Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 2

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Paid Butte, Mont.

Permit No. 139

Meet.the Unio~s' Pictures on .page 8-.10 .

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CREAT FALLS: Ike Moe is the oldest engineer our guess is that he's one of the best.

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BUTTE: Out at Rocker is one of th'e most interesting timber eperafiens, Here's the dope on it.

of the country'.

See picture story on pages 4-6

ANACONDA: Tom Murphy, spot welder on the big construction in the ball mill, gives us the old smile.

For other Anaconda pictures, see page 11'

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A .Message From

Rear Ad...iral (;. D. Woodward u. s • N.~Retired

Chief of the Incentive

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*IN WARFARE, especially in modern warfare, gold.

copper is far more precious than

To you men of Montana, who know metals, this is not rhetoric, but hard, cold fact. Wars have been won by nations very short on cash.....:..ourown Revolu· tion is an instance-but none could ever hope to prosecute war successfully without an adequate supply of the red metal that has been the stock in trade and source of prosperity of your Butte area for nearly half a century.

War. as we fight it today, is greedy for steel, but its appetite for copper is well-nigh insatiable.

From time immemorial. copper and its alloy cousin, brass, have been indispensable for marine use. And today our mightiest battleships are no less dependent on this metal than the copper-bottomed frigates of Decatur and Lawrence. There is no substitute for copper.

Just censider the requirements for a sea-resisting, copper-containing castings; copper; about a quarter million pounds of that comprise a ship's electrical nerves.

000 pounds of metal alone.

single battleship-a million pounds of half a million pounds of sheet and tube material for the wires, coils and cables A single bronze propeller requires. 50,-

Yes, the warships at sea, the supply vessels that serve our fighting fo.rces. our submarines beneath the water and our planes that strike from the air, all cry for copper and yet more copper.

All this in addition to the tremendous quantities needed for the manufacture of munitions-by far the largest item of all.

That is why the Navy calls on you men of Montana to work even harder to increase production to the limit. In the Butte area alone. you normally produce a quarter of the copper mined in the -United States. This shows how the Navy relies upon your output for its absolute needs.

We are confident you will not fail us. The armed forces called upon you in the last war and you came through nobly. You and the other copper miners of America opened new mines, built new smelters.

Day and night you toiled without letup and your mines and reduction plants poured forth the unending stream of copper that in the end helped to crus hour Cerman foe. The Navy is confident you will better your record.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 1942

The Ore Leaves Butte for Anaconda

In This Issue: ROCKER DOES A JOB

COPPER COMMANDOis published every two weeks by the Victory Labor-Management Production Committees and distributed to the employes of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls.

Editorial Director: ROBERT NEWCOMB; EditorJal Offices, 112 Hamilton, Butte, Mont. Telephone 4444.

GREAT FALLS: .Jack Clark, C. I. 0.; Herbert Donaldson, A. F. L; E. S. Bardwell, Anaconda Copper Mining Company.

Lester Bishop, Stafr Photographe.-.

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Mines can't operate without timber. Here is a picture story of one of the most interesting (and most important) operations in this area.

What happens to the ore when it leaves Butte on its way to Anaconda? Quite a few people know the interesting processes through which the ore goes, but we fig.. ured you might like to see a few close-up shots of ore unloading at Anac<;>nda.

IKE MOE, ENCINEE路R

EDITORIALS

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Your reporter climbed on the back of Ike's engine and rode around the Refinery at Great Falls with Ike and Rinaldo. Here's the story.

BOARD OF EDITORS BUTTE: Denis McCarthy, C. J. 0.; .John F. Bird, A. F. L.; .John Boardman, Anaconda Copper Min!ng Company.

ANACONDA: .Joe Marick, A. F. L.; Tom Murray. C. I. 0.; B. S. Morrow, Anaeonda Copper Mining Company.

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MEET THE UN IONS

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Our roving photographer has picked up views of the union officials in the three locations. You probably know most of these boys by their first names, but we thought you might like to see them all lined up together. They are backing COPPER COMMANDO to the limit, and we are proud to oresent them to our readers.

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We are all inclined to forget every once in a while the real sacrifices the boys in military service are making. It's a pretty tough life, but it's an important one, and we thought you would like to see a couple of dose-up shots of the boys in service.

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The Refinery at Great Falls is turning out the finished product for use in war materials all over the world. We got a couple of shots of the refining process and thought you might like to see them.

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DoesAJoh PHOTOS BY BOB NESMITH

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EARS ago 'the timbers at the various mines in Butte had different framings.

Each mine framed its own timber, and a framing from one mine might not fit a framing from another.

That's how Rocker was born. It became easy to see that time and efficiency were lost by this overlap, so today the sawmill at Rocker, outside of Butte, frames standard timber f()6> all the mines.

Without Rocker to provide proper timbers, mining ODerations would be badly slowed down-there would be long and costly delays in getting timbers from individual yards, and yard space now used for more important things would have to be used for framing and storage.

So Rocker does a job. and a mighty important one.

There's a general view of Rocker at the bottom of the page. You've probably seen it thousands of times, but if you haven't been inside, you might enjoy this trip with a camera.

In the picture at the upper left, Verne Bennett and Walter Richter are unloading a car of "stulls" shipped in from the logging operations at Bonner. A stull is a long piece of timber-sixteen feet, to be exact.

The wires holding the '029 on the car have been cut and the boys are using pickaroons to unload the stults.

Over at the left, below the picture of Verne and Walter, we see Bill Kanvich at the cut-off saw. He is cutting stulls to the proper length.

At the top of the page we see various views of the framing operation.

All ends are framed to standard so they will fit together no matter how big around the stull is. At the top'

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left you see Howard Albright and AI Stewart with a stull in the machine. Sid Humber is the man in the center picture, and Guido Cassagranda and Sid are in the picture at the right - look closely and you'll see the framed end of timber in the framing machine.

In the next picture down, we get a good look at a car being loaded with frame posts. Here you can see clearly the framing at the. ends. That's Phil Gugoletti doing the loading honors.

We got two pictures of Chester Dawson, because Chet is a saw expert and. take our word for it, Rocker wouldn't be Rocker without saws. There you see him (in the two pictures at the lower right) first centering a 58-inch saw on the gumming machine--he has lifted the cut-off saw onto the gummer to sharpen it. In the adjoining picture Chet (we asked him to take his hat off for this one, and he did) is "swedging" and shaping a four-inch resaw band-in plain English, he's sharpening a bandsaw: we couldn't get it all in the picture, but you can see part of the saw.

Over on the next page we decided to get some real close-ups of a few of the felks at Rocker. Turn the page. and at the upper left you'll see Roy Nelson making a ladder. so important in mining.

These side pieces come into Rocker from Bonner with the holes bored in them, and the rungs come in also. Roy lines them up and assembles them. Here he is tapping a side piece onto the rungs. In the old days they used to make ladders at each mine, but the ladders all come from Rocker now-they are better built and much safer.

Next to Roy is Clarence Barc!ay-he is framing theends of crib chute timbers with a hand-framer.

In the lower left-hand corner is [ack Shaughnessy, mill boss, knocking off for lunch. Jack has been in service 37 years and has been at Rocker 33 of them. The last picture is of Hugh Lynch and Ed Dawson-Hugh is boss of the treating plant and Ed, as most of you know, has charge of the whole plant.

So these are the highlights of Rocker, one of the really important operations in the mining business. Next time you pass Rocker. don't forget that you're now acquainted with it.

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a vast amo'unt of +ime, money, men and equipment to produce copper-few outsiders have any idea of the countless operations that are involved between the time the ore is mined and the finished copper is loaded for shipment.路 Few out-

. siders give a thought to the need for timber in this industry, yet Rocker is a most important operation.

In later issues, we hope to show how all these operations tie together in the interest of production and how vital our work to the winning of the war ..

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IKE

MOE is the oldest railroad engineer in the Northwest.

What he doesn't know about railroading simply isn't in the books, and as he leans from his cab in engine No. 124 at Great Falls each day, he can reflect upon a pretty full and colorful life.

In order to get a story from Ike you have to climb aboard -the cab with him and ride for at least a portion of the thirty. odd miles Ike drives each day at the refinery. You will gather several interesting things about Ike, not the least of which is that he has an amazing memory-he recalls that, for example, he came to Great F-alls, June 7, 1891, but he will also recall that it was a Sunday.

Ike Moe~ Engineer

He worked for some time in the unloading department and later on the concentrator, and about seventeen years ago he shifted over to running an engine. The files show that Ike joined the company on October 2, 1892.

When Ike came to Great Falls from his native Norway 'the was born about 300 miles from Trondheirn l the city was not as large as it is now by a long shot-Ike's recollection is that there were about 5,000 people in the community at that time, and he remembers as an afterthought (which is another credit to his memory) that there were fifty-nine saloons.

For his seventy-two years Ike is about as spry a man as you could expect to see; he has all his hair and while it is iron gray, it is the envy of many younger men .â&#x20AC;˘ His hobbies are few.

He tells this story on himself: About forty-five years ago he was invited to go fishing with a friend. The pair set out in the early hours of the morning and spent the entire day fishing, but at the end of the trip Ike realized that his friend had caught well over the limit, and Ike had caught nothing at all. "That cured me of fishing," .lke admits.

"It made me so sore that I could fish all day and catch nothing, while my friend caught everything we brought back, that I just called the whole thing off."

For recreation Ike likes to work around his home.

He finds a lot to do in his garden and in the house, so he has no particular interest in outside matters.

"A fellow gets started working around his place," Ike says, "and it keeps him busy for the rest of his life.

Every once in a while I get the idea that I am all done fixing up my place and that I can then sit back and enjoy it. But you know how those things are-you sit on your front porch and go over your place, and the first thing you know, you see something more to be done.

It is a very hard job for me to sit still for very long, and I guess one reason why I haven't taken more interest in fishing and hunting and other things like that is because I never find time.

But I wouldn't swap the fun I get out of fussing around my place for any sport I ever saw."

That's Ike at the top; Rinaldo and Ike below,

Ike is married and has four children-one girl and three boys. Two of the boys are in government work. .The daughter is married and lives in Black Eagle.

Ike's running mate on No. 124 is Rinaldo Petrini, switchman, who has been in service for nearly thirty years.

Rinaldo started as a mail boy in 1913 and has been leagued up with Ike for several years.

Rinaldo himself is a veteran in more ways than one, and he has an unusual record of having four brothers who also work for the Company.

In addition to the Five Petrinis who are in Company service, Rinaldo has a boy of his own who signed up about a year ago. In addition to this, Rinaldo's father who died in 1935, worked for the Cornpany for more than thirty-five years. Rinaldo served in the last war-he was statroned at Camp Eustis, West Virginia, with the Artillery; he has six children-four boys and two girls.

Ike Moe and Rinaldo Pet-rini make a great team.

They are both doing a great job in transporting vital war materials at the Great Falls Refinery.

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at Creat Falls, has this record:

His father worked for the Company for more than tflirty years; he himself has worked for the Company nearly thirty years.

He has four brothers in Company service; he has a son who has been in service¡ for about a year.

Your editors would like to hear of other records.

Send along your suggestions for stories on men with long and interesting service records and we will follow them up.

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THESE are the heads of the Butte Miners Union, shown at a recent War Bonds meeting. Front row: Tom McGovern, trustee; Fred McFadden, chairman of the board; David Reese, trustee; W. A. Post, trustee; Mike Lacey, trustee.

Back row: Oscar Hills, vice president; John Dwyer, past recording secretary; Paul Fa'U, Jr., secretary-treasurer;

MEET the C. I. O. group at Great Falls: Left to right, seated-Louis Annau, Trustee; Otto C. Peters, Recording Secretary; John Epperson, President; John Clark, Financial Secretary; John WaUock. Trustee; Joseph Parr. Jr â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘ Oon-

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James Byrne, president; Frank Monaghan, postmaster; James Rowe, chairman Silver Bow County War Bonds com. mittee; John J. Mickelson, conductor; John McLeod, recording secretary; Walter Jaap, vice chairman War Bonds committee.

ductor. Standing, left to right-William Murray, Vice President; Peter Marshall, Warden; David Grant, Member Negotiating Committee. Officer absent in this picture, Robert Bood, Chairman of Trustees.

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~Meetthe

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COPPER COMMANDO wouldn't stand a chance of succeeding without the interest and the help of labor. From Creat Falls. from Anaconda. from Butte, from the CIO and AFL-from all the groups has come the finest sort of cooperation ..â&#x20AC;˘ Among these groups you will find members of Labor-Management committees. of editorial boards, of contest

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juries--all of them puning together with management to help produce a real p.ublication.

Your editors tried to get all the union leaders and representatives-a few couldn't appear to have their pictures taken. so we tried to get the names. If we sl'ipped up on anyone. it's an honest mistake-tell us where we missed and we'll correct it.

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HERE are the Building and Metal Trades councils of the AFL at Butte. Front row, left to right: ¡P. 1. Connors, Teamsters; J. J. Harrington, Blacksmiths; James O'Brien, Metal Trades; .Joe Thompson, Electricians.

Second row: J. H. .Joyce, Carpenters; W. B. Ivey, Pipefitters; W. H. Goodland, Boilermakers and Welders; B. Benjamin, Structural

GET acquainted with the AFL representatives at Anaconda.

Rear row, left to right: Tom O'Brien, Lead Burners; Fred Frankovich, Carpenters; Sid McCallum, Metal Trades; Henry Johnson, Painters; Eric Smith, Bricklayers. Middle row, left to right: Gene Tobin, Engineers; Tony Domitrovich, Pipefitters; Vincent Nowland, Machinists: Lew Clucas,

Ironworkers; .James Cusick, Machinists. Back row: T. J. Appel, Painters; Robert Newcomb, editor of COPPER COMMANDO(they needed a guy to plug the hole in the back row, and look what they got!); Charles Armstrong, Carpenters; H. A. Grabenstein, Building Trades.

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Sheet Metal Workers; M. L. McDermott, Electricians. Front row, left to right: Joe Doran, Central Labor: Dan Murphy, Ironworkers: Joe Marick, machinist, AFL representative on Labor-Management committee: Joe Mooney, Black. smiths; Henry Hanson, Boilermakers.

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HERE are the men of t.he Mill & Smeltermen's Union at Anaconda. First row, left to right: John Emmons, financial secretary; Walter Dooley, recording secretary; 'Dan Byrne,

THESE boys are the representatives of the Crafts Union of the AFL at Great Falls. ~rom left to right: Lou Jackson, Painters; John Jarnot, Boilermakers; Herbert L. Donaldson, _ Electri_cians; A. Grasseschi, Machinists; John Edegard,

THESE are the Engineers at Butte, No. 83, CIO: John ~iIbert, president, is seated at lett; Peter Delaney, recording

vice president.; Tom Murray, president.. Back row, left to right: Mike Dunn, conductor; Ed Oorcoran, trustee; Robert Glynn, trustee; Paul Tonkovich, warden.

Blacksmiths; Rudolph Wertin, Pipefitters; A. J. Kowell, Carpenters] R. B. Cunningham, Painters. Missing: Harold Grey, Brickmasons; George Kalafat, Moulders.

secretary, is in the center, and John Cavanaugh, vice president, is on the right.

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Here (;oll.es the O_.e! '.

AT Anaconda they don't

shovel the ore out of th~ cars. No -si ree--they turn the car over and dump the ore, Here are some pictures of- the cars approaching the station where the dumping is doneit's hard to get a picture of the dumping itself,

That's Bill,Bowling on the car in all three pictures: Ole Johnson is operating the train and the towerman that day was Charlie Gates. although you can't see either one of them in the pictures .. This modern method of ore dumping is a great improvement .

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Help Wanted!

VOLUME 1

SEPTEMBER 5, 1942

NO.2

THANKS A LOT The first issue of COPPER COMMANDO rolled off the press two weeks ago, and your editors would be most ungrateful if they did not express to their readers their' thanks for the many words of praise that have been heaped on this new LaborManagement Committee newspaper.

Your editors feel obliged to say, however, that the success of any publication of this type hinges upon the enthusiasm, cooperation and help given it by its readers.

COPPER COMMANDO started off with none of the answers; it had only the zeal to find the answers, and it found fhem in the comments and criticisms and friendly guidance of the people of Butte. Anaconda, and Creat Falls.

A lot of people have told us that it is a good start, and we are naturally pleased to hear it, but the continued success of the publication is going to depend almost entirely on the people who receive it. Thanks a lot for your complimentary words.

Let's have the kicks also--in that way we will be able to stay on the beam and that is where we want always to be.

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flock of people have asked us, since the first issue of COPPER COMMANDO appeared,路 whether they could contribute ideas, suggestions or material. ' The answer is: You bet your sweet life! This is your publication, and the more it represents what YOU like and what YOU think, the better. it is going to be.

Naturally we try to follow a sort of editorial policy, and maybe if we outline it for you, it may help you with your own suggestions and ideas: PICTURES-We try to use lots of pictures, big pictures as often as we can, and pictures with people in them. We try not to print pictures of machinery or equipment without people, because we don't like them and doubt if you do.

ARTICLES-We like suggestions and ideas for articles. They should not interest just one small group, though-they should interest every reader.

NEWS ITEMS-News of group activities is always welcome. Rernember that COPPER COMMANDO news pages are "closed" about a week before the newspaper appears, so get them in on time.

CETTI NC l"OCETH ER " One of the things that struck us as interesting when we were gatherin~ material for our first issue was the fact that the oDerations in BuHe. for example, were nof thorou.l!!hly understood by folks in Anaconda and Creat Falls. Equally, the mysteries of smelting and refinin~ were not known too well in Butte, and iust as the boys at Anaconda wondered what haDpened to the anodes which are shipped to Creat Falls, !W) the boys in Creat Falls seem to be curious to know what steps precede their own. That's one reason why, in our first issue, we attempted to show in a brief Dictorial way w"at these different operations look like.

When people understand what otl:ter people are doing, they usually run a better chance of un'clerstanding the people themselves.

We sort of , get the idea that if we can continue to show different operations at different locations and to tell about them in an interesting and readable way, everybody is going to get beHer. acquainted.

We have a hunch that we're right on this, but you tell us if we're wrong.

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LIFE isn't very sweet for men in the fighting forces, but they do manage to enjoy a little fun once in a while and one other thing is certain: they get enough to eat.

But too many of us are probably inclined to take the boys in service for granted, and to figure that they are supplied with everything they need to win the war. As a matter of fact, one reason we have not made any major gains in the war so far is because there have been bog-downs in production from coast to coast; the productive capacity of thls country has not been realized by a long shot, and our forces, fighting in many areas throughout the world, are being handicapped because they don't have the tools with which to work.

The man in any war production job who lays off work for no good reason is merely robbing the American soldier of bullets; he is slowing up the building of planes and ships and tanks.

The soldier cannot lie down on his job. No matter how poor his tools may be, he must still stay at work. But he can't shoot the enemy without bullets-the chances are that he may be shot himself because he lacks bullets. We can't fight submarines without the machines of war that should be used to put submarines to the bottom ofthe sea.

There are many of our boys away from home. They work twenty-four hours a day at their jobs. Maybe they kick about it at times, but they still do it. If they fall down on their jobs, our country is sunk. If we fall down on ours, we will make their job that much tougher.

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One of the many interesting sights at the refinery at Great Falls is the pouring and the moulding of the copper. last issue we showed you some of the steps in the Electrolytic Copper Refinery and took you up to the fin-, ished cathodes.

The cathodes-you saw a picture of them in the last issue-are very pure but they are not in a form suited to milit·ary and industrial use, so they have to be melted down again.

These cathodes are brought into the furnace refinery on flat cars, where a huge charging crane thrusts the cathodes into the furnaces-a furnace wilt take about 400.000 pounds of copper with the first charge and an additional 160.000 pounds or so after the first charge has settled down.

It takes about two hours to charge the furnace, and about ten hours for melting the cathodes .

• • • and Great Falls Finishes the Job The ore starts at Butte, goes to the smelter at Anaconda, and winds up at the refinery at Great Falls. Here are some facts about the refinery operations . • • •

Before the molten copper can be poured, gases that have been formed must be removed so that good castings; can be made, and the oxygen content must be reduced by the "poling. process"-putting long poles into the molten copper so that the charcoal and coke cover will draw off the oxygen.

The copper now goes into the ladles.

The molten copper comes out of the ladles and into the moulds, as you can see in the picture at the top of the page where Nick Platisha and George Osterman-tl')ey are called "fishers" --can be seen. They stand on a platform which is like a merry-go-round and which they can control. .

The molten copper, once in the moulds, is sprayed and finally dumped in solid form into cold water, where cooling continues.

In the picture at the left below, we see the copper shapes after they come out of the bath and have been handed up by an endless bar conveyor for handling, Now they will be loaded o,n industrial cars and, after they have been weighed. they will be ready to go to war for Uncle Sam. When the finished copper leaves Great Falls, it may go to any of hundreds of plants to be converted into machinery to help beat the Axis.

Copper, as we noted in our last issue, is used in practically all types and kinds of war equipment.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. l.-{AP)-The chiefs of four top war agenc~es appealed to copper and other criticol metal miners today to stay on their jobs and produce more raw material for war.

Messages to the miners were signed by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board; Maj. Gen. Lewis B.Hershey, Selective Service director: W. H. Davis, chairman of the War Labor Board, and Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower Commission chairman.

Copies of the letters will be sent to unions and management in the mines, mills, smelters and refineries, and to mayors of mining towns, in an effort 1:0 halt the drain of skilled manpower away from production of vital raw materials.

"No other job on the whole war production front is more important than the job you ore doing," Nelson wrote. "Your comrades, the soldiers fighting on the battle. front and the workers in the munitions

plants, depend on you for the raw stuff to make these weapons. " He said he had directed draft boards throughout the country "to give most serious consideration'" to the deferment of men who are giving the full measure of their time and energy to the production and refining of copper, zinc, lead, manganese, and other essential nonferrous metals."

Davis said the WLB had before it 37 cases affecting the nonferrous metals industry, and that several other cases would be certified soon. The board, he said, would "do its best to expedite matters and effect an early determination of all issues."

"The nation's war effort is slowing down for the lack of ore from your mines," McNutt wrote. "Too many miners have left to take other jobs. Many of these jobs, it is true, are also in war production, but very few of them will contribute as much to victory as the job in the mine that was left behind."

An Iluportant State.l.ent The War Manpower Commission has certified that cer. tain mining activities are essential to the support of the war . effort. Montana State Headquarters for Selective Service today stated that local boards will consider deferment of regis, trants engaged in the mining of iron, copper, lead, zinc. ", aluminum, mercury, manganese, chromium, molybdenum. tungsten, vanadium and similar ores and in the dressing of such ores.

On account of the serious shortage of miners and other critical occupations in copper, zinc, and manganese mines of the state, it is believed that every man engaged in such work will have to be deferred indefinitely.

In cases in which appeals are taken from the rulings of local boards, registrants should continue their work as usual and not jump to conclusions that the cases will be decided against the employer. Selective Service policy is very definitely in favor of keeping necessary men in essential activities.

It was further announced today at Selective Service headquarters that registrants classed in III-A, and particularly those with wives and children, should" attempt to place themselves in defense industries, including the mining industry. As the war effort progresses and non-essential activities are curtailed, many of those employed in non-essential activities will become available for more essential employment. Many registrants deferred by reason of dependency should now leave non-essential employment and seek employment and training in essential activities. This voluntary movement from the non-essential to essential activities will, in a large measure, accomplish a direction of manpower into activities where needed. It should be a gradual, orderly and economically sound transfer from employment of non-essential activities to employment in, or training for, essential activities.

Persons engaged in non-essential activities should not

cease their present employment until their services are needed in some essential activity. Each individual should now inquire into his own capabilities and opportunities for employment in war industry and should exert himself in the securing of such employment without awaiting specific instructions from the Government.

The mining of strategic minerals in Montana today bffers an excellent opportunity for physically qualified men with dependents to enter a war industry, which so badly needs more manpower. It will be considered a patriotic act for a married registrant now engaged in a non-essential industry to seek employment in a vital mining activity.

Local Boards and the State Board of Appeal, as well as State Headquarters. wi II make every effort to carry out the policies as above outlined.

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Address, Please Quite a few folk: entitled to receive COPPER COMMANDOfaUed to get their first copy. Tbe reason in most cases is that we didn't have the proper addresses-people move without notifying the office.

If you ~re not receiving COPPER COMMANDOfor any reason, let us know at once at 112 Hamilton, Butte, and give us your correct address at that time.

We don't want anybody who should receive it to miss a single issue, so let us know if you don't get it.

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THAN KS, Joe Madsen-Lamp House man at the Leonard Mine-for dropping an idea in the Suggestion Box. For ideas and suggestions for improvement are the real answer to the success of any operation. Your Committees welcome these suggestions; they hope you will keep them constructive. • • • Every worth while suggesfion will be adopted and put to use - some suggestions, while good, are not always practical. But the more efficient we, as workers, are, the quicker we will win this war. Let's have a helpful hint from YOU!

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