CREAT FALLS: Ike Moe is the oldest engineer in the Northwest, andour guess is that he's one of the best.

. See picture story on page 7

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

See picture story on pages 4-6

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PaidButte, Mont.

Permit No. 139

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

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

For other Anaconda pictures, see page 11'

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A .Message From

Rear Ad...iral(;. D.Woodwardu. s N.~Retired•Chief of the Incentive Division'

*IN WARFARE, especially in modern warfare, copper is far more precious thangold.

To you men of Montana, who know metals, this is not rhetoric, but hard,cold fact. Wars have been won by nations very short on cash.....:..ourown Revolu·tion is an instance-but none could ever hope to prosecute war successfully withoutan adequate supply of the red metal that has been the stock in trade and sourceof prosperity of your Butte area for nearly half a century.

War. as we fight it today, is greedy for steel, but its appetite for copper iswell-nigh insatiable. From time immemorial. copper and its alloy cousin, brass,have been indispensable for marine use. And today our mightiest battleships areno less dependent on this metal than the copper-bottomed frigates of Decatur andLawrence. There is no substitute for copper.

Just censider the requirements for a single battleship-a million pounds ofsea-resisting, copper-containing castings; half a million pounds of sheet and tubecopper; about a quarter million pounds of material for the wires, coils and cablesthat comprise a ship's electrical nerves. A single bronze propeller requires. 50,-000 pounds of metal alone.

Yes, the warships at sea, the supply vessels that serve our fighting fo.rces.our submarines beneath the water and our planes that strike from the air, all cryfor copper and yet more copper. All this in addition to the tremendous quanti-ties needed for the manufacture of munitions-by far the largest item of all.

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

We are confident you will not fail us. The armed forces called upon you inthe last war and you came through nobly. You and the other copper miners ofAmerica opened new mines, built new smelters. Day and night you toiled with-out letup and your mines and reduction plants poured forth the unending streamof copper that in the end helped to crus hour Cerman foe. The Navy is confidentyou will better your record.

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The Ore Leaves Butte for Anaconda

In This Issue:ROCKER DOES A JOB _ 4-6

Mines can't operate without timber. Hereis a picture story of one of the most inter-esting (and most important) operations inthis area.COPPER COMMANDOis published

every two weeks by the VictoryLabor-Management ProductionCommittees and distributed tothe employes of the AnacondaCopper Mining Companyat Butte,Anaconda and Great Falls.

IKE MOE, ENCINEE·R 7Editorial Director: ROBERTNEW-COMB; EditorJal Offices, 112Hamilton, Butte, Mont. Tele-phone 4444.

Your reporter climbed on the back of Ike'sengine and rode around the Refinery atGreat Falls with Ike and Rinaldo. Here'sthe story.BOARD OF EDITORS

BUTTE: Denis McCarthy, C. J. 0.;.John F. Bird, A. F. L.; .JohnBoardman, Anaconda CopperMin!ng Company.

ANACONDA: .JoeMarick, A. F. L.;Tom Murray. C. I. 0.; B. S. Mor-row, Anaeonda Copper MiningCompany.

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

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Our roving photographer has picked upviews of the union officials in the three lo-cations. You probably know most of theseboys by their first names, but we thoughtyou might like to see them all lined up to-gether. They are backing COPPER COM-MANDO to the limit, and we are proud tooresent them to our readers.

Lester Bishop, Stafr Photographe.-.

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HERE COMES THE ORE llWhat happens to the ore when it leavesButte on its way to Anaconda? Quite a fewpeople know the interesting processesthrough which the ore goes, but we fig..ured you might like to see a few close-upshots of ore unloading at Anac<;>nda.

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BOYS AWAY FROM HOME 13We are all inclined to forget every once ina while the real sacrifices the boys in mili-tary service are making. It's a pretty toughlife, but it's an important one, and wethought you would like to see a couple ofdose-up shots of the boys in service.

IT FINISHES THE JOB _.14The Refinery at Great Falls is turning outthe finished product for use in war materi-als all over the world. We got a couple ofshots of the refining process and thoughtyou might like to see them.

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Ro~kerDoesAJohPHOTOS BY BOB NESMITH

iY"EARS ago 'the timbers at the various mines in Butte haddifferent framings. Each mine framed its own timber, and aframing from one mine might not fit a framing from another.

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

Without Rocker to provide proper timbers, mining OD-erations would be badly slowed down-there would be longand costly delays in getting timbers from individual yards,and yard space now used for more important things wouldhave to be used for framing and storage. So Rocker does ajob. and a mighty important one.

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

In the picture at the upper left, Verne Bennett and Wal-ter Richter are unloading a car of "stulls" shipped in from thelogging operations at Bonner. A stull is a long piece of tim-ber-sixteen feet, to be exact. The wires holding the '029on the car have been cut and the boys are using pickaroons tounload the stults.

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

At the top of the page we see various views of the fram-ing operation. All ends are framed to standard so they willfit together no matter how big around the stull is. At the top'

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left you see Howard Albright and AIStewart with a stull in the machine. SidHumber is the man in the center picture,and Guido Cassagranda and Sid are in thepicture at the right - look closely andyou'll see the framed end of timber in theframing machine.

In the next picture down, we get agood look at a car being loaded with frameposts. Here you can see clearly the fram-ing at the. ends. That's Phil Gugoletti do-ing the loading honors.

We got two pictures of ChesterDawson, because Chet is a saw expertand. take our word for it, Rocker wouldn'tbe Rocker without saws. There you seehim (in the two pictures at the lowerright) first centering a 58-inch saw onthe gumming machine--he has lifted thecut-off saw onto the gummer to sharpenit. In the adjoining picture Chet (weasked him to take his hat off for this one,and he did) is "swedging" and shaping afour-inch resaw band-in plain English,he's sharpening a bandsaw: we couldn'tget it all in the picture, but you can seepart of the saw.

Over on the next page we decided toget some real close-ups of a few of thefelks at Rocker. Turn the page. and atthe upper left you'll see Roy Nelson mak-ing a ladder. so important in mining.These side pieces come into Rocker fromBonner with the holes bored in them, andthe rungs come in also. Roy lines themup and assembles them. Here he is tap-ping a side piece onto the rungs. In theold days they used to make ladders at eachmine, but the ladders all come from Rock-er now-they are better built and muchsafer.

Next to Roy is Clarence Barc!ay-heis framing theends of crib chute timberswith a hand-framer.

In the lower left-hand corner is [ackShaughnessy, mill boss, knocking off forlunch. Jack has been in service 37 yearsand has been at Rocker 33 of them. Thelast picture is of Hugh Lynch and EdDawson-Hugh is boss of the treatingplant and Ed, as most of you know, hascharge of the whole plant.

So these are the highlights of Rock-er, one of the really important operationsin the mining business. Next time youpass Rocker. don't forget that you're nowacquainted with it.

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IT takes a vast amo'unt of +ime, money, men andequipment to produce copper-few outsiders haveany idea of the countless operations that are in-volved between the time the ore is mined and thefinished copper is loaded for shipment.· Few out-

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SEPTEMBER 5. 1942

IKE MOE is the oldest railroad engineer in the Northwest.What he doesn't know about railroading simply isn't in thebooks, and as he leans from his cab in engine No. 124 at GreatFalls each day, he can reflect upon a pretty full and colorfullife.

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

He worked for some time in the unloading departmentand later on the concentrator, and about seventeen years agohe shifted over to running an engine. The files show that Ikejoined the company on October 2, 1892.

When Ike came to Great Falls from his native Norway'the was born about 300 miles from Trondheirn l the city wasnot as large as it is now by a long shot-Ike's recollection isthat there were about 5,000 people in the community at thattime, and he remembers as an afterthought (which is anothercredit to his memory) that there were fifty-nine saloons.

For his seventy-two years Ike is about as spry a man asyou could expect to see; he has all his hair and while it isiron gray, it is the envy of many younger men .•

His hobbies are few. He tells this story on himself:About forty-five years ago he was invited to go fishing witha friend. The pair set out in the early hours of the morningand spent the entire day fishing, but at the end of the tripIke realized that his friend had caught well over the limit, andIke had caught nothing at all. "That cured me of fishing,".lke admits. "It made me so sore that I could fish all day andcatch nothing, while my friend caught everything we broughtback, that I just called the whole thing off."

For recreation Ike likes to work around his home. Hefinds a lot to do in his garden and in the house, so he has noparticular interest in outside matters.

"A fellow gets started working around his place," Ikesays, "and it keeps him busy for the rest of his life. Everyonce in a while I get the idea that I am all done fixing up myplace and that I can then sit back and enjoy it. But you knowhow those things are-you sit on your front porch and go overyour place, and the first thing you know, you see somethingmore to be done. It is a very hard job for me to sit still forvery long, and I guess one reason why I haven't taken moreinterest in fishing and hunting and other things like that isbecause I never find time. But I wouldn't swap the fun Iget out of fussing around my place for any sport I ever saw."

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

Ike's running mate on No. 124 is Rinaldo Petrini, switch-man, who has been in service for nearly thirty years. Rinaldostarted as a mail boy in 1913 and has been leagued up withIke for several years. Rinaldo himself is a veteran in moreways than one, and he has an unusual record of having fourbrothers who also work for the Company. In addition to theFive Petrinis who are in Company service, Rinaldo has a boyof his own who signed up about a year ago. In addition tothis, Rinaldo's father who died in 1935, worked for the Corn-pany for more than thirty-five years. Rinaldo served in thelast war-he was statroned at Camp Eustis, West Virginia,with the Artillery; he has six children-four boys and twogirls.

Ike Moe and Rinaldo Pet-rini make a great team. Theyare both doing a great job in transporting vital war materialsat the Great Falls Refinery.

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Rinaldo Petrini, Switchman at Creat Falls, has this record:

His father worked for the Company for more than tflirtyyears; he himself has worked for the Company nearly thirtyyears. He has four brothers in Company service; he has ason who has been in service· for about a year. Your editorswould like to hear of other records. Send along your sugges-tions for stories on men with long and interesting servicerecords and we will follow them up.

SEPTEMBER S, 1942

Ike Moe~Engineer

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

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THESE are the heads of the Butte Miners Union, shown ata recent War Bonds meeting. Front row: Tom McGovern,trustee; Fred McFadden, chairman of the board; DavidReese, trustee; W. A. Post, trustee; Mike Lacey, trustee.Back row: Oscar Hills, vice president; John Dwyer, pastrecording secretary; Paul Fa'U, Jr., secretary-treasurer;

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

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MEET the C. I. O. group at Great Falls: Left to right,seated-Louis Annau, Trustee; Otto C. Peters, RecordingSecretary; John Epperson, President; John Clark, FinancialSecretary; John WaUock. Trustee; Joseph Parr. Jr •• Oon-

ductor. Standing, left to right-William Murray, Vice Presi-dent; Peter Marshall, Warden; David Grant, Member Nego-tiating Committee. Officer absent in this picture, RobertBood, Chairman of Trustees.

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~Meetthe (JnionsCOPPER COMMANDO wouldn't stand a chance ofsucceeding without the interest and the help oflabor. From Creat Falls. from Anaconda. fromButte, from the CIO and AFL-from all the groupshas come the finest sort of cooperation ..• Amongthese groups you will find members of Labor-Man-agement committees. of editorial boards, of contest

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

Your editors tried to get all the union leaders andrepresentatives-a few couldn't appear to have theirpictures taken. so we tried to get the names. If wesl'ipped up on anyone. it's an honest mistake-tellus where we missed and we'll correct it.

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HERE are the Building and Metal Trades councils of theAFL at Butte. Front row, left to right: ·P. 1. Connors,Teamsters; J. J. Harrington, Blacksmiths; James O'Brien,Metal Trades; .Joe Thompson, Electricians. Second row:J. H. .Joyce,Carpenters; W. B. Ivey, Pipefitters; W. H. Good-land, Boilermakers and Welders; B. Benjamin, Structural

Ironworkers; .James Cusick, Machinists. Back row: T. J.Appel, Painters; Robert Newcomb, editor of COPPERCOMMANDO(they needed a guy to plug the hole in theback row, and look what they got!); Charles Armstrong,Carpenters; H. A. Grabenstein, Building Trades. (Pictureby AI's Photo Shop.)

GET acquainted with the AFL representatives at Anaconda.Rear row, left to right: Tom O'Brien, Lead Burners; FredFrankovich, Carpenters; Sid McCallum, Metal Trades;Henry Johnson, Painters; Eric Smith, Bricklayers. Middlerow, left to right: Gene Tobin, Engineers; Tony Domitro-vich, Pipefitters; Vincent Nowland, Machinists: LewClucas,

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

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

vice president.; Tom Murray, president.. Back row, left toright: Mike Dunn, conductor; Ed Oorcoran, trustee; RobertGlynn, trustee; Paul Tonkovich, warden.

THESE boys are the representatives of the Crafts Unionof the AFL at Great Falls. ~rom left to right: Lou Jackson,Painters; John Jarnot, Boilermakers; Herbert L. Donaldson,

_ Electri_cians; A. Grasseschi, Machinists; John Edegard,

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

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

secretary, is in the center, and John Cavanaugh, vice presi-dent, is on the right.

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Here (;oll.es the O_.e!'. AT Anaconda they don't shovel the ore out of th~

cars. No -si ree--they turn the car over and dumpthe ore, Here are some pictures of- the cars ap-proaching the station where the dumping is done-it's hard to get a picture of the dumping itself,

That's Bill,Bowling on the car in all three pictures:Ole Johnson is operating the train and the tower-man that day was Charlie Gates. although you can'tsee either one of them in the pictures .. This mod-ern method of ore dumping is a great improvement .

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VOLUME 1 SEPTEMBER 5, 1942 NO.2Help Wanted!

Il. flock of people have asked us, since the first issue of COPPERCOMMANDO appeared,· whether they could contribute ideas, sugges-tions or material. '

The answer is: You bet your sweet life! This is your publication, andthe more it represents what YOU like and what YOU think, the better.it is going to be.

Naturally we try to follow a sort of editorial policy, and maybe if weoutline it for you, it may help you with your own suggestions and ideas:

PICTURES-We try to use lots of pictures, big pictures as often aswe can, and pictures with people in them. We try not to print picturesof machinery or equipment without people, because we don't like themand doubt if you do.

ARTICLES-We like suggestions and ideas for articles. They shouldnot interest just one small group, though-they should interest everyreader.

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

THANKS A LOTThe first issue of COPPER COMMANDO

rolled off the press two weeks ago, and your edi-tors would be most ungrateful if they did not expressto their readers their' thanks for the many words ofpraise that have been heaped on this new Labor-Management Committee newspaper.

Your editors feel obliged to say, however, thatthe success of any publication of this type hingesupon the enthusiasm, cooperation and help givenit by its readers. COPPER COMMANDO startedoff with none of the answers; it had only the zealto find the answers, and it found fhem in the com-ments and criticisms and friendly guidance of thepeople of Butte. Anaconda, and Creat Falls.

A lot of people have told us that it is a goodstart, and we are naturally pleased to hear it, butthe continued success of the publication is going todepend almost entirely on the people who receiveit. Thanks a lot for your complimentary words.Let's have the kicks also--in that way we will beable to stay on the beam and that is where we wantalways to be.

CETTI NC l"OCETHER" One of the things that struck us as interestingwhen we were gatherin~ material for our first is-sue was the fact that the oDerations in BuHe. forexample, were nof thorou.l!!hly understood by folksin Anaconda and Creat Falls. Equally, the mys-teries of smelting and refinin~ were not known toowell in Butte, and iust as the boys at Anacondawondered what haDpened to the anodes which areshipped to Creat Falls, !W) the boys in Creat Fallsseem to be curious to know what steps precedetheir own. That's one reason why, in our first is-sue, we attempted to show in a brief Dictorial wayw"at these different operations look like.

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

, get the idea that if we can continue to show differ-ent operations at different locations and to tell aboutthem in an interesting and readable way, everybodyis going to get beHer. acquainted.

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

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BOYS AWAYFROM HOMELIFE isn't very sweet for men in the fighting forces, butthey do manage to enjoy a little fun once in a while and oneother thing is certain: they get enough to eat.

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

The man in any war production job who lays off work forno good reason is merely robbing the American soldier of bul-lets; he is slowing up the building of planes and ships andtanks.

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

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

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Butte, goes to the smelter at Anaconda,refinery at Great Falls. Here are some

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One of the many interesting sightsat the refinery at Great Falls is thepouring and the moulding of the cop-per.

last issue we showed you some ofthe steps in the Electrolytic CopperRefinery and took you up to the fin-,ished cathodes.

The cathodes-you saw a picture ofthem in the last issue-are very purebut they are not in a form suited tomilit·ary and industrial use, so theyhave to be melted down again.

These cathodes are brought into thefurnace refinery on flat cars, where ahuge charging crane thrusts the cath-odes into the furnaces-a furnace wilttake about 400.000 pounds of copperwith the first charge and an additional160.000 pounds or so after the firstcharge has settled down.

It takes about two hours to chargethe furnace, and about ten hours formelting the cathodes .

Before the molten copper can bepoured, gases that have been formedmust be removed so that good castings;can be made, and the oxygen contentmust be reduced by the "poling. pro-cess"-putting long poles into themolten copper so that the charcoal andcoke cover will draw off the oxygen.The copper now goes into the ladles.

The molten copper comes out of theladles and into the moulds, as you cansee in the picture at the top of thepage where Nick Platisha and GeorgeOsterman-tl')ey are called "fishers"--can be seen. They stand on a plat-form which is like a merry-go-roundand which they can control. .

The molten copper, once in themoulds, is sprayed and finally dumpedin solid form into cold water, wherecooling continues.

In the picture at the left below, wesee the copper shapes after they comeout of the bath and have been handedup by an endless bar conveyor forhandling, Now they will be loaded o,nindustrial cars and, after they havebeen weighed. they will be ready to goto war for Uncle Sam.

When the finished copper leaves ~Great Falls, it may go to any of hun-dreds of plants to be converted intomachinery to help beat the Axis.

Copper, as we noted in our lastissue, is used in practically all typesand kinds of war equipment.

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(;hiefs of Four Top War'. .

Agen~iesApBeal-to MetalMiners to BeDlam 'on Johs

WASHINGTON, Sept. l.-{AP)-The chiefs offour top war agenc~es appealed to copper and othercriticol metal miners today to stay on their jobs andproduce more raw material for war.

Messages to the miners were signed by DonaldM. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board;Maj. Gen. LewisB.Hershey, Selective Service direc-tor: W. H.Davis, chairman of the War Labor Board,and Paul V. McNutt, War Manpower Commissionchairman.

Copies of the letters will be sent to unions andmanagement in the mines, mills, smelters and re-fineries, and to mayors ofmining towns, in an effort1:0 halt the drain of skilled manpower away fromproduction of vital raw materials.

"Noother job on the whole war production frontis more important than the job you ore doing," Nel-son wrote. "Your comrades, the soldiers fighting onthe battle. front and the workers in the munitions

plants, depend on you for the raw stuff to maketh "ese weapons.

He said he had directed draft boards through-out the country "to give most serious consideration'"to the deferment of men who are giving the fullmeasure of their time and energy to the productionand refining of copper, zinc, lead, manganese, andother essential nonferrous metals."

Davis said the WLB had before it 37 casesaffecting the nonferrous metals industry, and thatseveral other cases would be certified soon. Theboard, he said, would "do its best to expedite mat-ters and effect an early determination of all issues."

"The nation's war effort is slowing down for thelack of ore from your mines," McNutt wrote. "Toomany miners have left to take other jobs. Many ofthese jobs, it is true, are also in war production, butvery few of them will contribute as much to victoryas the job in the mine that was left behind."

An Iluportant State.l.entThe War Manpower Commission has certified that cer-

. tain mining activities are essential to the support of the war

. effort. Montana State Headquarters for Selective Service to-day stated that local boards will consider deferment of regis-

, trants engaged in the mining of iron, copper, lead, zinc.", aluminum, mercury, manganese, chromium, molybdenum.tungsten, vanadium and similar ores and in the dressing ofsuch ores.

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

In cases in which appeals are taken from the rulings oflocal boards, registrants should continue their work as usualand not jump to conclusions that the cases will be decidedagainst the employer. Selective Service policy is very defin-itely in favor of keeping necessary men in essential activities.

It was further announced today at Selective Serviceheadquarters that registrants classed in III-A, and particular-ly those with wives and children, should" attempt to placethemselves in defense industries, including the mining in-dustry. As the war effort progresses and non-essential activ-ities are curtailed, many of those employed in non-essentialactivities will become available for more essential employ-ment. Many registrants deferred by reason of dependencyshould now leave non-essential employment and seek em-ployment and training in essential activities. This voluntarymovement from the non-essential to essential activities will,in a large measure, accomplish a direction of manpower intoactivities where needed. It should be a gradual, orderly andeconomically sound transfer from employment of non-essen-tial activities to employment in, or training for, essential ac-tivities.

Persons engaged in non-essential activities should not

cease their present employment until their services areneeded in some essential activity. Each individual should nowinquire into his own capabilities and opportunities for em-ployment in war industry and should exert himself in the se-curing of such employment without awaiting specific instruc-tions from the Government.

The mining of strategic minerals in Montana today bf-fers an excellent opportunity for physically qualified menwith dependents to enter a war industry, which so badlyneeds more manpower. It will be considered a patriotic actfor a married registrant now engaged in a non-essential in-dustry to seek employment in a vital mining activity.

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

-State Director

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Address, PleaseQuite a few folk:entitled to receive COPPER COMMANDOfaUed

to get their first copy. Tbe reason in most cases is that we didn'thave the proper addresses-people move without notifying the office.

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

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

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THAN KS, Joe Madsen-Lamp House man atthe Leonard Mine-for dropping an idea inthe Suggestion Box. For ideas and sugges-tions for improvement are the real answerto the success of any operation. Your Com-mittees welcome these suggestions; theyhope you will keep them constructive. • • •Every worth while suggesfion will be adoptedand put to use - some suggestions, whilegood, are not always practical. But the moreefficient we, as workers, are, the quicker wewill win this war. Let's have a helpful hintfrom YOU!

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