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'United We Stand

W HEN we think of war we think in terms of men-Soldiers, Sailorsand Marines. B_utwe've got to chan~e our thinking a little. The wome~of America know too that "This is America" and it is worth fighting for.

Today the men and women are united in winning this war. Andit is unity that wins any war. In unity there is strength. True, the wom-en don't do the fighting. We hope they never have to. But they dorelieve the men so the men can fight.

In the pictuOre above, the final weather report, vital information.te any pilot, is given to the young Leatherneck flyer by a member of the.U. S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve. She took over the work and re-sponsibilities of a he-man Marine. She freed him to fight.

Whether you are a man or woman, whether you are working belowground or above ground, you are an American. You are anxious to getthis war over as fast as you can. There's only one way. That's in unity..2. /

Poster of theWeek

THIS is America, my son . 0 • whereyou can dream your dreams and make. them come true.

This is America-where the Son ofa poor back woodsman became a greatPresident-where a mechanic became agreat industrialist-where thousands ofboys have written their own successstories.

This is. America-your land of op-portunity ... where a grateful nation isready to reward you in proportion to theservice you give.

This is America-where you aren'traised and trained like an animal to per-form tricks for a distorted Fuehrer . . .where your mind isn't poisoned by tellingyou that your emperor is the son of heaven... where you aren't conditioned to be-come a pawn in the bloody game of im-perialism and conquest.

Yes, son, this is America. TheAmerica of free men ... the America thatyour father is so proud to fight for andto work for ••. the America that he wi IIprotect for you. He is doing that todayand every day that he fights on the pro-duction line. Every rivet he drives, everypart he makes. every job he does is hispersonal contribution to your future-toyour happtness-s-to the maintenance ofyour free opportunities.

Yes, son, your father is a fighting'rnan. He's fighting every day, every hour,every minute--to be sure' that yourAmerica wi II be free forever. YOU CANCOUNT ON HIM.

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•••Yes, son, this is America, where you candream your dreams and make them cometrue. Where freedom to do •~. to think •••to speak is your right and your heritage.Protec! it forever *, Th;s ;s your America

This poster will appear about sep~mber 20 on t.he BuUeUn Boara&.0010'13 Shelqon-Olo.lr .. Ol>1eaco.

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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 itsUnion Representatives at Butte, Ana-conda, East Helena and Great Falls, Mon-tana. It is issued every two weeks., .••COPPER COMMANDO is headed by ajoint 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 Newcomba'l.d 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, from Anaconda;Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson, AFL,and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, from GreatFalls ..•. COPPER COMMANDO ismailed to the home of every employe ofACM in the four locations-if you arenot receiving your copy advise COPPERCOMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Street,Butte, or, better still, drop in and tell,",S. This is Volume 2, No.2.

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Sergeant Barbara Cole, seated, and Ser-geant Marjorie L. Wymore, our cover -girlsfor this issue, are enlisting recruits forthe U. S. Marine Corps Women's Reservein Butte at the present time. The frontcover was furnished by the courtesy ofthe Marine Corps Station, Butte.

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It takes some planning to provide thirty-eight million gallons of water each twen-ty-four hours. But that's what it re-quires to keep the Reduction Works atAnaconda operating and continuing toturn out the vital war materials neededby Uncle Sam.

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The rock drills used in' the Butte minescome in constant contact with solid rock.A lot of things can happen to them. Butif the vital ore is to be kept rolling they'vegot to be kept in good condition. Theboys in the Central Rock Drills Shop makethem like new.

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A young U. S. Marine composed a poem.He wasn't a poet.' But as the ship car-ried him out into the night-away fromhis own, his native land-he did a lot ofthinking. It was a new kind of thinkingfor him. And then came the urge toconvey to others his own, new realization.

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You were introduced to the East HelenaSlag Treating Plant from the outside, andyou went through the plant to see justhow the vital zinc, which formerly waslost, is reclaimed. In this issue we wantyou to meet the people who are respon-

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At Great Falls, safety is not only preachedbut practiced,. The fellows feel that ina time of war when they are all workingon essential war materials that there'sadditional responsibility placed on eachone of them. Every shift lost throughaccident slows the war effort..3.

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Thirty-eight million gallons of water arerequired each twenty-four hours by theReduction Works at Anaconda if they areto continue tuming out the vital materi~. als needed by Uncle Sam. They are notgoing to let Uncle Sam down. That meansthat they are constantly working on waysand means to keep these hu_gequantitiesof water flowing ·in.

THE deciding factor in selecting a sitefor the Anaconda Reduction Works wasthe fact that there was an adequate sup-ply of water for concentrating and smelt-ing at Anaconda. Since the site was se-lected because of water, let's see wherethe water comes from and how it isbrought into the plant. The Anacondawater shed extends about fifteen mileswest of the city and consists of the drain-age area to the north and south of WarmSprings creek, a total of one hundred elev-en square miles. So the water supply forthe smelter, amounting to thirty-eightmillion gallons per day, is diverted fromWarm Springs creek. But it has takensome planning to get that much waterflowing daily throughout the year.

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water to the Smleter; it is located at Sil-ver Lake and is near the west end of tlfedrainage area.' Silver Lake has an area ofabout 322 acres when full.' Peter Swan-son, shown in the upper middle picture,has been in charge of the Silver LakePumping Station since 1907. He's an oldtimer with a record of over fifty years tohis credit. He looks after the pumpingstation and the supplies and reports onthe weather and can tell you just how.much rain has fallen during the month.That's mighty important to know in plan-ning for a supply of water.

Silver Lake is used as a storage reser-voir. Storm Lake and Twin Lakes are alsoused for the storage of water. George-town Lake, pictured on page three, has awater shed of fifty-three square mi les andan area' of about 2,900 acres. It, too, isused as an auxiliary water supply in caseof an emergency. The water from thestorage reservoirs is balanced against thenatural stream flow in order to supply theSmelter during the varying seasons of theyear. This water from the storage reser-voirs is brought into Silver Lake .and thepumping station by a flume system. Inthe upper opposite page picture you canget a good idea as to just what theseflumes look like. It was necessary tobuild a trestle to support the flume.That's the gang who were working on theconstruction of the flumes and trestle

shown in the picture. Left to right are:John Speiran, carpenter foreman; LouisMertzig, Sam Higginbothom, John Philip,Jared Ivie, Stanley Bradley, Antone Oster-gard, Gus Anderson, Ed Stevens, ArloShandy, Bob Glynn (Bob drove us out).Gus Gyftakis, D. I. Grush (Del's from thePower Plant and went with us to get thestory) , A. Y. Rockhill, Vern Carlson andJoe Pinkerman. The water from the res-ervoir lakes is diverted through thesewooden flumes into Silver Lake wheneverthere is need of additional water.

The water .from SiIver Lake ispumped into Warm Springs Creek shownin the lower opposite page picture. Thewater supply for the Smelter is divertedfrom ~arm Springs Creek at Myers dam,which is about four miles west of Ana-conda.: There at Myers dam is located amodern intake structure. In the buildingthere are three electrically driven travel-ing water screens, pictured in the lowerleft shot, for the removal of leaves, debris,slush, ice, etc. The screens are cleanedby jets of high pressure water. The debrisremoved then flows in a steel launder tothe creek channel below the screenhouse.The water is piped into the intake build-ing through a fourteen inch wood stavepipe line for a distance of about 2,100feet. The pipe line is about four feet un-derground. Tom Logan inspects the pipeline and that means walking it. That's

Tom and And~ew Johnson, watchman, inthe upper right picture.

Adjoining the screen room in the in-take puilding at the dam is the watertreatment equipment room. There aretwo manual control solution feed vacuumchlorinators and one stand-by manualcontrol dry feed chlorinator .. Fred Ander-son, pictured in the upper left at the valvewheel, which regulates the water flowingto the Smelter, is the operator. He ischecking on the chlorine in the lower.right. The extent of the dosage isgoverned by the quality of the water"The apparatus to the left of Fred is for.controlling ammonia. Ammonia gas dis-solves readi Iy in water and is introducedbefore the-chlorine is applied. When thechlorine is applied, a chemical reactiontakes' place between the ammonia andchlorine, forming a chloramine, which ismore effective in the disinfection of wa-ter.

When the water leaves 'the intakebuilding, after having been screened andtreated: it flows through a five ft. diame ..ter wood stave underground pipe line tothe Smelter. This pipe line empties intohuge tanks at the concentrators and fromthere the water is .piped all over the Hil],

That's the story of furnishing thirty ..eight million gallons of water a day in or-d~ that supplies for fighting equipmentcan be kept moving without a bog downin production.

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Drills.Repaired

Jf the rock drills used in the Butte mineswere ~ot kept in A-l condition, produc-tion of the vital ore would be sloweddown. Everyone knows that must nothappen. Here's how the Central RockDrills Shop helps to keep the ore rolling.

THIRTY-FIVE or more rock drills, in-cluding stopers or "buzzies," drifters andjackhammers, are brought in for repairsfrom the mines around Butte to the Cen-tral Rock Drills Shop each day. Plenty ofthings can go wrong with a rock drill. forit's in constant contact with solid rock.When the broken drills are brought in,each and every one is completely takenapart. First they are thoroughly examinedand tested; the~ broken or worn partsare replaced. After a thorough cleaning.they are reassembled. The men in theShop are old hands at the work and canhave a broken drill working like new inless than an hour in most cases.

In the upper picture you can see thestacked drills all around the shop waitingto be overhauled. That's Frances Dowling,Howard Pascoe. Bill Stats, Final Brandis

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oN Labor Day, residents of Butte and many visitors~ to the city witnessed the Army War Show, sponsoredby the Victory Labor-Management Production Com·mittee and produced by the War Department in co-operation with War Production Drive Headquartersof WPB.

It was agreed that the show was one of the bestever seen in the community, bringing home as it didthe vital importance of copper in the war effort, so 'it seemed only fitting that COPPER COMMANDO,the official newspaper of the Victory Labor-Manage-ment Production Committee, should devote a pic-ture supplement to this fine show. Highlights ofthe events are shown in the pictures on the follow-ing pages.

The purpose behind this Victory Labor-Manage-ment Production Committee project is to bring thewar more forcibly home to those of us on the homeproduction fronts. The War Production Board andthe War Department recognize fully that it is notan easy matter for a worker in such an industry asours to relate himself closely to the war since hedoesn't actually see the finished product. ThisArmy Show was designed, therefore, to bring thefull impact of war to the people who do not witness

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it. The net result of this whole event was to makeworkers in this vital industry more aware of theu!gent need for the metals they produce.

The military forces of the United Nations takepride in the United. Nations' accomplishments todate. The country is cheered at the news of the sur-render of Italy, but military men tied up with theArmy War Show hammerecfhome the po~nt that thiswar is by no means won. The failure to reali..z:ethis,the failure to give everything every one of us has,may easily cost the lives of American boys on thefighting fronts. We are fighting now strictly an of-fensiv~ war, and the tqll in'lives must necessarily begreat. The more materials we, as producers of vitalmetals, can give the boys, the sooner the fight willbe over.

This Army War Show was a tribute to the ac-complishments of the workers in this community,and it was a tribute also to the Victory ,Labor-Man-agement Production Committees. We of Montanaexpress our appreciation to the War ProductionBoard and the War Department fo; bringing this fineevent to us, and we salute you in terms of this spe-cial supplement of our Labor-Management news-paper.

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DERE are some views taken at theCinders where the mechan,ized equip-ment was on view to the public. Hun-dreds of copper workers and their fam-ilies, as well as other residents of thecommunity, visited the park. It was thefirst time for many to witness such equip-ment at close hand.

Polite and aHentive soldiers stayedright on the job explaining methods ofoperation to questioners. Jeeps were putat the disposal of youngsters who wantedto ride. The largest crowd gathered onSunday when thousands of residents gota close-up view of anti-aircraft, anti-tank,and heavy and light caliber machine guns,which were later to be ~een in action atthe High School Stadium.

On this page we see some of, thevisitors chatting with the 'soldier boys-the gals showed a keen interest in theequipment and the boys were ready andeager toanswer any questions.

The youngsters on the opposite pagewere typical of many who wanted to findout what makes guns shoot. In the lowerleft picture on the facing page is ColonelAlexander McCone, Commander of theMilitary Task Force, and in the adjoiningpicture" Stanley Babcock, President ofthe Butte Miners' Union, ehafs withMajor Clifford MacFarlane, Field Repre- _sentative, Industrial Services Division,War Department.

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A HICHLICHT of the Army War Show ~was the parade held on Monday morning.It was originally scheduled for Sunday,but the event was pushed along in orderto give the residents of Butte an oppor-tunity to see the exhibit of mechanizedequipment at the Cinders and also togive. the boys a much needed rest aftertheir journey to Butte. .

Thanks to the organizing skill ofMajor MacFarlane, the parade went offwith clocklike efficiency. In the pictureat the top of the page, we see the paradeas it started off-DOte that miners werei"vited to ride along with th.e troops, andall of them had a swell time. The PoliceDepartment i~ represented in the pictureat the lower left. The parade itself startedoff in front of the Courthouse, headed bya city police escort. Next in line cameColonel McCone, Commander of theTask Force, and his aides, Lieutenant R.C. Stanfield and Lieutenant J. M. Fergu-son. They were followed by the SixthArmy Service Band, headed by Lieutenant

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Charles West. Two of the outstandingfi,ures of the show-Lieutenant DonaldStarbuck and Private WiIIi~rn Cillaspy-followed. Lieutenant Starbuck receivednotice of the award to him of the Dis-tinguished Flying Cross during h'i' visithere.

Then followed the men of. CompanyI, 326th Infantry, and then fOul' repre-sentatives of the Victory Labor-Manage-ment Production Committee here-youmay 'see them in the bottom picture onpage 11. At the left is J. J. Carrigan.Ceneral Manager of Mines of the Ana-conda Copper Mining Company; next tohim is J. J. Harrin~on. representing theAFL in the ceremonies; next to h,im isI? M. Kelly; Vice Pr~ident of the Ana-conda Copper Mining Company, and att~e right is Stanley Babcock, President

of the BuHe Miners' Union. These menrepresented the Victory Labor-Manage-ment Production Committee which spon-sored this fine Army Show and whichacted as hosts to the visitors.

Ten jeeps were included in the pa-rade and at the side of each driver sat aminer-you can see a few of them in thecenter picture on page 11. The miners

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who rode in the parade were Tony Pe...troni, Bill Petrovich, Martin McCuinn,Bert Riley, Frank Moore, John Waason,Steve Speare, John W. Palmer, CliffordMalone and Tony Tomich.

Earlier on Monday some of theequipment was shown at the variousmines by "flying squadrons," where thesoldiers of production had a chance tosee the equipment close, to ride in jeeps, -and to shoot guns. The "flying squad-rons'· visited the Badger, High Ore.Mountain Con, East Colusa, Leonard,Belmont, St. Lawrence, Anselmo, Stewardand Mountain View, as well as the Orig-inal garage, BuHe hoist compressor, theAnaconda machine shops, Leonard shopand the Hawk«:sworth drill shop.

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-THE real show took place, of course,on Monday evening, when an estimated14,000 people crammed into the HighSchool Stadium. The wind was chillybut the show was hot. On the speakers''stand were several distinguished visitorsfrom gQvernment agencies, from· Mon-

. tana official life and from labor and man-agement. Major MacFarlane acted asmaster of ceremonies and the speakers in-cluded Townsend Hand of War Produc-tion Drive Headquarters of the War Pro-.ductiQn Board, advance agent for theshow, Covernor Sam C. Ford, Chief Jus-tice Howard A. Johnson, Mayor BarryO'Leary, C. F. Kelley; Chairman of theBoard of the Anaconda Copper MiningCompany, Colonel McCone, Major M. J.Tierney, Stanley Babcock and J. J. Har-ringron, Lieutenant Starbuck, PrivateGiII-a spy, and Sergeant Robert J. Verlanic(one-of our own Montana heroes whohails from Anaconda). The speeches hit .the war nail right on the head.

SIDELIGDr"rsthe talks clearly); behind him, left toright, you can make out Colonel Mc-Cone, Governor Ford, Major MacFarlane,Mayor O'Leary and Messrs. C. F. Kelleyand D. M. Kelly. The center picture wastaken at a dress rehearsal during the dayand the same scene was re-enacted atnight. In the picture at the boHom ofthe page, we have glimp!'es of Covernor

Ford, Stanley Babcock and Jerry Harring-ton.

THAT'S a side view of the speakers''stand at the top of the page with MajorTiern~y addressing the crowd (the highwind prevented some from hearing all

Speeches stressed the appreciationof Butte for tlte show and the need forutmost co-operation between labor andmanagement in order to bring the war toa quick end. Army men lauded the jobdone so far but urged soldiers of copperproduction to' keep up the good work .

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_. COMMANDO photographer managed toget a few interesting shots of the event.On this page, in the upper left, we seeMr. Kelley, Chairman of the Board of theAnaconda Copper Mining Company, ad-dressing the huge crowd; at the rightabove, the jeeps come roaring in. TheseIlightning-like land craft gave the crowda tremendous thrill as they tore aroundthe grou~ds. At the right the colors passas an opener for the whole show.

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the troops pass in review, while at thelower right the band strikes up a livelymarching tune as it comes onto the field.

The show itself was swift and ex-citing, planned and executed. by ColonelMcCone. The crowd saw many variedand breath-taking. military operations,but the point brought most forcibly homewas' the fact that in every one of theseoperations copper plays an essential p-art.Copper miners saw, many of them for thefirst time, exactly how they fit into thewar program and how desperate is theneed for the materials of war they pro-iluce.

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SHOTS DERE are some random shots of thevisitors. At the upper left we see PrivateCillaspy and Lieutenant Starbuck, twooutstanding war heroes whose experi-ences proved of vast interest to thepeople of the community. The band isshown at the right-this musical unitpleased everyone by its willingness to playanywhere and at any time. The boysplayed two early morning programs forthe miners and made a fifteen-minute ap-pearance over Station KcfR. In the pic-

. ture' below, the two organizing geniusesof the show are shown-'-that's MajorMacFarlane seated in the jeep shakinghands with Townsend Hand of War Pro-duction Board. These two men, cor-ordin-ating their efforts, put on as fine a showas Butte has seen in many years and won

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the hearts of the community by theirfriendliness and good spirit. In the pic-ture at the right below, the visitors' areseen off at the Butte airport. Major Mac-Farlane is in the center, Mr. Hand is athis left. At the Maior's right is MajorTierney. In the group are Police ChiefBart Riley. Stanley Babcock and MayorO'Leary.

, Ani that, good readers, was theArmy War Show. What we get out of itdepends entirely on us-it either hasbrought this war right into our homes, Or

it has been another shot in the arm wecan take and forget. We'll take and for-get it if we are chumps enough to believethat wars are won simply by hoping thatthey will be. By now all of us ought toknow that Berlin and Tokio are not to bebattered to their knees by wishing alone.

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and Frank Pirnat in the picture. In thelower picture Frances Dowling had justfinished repairing a machine and he wasplacing it in the rack.

Bill Page is testing a water tube on adrifter in the upper left shot. Bill has beenin the shop since it started and there's notmuch about rock drills that he doesn'tknow. A reverse feed drifter was beingdismantled by Bill Walsh in the upperright. He had opened the machine to de-termine the repairs needed.

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Emmett Murphy, storekeeper, at the shopstoreroom. in the lower left. The boardto the right of Emmett holds the tags ofthe drills brought in for repair. The tagsshow the mines from which the drillscame for each dri II must be del ivered tothe mine which sent it in.. Bill's machine apparently needed a lot

of new parts for he was getting a piston,a rifle bar (used for the rotation of themachine), a feed piston, bearing, a feedcylinder bearing and an anvil or strikingblock to drive in the steel.

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In addition to all the parts kept inthe storeroom, there's a record kept ofevery drill used on the Hill from the time

"-it was purchased. The record shows if themachine has been transferred from onemine to another; how many times it hasbeen in for repair and what was neededand the serial number of the machine .Benjamin Ham, foreman, and EmmettMurphy were checking a record when wesnapped the lower right shot.

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Marine stood by theship's rail and watched the shore just aslong as he could see through the mistthat dimmed his eyes. As he stood therewatching the shore of his nati've land, hegot to thinkin~. He had never thoughta lot about what the United States ofAmerica m{!ant-or stood for-before.But this time it was different. He wasleaving, perhaps never to return.

He wondered if he would ever seethat shore again. He wondered if hewould ever see his wife-his baby girl-his home again. Or drive a car again.Or feel the thrill of a day on the lake.

And then he thought-but this isthe real th,in~. We either fight for whatwe have or lose the chance to ever getit back. And I'm willing to fight. Iwant that kind of life again. I don'twant to lose the chance to get. it back.I've had my fun. I have enjoyed thepleasure my country has provided. Ihave had a good job, a nice home and thepleasures of marrying and having my ownchild born in a free countrr.

Then came a fuller realization thanever before this young Marine had known-just what life in America did mean.

And then as the boat moved out intothe night he did some more thinking. Hethought of all his friends at home workingon the production front, producing thematerials without which this war cannotbe won. He thought-If only in ~omeway I could convey to them what I to-night have for the first time realized.How great is the need of winning thiswar. How wonderful is the right to livein a free country. How good life is inAmerica.

With his heart full of a new appre-ciation for the country and life that hehad always before taken for granted, hewl'ote these lines:

And if our lines should form, thenbreak

Because of thing~you failed to makeThe extra tank, or ship or planeFor which we waited all in vainAnd the supplies which never cameWill you then come and take the

blameFor we, not you, will pay the costOf battles you, not we, have lost

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WHEN the boss says "take a letter"and the address is South America, LucyUgrin, shown in the picture below, ismore than interested, for Lucy workedfor the ACM in South America.

Lucy was born in Black Eagle andgraduated from the Great Falls HighSchool. Her dad, Joe Ugrin, worked inthe Wire Mill for a good many years atGreat Fa+ls. In 1937 he went to Chili,South America, as a copper refiner. Twoyears later Lucy and her mother joi nedhim. While in South America, she wassecretary to W. C. Archibald, businessmanager, and later to F. W. Wilcox inthe Purchasing Depar tment.

"These are some of the things Iwon't forget," Lucy said. "I'll never for-get the first month. It was hard to getused to the dryness and lack of vegeta-tion and also the lack of the usual thingsto do. But the people were very friendlyand it didn't take long to get into theswing of things. One thing for sure wasthat we had to learn Spanish and mightyquick too. At first it was embarrassingand then suddenly it became fun. Thenatives would never laugh at us but in-stead helped us.

"Market day was Wednesday. Inthe afternoon, the train would come infrom Southern Chili bringing fruits and

vegetables. It took until late afternoonto unload the cars and then the Gringoes'(that's what the natives called the Amer-icans) were off on a buying spree. Sometimes it took hours to shop for it was hardto find anything edible and there werenever enough clerks. In true Latin fash-ion, they took their time. I came to en-joy their slow way of living myself.

"Mail day was the big day in camp.Every Monday night found all of us mak-ing the hi II to the general office wherewe all took part in sorting the mail. Themai I was plenty heavy but we were allso anxious for our mail that we got itsorted in short order."

Lucy· came back to' the States inAugust, 1941. Since September of thatyear, she has been secretary to RollinKennard at Great Falls.

THANKS, COURTCourtwright Pierce, formerly a miner atthe Mt. Con wrote his mother: "Say,mom, will you call the COPPER COM-MANDO folks and tell them what a god-send it is to us guys here in this bleakand mournful place. I get a copy andspend hours telling the other guys aboutthe Mt. Con." Court is stationed at theAleutian Islands. He has been overseasfor the past two years.

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SOUNDING OFFW ELL aware that the war is far fromwon, and that the road to victory is a longand hard one, James Forrestal, UnderSecretary of the Navy, recently made thefollowing appeal to the men on the Pro-duction Front.

"The might of American war produe-tion is making itself felt on every frontin this global war. That might exempli.fies the patriotism and loyalty of Ameri.can working men and women. It ex-presses their hatred fo,r the' tyranny andoppression of the Axis governments...

UAmerican workers adopted the slo-gan, 'Free Labor Will Win.' Operatingas a team, 'American fighting men andworkers translated that slogan into vic-tories in North Africa, Sicily and in theSouth Pacific. Those victories were im-portant to the Allied cause. They pro-vided bases for an offensive against bothends of the Axis. Now, we must pushforward 10 the destruction of Hitler'sarmies and the extermination of Japaneseforces in the Pacific. The task will belong and hard.

uTHERE CAN BE NO BREATHINCSPELL. WE DARE NOT RELAX. Wemust mobilize all our energy and all ourstreng"" for these gigantic campaigns.

"We must darken the skiestPver theFortress of Europe with bigger bombersand beHer fight~rs. We must make cer-tain that our fighting men will have anoverwhelming superiority of firepower.both on land and at sea. In short, wemust engulf the enemy's military machinein a flood of steel. and fire. ,(That re-quires a lot of copper.) The outcome ofthe war will depend, in a large measure,on the loyal efforts of the men and womenon the production line. You must not

.. falter-you cannot fail.

"As the United Nations embark onthe greatest military campaign of history, ~American fighting men and those of our.Allies depend upon the men working onthe Product:ion Front 10 keep the weaponscoming.

"Remember the message cabledfrom Sicily by a war correspondent: 'Weon the. scene know for sure that you cansubstitute machines for lives·and that, ifwe can plague and smother the enemywith an unbearable weight of machinery••• , hundreds ~f thousands of our youngmen, whose expectancy was small, cansome day walk again through their ownfront doors.·

"That is your challenge.·'

Copper produced by you is an abso.lute necessity. Machines 10 be substi-tuted for lives cannot be made withoutcopper. Lack of war materials may costthe life of your son or brother, for as Un-der Secretary Forrestal states this is to bethe greatest military campaign in history.It's up to us on the Production Front 10save the lives of the men on the FightingFront. ,

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BLUE points won't mean a thing toMrs. Louis Jackson, shown in the picturebelow, this winter. She's been canningever since fruits and vegetables startedbeing more varied and plentiful in themarkets. Her husband is Louie Jackson,foreman'of the Paint Shop at Great Falls.Mrs. Jackson said: "It's a problem toknow just what to put in a lunch bucketevery day. I find that. if I can fruits andvegetables and make jellies and jams, thelunch bucket problem is lessened." Shegave LIS a, lot of tips and we '"ranted topass some of them along.

First of all, she says to store all hornecanned food. in a dry, cool, dark place.If your basement is damp, put the jarsinto cardboard cartons for storage. Thecarton then can absorb some of the mois-ture and keep it away from the jars. Shesays moldy frj.Jit often is caused by stor-age in damp basements ..

Another thing is to seal jellies andjams as soon as you've poured them in, inorder to insure their keeping quality. Sheuses a layer of paraffin one-quarter inch.thick, then covers the tops of the glasseswith lids, or ties paper covers over themto protect t~e paraffin from dust. Andbe sure that they are protected from thelight ..

To steril ize jars, jelly glasses andcanning covers, first wash them carefullyin hot, soapy water. Then pour boilingwater over the hot jars and lids, inside andout, and let them stand in the hot water

,for a few minutes. Don't transfer thecold jars to hot water without warmingthem gradually, or there may be break-age. Keep cooling jars away fro mdraughts for the jars may break if thereis a quick change of temperature.

. She suggests maki~g catsup andchili sauce in the oven. What with pointsbeing so high for th:m, everybody is go-ing to need to make their own this year.She has experimented and found that itis much simpler to just set the oven at300 degrees, put all the ingredients intoa large roaster or baking pan, and, exceptfor giving it a stir now and then, let itcook. As it cooks down. it will not stickor spatter the way it does on the surface.She has also experimerlted with jams andfruit butters and found that the oven ismuch the easier way to prepare them.,

Mrs. Jackson believes in canningfruits in a syrup whenever possible for ithelps to preserve the color and flavor ofthe fruit. But if sugar and corn syrupare not available, they can be canned inwater. The fruit can be packed raw intojars and covered with boiling water; orthey can be pre-cooked from two to fourminutes in a small amount of water, thenpacked hot into jars and covered withthe boiling liquid. If the fruit has beenpacked raw, the glass jars should be onlypartially sealed, except in the case of self-seal lids. If packed hot, the jars may becompletely sealed, except when processedin the oven.

Mra. Loui, Jacbon. Creat Fall,

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IN the picture above are: Tom Evans.foreman; Herbert Rate, furnace man;Henry Bovee, craneman; Bob Wood, fur-nace helper; Howard Beer, ladle chaser;Erman Burgher. furnace helper, and EdMorris, scaleman. In the lo.wer left, JohnKrizmanish and Art McDonnell are un-loading coal to be pulverized for the fur-nace. John Sewell, the old timer you readabout in a previous issue, is engineer atthe Power House. He is shown in the low-er right. Walter Hamilton, watchman at

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the Slag Treating Plant, stopped whlje :making the rounds and posed for the pic-ture in the upper left opposite page.That's Earl Baldwin, superintendent ofthe Slag Reducing Plant, in the centerleft shot opposite page. Allan Welsh israpping the cooling tubes to increase thecooling effect of gases in the lower leftopposite page. The fumes accumulatein afilm and it is pecessary to rap and poundthe cooling tubes in order to jar loose anddrop the fume. You can't be around theSlag Plant without hearing this pounding.It goes on twenty-four hours a day, too.

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•This is to introduce you to some ofthe folks working at the East HelenaS~agTreating Plant. It's at the SlagTreating Plant that zinc is re-claimed. These folks are doing theirpart in helping Uncle Sam lessen theshortage of vital metals. In the olddays this zinc would have been lost,but the Sla'gTreating Plant recoverspractically every bit of it ..

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Barbara Nunke. clerk in the office, andWalter Schmitz, cashier, a~e shown in thepicture .to the right of Earl Baldwin. Iris,Schlitz, secretary, was away when thepicture was taken. That's R. L. Thompson.assistant superintendent, to the right ofWalter and Barbara. In order to refreshyour memory of the East Helena SlagPlant from the outside, the upper rightpicture shows the bag house and the lo~-er right shows the furnace building in thebackground, the coal pulverizing build-ings to .the right and the power house inthe foreground. It's here that neededzinc is recovered for Uncle Sam .

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SAFETY is something a person shouldpractice in time of peace in the interest ofpreservation of his own life and limb. Butin a time of war, in an essential war in-dustry, such as ours, it becomes irnpera-tjve that everyone connected with the in-dustry exercise the utmost caution intaking care of himself. Every shift lostthrough accident slows the war effort bythe services of one man. Our industrytoday needs the services of every man itcan get.

At Great Falls, meetings are held inthe various departments regularly to takeup safety matters. At these meetings a re-view is made of safety conditions, andnew plans and, new programs are dis-cussed. In charge of this highly importantwork at Great Falls is Dave Lawlor, whoheads the first aid ..work and keeps his fin-ger constantlv on the pulse of the safety

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Wat~hYour Step!The fellows at the Reduction Works at Creat Falls are safety consciouslargely as a result of the fact that safety is not only preached b"t prae-ticed. At regular meetings the boys go over the subject of safety. Theywatch their step in the interest of safety and urge you to watch yours.

needs. We dropped in on Dave at one ofthe meetings held at the zinc leachingplant. The fellows meet in an attractiveand comfortable room in the basement ofthe office and informally go over thevarious topics pertaining to safety.

In the picture above, we see DaveLawlor outlining the day's discussion-c-the boys who are sitting in on the meetinginclude: O. Boles, ). Birch, J. Taule, P.Orisko, M. Thaxter, D. Purcell, C. Allin,E. Saunders, S. Hauskama, C. Ingebrigt-sen, V. Schrammeck, A. Booth, F. Glass-maker; P. Dinwiddie and H. Evans.

In the lower picture, Dave standsbefore the blackboard prepared to discussthe day's program. Seated in the centeris A. E. Wennberg, who is chairman ofthe safety meeting at the zinc leachingplant. At the right is H. W. lindner, as-sistant superintendent of the leachingplant .

This, of course, is only one of thefunctions of the safety operation at GreatFalls-the plant has' its first aid stations.its thirty or more emergency cabinetscompletely equipped to take care of ac-cident victims, ambulance and 'driver.First aid teams are constantly beingtrained for safety work and the teamshave an enviable record in internationalfirst aid contests.

COPPER COMMANDO could nothope to cover the fine work being done byDave Lawlor and his boys at Great Falls inone issue, so we thought we'd introduceyou at this time to Dave and his associatesand show you how one meeting is con-ducted. From time to time we hope to beback with Dave with more accounts ofhow the safety problem is approachedand licked at the Great Falls ReductionWorks.

SEPTEMBER 17, 1943