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LABOR-MANAGEMENT plays host to two top war ~eroeS', Lieut. Ernest Childel's (center) and Sgt.Charles E. (Commando) Kelly, right. At left, Mayor Barry O'Leary of Butte, who welcomed heroes.

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SMELTERMEN welcome guests to Anaconda. At luncheon, Labor"Management Committee fetesvisitors. Commando Kelly is at extreme left, Childers front row center, Lieut. John Dempsey at right .

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"KILLER" KELLY comes to Butte. War's foremost .celebrity is hailed at Butte airport by civic andcounty officials, and representatives of Labor and Management. The boys voted it a great town.

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THE PUSH IS ONRUSHED from the Continental battlefronts. these pictures de-pict the invasion of France in brief pictorial form.

In the opposite column. We start off with a picture show- tI

ing Americans and American equipmen't on a loading dockin England, awaiting sailing orders which sent this powe.racross the English channel as part of the ever-increasing stream 'I

of men and materiel pouring onto the Continent. A careful-study of these supplies will show that nearly all of themcontain copper in some' form.

The second picture shows a view of a beach which wasone of the Allied objectives on the coast of France. with themen. and equipment being landed from the various landingcraft off shore.

In the third picture we see a narrow strip of beach onthe northern coast of France where American assault troops,protected from enemy f·ire·by chalk cliffs. assemble beforemoving into the interior of the Continent. 'Note the. landingcraft still delivering additional men. In the picture at thebottom, the invasion is really under way. Leaving behind theother troops who are taking a "b"reather" after g~ining thecomparative safety offered by a concrete wall. Americantroops move over the crest of a hill to the interior of Northernfrance. The other men will follow their buddies shortly.

There at the top of the page. American paratroopers havelanded well inland and this paratrooper patrol moves cautiouslythrough a French churchyard. Snipers were everywhere, andit was up to these brave fellows to rout them out at the riskof their own lives.

And here. at the bottom of the, page, we see the firstcaptured Germans file through the barbed ,tockade of a PW(prisoner of war) camp somewhere. in England. They wereamong the first captured by Allied troops in German-heldFrance.

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• Hail to the Heroes!In connection with the Fifth War Bond Drive, Montana haCl the privilege of greetingCommando Kelly and Lieut. Childers, two of the war's greatest heroes. ,...In a pro-,gram set by the Butte Chamber of Commerce, sponsored by the Labor-ManagementCommittee and the Fox Theater, the boys did a job. Above, the Welcoming Com-mittee greets the heroes at the Butte airport. At the left, Lieut. Childers; at the right,Commando Kelly. See story on page 9.

•COPPER COMMANDO is the official newspaperof the Victory Labor-Management ProductionCommittees of the Anaconda Copper MiningCompany and its Union Representatives at Butte,Anaconda, Creat Falls and East Helena, Montana.It is issued every two weeks .•. COPPER COM-MAN DO is headed by a joint committee fromLabor and Management, its policies are shaped byboth sides and are dictated by neither ... COP-PER COMMANDO was established at the rec-ommendation of the War Department with theconcurrence of the War Production Board. Itseditors are Bob Newcomb and Marg Sammons;its safety editor is John L. Boardman; its chiefphotographer is AI Cusdorf; its staff photographeris Les Bish~p ... Its Editorial Board consists of:Denis McCarthy, CIO; John F. Bird, AFL; EdRenouard, ACM, from Butte; Dan Byrne, CIO;loe Marick, AFL; C. A. Lemmon, ACM, fromAnaconda; Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson,AFL, and E. S. Bardwe", ACM, from Creat Falls.... COPPER COM~ANDO is mailed to the homeof every employee of ACM in the four locatio'n.-if you are not receiving your copy, advise COP.PER COMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Street,Butte, or better still, drop in and tell us. This i.Vol. 2. No. 24. •

TH EY CAll 'EM fiCA TS-AN D-DOCS" ..........•......................•.........................•.•. _... 4When Uncle Sam roared for every single ounce of copper available, he pointed hisfinger at the "cats-and-dogs" around Bu tte and Anaconda. As a result of this,roughly 75,000.000 pounds of copper have gone into tanks and planes and guns,which otherwise would have remained untouched on the ground.

HAl L TO TH,E HEROES 9.Commando Kelly. top hero of World War II. visited Butte and Anaconda with Lieut.Chi+ders, another outstanding veteran. ·T hey drove home to all of us the jgreat needfor backing up the boys with the purchas e of War Bonds.

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The Local Tramming Department at Anaconda is responsible for the moving of allmaterials for the Smelter. In this issue we show you the engine crew, the bin crew"the electric motor train crew. and the track gang, along with a shot of the two menwho direct and supervise the work of the crews.,BE CA REFUL! "" ""'" '_._.•._. . .. 12

The men in Dave Lawlor's Safety Depart ment at Great Falls strive constantly tolower the accident rate at the Plant eve n though it has been low for several years,However, if anything happens, they are well equipped to give immediate assistance..

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*Cats..and-Clogs is the scornful termapplied to waste materials discard-ed from old mining and concen-trating operations. But these cats-and-dogs have given Uncle Samroughly 75,000,000 pounds of cop-per for the ':"~n of the fightingforces which otherwise would stillbe lying on the ground. When themanpower shorta~e really began tohurt, Uncle Sam said he was. sorrybut the country needed t~e copperand needed it desperately. This isthe story behind the eats-and-dogsand how the Company's technicalmen put them to work when UncleSam certainly needed them most.

HEREis a view of the High Ore dump atBuffet where waste material is beingscooped up to give Uncle Sam the copperhe demands. Note the large drag line atthe top center and the smaller at left.

•i\.,QUICK look at the tailings, dumpsand slime ponds in this area wouldn't givea visitor the idea that there is beauty inthe copper industry. Technical miningmen call them "cats-and-dogs"; the folksin a mining camp or smelter' town callthem "ugly" and they are.

But when Uncle Sam roared for everysingle ounce of copper they could yield,the "cats-and-dogs" came through. As aresult. roughly 75.000,000 pounds of cop-per have gone into tanks and planes andguns that otherwise would have remaineduntouched on the ground.

Behind that accomplishment lies astory, and we think it's a pretty goodone. It is the story of Uncle Sam's fore-sight in sensing that the Axis was !Jettingready to strike. It is the story of how theCompany's technical men buckled intothe problem to give Uncle Sam the copperhe asked for. It is the story, in short, ofthe "cats-and-dogs."

Actually, what are "cats-and-dogs"?Well, they are waste materials discardedfrom old mining and conc~trating oper-ations. They are mine dumps, for exam-ple. consisting of waste thrown out yearsago when the operators figured theamount of copper was so low that itwasn't worth smelting. There were fif-teen or twenty of them in Butte alone.

"Cats-and-dogs" are also tailings fromconcentrating operations-these tailings

are found near the Anaconda' smelter.The Old Works tailings, as they arecalled, were dumped out forty or more.years ago. The New Works tailings rep- 'resent materials that were turned to.waste from the present plant in its earlydays.

Then there are the "slimes," which arealso "cats-and-dogs." The Deer LodgeValley Ponds about seven miles from thesmelter contain finely-ground materialresulting from early operations at thesmelter; there are also slime ponds inButte.

Quite a while before Pearl Harbor, gov-ernment agencies made a very carefulsurvey of the copper posstbilities in theButte region '(and in all other copper pro-ducing regions as well). These govern-ment representatives-all technical min-ing men--covered the mining and smelt-ing operations with great thoroughness.The maximum copper production fromevery source was urged-mines, dumps,tailings, scrap, etc. This was not a sug-gestion for the future-it was a requestfor the present, so some operations havetaken place at the Butte dumps and atthe Anaconda smelter for the past threeyears in keeping with the government'swishes.

But two factors threw this recoveryoperation into high gear: the first was theimpending invasion, which has now beenlaunched. and the second was the grow-ing seriousness of the manpower situa-tion. In the face of all this, the demandfor copper production continued.

Selective Service had already madeheavy drains on experienced manpowerin the mines at Butte; before the freeze

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.order was issued, other war industriesmade raids upon personnel. Yet the de-mand for production remained constant.Pretty soon it was clear that it was nothumanly possible to keep up productionfrom the Butte mines alone-there sim-ply weren't enough men to do the job ..

That's why the treatment of these"cats-and-dogs" was proposed: they pro-vided a source of copper which could helpgive Uncle Sam what he needed, and itwas possible to conduct these operationswith few men, none of whom were min-ers. Production from these sources doesnot interfere in any way with productionfrom the Butt-e mines.

Since these tailings and slimes weredeposited, modern metallurgical methodshave made it possible to recover copperfrom these materials which earlier meth-ods were not capable of recovering.

That brought the Anaconda, Reduction'Works very much into the picture. Forthe first aim of the plant at Anaconda isto use all the Butte ore that the mines'manpower can provide; its second aimis to fill out its capacity with .other avail-able copper-bearing materials. In otherwords, the smelter method of operationfrom the beginning has been to give prior-ity to Butte mines' ore; if Butte had ore toship, all well and good, but if theycouldn't get out the ore, because of amanpower shortage, it was up to thesmelter to fill its concentrating and smelt-ing capacity with anything that wouldprovide copper.

About a dozen mine dumps at Buttehave been recovered and thei r contentshipped to Anaconda for concentrating.

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One of the last dumps to be tackled is thehuge High Ore dump (it' is so-called inerror because actually the material in thisdump was gathered from all mines over aperiod of years). Here an enormous"Drag line" operation is taking place andwe want to tell you more about it later.

At the smelter the Old Works and NewWorks tailings were tackled-they weretransported to the concentrator, whichhad undergone major changes in order toincrease its capacity. As a matter of fact,the Anaconda Company invested nearly amillion dollars of its own money instreamlining the mill operation to handlenot only the maximum production of orefrom the mines, but any other availablecopper-bearing materials. Actually theplant was able at that time to take careof maximum mine output, but the gov-ernmental pressure was se great for moreproduction that the modernizing of themill was undertaken, which stepped upthe possible production vastly. Mean-while, the zinc concentrator, which hadbeen shut down when Butte zinc mining•was suspended because the manpowershortage demanded that zinc miners beshifted to copper, was pressed 'into serv-ice, too, for processing copper minedumps, etc.

There ar:e slimes operations both at

••NOTH INC much to look at are theseslimes close to Butte. But gummy-lookingas ~hey are, they still are providing ourfighting men with the copper they needso badly to break down the Axis powers.

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Anaconda and in Butte: slimes are noth-ing more than black slimy masses of ex-tremely fine copper-bearing materlals,They are rubbery in texture and to reducethem to proper condition far concentra-tion and to develop a method of treatmentwas one of the staggering jobs the Com-pany's technical men had to face. A newplant, costing the Anaconda Companyclose to $400,000, had to be built and anew process developed.

The slimes at Anaconda can be han:died in the winter as well as in the sum-mer, while the Butte, slimes can be han-dled only in warm weather. So a fewweeks ago, when the weather becamemilder, operations were discontinued atAnaconda and treatment of the Butte. slimes begun. Treatment will continueuntil winter sets in.

Butte slimes are transported to thesmelter in the cars of the B., A. & P., butthe slimes from the Deer Lodge Valley'Ponds are brought by truck to the smelter.for handling. _

Then there is sand. Today at Aha ..conda, tailings from early operations be..-fore flotation was established are beingtreated. About ninety thousand tons amonth are being dug out by steam shovel.

The gadget that does the job at theHigh Ore dump at Butte is a tremendousderrick-like affair which is called a Moni ..ghan {after the inventor}, or more popu-larly, a Drag Line. The machine is animpressive affair which weighs 175 tons.Its boom reaches out into the air 135.feet and it has 260 feet of drag cable onit. This means that the operator canswing the bucket far down the side of this

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man-made' mountain and scoop up ahucketful of dump material amountingto over six tons at a time. The bucket isdrawn slowly up' the side of the pile,scooping as it goes, and when it is full theoperator starts reeling in the cable andthe bucket swings upward; the boompivots around and the bucket is swungup over a railroad car, into which the loadis dumped. The average shipment to theconcentrator at Anaconda is fifty to fifty-five railroad cars a day.

There were a lot of bugs to be ironedout in getting this operation into motion.Moisture had been sealed into this moun-lain for' years, for example, and it wasmost difficult to handle the material.Furthermore, after the wet material had,been scooped up and put into cars, thetrip to Anaconda caused it to pack to suchan extent that the emptying of the carswas very difficult. These are only a cou-ple of the headaches involved in gettingthis emergency operation under way. Oneproblem was that, while most drag linesoperate by diesel power, the proper equip-

•carried over the B. A. & P. to Anacondafor concentrating .. These slimes are yield-

ment was not available to operate thisone by such power, so electricity was usedin its place .. But power cable could notbe had and it was only by diverting cablefrom lend-lease operations, with the gov-ernment's approval, that the Drag Linewas put into operation. The Drag Lineprogram was handed 'out to a local con-tractor, and the men who work on thisoperation are not miners.

The technical details of all these opera-tions probably wouldn't be particularlyinteresting except to technical men. Thepoint behrnd all of it is that the gove~n-ment came out flat-footed and said, ineffect, "Until this emergency eases, makeuse of the fact that dumps and slimescontain copper. We need the copper andwe need it desperately. If tne ArmedForces have been compelled to reduceyour manpower to the poi nt where youcannot get maximum production out ofyour Butte mines operations, then re-•work this waste material and get addi-tional copper ,out of that." A~ we al-ready know, these "cats-and-dogs" have

ing precious copperfor the men of UncleSam when they need -it most.

yielded roughly 75.000,000 pounds ofcopper.

Washington has had its own head-aches, and to get a true picture of thesituation. -we should go behind the scenest1here. A lot of people thought that, withthe building of a national copper stock-pile, no further copper production wasrequired. People said, "Well, the gov-ernmen't's got all the copper it needs. sowe don't need· to worry about that' anymore." Nothing could have been fur-ther from the truth, The rumor spreadand Washington bee a m every muchalarmed-not only the War ProductionBoard, but the War Department and theN a v y Department. For people whothought that the peak was reached didn'tstop to realize that a stockpile is not pri-marily a source of future supply, buta guarantee that the Arm e d Forceswouldn't run short of copper when theyneeded it. Think of this: at one time

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tinued production was and is necessary;it is like a fellow putting money in thebank to take care of him in his old age-he's got to continue working to supporthimself and his family now. His bankaccount is for the future, not for thepresent.

We probably ought to name the menin the technical operations at Butte andat Anaconda who tackled this staggeringproblem and worked out the bugs in it.But the credit should go actually, not tothe individuals themselves, as much as itshould go to the Anaconda Company.Government agencies have -been high inthei r praise of the Company and its em-ployees for meeting this demand of UncleSam so well. They know, as do most of

•.OPERATINC the drag line is no job foran amateur. There at the right. the tail-ings at Anaconda are being scooped intocars. That man-made mountain mustprovide 'copper for our boys at the front -.

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•us, that the larger financial return comesfrom the Butte ores and not from the low-grade copper-bearing material. . But if ashortage of men prevents operating themines at peak capacity, then by-productsmust be used in order to keep productionup. The' time-worn rumor that high-'grade ores in Butte mines are being heldin reserve for the future is, according toofficial Washington, absolute nonsense:government engineers, after an inspec-tion, tagged this one as pure bunk.

The government knows something else-in this industry, as in a number of keywar industries, profit was no motive. Theneed for copper was so great that it meantthe difference between victory and de-feat. The copper industry replied.

AT THE High Ore dump, waste materialsare being loaded daily into cars. The sizeof the shovel or. scoop can be gaugedby the picture at the right-this manis standing in the scoop which has beenturned up on end. .

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mands on all of us. The rising invasion,which promises to turn the tide com-.pletely in favor of the United Nations.puts thesqueeze on John Q. Public morethan ever before. Any essential industryis hard-pressed, and that means employerand employee both.

But, when the score is finally .talliedand the returns are all in, the employeesof this Company can be mighty proud ofthe recovery of the "cats-and-dogs.'They will have a right to feel that the or-ganization for which they work has donean outstanding job in helping to win thewar. Nobody knows it any better thanUncle Sam himself. ....

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ReprintWe don't berieve in reprinting editorials, but onthe other hand we would be pretty punk journal-Ists if 'we figured we had all the good ideas andhad them first. Recently in an advertisementfor Warner & Swasey of Cleveland, Ohio, weran across as direct and honest a piece of copyas we have read in a lon~ time. We liked it somuch that we decided to suspend our editorialrules a~ainst reprintin~ somebody else's stuff andwe submit this now to you. The editorial is en-titled "You'd think Americans still believed iDSanta Claus."

TO read most of the post-war plans for abetter world, you'd think they were writ-ten by Santa Claus for little children.This war is being fought for freedomfrom political oppression, not for freedomfrom work. It's time someone had thecourage fo tell this fundamental truth toAmericans and the whole world: as longas you have your health, nobody is evergoing to give you anything; you are nevergoing to have anything you don't ea..n byhard, efficient -work.

The only time the laws of economicscan be suspended is during' a warit's easy now' for anyone to get and holda job, whether or not he does it effi-ciently and earns his pay. That time isalmost over, alJd no power on earth canprevent its ending. When the war peakhas passed, the only man or woman whowill hold a job and prosper and IItrogr:ess(whether the job is management, shop,office, or-we hope-political) will bethe one who understands that he can onlybe paid out of what he produces, and sowill produce befter in order to get beHerpay.

Post-war plans by government andgroups are all right and should be made.But they will all be useless unless everyindividual American makes his own "ost-war plan and practices it now:

(1) Spend today as little as you can.You'll help keep prices down, you'll buildYO'1f own reserve, which is the only placeany self-respecting American wants tolook for help.

(2) Cet the habit now of maximumskill, efficient production, doing the bestjob you possibly can. Then you'll be inthe ranks of those who will keep theirjobs.

That's the post-war program for truefreedom-the freedom of independence.And no American worthy of the namewants any other..8.

People (;' PlacesI N our last issue we told you, in a picture story,how the labor section of the Victory Labor-Man-agement Production CommiHee in Butte enter-tained management, to mark the second birthdayof the Com.mittee. A' few days later the laborboys were the ~uests of Dan Kelly, at a dinnerparty held at the Finlen. About fifty attended;forty-nine men and Marg Sammons.

When the second anniversary of the Commit-tee rolled around a few weeks ago, the laborsection, under the able guidance of Charlie Black,veteran Butte miner, got together and decidedthat it might be a nice thing to follow up a regu-lar Committee business session with an informalparty. Pictures were shown at the Butte Miners'Union and refreshments were served. At thebusiness session which preceded the labor party,Dan Kelly proposed that the group get togetheras his guests at an early date. The dinner at theFinlen was the result.

Dan acted as master of ceremonies and wasflanked by Jimmy O'Brien of the AFL on oneside and Charlie Black of the Butte Miners' Unionon the other. All of the members of top man-agement were present, as were .the Committee'slabor representatives. After a message of wel-come, Dan called on Charlie Black to speak forlabor. Charlie voiced the sentiments of a greatmany of the labor men when he said that theLabor·Management Committee had helped tre-mendously to bring employer and employee to-gether. Charlie pointed out that many gains havebeen made over the last two years th rough thefact that labor and management have learned howto sit down across the table from one another andtalk problems out in a friendry and constructiveway. Charli~ was followed by John Bird of theAFL electricians. 'ohn sketched the past accom-plishments of the Committee and expressed theview that, over the long haul, everybody wouldbenefit; from a closer and more cordial reration-ship between management and labor, not onlylocally but everywhere throughout the country. -

Mana~ement spokesman was William B. (Bill)Daly, retired general manager of mines. As Birtrose to his feet, tl;te entire gathering rose withhim. It was really a touching thing to see thesemen, from th!! ranks of both labor and manage-ment, rise as one man to pay tribute to a re-spected veteran of the Butte camp. Bill Dalyspoke feelingly of the growing cooperation be-tween employer and employee and voiced, 'formanagement, the hope that the constructive ef-forts of the Labor-Management Committee wouldcontinue for the betterment of aU concerned. Thechairman called upon the editors of Copper Com-mando for short talks; Marg Sammons told herfavorite story and she has been pressed so fre-quently since to repeat it that, in order to makeeverybody happy, I think it ought to be publishedhilre. This is it:

"When I came to Montana I felt like the first~i11in this story, and tonight, ,after being a guestat this dinner of the Labor-Management Com-mittee, I feel like the second girl in this story. Afather came home and told his two daughters andwlfe that hOewa. bein~ transferred to Montanato work. The. first little girl did not want to goto Montana; the second child relished the idea.The last night in their own home town beforemovin~, the first little girl knelt to say her prayersand said, 'Cood bye, Cod, I'm lea~in~ for Mon-tana.' The second little girl knelt and said, 'Cood tBy Cod, I'm ~oing to Montana.' "

AFTER the dinner had broken up, the ~roup ad-iourned to the coffee shop where we all sataround and gabbed until late in the evening. Itwas a nice thing to see, Here were men fromlabor and management visitin~ cordially witheach other. ""efe was Tom Stack of the Car-penters and Curly McLeod of the Miners' Union

visiting wtih Bill McMahon. Ed McClone andEmmet Casey were re-hashing the old footballdays. Dick Newlin from the New York officevisited with Oscar Hills of the InternationalUnion of Mine, Mill and Smelter-Workers, whileCliff Woodward of the Mechanical Department,Jim Dickey, Jimmy Cusick and Frank Birminghamlistened to Marg Sammons describe our picture-taking junket to the logging camps outsideBonner. '

We saw Stan Babcock in amiable conversa- 'tion with Cene Hogan. Jack Caffney was in hisusual good singing voice with Harry Coodlandand 'ohn Caul listening in.

Jim Carrigan and Jerry Murphy buzzedaround, stopping here and there to talk withRussell Hi()ks, Hubie Benjamin and Jack O'Neill.

• We saw Bert Riley, Ed Renouard, Denny Mc-Carthy, Tiny Kennedy and Arthur Linforth talk-ing over old times. And only a few steps awaywere Henry Young, Roy Clo1fer, Dave Reese andLes Bishop. We had a few minutes ~".,selveswith ,ohn Boardman, "Turk Oaas, Roy Farnham,"{ae" laccard, "Big" Bigley, Rich Donovan, ,ohnBartlett and Ceorge Lilly.

That isn't all of them'," of course-it was alivery room and everybody was moving around.

Members of labor and management voted it agood get-together, and it certainly was.

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THE idea of labor understanding management, and management understanding labor is no newone. During the years I personally have knockedaround this country, rubbing elbows with bothemployer and employee. I have never foundanythin~ wrong with the notion that, for twopeople to ~et alon~, they must understand eachother. It is as necessary for labor to understandthe problems of management as it is for manage-ment to understand the feelings and beliefs oflabor.

This war would be a great deal longer were itnot for the fact that, from coast to coast, the em-ployer and employee have pulled together. TheUnited Nations, when this thing is all stacked up,will be able to credit their victory in great meas-ure to the fact that American industry and Amer-ican labor have worked together. If they can doit in a time of war and both benefit from it, thenthey can do it in a time of peace and continueto benefit from it.

I have written all this because I think that thework of your own Labor-Management Commit-tees should be made known to the people. Thesemen who gather around the table at regularmeetings, in the various locations of the Ana-conda company, come from management andfrom the rank-and-file. They are trying to do ahelpful and constructive job. They are earnestand conscientious about what they are doing.They deserve, not the scorn of the people on thesidelines, but thanks and praise for what probablyis a pretty thankless job. On both sides .hey aretrying to establish a friendly relationship fromwhich the rank-and-file can do no~ing but bene-f~t. That goes, for management as well.

When this war is over, we must rebuild thisnation. We have to start, in a sense, aU overagain. We can build it only on the basis thateach man gives to it the best that he has-itmakes no difference whether he comes frommanagement or from labor. We have learned,",any of us, the lesson of cooperation that thewar has taught us, and it is a lesson which, if weare at all smart, we should long remember.

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WELL, I'm shoving off for Washington again.I've been out here for three months on this trip,and Montana kind of gets under your skin. Whilethe hustre and bustle of the capital is always in-teresting and exciting, it's sort of a wrench toleave Montana.

BOB NEWCOMB.

July 1, 1944

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HEROES*

The labor-Management Committee atButte plays host to Commando Kelly andLieut. Childers, two of the war's out-·standing heroes. Here's a pictorial rec-ord of their trip to- Montana.

*COMMANDO Kelly, top hero of World War II,visited Montana on the last day of June to smashhome a convinc,ing message in connection withthe Fifth War Bond Drive. Accompanied byLieur.Ernest Childers, another hero credited withdelivering knockout blows to the Axis, the Pitts-burgh Irishman stopped in Butte for the WarBond Show held under the sponsorship of theVictory Labor-Management Production Commit-tee and the management of the Fox Theater.The Theatrical Stage Employees' Union and theMusicians' Unio'n cheerfully gave their support,as they always do; the Butte Chamber of Com-merce set the heroes' appearance through AIHibbard, State War Bond Drive chairman.

That's Lieut. Childers at th'e top as hOearrivedat the Butte i.1irport, welcomed by Labor-Manage-ment men. In the second picture we see laborwelcoming the heroes-left to right are JohnBird, AFL; Lieut. Childers, Commando Kelly, andStan'ley Babcock, CIO. In the third picture,Commando J<elly converses with Mayor BarryO'Leary of Butte.

The Lab·or-Management sub-committee, oper-ating under the chairmanship of Dave Reese, dida splendid iob. Assisting were John Cavanaugh,CIO; Bert Riley, CIO; John Bird, AFL; Bill Petro-vich, CIO, and Cene Hogan of the Anaconda,Company. Master of Ceremonies at the Foxwas Bill McMahon, Committee secretary, whoturned in a great performance. Amateur talent,in the opinion of many, was the best yet seenin Butte, and the picture feature, "The EIre ofSt. Mark," won many plaudits.

'At A'naconda the heroes were feted by theSmelter's Labor-Management Committee, andentertained at luncheon. The heroes toured theSmelter, shaking many a home-front hero by thehand, and making friends everywhere they went.

Popular opinion: the Labor-Management Com.mittee had rung the bell again.

The WheelsI N our last issue we visited the LocalTramming Department at Anaconda. All.materials for the Smelter for the variousdepartments are moved by this crew. Wehave already told you that the depart-ment is responsible for the bin crews whoload and unload atrhe stock bins and thelime crushers. The scalemen are in chargeof the building and maintenance of'tracks.

Each day there are about ten enginesworking three shifts. This involves aboutone hundred big cars a day and roughly'four hundred small cars for calcine, etc.

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This adds up to approximately 250,000tons of material a month, which is somequantity .

We promised you, in our last issue, thatwe would go visiting with the men whokeep this department humming. In thelarge picture at the, top of the page weintroduce you to the big engine crew.Reading from left 10 right we find FrankStrizich, M. Mrvos, M. Poli, B. Richwine,A. Mehrens, Francis La Grandeur, MikeWalsh, yardmaster; Tom Ryan, also yard-master, and Tony Blaskovich. These arethe boys who look after the big engines.

l~ The bin crew is an active bunch, andin' the picture at ..the lower 'le'ft we findthe boys posed in front of the bins duringlunch hour. That's M. Mikkelson at theleft, Joe Clark, ~V. Staminger, Ira Clark,Dave Cutler, A, Sweeney (these two boysare 'from the train crew') , and Pete Byrne.foreman.

Now let's get acquainted with thetrack gang, the fellows who keep thetracks in ship-shape so that quantities ofwar materials can' be moved around theSmelter. We lined them up by the trackand in the lower- right picture we findTom Cotoni, Joe Martello, Joe Orfino,John McCarvel, foreman, Tony Hren, Mil-ton Doherty, Anton Reiss, Francis Blod-nick and Ben Paul.

In the top picture on the righthandpage. we got a shot of the calcine train-we couldn't get it all in the picture be-cause the train is so long. That's the crewat the right end. Russell Doherty is atthe left and the engineer, Louis Mc-Glumphy, is at the right. Louie steppedout of the cab so we could get- a better

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look at him. In the picture below, at theleft, you can get a better look at thesemen.

The electric motor train crew has animportant job at the Smelter so we linedthe boys up and got a shot pf them .

. That's Ed Tomlinson in the cab of No.201. At the extreme right is Joe Keller

1! and in the middle we see Mike Walsh.yardmaster, again. ..

As we told you in our last issue, theLocal Tram is operated in very much thesame way as a regular railroad. In manyways the operation of the tram is moredifficult than with a larger railroad; buteverything "rnoves like clockwork. Thecredit for the direction and supervision ofthe tram goes to the two men shown inthe lower righthand corner of the page.William F. (Bill) Flynn, the superin-tendent, is seated at his desk going oversome matters with Ira Knose. That isIra at the left and Bill at the right.

That's the story. then. of the LocalTram. lt is doing its share to speed warmaterials to the boys at the front ••

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Be Careful!·\

The boys at Creat Falls are cautioned tobe careful. If they don't the First-AidDepartment is on the job.

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THE accident rate at the Great FallsReduction Works is low; but the men inDave Lawlor's department are strivingconstantly to'get it lower.

The· Low Line Station, at which most ofthese pictures were taken, is one of four. ~-there is one at the Zinc Plant, one atthe Copper Refinery and one at the WireMill.

The department is set up to treat minorinjuries-the men are sent to doctors asneeded or to the hospital. Lawlor's de-partment keeps a complete record of allaccidents.

There in the top picture we see CarlBorgreen, assistant welfare and safety en-gineer, attending to a man who hasfainted. This was a gag as Ted Cum-mings, the time clerk on the stretcher,really never felt better in his life. In thesecond picture Mike Grdich, janitor ofthe Low Line Change House, is tidying upthe Low Line Station-he keeps it neat asa pin. ,

In the third picture, at the lower left,Carl Borgreen, at the desk, shows how in-juries are reported; that is Ted Cummingsbeside him. Just below you can get apretty good idea of just what the firstaid cabinets look like. There are thirtyof these allover the plant. They containa stretcher of the Army type, such -as isshown; a miner's first aid cabinet or kit,hospital blanket. electrical chemical heat-ing pad and a complete set of splints. Inthe event of an injury, a man breaks theglass in the cabinet, takes the key, opensthe door and gets out the needed sup-plies. There are few accidents and thecabinets are rarely used. However, theyare inspected monthly .

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