WASHINCTON, O. C.

rT'H IS is being written i~ a hotel roomin the nation's capital with the ther-

mometer standi!'g at 98 above.' WhenWe decided that :a department o~ foodrat~oning seemed desirable for our La~or;

Management newspaper, Bob Newcomb,suggested I come on here to get material

since he cannot do much more than boil,n egg .

.While Washington is a terribly busy- place,' you still get t~e deafening impres- .

~ion that this matter of rationing is veryimportant. There are a vast number ofsquawks about the 'shortages but, at thesame time, all government agencies feel

.Iike when they say that tremendous, .

.. rains are being made on our food sup-

plies. We have our own vast military~

forces to provide for, for one. Second.our Allies need great quantities of food-we are sending shipload after shipload,

for example, so that these stalwart Allies

of ours can hurl back the Naxis. Don't,-forget, t~, that if continental Europe isexpected to rise up and smite the Axis

~ .machine, the oppressed people there towhom we look for aid must be supplied

..ot only with guns and ammunition but

• Iso with food to sustain them.

Each one of us these days operatesOn a point system, as we all know. Onlythe foolish housewife will spend all herstamps at one shot-the natural, com-monsense thing to- do is to make theseration points go just as far as they can.lI'he program we are launching in this is-•ue is based purely and simply on' getting.. S all to pull together so that each house-~ife in the community can stretch her ra-tion points to the utmost. How do we do"'? Why, just by getting together and"Iving an exchange of ideas. by putting onaprons and getting out in the kitchen to-.ether and actually doing the job. Welearn from one another. Out of all of it,I feel sure will come a program fromwhich everybody should bene';t.

Someone might ask, "What's allthis got to do with copper production?"Well, I think the simplest answer is this:Feed a copper worker properly and pro-duction will take care of itself.

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Sergeant William J. Cerving, Sergeant Thomas Parr, Sergeant loren Burns and Mrs. Elizabeth Quel-Jette, who was chosen as the representative Mothe r by the Butte Eagles' lodge, as they appeared inthe Mother's Day services at the Eagles' Hall .

Mothers Are SoldiersSOLDIERS? Yes, the Mothers are soldiers. They're good soldiers, too ..They are brave and keep a smile for that last good-bye for their soldier son.The soldier son, who to them is still the little tike who came to his"mommy" when he was hurt or needed help, needs something now. TheMother-ever conscious of her son's needs-knows.

Here is what some of the soldiers' mothers said to us on Mother'sDay when they attended the services in their honor at the Eagles' Hall In

Butte .

Mrs. Elizabeth Ouellette, the mother of four children, who was chos-en as the representative Mother for this year, said: "I could feel the heart-break in that group of women there before me. Sitting there on the stage fjust looked out on them and knew what it meant to them not to have theirchildren with them and not know where the~ are, or what they need.There's one thing though that we all know and that is that the boys inservice need copper. That's one need that is well known. We must giveit to them. We can't let them down." .

Mrs. Elizabeth Hovan, a widow, and the mother of three sons: "Thisis the first time we haven't been together on Mother's Day. Last year myson took part in this very program on Mother's Day. Tell the men theyshould hurry up and do all the work they can. It's up to them to bring ourboys back again."

Mrs. Naomi Cline, the mother of four children and the stepmother ofthree boys in service whom she raised from childhood: "Copper must bekept rolling. If men don't want to work on the production line, they shoulogo to the Front. Then they would know the need for copper. I know be-cause of the tetters from the boys."

Mrs. Margaret LaForest whose twenty-tbree-year-old son sent her adozen roses find a fancy pillow from the Army Camp: "Joe has alwaysDeen here before. It broke my heart when I received his Mother's Daygift. All I want is for him to be back. My father, Quinn McCarthy, wasan old-time miner. I wish he were living. He could dig copper-and would.too. The boys need it so much."

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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 Represenfatives at Butte, Ana-conda, East Helena and Creat Falls, Mon-tana. It is issued. every two weeks .•••COPPER COMMAN'DO 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 Depart~entwith the concurrence of the War Produc-tion Board. Its editors are Bob Newcomband 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 Dona~dson, AFL, .and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, from CreatFalls •••• 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 tellus. This is Volume 1, No. 22.

JUNE 18, )943

Recommended seven basic foods. See paces 4-5.

In·This IssueI

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Dorothy Ogrin, the wife of Bill Ogrin, ablacksmith at the Hawkesworth Shop,and sister of "Moon" Rogers, is the moth-er of Jimmie, seventeen months, and Bill,three years. Dorothy is faced with thesame problem as everyone else in makingpoints stretch but is co-operating whole-heartedly. See story on page 4.

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Yes, the mothers are soldiers. They keepa smile for their soldier sons even whentheir hearts are breaking. Mothers knowthe needs of their sons. They've knowntheir sons: needs since they were babies.Now mothers know' that their soldier sonsneed copper. On Mother's Day theymade a plea for that vital copper.

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With food rationing mentioned in almostevery conversation, the wives of the C. I.0., A. F. L. and Management's repre-sentatives got together to try and figureout in The Commando Kitchen a solutionto the point problem. It was decided thatthe best way to Iick it is to stretch thepoints.

HELPI NC HAN D EThe Phosphate Plant in Anaconda isoffering a helping hand to Uncle Sam inincreasing production for the war pro ..gram. When ten thousand tons of phos-phate used on vegetable and canningcrops can result in two ,hundred millionEXTRA pounds of vegetables, we thouahtyou would like to know about it.

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The Butte Machine Shop is new and oneof the most modern to be found. Allthe equipment in the Shop is motorized,which helps the fellows turn out therepair jobs for the mines in recordtime, It's mighty Important that theunderground equipment be kept in tip-top shape in order that the ore be keptrolling.

"Tn FOR EXCELLENCE 12The folks at the Great Falls ReductionWorks came through again with a thump-ing record in War Bond Sales. Wedropped in on the night of the celebra-tion and got a few pictures of the boysand gals who are backing up Uncle Sam.Let's not forget, any of us, that we allhave a duty to perform.

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HERE'S the way The Commando Kitchen operates. MaryOrlich (CIO), Dorothy Ogrin (AFL) and Helen Bishop (man-agement's representative), along with Helen's daughter,Sandra, arrived at The Commando Kitchen. As soon as wraps

were removed and aprons donned. Marg Sammons submittedmaterial on food rationing for their approval. Not entirelysatisfied that certain suggestions were acceptabl~, Mary andDorothy made-a further study of the material submitted.

All the gals pitched in and helpe~ arrange the table andthen the experiment was on. Marg expl~ned to the gals justwhat was used in the meat pie as the luncheon progressed.Sampling over, Helen voted in favor of the meat pie and went

for seconds. Mary became so interested in Dorothy's recipe forusing left overs that she forgot to eat. In turn. Helen, andeven Sandra. gave undivided attention to Mary's suggestion.When the luncheon was finished, all the gals conversed.

All were talking at the same time, it seemed, for each galhad her own ideas and recipes and the exchange was really on.Discussion and dishes finished, Marg saw them to the elevator.iTheCommando Kitchen will experiment regularly with recipes

for using left-overs and stretching meat points. Each timethere will be representatives from the CIO, AFL, and manage-ment. Experiments will be made in Anaconda, East Helenaand Creat Falls as well as in Butte.

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The Commando KitchenThe gals who gathered at The Com-

mando Kitchen looked over the materialwhich Marg. Sammons brought fromWashington and decided that the list ofthe seven basic foods should be given aspot so that it coldd,pe pasted on the wallfor reference so we used it, on page 3.Here is a summary, along with sugges-tions for substitutes in case certain groupsare not available. We know that not allthe suggested food in the groups are avail-able, but we feel sure that you won't mindus including them.

FOR HEALTH-EAT SOME FOOD FROMEACH CROUP EACH DAY:

Group one-Green and yellow veg-- etables-some raw, some cooked, frosen

or canned.

Croup two - Oranges, tOMatoes,grapefruit or raw cabbage or salad greens.

Croup three-Potatoes and othervegetables and fruits - raw, dried,cooked, frosen, or canned.

Croup four-Milk and milk p~-uets-fluid, evaporated, dried milk or

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Croup five-Meat, poultry, fish, oreggs or dried be..,s, peas, nvts or peanutbuHer.

Group six-Bread, flour and cereals-natural whole grain, enriched or. re-stored.

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Croup seven---Butter and fortified'margarine (with vitamin A added).

IF SCARCE IN:Croup 2Croup 4Group 5 (meats)Croup 7

• \USE MORE FROM:Group 1, 3Croup 1,5, 6Croup 4, 5 (eggs)Group 1,4 (beans)

IN ADDITION TO THE BASIC SEVEN,EAT ANY OTHER FOODS YOU WANTBUT HAVE SOME OF EACH OF THEBASIC SEVEN.

If possible have:·One pint of Milk..

One egg daily (on \days not usedhave beans, peanuts, cheese or more milkOf' meat).

Meat, fish or fowl-one Of' moreservings.

Potato-One or more.Vegetables-- Two or more servings,

one green or yellow.Fruits-Two or more. One citrus

fruit or tomato or other good source of"tamin C.

Cereals and bread-Whole wheat orenriched.

Other foods as needed to completethe meals.

WITH the matter of food rationlngbecoming more and more grave, the Edi-torial Board of COPPER COMMANDOfelt that our Labor-Management Commit-tees' newspaper should attempt to de-velop a sound program for stretching foodpoints to their furthest use., We did a great deal of checkingfirst. We wanted to be sure that thepeople in each of the four communities,particularly the housewives, would wel-come a program whereby they couldstretch their points further and at. thesame time provide the workers in the cop-per industry with nourishing food"

We recognize that the meat short-age is serious and that, while every ef-fort is being made to increase meat allot-ments for workers in the copper indu"~try,it is the responsibility of each one of us todo what he or she can to conserve foodand make it go as far as possible.

That's the story briefly behind thedevelopment of what we call The Com-mando Kitchen. In each succeeding is-sue we "hope to carry this department,o. Platter Chatter," and we want it to re-flect the thoughts and activities of thewomen who are interested in this com-munity-wide movement.

Marg Sammons, co-editor of COP-PER COMMANDO, was delegated by theEditorial Board to rally together threerepresentative wives of workers in thecopper industry. One was Mrs. DorothyOgrin, wife of Bill Ogrin, blacksmith atthe Hawkesworth Bit Shop, and sister of"Moon" Rogers, well-known Butte minernow in military service; Mrs. Mary Orlich,wife of "Gyp" Orlich, vice president ofthe Butte Miners' Union, CIO, and Mrs.Helen Bishop, wif.e of Lester Bishop ofthe Research Department of the Ana-conda Copper Mining Company. In-cluded in the party gathered at MargSammons' apartment (The CommandoKitchen met there for its first experi-ment) was Bishops' daughter. Sandra.

This was the first of a series of ex-perimental luncheons planned for thewives of employees. both labor and man-agement, in Butte, Anaconda and GreatFalls. At these luncheons, which will beheld at occasional intervals. experimentswith different types of food will be con-ducted each time, and each housewifeurged to submit her own recipe and othersuggestions for simplifying the food ra-tioning problem.

He ...e's the inside story of the firstexperiment of The Commando Kitchen.

The Commando Kitchen had eight-een red points to spend. We bought achuck roast for that only required sixpoints to the pound at that time and thereis ver'/ little waste to it. This is what wedid with it.

Sunday served dinner for two.Monday served dinner for three.Monday packed one lunch bucket.Tuesday served luncheon for five.

Here's how it was done. After salt.ing and peppering the roast, we rolled ifin flour and browned it quickly in four.tablespoons of bacon drippings or fat otany- kind. After browning, transfer theroast to the roaster and add four medium

, sized onions sliced, one large can of to.matoes (or six fresh tomatoes), one greenpepper, a couple of stalks of celery andfour cups of hot water. Cook for threehours in a slow oven. An hour before themeat is to be taken up, add a pound ofcarrots and six large potatoes and let themcook with the meat so as to have themflavored without adding additional but ..ter. We made a gravy with half the stock:from the meat and used a pint of mill(and thickening of two heaping table ..spoons of flour.

The following day we took the car.rots, potatoes, gravy and half the left overmeat and made drop dumplings.

That day w,e fixed two thick sand ..wiches wjth the sliced meat from the re..main'ing meat for a lunch bucket ..

The next day we took the remainingstock and combined it with five-potatoes,two ,S>nionswhich had been sliced andcooked together, diced the meat andmade a pie crust and had a meat pie fromthe left-over meat. This served luncheonfor five. See pictures on opposite page.

From three pounds of chuck roasfwe served five dinners, five luncheonsand fixed one lunch bucket. Try it andreport your findings on what can be done •.We have recipes from Helen Bishop, Ma'ry'Orlich and Dorothy Ogrin to present inthe next issue,

Here's what the gals had to say'about the suggested idea of stretchingpoints:

Mary Orlich: "My husband wants areal bucket and that means three sand-wiches. I want to co-operate and find oufall I can about making the points stretch'for in addition to fixing three big sand-wiches, it is up to me to find out how toserve a good meal at home. I think a lo~can be accomplished by us all getting to-gether and exchanging ideas, and TheCommando Kitchen is providing a placefor this exchange of recipes and sugges-tions."Dorothy Ogrin: "1 think this is a goodway for all of us to have a chance to findout what other wives are doing. It's goingto be up to all of us to co-operate on thisrationing and we certainly all need to findout all we can by way of making what isavai lable go as far as possible. The Com-mando Kttchen can help us a 10l."Helen Bishop: "I am trying to make eachpurchase of meat serve" for two days.There are six in my family and I need allthe suggestions I can get for new ways ofstretching points. I think The CommandoKitchen is the right approach, for it will ..give us a chance to find out what othersare doing."

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HELPINGHAND

The Phosphate Plant in 'Anaconda is lend-ing a helping hand to Uncle Sam, for thephosphate fertilizer produced there playsa real part in lessening the food shortage.This phosphate fertilizer means increasedproduction in a lot of ways.

THE growing shortage of foodstuffs ofall kinds has made a lot of folks sit up andtake notice of the Phosphate Plant atAnaconda. That's because the PhosphatePlant is making a most valuable contri-bution to the war program in helping toincrease food production by the manufac-ture and distribution of phosphate ferti-lizer. It doesn't take a farmer to knowhow important ferti Iizer is to good crops.VVhen ten thousand tons of phosphateused on vegetables and canning crops canresult in two hundred million EXTRApounds of vegetables, we thought you'dlike to know just how this valuable fer-tilizer is made.

The story starts at Conda, Idaho,where the phosphate rock is dug fromAnaconda's Phosphate Mine. The rock iscrushed, dried and loaded into "battle-ships" (cars) and shipped to the Phos-phate Plant on the "Hill" at Anaconda.

VVhen the rock reaches Anaconda, itis dumped into storage bins. From thereit is conveyed to the top of the RoasterBuilding. That's the first step in makingTreble Superphosphate which is playingsuch an important part in the war pro-gram.

The rock is first calcined to removeorganic material which might interferewith the process. The c~lcining is donein furnaces similar to those you saw usedfor roasting copper concentrates. You'llprobably recognize the similarity in the

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opposite page upper picture which showsNick Tobin oiling the top of the furnace.;The dried Superphosphate is moved onconveyor belts as shown in the middlepicture to the Hardinge Ball Mills, whereit is ground and screened. R. C:Pickett inthe lower left shot on opposite page keepsthe machine operating. If anything goeswrong it's up to Bob to fix it. He'? beenin the P'hosphate Plant since 1933. Hewas tightening a bolt on the guard of agear when we snapped his picture.

The first step in making phosphoricacid is when the finely' ground phosphate'rock from the Mills is sent to the Agi-tators. At the Agitators, the pulverizedphosphate rock is mixed with sulphuricacid and weak phosphoric acid and agi-tated for several hours. This process re-moves the phosphate from the rock andproduces a thick slurry of phosphoricacid and a solid gypsum. That's Louie.Peterson at the Agitators in the "lowerright picfure on opposite page. Louiewatches the Agitators to see that every-thing is running smoothly and takes testsat various intervals to see that the rock,acid and air are in the correct ratio. Thisslurry from the Agitators is filtered onBeit Filters. The filter cake or gypsum isthrown away and'the filtrate, phosphoricacid is sent to the evaporators.

The phosphoric acid from the filtersis evaporated to almost half volume in the

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.,Swenson Evaporators. The product isstrong phosphoric acid. That's Carl Har-ris in the upper left shot watching thesolution level in the Evaporators. Thisstrong phosphoric acid is sent to theVanadium Plant for the removal of va-nadium and then to the Mixer for the pro-ductio~ of raw Treble Superphosphate.In the upper right shot Bob Farthing isstarting the rock into the Mixer.

At the Mixer, the strong phosphoricacid is mixed with pulverized phos-phate rock. This mix makes a productmuch like hard mud in consistency. Thisraw Superphosphate is moved on a con-veyor belt to a shed to be cured. That'sMonty Jenkins taking a sample of the rawSuperphosphate from the belt in thelower left shot. When the raw Super-phosphate reaches the aging shed it is

dropped from the conveyor belt onto. apile and picked up by a crane as seen -inthe lower picture and moved down theshed so as to distribute it and not have iti~just one big pile. John Rosenleaf isthe operator of the crane in the aging shedand that's John in the lower right shot.

This mixture of raw Superphosphateis cured in this shed for a considerabletime, for the curing or aging period in-creases the fertilizing value of Super-phosphate. The aged Superphosphate isdried in furnaces, similar to the furnacesused for roasting the rock. After it isdried, the phosphate is ground .andscreened, and the dust is removed. Thedustless Treble Superphosphate is thenready to be bagged and, shipped to dis-tributors. We'll show you how thisbagging is done in another issue.

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SHOPThe boys in the new and modern Ma-chine Shop at Butte .do a swell job ofkeeping the equipment in A-l conditionfor the mines. Like ma~ic the old is re-paired sOlas to operate lik.e new.

THE Butte Mines' Machine Shop wasfinished December 1, 1942, and a moremodern shop would be hard to find.It's well equipped to handle the manyrepair jobs brought in each and everyday .. Whether it's a tram motor, a loco-motive motor, parts for the mine cages,cenfrifugal pump units or ventilatingfans-regardless of the condition inwhich they're brought I in-when theygo out from the Machine Shop they look /and operate like new. The upper shotshows the building and the MachineShop is at the right.'

In order to get to the Shop properyou pass by the office so We got a shotof the boys at work. That's GeorgeRogers, J. P. Dowling and Bill McGowanin the center picture. It's up to them tokeep the clerical records straight for themany parts brought into the Shop forrepair .

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Jimmie Cusick, machinist" and Em-mett Dwyer, machinist apprentice, in theopposite page lower picture, were work-ing on a slusher hoist. We caught Jimmie

. giving Emmett a tip as to the best andeasiest way to do the job. A slusher hoistis used for dragging ore to the chute.

If you would like to know whatunderground' fan equipment looks like.just take a .look at the upper left shotwith Charlie Christman on his knees inthe midst of Hi-Speed fans used in themines. Notice how the boys bring backthe shine so the fans look almost likenew. The ones in the rear had just beenbrought in. It takes four men workingfull time to keep the fan equipment inrepair. The tubing is hooked onto the,ventilating fans seen in the pictures.

Hilton (Frog) Des Roches andJames Hawkesworth in the upper rightshot are working on timber hoists. Theseare used underground in hoisting andlowering material in raises or stopes.'As you can see, they are like an over-sized spool. Frog Des Roches "blew"into Butte thirty-eight years ago in afish car. Apparently he has not caredfor travel since for he has stayed right inButte.

A frame of a Granby ore car truckfor the Butte mines had been brought infor a general overhauling and the'welders had to be called on for assist-ance. In the center picture Tom Mc-Kiernan, machinist, Harry Fluent, ma-chinist . helper, AI Heimback, boiler-maker, and Con Dennehy, boilermakershelper, are all looking over the job tomake a check on just what is needed tobe done.

In the lower left picture Eric (Irish l]Stalberg is planing latch switches usedon the underground tramming. This newMachine Shop is really up to the minute'in efficiency. All the tools in the Shophave been motorized. The planer whichEric is using in the picture was broughtover from the old Shop, but it .too is nowoperated by motor and Eric will tell youhow much easier it is to operate now.

F. C. Jaccard, Mechanical Superin-tendent, took us out to the MachineShop and introduced us around. One ofthe men to whom he introduced us wasGeorge F. Nevins, Assistant MechanicalSuperintendent. The day we were therewe got the shot in the lower right of Mr..Jaccard and Mr. Nevins without eitherof them knowing the picture was being''taken. When we heard the sad news ofMt-. Nevins· death we knew we were for ..tunate in having this picture, for GeorgeNevins was the kind of man who had thereal respect and affection of the men inthe Shop, and more than a few of theboys asked us to use a picture of himthat they might have it.

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The Commando Kitchen

IN this issue, COPPER COMMANDOwants to make you acquainted with TheCommando Kitchen. In the departmentwe plan to call "PlaHer ChaHer," startingon page 4, we have tried to come t~ gripswith the increasingly serious problem offood rationing.

Now this business of food ral'ioningis a ticklish subject. We figured it thisway: It is to the interest of every man,woman and child to make his or her ra-tioning points go just as far as possible.We may rpot all agree with the ration'ingsystem, but the fact remains it is onlycommon sense to provide good, nourish-ing food 'or ourselves and make it go justas far as it will stretch.

We felt this. way also: We aren'tgoing to deliver a lot of lectures on food.We decided that the smart thing to dowas to enlist not only the interest but theactive co-operation of the housewives inthe three communities. At the firstmeeting of T~e Commando Kitchen, as we, call it, Marg Sammons, our fellow editor, •invited the wife of a miner, the wife of acraftsman and the wife of a manageme-:-trepresentative. The four gals sat downto a meal built on the third day leftoversfrom eighteen red points (and theyseemed to I'ike it too). They analyzed.he possibilities of eighteen points in thelight of how far they could make them go.Each woman present submitted her ownideas and all were helpful recipes.

That gives you probably only an ideaof how we've ~tarted. As a result of thisfirst effort, we hope that many house-wives will get in touch with COPPERCOMMANDO, eager to discuss food ra-tioning. Every recommendation thisKitchen makes will be aimed at the localhousewives; the recommendations willtake into consideration the foods avail-.ble in the local communities; SO far aspossible they will make provision for thetastes of our many different people.

We won't preach. We won't setourselves up as experts. Everything weauggest will actually be the suggestion ofhousewives in our three communities forways to make the points go farther in pre-. paring meals. We ask that all of you, inthe interest of our own good health andour self preservation, work together inCleweloping a sound and practical pro-Iram.

People -(;' PlacesSOME of you folks know that there is.now a" Meat for Copper Production Com-mittee" in Butte to get more meat for thecopper workers. The new committee isreally just a consolidation of all thegroups which had been working inde-pendently, and Jerry Harrington is chair-man. Jerry is head of the Rationing Sub-Committee of the Labor-ManagementCommittee at Butte. Your editors weredrafted to do some spade-work also andmeetings are held at the COMMANDOoffice ..

As-a result of the effort, we've had afew distinguished visitors. Ours is no.fancy joint, but the folks seem to like tocome in--they may have to sit on tablesor boxes but we haven't had a kick yet.Among recent visitors were Dr. Thomsonof the School of Mines, Jim Rowe, Rev-erends Jones and Logee, Rabbi Fineberg,Carl Trauerman, E. G. Leipheimer, Mrs.Catherine Penney and, of course, many ..representatives of both labor and man-agement.

Among the visitors from the govern-ment recently was Miss Harriet Andersonof the Department of Agriculture officein Denver. Miss Anderson came in tostudy the food situation in Butte andspent a few days in conference with laborand management and civic groups. MissAnderson returned a week later withForrest Townsend of the War Food Ad-minitsration at Denver along with Wil-liam A. Allan of the War Food Adminis-tration at Helena in order that a furtherstudy could be made of the meat problemin Butte.

George B. Holderer of the CopperDivision of the War Production Board,Washington, also dropped in for a coupleof days. George is one of the Division'ssmartest thinkers who served for someyears as a consultant to mining com-panies. In addition to .being a consultant,he has been a miner and knows the prob-.lems miners are faced with. He gave upa profitable business to join Uncle Sam.

.Another welcome visitor at theCOM MAN DO office was Lesl ie ~ iII ofthe War Labor Board in Minneapolis.Leslie formerly was with the TreasuryDepartment but decided a bigger jobcould be done in the Wage and Hourand Public Contracts Divisions.

Also Irving Sulds of the War Pro-duction Board Department of Informationspent a couple of days here on the sub-ject of a radio broadcast on the occasionof ·Miners' Day.

The Washington gang usually as-sembles at the COPPER COMMANDOoffices and makes it thei r headquarters~while they're here. The other day HerbHeasley, who established the Labor-Management Committees here in Mon-tana, came in and brought us up to dateon the Washington scene.

Copper IssueWe can't help being. tickled at the

comments we've had on our' special cop-per issue called "Copper and the War,"which came out on June 4. Those of youwho saw it will recall that it was de-voted to the end uses of copper and wasproduced in an effort to show all of ushow important our work is. The idea forthe issue, as you know, came from thelabor members of our Editorial Board whowanted to have their fellow workers un-derstand clearly the need for copper andthe importance of the worker in this in-dustry.

We've had a great number of callsand letters and perhaps, if we have spacelater on, we may print a few excerpts,We figure you might like to see whatsome of the folks had to say about thisissue and, of course, it swells our heads alittle to be able to quote them.

Marg Steps UpAs we start coming into the last lap

of our first year of publication and startlaying our plans for the next year, the Edi-torial Board of COPPER COMMANDOvoted to raise Marg Sammons to a fulleditorship. Henceforth Marg and BobNewcomb will share the joys and theagonies of joint editorship.

As you know, Marg has been actingas associate editor of COPPER COM-. MANDO since last November, so ourgang all thought it was high time forMarg to get a little credit for the swelljob she has been doing. One of ourfellow editors from the CIO pointed outan advantage to this new appointment.He claims that he often comes into theoffice looking for an editor to kick and ifNewcomb isn't here he goes away un-happy. Henceforth he will be able toboot Sammons.

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TAKE it from a guy who can't get fGur fee~Gffthe ground withGut ~ett'ng dizzy. Dave Crant isa brave feliGw. FGTit is Dave who hoists himseifliP to-the tGPS of thGse stacks at Creat Falls andpaints them.

He has recently finished painting, alGngwith Jack Ward. the Boifer Heuse No. 1 stack atCreat Falls which is 135 feet high. We got a shGtof Dave part way up during one' of those nicewindy days they have at the Refinery. The daybefore Dave had had to come dGwn because thewind was constantly swinging him. away frGmthe stack.

This business of getting up high in the airto paint is fairly involved when you first see it.but it gets simple as YGUgo aJong. When a stacki. first raised, they leave a drGp line on the topof the stack and this is used whenever someonescales it.

The painter sits in a chair (fancy name forit-as a maHer .of fact it is just a piece of boardheld by rope at four corners). The painter isactually suspended from a large heek which goes.over the top .of the stack. It.. painter .on such j.obslowers himself. His partner, whose jGb is just ~simportant, holds the rope at the ground and keepshis eye .on the paintel' an the time-in the eventthe wind blGWSthe painter away from the stack,it is the [eb .of the man .on the ground to bring himback in again. Furthermore, if the bos'ns knot(this is just a hitch the painter takes arGund thebfock hOGk in front .of him) fails tG hGld .or ifthe paintel' misses the hitch, the fellow .on theground has to mGYe fast tG keep the painter from .falling. .

When YGu're painting a stack you have t.opaint it .on all sides, and for those .of you whowGnder hGW the painter gets larGund the stack,we'll tell YGU this: he just walks a,rGund. Hesteps Gut .of his chail', keeping only ene fGGt .on it.The .other fGGt he puts in what is called the footrope (this is just a lo~ which holds him while hetransfers his weight so that he can move the hGokaround the top .of the stack- (this makes usdizzy to even talk about) •

Dave (his intimates call him Hinky Dink)has b~en at this painting business for some years.He never gets dizzy and he has had only tw.o ex-pel'iences that jGlted him a little. Once he was up225 feet .on a stack and about fifty feet frGm thetop when a terrific wind sprang up. He CGuid.ee frGm where he s~t that signs were being.'Gwn down and rGGfs ripped frGm houses belGw"im. The wind whipped Dave away from thestack abGut 25 feet. He knew that if it were tGluddenly die dGwn, he WGuid CGme crashingback against the stack. lut what really gGt him• f' -looking up at the top of the stack; he couldMe the hook slowly bending, which meant that.. .a maHer of minutes the hGGk WGuid slip .offthe top .of the stack and down would com'e Davey,cradle and all. He released his rigging quickly andeMIle thumping dGwn tGward the ground. He hittIte ground a hundred feet away from the base ofthe stack and didn't land lightly either, but hewas glad tG get thel'e.

Another time he happened to glance up atthe rGpe above him and uw that acid had SGme-hGw drGpped .on .one .of tfte strands and eaten it.thrGugh. He figured the other strand might gG atany time and he was high up, so he cut her looseand dropped. When he got within abGut fGur feetof the grGund, the Gt+aer strand gave way. SG heacted just in time. (We .ought'tG add that neither.one .of these near-accidents .occurred at CreatFaUs-they happened when Dave was WGrki"gelsewhere. )

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TEN STORIES UP: Dave Grant uses hispaint-brus hto good advantage.

"AccGrding to him, height doesn't make any

difference after fifty feet. Dave says that any-thing up tG fiftY feet inclines the painter to IGGkdown at the grGund, but when YGU get abovefifty, you Ieek .off into space and the heightdoesn't bother you (that's what HE says). Thesun bothers, however, particularly when he ispainting a light-colGred building .or stack. In thesecases he wears glasses, but .ordinarily painterscan't use glasses because they have tG see every-thing that's gGing en, A painter stays up abGut .oneday...Jlsa rule on such jGbs as Dave has wGrked .onfGr over eighteen years. The painter covers anarea about five feet deep and perhaps .one-fourth.of the stack wide in a day. Maybe this doesn'tseem like much but don't forget that a painterhas tG clean hi. surfaces first and also that heisn't running arGund .on the grGund .

Safety directors point with pride tG suchpainters as Dave Crant because these bGYshave tobe· extremely careful. They check every piece .ofequipment thGrou,ghly befGre starting .off, givingparticular attentiGn to the block and tackle andthen tG all rGpes and hOoks. A single detail over-looked can naturally mean death.

We asked Dave what the prime require-ment fGr a sky painter is. We had a hunch youhad to be able to paint with bGth hands and hGlda pail in YGur teeth, but Dave assures us that thisisn't so. He says the prime requirement is steadynerves. As a maHer of fact. Dave insists that a fel-low with steady nerves can master fear .of heightif he has any and he can learn the rest withoutdifficulty.

Well, we'll have to take Dave's wGrd f.or it,because we don't expect tG try to prove hi ...wrong. He can have his high places and we'lI stay.on the ground.

~.1."'~~is forEXCELLENCE

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WITH close to j3 thousand. peoplejamming the Eagles' Hall, the covetedTreasury "T" was recently awarded thefolks at the Great Falls Reduction Worksin recognition of their thundering throughwith a record for War Bond Sales.

The ceremonies were a special trib-. ute to the Victory Labor-ManagementProduction Committee, for the. folks en-gaged on that committee worked cease-lessly to lift the Plant record higher thanever before .

Among the guests of honor wereLeo C. Graybill, County Bond Sales chair-man, who presented the award to PeteFontana, who represented the Mill andSmel terrnens Union, and Bob Cunning.ham, who served as the delegate of theCrafts unions. Major' George O'Neill.who is executive officer of the sub-depotat Great Falls. was the keynote speakerand expressed his gratitude on behalf ofthe armed forces for the fine supportgiven by the workers at Great Falls .Awards were made for suggestions lead-ing to increased war production to Con-rad Kissler, Paul Tinelli and WilliamGehring.

The entire community realizes thegrand job done not only by the workersbut by the Victory Labor-ManagementProduction Committee, and COPPERCOMMANDO would like to list thenames of those folks who helped put thedrive over. Here they are given byplants: .

Copper Refineries: Tom Reilly, R.Ranieri, E. Miller, T. Petrini, N. Platisha.J. Crena, J. Epperson, W. Graham. E.Hareman and T. Leonard.

Zinc Plant: Archie Monroe, O. An-derson, Joe V. Annau, C. B. Jensen, R. J.Lords, Bert Anderson, Vivian F. Squires.Rulon M. Wilson, S. Tambelline, CharlesHinkforth, Arthur \ Huttinger, Frank A.Sand, John Birch, Chris Olsen, Pat Egan.Frank Lench, Edward H. Barrett, CharlesAllin, Ralph Berg, Frank Wertin, EdmondC. Huston. Ralph W. Seek. MichaelTetrault, Michael Rebar. Charles L. Bar-telt and John Reichelt.

From the Crafts: Blacksmith Shop-John Odegard; Pipe Shop-Rudy Wer-tin; Machine Shop--A. Grasseschi; BOIlerShop-John Jarnot; Carpenter Shop-A .J. Kowell; Brick Masons-Harold Gray;Foundry-Ceorge Kalafat, and ElecfricalDepartment-H. L. Donaldson.

Rolling Mills: W. S. Adams, ClaudeCartlidge, Gus Strizich, William Lohe.Hugh Bouska, Nick Popovich, Peter Fon-tana, W. G. Hay and Carl Briggs. SurfaceDepartment-Otto Peters; Watching De-partment-Bert Higgins; Boiler Com-pressor Plant-Claude Wright; GeneralOffice Janitors-Albert Williams; 'Elec-tric Tram-G. Grasseschi; Low LineWarehouse-Karl Aim, and Sampling-Clarence Saylor.

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--T!>!>FOR EXCELLENCE"Bond buyers at Creat Falls smash another record as prized Treasury Department "T" isgiven to folks at. the Creat Falls Reduction Works. Hats off to the Creat Falls buyersand to the Victory Labor-Management Production Committee which staged the drive.Here are a few pictures taken the night of the ceremonies.

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IT was a swell evening and everybody. enjoyed himself-that's Jack Clark inthe upper left hand picture outlining theprogram. Jack, as we all know, is Sec-retary of the Mill and Smeltermen's_Union at Creat Falls and he did a finejob as master of ceremonies. In the pic-ture at the right above we see Leo Cray-bill, Pete Fontana and' Bob CunninOgham,holding the flag which now boasts theTreasury "T". Those are the talentedpupils of Miss Wentz in the long pic-ture above. The youngsters did a swelljob. Major O'Neill and Mr. Caples both'made brief addresses as part of the cere-monies and our photographer nailed bothof them with his camera as they chattedtogether. Over there at the right belowwe find Sergeant Hunt and Corporal'Watspn from the local Air Base•

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