gofor lard. There are no points requiredfor suet. With the points saved, Mrs.Donovan buys ham and bacon. She usesthe drippings from the 'ham and baconand there is a further saving.

Mrs. Donovan said: ",I try to useeverything for I don't believe in wastenow of all times. Take bacon fat, forinstance. You~II find that it is just asgood as butter; fact is, we like it better,to "butter" asparagus, broccoli, beans,greens and even cauliflower, I use it incrusts for meat pies, too, Now ham drip-pings I like to sa~e for hot salad dress-ing. I have the ham fat good and hotand pour a cup of diluted vinegar in itand let it come to a boil. Then I pour itover lettuce, cabbage or potato salad.I also use ham drippings for scramblingeggs and to fry griddle cakes. I usebacon, ham or beef fat in waffles,gingerbread and muffins. Anotherway to use ham or bacon fat andsave meat points is in-split pea soup. Tomake a good split pea soup without meat.

I just brown a chopped onion in bacon orham fat, add one stalk of minced celery,one sliced carrot and one bay leaf.' ThenI add the soaked split peas and coverwith water; add 'salt and pepper and letit simmer for three hours or so until thepeas are well cooked.

Because it's the time of year whenpeople are +hinking in terms of elk andwild ducks, we asked Mrs. Donovan howshe cooked them. Here's w~at she toldus: "If you want to really cook wild duck.just you stuff it with sauerkraut. I knowit doesn't sound good, but i'f once you fixit, you'll never cook it any other way. Iusually put some of the kraut over thebreast of the duck in fact, for it gives themeat a most delicious flavor. As for elk-I've got the best recipe in the world.First I rub the elk with vinegar; then saltand pepper it; roll it in flour and brownquickly. Now I use quite a lot of fat inthe skillet in which I brown the meat-usually from four to six heaping table-spoonfuls of lard or meat drippings. Youknow elk meat is quite lean usually andthe fat improves the flavor of the meat.After the meat is well browned on allsides, I put it in my roa~ter and add twoonions, a green pepper, and a few stalksof celery chopped fine and over this ,pour a large can of tomatoes and let it .cook slowly at about a 350-degree tem-perature for four hours or unti I the meat

, is thoroughly cooked. The addition of thevegetables improves the fla;or of themeat a hundred per cent."

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TilDe on-TheirDands

The boys in the timekeeper's officeat Anaconda figure they have moreUtime" than anybody else on the Hill.They'll be quick to tell you, though, that·they are kept plenty busy with theirUtime".. It's no small job to keep a ree-ord of the time and rate of pay of thou-sands of employees.

IN the upper picture we want to intro-duce you to the boys i'1 the Timekeeper'soffice in Anaconda. All the boys couldn'tbe in the picture for there a-re alwayssome of them around the Hill collectingtime sheets. In the picture clockwiseare: Roy Hoffeditz, Robert Glenn, JerryKelly, chief timekeeper, Louis Sells, DanBriggs, Augei Vidro, Lowell Paige, NealHansen, Chuck Hubbard and John Astle.This shows -the day shift and there arethree such shifts. These boys prepareweekly time cards for the workers afterthey check. in and out on the time clocksdaily. The time worked and the dailywage are recorded on each time card.

Daily distribution sheets are madeout for the various departments in orderthat the right department wi II be chargedwith the worker's time. At the end ofthe week, the cards are footed and ex-tended and balanced with the figures asrecorded on the distribution sheets. Bal-ancing finished, the worker's cards arethen turned over to the Machine Room.

The center picture shows the galsand guys who handle the cards after theyreach the Machine Room. Beginningwith the gal seated in the foreground,left to right, are: Lillian Pearson, LoisArvish, Virginia Ewing, Bennett Macin-tyre, 'Roy Olson, Arthur Ferkin, SalleHoyt, Rena Stearns, Carol Malone, MaryLenihan and Pernina Cadwell: The cards

• are punched for the hours worked, theamount of pay and the department to becharged. Then the cards are sent to thecashier's office.

The lower- picture shows the cash-ier's office where the checks are madeout and signed. Left to right are: HarryNeal, John O'Leary, Leo Dougherty, Helen

~ Veeder, Forrest Campbell, Jack Lorenzand Hugh Dart. So that's the way youget your checks. In another issue we'lltell you more about the work in the Ma-chine Room and Cashier's office. But wecouldn't do a complete story on the Tim~-keepers without including a picture ofthem for they all work hand in glove.

You can't be around the timekeep-er's office without hearing about JerryKelly. He's considered a "swell guy" bythe boys. The boys say he's always readyand willing to lend a helping hand withany of their problems.

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NEW RECULATIONS

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In a- drastic revision of its regulations, theWar Manpower Commission has taken new stepsto hold essential workers on their jobs, preventunnecessary migration, and move thousands offathers from less essential to essential activities,

John R. McCusker, regional director of theWar Manpower Commission, said the new moveswould actually slow down the induction of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers if such fathers transferredto essential war jobs.

Fathers who refuse to move from less essen-tial to essential war jobs by October 1 will be sub-.ject to draft, Mr. McCusker said.

WMC officials said the new regulationswere the ultimate in a "democratic method" ofmanning the war industries of the nation.

Under the new regulations, workers cannotmove from one section to another without firstobtaining the consent of the U. S. EmploymentService. .

Such provisions are already contained insome state job-stabilization programs, but underthe new plan the restrictions will be in effectthroughout the nation by October 15 when theywill be' incorporated in all stabilization plans.

The new regulations requi re consent of theEmployment Service before an employer mayhire:

1. Anyone for work in a critical occupation,2. Anyone whose last "regular employment

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Although this provision does not become ef-fective until actually written into the stabiliza-tion plans, workers who quit an employer with-out getting a Statement of Availability in the fu-ture cannot get other employment for 60 days.Under the present plan, an employe can go to an-other job for higher pay if he has been idle for30 days.

The period is being lengthened, Mr. Me-Cusker said, because some workers simply took a30-day vacation when they wished to go to ajob at higher pay. It is not believed many will bewilling to be idle 60 days.

The list of non-deferrable activities has beenbroadened, making fathers who stay on thesejobs subject to reclassification for induction be-fore October. Twenty-three activities and 27 spe-_cific job occupations were added to the non-de-ferrable list previously in use.

A list of 149 critical occupations, principallysupervisory or highly skilled jobs, war jobs, car-rying super-eligibility for deferment, has beenset up.

The critical occupation list is available ateach local office of the U. S. Employment Servoice, Mr. McCusker said.

Draft boards have been instructed to becareful aboltt inducting men whose absencemight impair war production, \lnd have been ad-vised to give close consideration to such men fordeferment even H they are unskilled, until re-placements are avai lable.

Among the new jobs designated as non-de-ferrable were:

1. Jobs in the manufacture of amusementmachines and novelties; alcohol ic beverages. softdrinks; in the operation of race tracks. poolhalls,amusement arcades, travel agencies, ticket agen-cies and clubs, or in the wholesaling or retailingof toys, games, musical instruments, soft drinksand artists' supplies.

2. Such jobs as sales clerks, floor walkers;hotel. club or apartment clerk, ticket taker. liter-ary or actor's agent, theatrical or film managingagent, book or periodical agent. window trimmeror display man, sign writers or painters, andsightseeing Orhunting and fishing guides.

Fathers who do not immediately changefrom such jobs to war-useful jobs will be reclas-sified 1-A as quickly as local Selective Serviceboards can get around to them. Induction willfollow.

By registering with the U. S. EmploymentService and filing proof of such registration withtheir local draft boards, they can get a 30-day

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period of grace from the proof-filing date beforere-classification.

Mr. McCusker said the designation df non-deferrable did not mean that a job was useless.but that it did mean that it was not the type ofjob that can compete with the Army or the Navy.

On the critical list are jobs in aircraft, ship-building, radio and radar, synthetic rubber manu-facture. railroad conductors and engineers. mer-chant ship officers. precision instrument and toolmakers. certain mining and oil industry workers,and a variety of engineers, scientists and profes-sional men. including accountants.

Under the new program, men with equaldependency status will be inducted as follows;

1. Jobs on the non-deferrable list. •2. Jobs not appearing on any list such as

lawyer, banker, taxi driver. baseball player. etc.3. lobs on the essential list.4. Jobs on the critical list."Every worker must identify himself in

terms of his contribution to the war effort," Mr.McCusker said. "This is a final girding for thesupreme war effort. II

Japs Not So HotReputed superiority of the Japanese

as a jungle fighter faded from the mindsof American Army troops after initialcontact on Guadalcanal. rust as was thecase with the Marines, according to Col:Royal L. Gervais, Field Arti Ilery.

The Japanese are masters of per-sonal camouflage. They are patient, well-disciplined soldiers who are not afraid todie, "but they do stupid things whichthe average American soldier neverwould do."

"Our tactics are sound. equipmentexcellent, the men are fully qualified,and man for man we'll beat the Jap any-where," Colonel Gervais said. "Artil-lery proved an excellent weapon for re-moving Japanese snipers from trees whenAmerican forces had to advance throughcoconut plantations. The expenditure ofammunition was amply justified by thelives thus saved."Gliders

A record-breaking non-stop gliderflight of 1,243 miles was made recentlyby two large tow-gl iders, loaded to ca-pacity, transporting special maintenanceequipment from Sheppard Field, Texas,to Maxton Army Base at Laurinburg-Maxton, North Carolina. The flight wasperformed in nine hours and firty-fiveminutes under adverse weather condi-tions and will have far-reaching implica-tions in solving maintenance problemsfor Army Air Forces fighter bombard-ment units in theaters of operations.

In addition to bad weather, otherdifficulties were encountered during thefl ight. Each tow plane carried six 100-gallo!;) gas tanks in the cabin. in additionto its normal supply. As the flight ap-proached Montgomery. Alabama, it wasfound that the two rear tanks in one ofthe tow planes were not feeding prop-erly. It was therefore necessary to carrytwo of the 600-pound tanks to the for-ward part of the cabin and syphon theirgasoline into the forward tanks.MARINES ON THE JOB

GUADALCANAL. - (Deleved l-v-Twoformer employees of The Anaconda Cop-per Mining Company, Private Cornelius

M. Boynan and Private First Class JamesS. Crosby, both of' Butte, Montane, areserving with the Marine Corps here.

Boynan is a machine gunner, whoentertains his company frequently in theevenings by singing old Irish songs. Hehas been nicknamed "The Old Shillalah."the title of a song he sings more thanany other.

Before he enlisted in the Marine, .Corps last September. he worked in theBadger Mine. Boynan has been em-ployed by the Anaconda Company si nee1926. His brother. Richard Boynan, is apumpman in the Leonard Mine. Mrs.Violet Boynan, his wife. lives at 201,EastBoardman. Butte,

Crosby, a former locomotive fire-man on the Butte, Anaconda & PacificRailroad, is a truck driver.

Crosby, husband of Mrs. LoisCrosby and father of Stephen, 7, andCorry, 2, enlisted in the Marine Corpslast August 26. He received his recruittraining in San Diego, California,

SAN FRANCISCO - In the daytime,Private First Class Arthur W, Anderson,55, of Butte, is a Marine Corps diesel ex-'pert but occasionally at night he gathersevidence that this is a small world afterall.

The other midnight he boarded aSan Francisco streetcar and met thereonJohn P. Dugan, a machinist's foremanfrom Butte.

Private First Class Anderson is nowon duty with the Depa rtment of the Pa-cific, San Francisco. .

Anderson worked for AnacondaCopper Company after World War I, in'which he served as a sergeant with the13th Regiment, Fifth Brigade. He againworked for Anaconda as a machinistafter he closed his machinery businessin Butte following America's declarationof war.

For nearly.two years he was a mem-ber and chairman of Butte Draft BoardNo.1.

He and' John P. Connors organ izedthe Butte detachment of the MarineCorps League.

The Leatherneck has been a mem-ber of the International Association ofMachinists since 1910. As a mastermechanic for several mines, he has. in-stalled milling mac h i n e r y and donesmelter repair work.

t'rivate 1st Class Arthur Anderson

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A victim of concussion, this soldier lies in the mud following a Jap air raid on Ren-dova during the American Army occupation of that island.

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An American soldier is taken from under a truck where he sought refuge durrng aJap bomber raid after the American occupation of Rendova Island.

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Mnrderers~Row

Be proud of your part in contributin.g toMurderers~ Row which got revenge forAmerican deaths on Rendova Island.

Forty-eight hours after Americanforces landed and wiped out the Japa-nese garrison on Rendova Island. our' ar-tillery was shelling the Jap base at nearbyMunda. Workers who produced theguns used in this "Murderers' Row" canwell be proud of their part in reducingthis important Jap stronghold to ashambles

The "Row," a line of heavy 155-mm.all-purpose guns, the famous "LongToms" used $0 successfully in ~orthAfrica. and later on the coast ofItaly. poured a steady stream of death-dealing missiles on the Jap stronghold.softening it up for the ground forces'final conquest, Hurling their 95-poondprojectiles the ,eleven miles distance toMunda. they blasted one of the enemy'smost strongly defended South Pacific airfields to pieces, inflicting the terribleamount of destruction and death neces-sary to drive the Japs from their strong-hold.

An idea of the destructive power of"Murderers' Row" can be gleaned fromthe fact that one blast from it carries theexplosive fury of a' flight of dive bombers.One shot from a 155-mm. "Long Tom"will reduce any tank now made. or likelyto be made. and can' even sink a heavycruiser at the 1O-miIe range. •

Targets were picked by the com-mander of the deadly battery from hispost at the fire direction control center.Bracing himself for the tremendousroar of the guns he gave the fire orderand the shells sped toward Munda wherethey sounded like distant thunder as theyperformed their deadly work.

A towering observation post fromwhich explosions of our shells could beseen striking Munda, was-quickly builtby the Marines who had it ready by ~heti me the guns were prepared to fi re rhei rfirst salvo,

It was tractor-breaking. back-break-ing work to get the guns off the landingships and through Rendova's incrediblemud to 'their firing positions. lifeon Rendova meant plenty of mud, heatand drudgery. Navy "Seabees" built alog road for the Marines to use in movingtheir artillery pieces through the swampyjungle. Dynamite was used in clearingaway the trees for the 155-mm. gun em-placements.

The Japs lost heavily in their at-tempted air attacks on Rendova. A totalof 101' Nipponese planes, attempting tobreak up the landing on Rendova, wereshot down by our fighter planes andanti-aircraft batteries on warships, WhenJao bombers came over later. they re-cpivFd .a real reception from powerful90-mm. anti-ai rcraft batteries.

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