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For A Joh Well DoneI

Fred Lane, ~teward Mine, is cited at impressive Labor-Management Committee cere-monies for his constructive suggestion. of a safety door. The Suggestion .sub-Committee,first sub-committee to be formed, nominated Mr. Lane for the honor of havinghis suggestion referred to Washington for official War Production Board Approval.

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AT A recent meeti ng of the VictoryLabor-Management Committee at Butte,Fred V. Lane of the Steward Mine. wasawarded a certificate for his excellent,suggestion for a mine safety door. Theform in which the suggestion was ap-proved. t6gether with details about Mr.Lane and his suggestion. are shown infull detail on page 11 of this issue.

At the top of the page, we see theLabor-Management Committee in offi-cial session, pausing in their business asthe award is made to Mr. Lane. He isshown in the center of the group at theleft receiving his award from CharlesBlack of the Butte Miners' Union, laborchai rman of the Victory Labor-Manage-ment Production Committee. At Mr.Lane's right is J. J. Carrigan of the Ana-cohda Copper ~ining Company. In thebackground (if you look closely) you can.,see members of the A. F. L.. the C. I. O.and management attentively watchingthe ceremonies.

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Washington, October 12

THIS is Columbus Day here in the na-tion's capital. The honor this nationusually pays each year to its discovereris not too apparent this year. That's be-.cause the pace of war has probablysteppe~ up $'0 that people have little timefor pauses.

Since we were here last, we seem tosense a somewbat different mood inWashington. The conversion of this warfrom defensive to offensive na'\urallycheers people, but it also brings home tothem more forcibly that a great clean-upjob must be done throughout the world.Many of the War Department and NavyDepartment men who served in Wash-ington have now ,been transferred tofighting fronts. There is ;J tendency toshake down all bureaus and to release asmany men as possible for combat.

THE MOOD CHANCESWhen the collapse of Italy occurred,

quite a number of people, so we are told,gave up Washington jobs and h,urriedback into private industry. This was amove inspired by too ,much confidence,too much of a belief that the war wasall over and that Washingto'n was soon ~become a ghost town. The older citisensstayed on, knowing that the big job isahead rather than behind. Anyway;Washington probably won't be a ghosttown for a long time, because many ofthe policies of t~e world, a'nd much ofthe machinery that will be required todirect it, must necessarily be in Wash-ington. _

Most of the people back here feelthat this country must playa large part inrebuilding the world, whether it is a mat-'ter of national expediency or not. Theone fact that smashes everyone in theface is that we want no more wars likethis one again, and we probably haven'tbegun to see but a fraction of the damage~it has done and will do to the youth and~Iower of this country.

"GOOD JOB"Marg Sammons, who was back here

a couple of weeks ago, was asked to re-port to executives of the Copper Divisionand to War Production Drive Headquar-ters on the Awards Ceremonies to copperworkers in Butte. Butte workers, as youknow, were the first to be honored withthese citations. From all directions weare getting comments to the effect thatButte really turned out a sho~. Thatmakes all of us feel good.

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In" This IssueFOR A JOB WELL DONE.~_ 2,Fred Lane of the Steward Mine receivesa citation for a practical and useful sug-

gestion.

Here's the story of how these derricksand their operators do a job.

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Here is a behind-the-scenes report of thePurchasing Department at Anaconda and

how it works. Step up and say hello tothe folks and learn how they handle thisinteresting and important job.

,UP IN THE AI·R__ _ 9So many readers have inquired' of us

about the planes of our country forwhich they supply' essential war ma-

terials. Here's a page of pictures you

might like to cut out and preserve, anddon't forget that the stuff you are gettingout is in every one of them.

OLD TIMERS _._ __ __ _.10DOl NC TH E BIe 'OB .._.._ ..__..7 The service records of the old timers at

Great Falls are really something to studyand admire. Here are some pictures ofthe men at the Reduction Works who

have stayed on the job for many years.

The handling of precipitation residue atthe Great Falls Refinery calls not only forthe use of giant derricks, but it calls alsofor the skill of expert train operators.

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You know how it slows you down tostart a iob and then run short or find youdo not have the needed material to keepon working. Just imagine how it wouldslow down production of vital war mate-rials if the Smelter at Anaconda ran shortor "were out."

Irs lJl' to the Purchasing Departmentat Anaconda to place the orders for sup-plies for all the departments on the Hill.Whenever the equipment shows signs ofwear and tear or the stock supplies arerunning low, the Purchasing Departmentis notified. Requistions for the neededmaterials are then sent to the Butte of-fice for forwarding to the Chicago orNew York office from which they arere-ordered. The stock records showingprevious purchases of suppl ies and whereand when they are used, are handled bythe Tabulating Department in Anacondaand then sent on to Butte for completeaccounting.

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warehouse receives the suppJies and 'checks them in. When the various de-partments are in need. the warehousemen deliver the goods. That's John Pusichand Frank Stumvohl getting out a roll ofrubber conveyor belt' to be delivered tothe concentrators in the -lower .picture onthis page. Fact is, the warehousechecks and delivers all materials and sup-plies for the Anaconda Reduction Works,the Foundry and the Street Railway De-partment. There's always a large stockstored in the warehouse-for thousands ofdifferent items must be on hand whenneeded if the vital war materials are keptrolling along the production line ..

In the upper picture on the oppositepage, that's Jack Binney, John McVicars,Thomas Leonard, E. B. Larlsh, Ernie Gag-•non, John Tobin; Steve Petritz, LelandBowman, and J. -B. Hogan. Ernie Gagnonworks in the warehouse and had juststopped in to bring over some ordersfrom the Electrical Shop. Steve Petritzis the storekeeper and he handles all thesupplies.

That's John Tobin on the ladder inthe lower picture on the opposite page.John was getting down a file to look upa previous order. Every invoice for pur-chases for the Hill for years back is filedin the office so that it can be referred toat a minute's notice. An average of3,000 requistions are filled each month-through this department. The gals inthe picture are Ida Crosswhite, DorisHamill, Elizabeth Thomas and HelenMonahan. They handle the stenographicand billing end of the Purchasing De-partment for k.eeping the Hill supplied.

In the upper picture of this 'PageTorn O'Dea is filling a requisition forcap screws.

Since the war, it's been a tough jobto get the supplies. But with the priori-ties regulations operating under the Con-trolled Material Plan effective as of July1. 1943, the boys say it's much easier.Now they just send in the requisition tothe Butte office for the proper filing ofrating.' Of course. certain supplies re-quire the filling in of many forms. Takenew equipment for instance. First there.must be a letter explaining why it is nec-essary. All ratings for units of newequipment must be distinct from the rat-ings for maintenance. repair or operatingsupplies. New units to be used for addi-tion or replacement can only be securedby special application for addition or re-placement and there must be a specialapplication made to the Mining Division.It is not endorsed with any ratings onWPB quotas. commonly used. There'splenty of red tape today if new equip-ment is to be purchased. The boys arewell aware of it, for they have had a lotof experience in getting all the newequipment needed to keep Uncle Samsupplied with vital war materials.

There's something fascinating aboutthe work apparently. The folks want tostay right on. Most all the men in thePurchasing Department have been theretwenty-five years or more.

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THERE isn't a communication opera-tion connected with this war which doesnot involve the use of copper. Withoutcopper it would be impossible for ourgenerals to di rect the mass movementsof men and machines that will finallybring Hitler and Tojo to their knees. Inthe swamps, in the jungles, on the plainsand deserts of the world, copper is doingits communications job, holding armiestogether, keeping them fighting inunison.

Here are some views, supplied bythe Signal Corps of the U. S. Army andthe U. S. Marine Corps, showing whatthe boys are up against and what theyare doing in keeping the communicationlines open. Up there at the top you seea field artillery wire crew resting whilerecovering wire, following the Battle ofKasserine Pass in North Africa.

That's Private William Scott in thecenter photograph working the radiowhich is in constant contact with the de-partment headquarters. The radio is-rnounted in a truck to accompany' aManeuvers- Force in Puerto Rico.

At the bottom left, copper workstwenty-four hours a day as messages arerelayed through this communicationscenter manned by U, S. Marines on Guad-alcana!. Well protected in the heavilysand-bagged dugout communications of-ficers and men relay firing data to stra-tegic points throughout, the Americanlines.

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Down there at the bottom we see atelephone in action on a fighting front.This man has no comfortable phone boothto sit down in-he just rigs up his line inthe jungle and keeps in touch with head-quarters .

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~t the Creat Fans Reduction Works, theTramming Department keeps thingshumming. Here's a little story on oneof the department's useful activities.

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THE handling of purification residue isa matter for the Electric Tramming De-partment at Great Falls. You will recallour mentioning the purification residue.which comes from the Shriver Presses andgoes to the Purification Residue Plant, inan earlier issue .. ln case you got the ideathat this residue is delivered directly tothe Residue Plant, we thought we'd liketo te11 you what the intermediate step is.

Actually, this purification residue isbrought out in cars and dumped on theground. where it is allowedto dry. It isthen reloaded and delivered to the Puri-fication Residue Plant.

This handling of purification resi-due is quite a job in itself, since there is'a lot of unloading and loading connectedwith it. For this purpose the departmentuses huge derricks which load the resi-'due. In the picture at the top. we seeJohn Lasilla, Brown Hoist operator, andJim Brown, his helper, operating the fif-teen-ton derrick. Only a short time agoa twenty-five ton Diesel was added to thedepartment equipment to handle thelarge loads, and we got a shot of this pow-erful machine-that's John Virostko,Diesel hoist operator. and Ceerge Balkoin the cab.

Once the cars are loaded the Elec-tric Tramming Department delivers themto the Purification Residue Plant and thegreat cycle of zinc production proceeds.

The loading and unloading recordsat Great Falls impress the most efficientrailroader. Back in May the ElectricTramming Department covered itselfwith honors-during that busy month 478cars were loaded or unloaded within thefirst twenty-four hours they were in theplant. On top of that, the boys unloadedforty-nine additional cars in the firstforty-eight hours in the plant. Therewere only two cars in the whole plantwhich waited more than forty-eight hoursfor unloading, and these were unloadedwithin seventy-two hours. Nice going.ay fellows? These cars brought in con-centrate from the coast when it arrived'from Australia and South America, andthe concentrate is stored in pi les unti Iready for ~se.

This skill on the part of the boys, inthe Electric Tramming Department aidsUncle Sam materially. With the appall-ing shortage of freight cars every car mustdo more than its share.

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COPPER COMMANDO is the official newspaper of theVictory Labor-Mana!:'ement Production Committees ofthe Anaconda Copper l\fiDinr Company and its UnionRepresentatives at Butt~, Anaconda, Great Falls andEast Helena, Montana. It is issued every two weeks •••COPPER COMMANDO is headed by'a joint committeefront Labor and Management; its policies are shaped byboth sides and are dictated by neither • • '. COPPERCOMMANDOwas established at the recommendation ofthe War Department with the concurrence or the WarProduction Board. Its editors are Bob Newcomb andl\1arr Sammons; its safety editor is John L. Boardman;its stall photographer is Les Bishop • • • Its EditorialBoard consists of: Denis Mcarthy, CIO; John F. Bird.AFLj E~ Renonard, ACM, iro.m Butte; nan Byrne, CIO;Joe Maricle,AFL; C. A. Lemmon, ACM, from Anaconda; ,.Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson, AFL; and E. S. Bard-well, ACM, from Great FaDs ..• COPPER COMMANnOis mailed to the bome of every employe of ACM in thelour locations-if you are not receiving your copy adviseCOPPER COMMANDOat 112Hamilton Street Butte or!letter still, drop in and teU us. This is Vol~e 2, N~. .:

Now Is the Time

IN THE past few weeks the United Na-tions have wrested the big stick awayfrom Hitler and Hirohito and have com-menced to swing it themselves. Thatmeans that this war has changed its com-pl~xion from a defensive to an offensivewar. And that, as ,the writers say,makes news.

There was a dangerous aftermath tothe surrender of Italy. A panic of self-confidence swept the country and pre-dictions are still buxxing around that thiswhole thing will be over before Christ-mas. Nothing could be more daneerousthan that type of thing. Jt has alreadyreflected itself on many pro,duction lines.Just when the boys need the fighting ma-terials of war most, we here at home aremaking the mistake of thinking that woecan return any day now to peacetimeoperations.

An offensive war means a vastlygreater use of men and machines. Nooffensive war was ever launched with-out tapping the full reservoir of strengthof the fighting force that took it;, menand materials may be kept in reserve insuch offensive warfare, but they are al-ways on tap.

Foreign observers of the Cermanscene report that 'morale is weakening,but that it has a long way to go. Thefine, filthy propaganda ·machine of Herr

. Coebbels has taught the Naxis for yearsthat if Germany loses, every single Ger-man must pay for the tortures Hitlerismhas inflicted on the other countries ofEurope. leven an uninformed Naxi mustreali%e that the Poles and the Yugoslavsand the Cxechs and the Norwegians andmany others have an account to settle.

This war is not over by ~ny means.This war has only entered another stage.It is safe to say that the need for coppertoday is greater than it was six monthsago. It is a fact that the need for copperand other vital metals will grow daily..8.

People ~ PlacesTHE old COPPER COMMANDO lairhas been buzzing with people as usual;the Commandos were drafted by the WarDepartment and War Production Board toaid in the Army War Show, and we nosooner got through with that than theCopper Division bent a finger in our di-rection and told us to help out on theAwards Ceremonies, It was a lot ofwork, but it was a lot of fun, too,

One of the delegations that droppedin to see us during the convention of theInternational Union of Mine, Mill a~dSmelter Workers, hailed from the Con-necticut Valley, Four of them appearedat a Labor - Management Committee

, meeting and related their successful ex-periences with their own Labor-Manage-ment Committee back East. Messrs.Jones, Wakeling, Federico, Mankowski,O'Brien and 'countless others weremighty welcome here.

Marg Sammons wangled some troutfrom a friendly fisherman and fixed adinner for Colonel McCone and MajorsMcFarlane and Tierney, who were in forthe War Show. The food was swell but,there wasn't enough of it-next time thedonor will have to catch more fish.

• Colonel Moulton, who representedthe Copper Division's chief, H. O. King.came into town for the Awards Cere-monies. Everybody thinks he did amagnificent job in presenting the awardsat Columbia Gardens-he, had a graciouspat on the back for everyone of the mento whom the citation was given thatnight.

SERGEANT BOBThe good-looking boy on the front

cover is Sergeant Robert [. Verlanic fromAnaconda: we got this interesting coverpicture of him at the Cinders in Butte onthe occasion of the Army War Show.Here is a close-up view of Anaconda'sown special hero, who has been doing amarvelous job in the war. He bas re-

ceived nine decoratlons during his career,in North Africa, and has been awarded-the Air Medal and the eight Oak LeafClusters. The official records give himcredit for forty-three bombing' missionsand those include convoy protection andbombing raids over North Africa andItaly, He has yet to receive official creditfor seven other missions.

Bob, as nearly ;11 the folks in Ana-conda know, attended Anaconda schoolsand enlisted in the Army Air Forces inOctober, 1940--he has been overseassince june, 1942. Recently he spent abrief furlough back home, visiting hismother, Mrs. Anna Verlanic, and has nowgone back to active duty. We hope this,picture of him on the front cover will bea prize pin-up picture for his mother.He's a nice guy and we know she isproud of him.

VISITORSWe've had a steady stream of pleas-

ant people--Andrea Goddard, the WAVEwhose picture we used on our cover somemonths ago, dropped in during her re-cent furlough ... Herb Heasley, chief ofthe Non-Ferrous section of WPB, was intown viSIting the Labor-ManagementCommittee and saying hello to the boys... Chief justice Howard Johnson stoppedin ... We had a nice visit from O. Co'Lamport, regional director of the WarManpower Commission, who was in townfrom Helena ... Townsend Hand of WarProduction Drive Headquarters gave us

. plenty of his amiable time during theArmy War Show, along with Major Clif-ford MacFarlane ... The war heroes-lieutenant Starbuck and Private Gillas-pie--made the joint their headquarters.. .. , Greetings from Father Joyce, BarryO'Leary, Major Tierney, Russel Caples

- and Charlie Lemmon ... Dozens of dele-gates to the convention of the Interna-tional Union of Mine, Mill and SmelterWorkers ... AI Gusdorf ... Police ChiefBart Ri ley . . . Jack Clark from GreatFalls and john Donovan and his wife ofAnaconda, .. Tom 'and Thelma Murrayand many others.

WEATHER.....

One thing about Montana thatseems to impress every visitor is theweather. As this is written we are justrounding out several weeks of perfectfall weather, and the boys from backEast, where it rains a lot of the time andis plenty hot in the summer, simply can'tget it through their heads. '

Probably the toughest town to sur-vive a summer in is Washingte>n. It notonly gets hot but the humidity is terrificand lasts for two months at least andoften more, No wonder these fellowslike it here.

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Up in the' AirA flock of our readers have asked us about ..the plenes of our Air.Forces into which we pour

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DERE are some of the Creat Falls vet!eQ'ans--the Creat 'Falls folks know themalit of course, but those in Anaconda andButte may not. So letts introduce youtin the top picturet to the following menall of whom have been in service more

than forty-years. Left to right they areR. R. Jones, Emil [ennenia, Harry Rudget~Tim Corcoran, Herbert Cilks, Jack Have-lick, Andrew Carlson, John B. Wallackand Henry Robertson. That is FrankHoisberger talking to Jim Moon in th,e

lower left-both of tbem have been inservice for fifty years or more. Overthere at the right we see Ike Moe and An-drew Matt, each of whom has forty-fiveyears or better to his credit. There aresome records for the book!

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Door hy Mr. LaneOVER a period of years, safety recordsshow that several fatalities. and numer-ous serious accidents have resulted fromunderground locomotives and ore trainscrashing through ventilation doors.

Besides the savings in dollars, man-power and materials, the elimination ofthe accident hazard due to the installa-tion of the Steward Mine Safety Door isimmeasurable.

Since their installation in February,1943, there have been three known in-stances where underground locomotiveshave crashed the doors without damagewhich is- proof of their durability. ,

The designer and builder, Fred V.Lane of the Steward Mine Safety Door,was born in the little town of Burg Hill,Ohio, near Warren, on February 6, 1883.. During high school vacations he workedwith the local carpenter, and on comple-tion of his high school course he variedhis work between carpentering and help-ing his dad on the family farm.

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carpenter at the Gagnon Mine. Withfew interruptions he has had continu-ous service with the Anaconda CopperMi'ning Company. For twelve years hewas in charge of the carpentering workat the Anaconda properties at Conda,Idaho. From there he again returned toButte, where he is at present employedas carpenter at the Steward Mine.

Lane's knowledge of undergroundoperations and his. years' of carperteringexperience were helpful in designing andbuilding the new safety door. He be-lieves its success is in its simpl icity, butstates that in construction of doors ofthis type the sketch must be adheredto rigidly. and in nailing the safetyboard, 20d or 30d nails b~ used andclinched so that the constant openingand closing will notloosen the board andcause the door to fold; instead. it shouldact like any solid door until struck a se-vere blow at which time the safety boardwill break and the €Ioor fold back.

On February. 4, the first safety doorwas put in .service underground andwithin a short time the entire sixtystandard mine ventilation doors were re-placed by the new safety type.

Tank Makes Cood

Details of the Army's new 500-horsepower tank engine were an-nounced recently by the War Depart-ment coincident with the Ordnance forVictory Exposition in Philadelphia.

in..production for more than a year,the liquid-cooled unit was developed es-pecially for use in tanks by Army Ord-nance and civilian engineers, and in Armytests at Fort Knox, Kentucky, the enginetopped all other engines in nearly allphases of performance and led in endur-ance.

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In use on the battlefronts, the en-gine has become popular with fighting \men because it is dependable, has plenfyof "zip" and its compact constructionmakes it simple to service. On the homefront, it lends itself to mass assembly-line production and its manufacture hasbeen' possible with a minimum of changein available machinery. '

. Basic specifications of the en-ginewere taken from a 12-cylinder aircraftengine' built as an independent civilianproject in 1940 and 1941. An urgentneed was seen in the summer pf 1941 formore production of engines for tanks.With the help of the Army Ordnance ex-perts. tf:le necessary changes were madein this aircraft engine .. The 12 cylinderswere cut down to 8, a clutch and fly-wheel added and the fuel. ignition andlubrication systems altered.

Realizing that getting into produc-tion as quickly as possible would be mostimportant, the manufacturers adoptedtheir designs to the automotive machin-ery and tools at hand. The accuracy oftheir work was proved when in April,1942. the first engine came off the lineswith 82 per cent of the equipment onhand doing the job. Using secondaryaluminum. the engine is relatively lightfor a tank engine and its 500 horsepowergives it ranking among the best in themedium tank field.

Supply JobThe tremendous supply job being

successfully borne by American workers,was strongly emphasized by PresidentRoosevelt. when he recently revealedthat 160,000 men-Americans, British,Canadians and French-took part in the

, initial assault on Sicily. They required14,000 vehicles, 600 tanks" and 1,800cannon.

Three thousand ships were used totransport the men and supplies, and thisinitial force was followed day and nightby thousands of reinforcements.

Although less than 1,250,000 ofthe nearly 2.500,000 American soldiersnow overseas are in the North Africanand European theaters, supplies sent tothese two theaters exceed the total ton-nage sent to General Pershing in the en-tire World War, according to Lt. Gen.Brehon B. Somervell, Commanding Gen-eral, Army Service Forces .

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To THE copper workers of Butte recently came the signal.honor of being cited for amajor contribution to the war program. This citation was given to eligible workers bythe Copper Division of War Production Board.

Here we have four of the craftsmen, for example, who were given awards-at thetop are Tim McKiernan and James McGrath. At the bottom are Clyde Davis and JamesMcDermott. These members of the A. F. L. were honered, together with the miners of

/ the C. I. 0., for their help in winning the war.

More than 4,000 workers in Butte have already been given their Copper Divisioncitatio,ns. We hope that all copper workers will become eligible to receive these awards.

• If you have worked an average ~f twenty-two days a month for the first six month's of1943 (or a total of 132 days in that period), you should have received your citation. Ifyou have not, report the matter at once to your foreman and it will be corrected.

If you were not eligible for a citation for any reason. you can do so by maintaining theabove average for the second six months of 1943 ....

The Awards S.ub-Committee of the Victory Labor-Management Production Commit-tee at Butte is composed of James Cusick 'and William Petrovich for labor and E. I.Renouard, Jr., and H. J. Rahilly for management. This is a standing committee and willcontinue to function. If you have any suggestions to make, or any complaints to fileregarding these awards, get in touch with this sub-committee. You can reach themthrough the offices of your official Labor-Management Committee newspaper, COPPERCQMMANDO. at 112 Hamilton Streett Butte. The telephone number is ,4444. '

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