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Copper Commando - vol. 2, no. 12Victory Labor-Management Production Committees of Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls

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H. E. SPENCER I

H. E. Spencer, the suggester of the new bit carrier, isbetter known on the Hill as "Spenc." Spenc was born inJoplin, Missouri. September 15, 1908. As a youth he workedin a garage, but at the age of twenty he started working under-ground.

In 1936, after ei~ht years of mining experience in the TriShte District. he moved to Butte and has worked continuouslyel(~ept for a short period of mining in a small property at Haley,Idalto.

Two year!lOa~o wh~le working at the Tramwav Mine. wherehe is still emnloved. Spenc conceived the idea of his wire bitcarrier, picturpd below. The first carrier built had a solid pipefor holding the bit wires. but this was later changed to theslotted pipe which allows the removal of wires when damagedor broken·

Spenc lives with his wife and three children at 1945Sampson Street. Butte. He has this to say about the sugges-tion boxes on the Hill: "I believe that through the suggestionbox more ideas will come which will help mak'e the work ofminers easier and safer. Besides," good suggestion$ will speedup the day of victory." To Spene, the- Labor-ManagementCommittee says: "Congratulations, and let's have moreluggestions. "

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Suggestions Pay!H. E. Spencer of the Tramway Mine received $250.00 in WarBonds for his suggestion of a bit carrier. Fred Lane of theSteward Mine wa's awarCied $200.00 in' War Bonds for his sug-gestion for a mine safety cfoor. Turn your suggestion in at thesu~gestion box now. The Suggestion Sub-Committee of theLabor-Management Committee ·wants to know about your idea. -.CREATED to invite sugzestions from workers in the interestof improving methods and conditions in order to get the warover just that much sooner. the Suggestion Sub-Committee ofthe Victory Labor-Manazement Committee at Butte has beenmee+ing rezularlv each second Thursday afternoon for the lastyear and a half.

Charles Black. CIO: John Bird. AFL; John O'Neil, ACM;[ohn Boardman: ACM. and Gene Hogan, ACM, members of theSuggestion Sub-Committee. have carefully studied the sugges-tions which have come to them through the medium of the su~J;lestion boxes ..which are to be found at all mines and shops.These ideas reviewed by the Suggestion Sub-Committee, havebeen assigned to the department concerned for consideration.If approved by Management and the Labor-Management Com-mittee. they have been put into effect, and the man 'whowas resoonsible for thinking up the idea has been rewarded

/with a War Production Board Award of Individual ProductionMerit. There have been eighteen such awards given. The menwho have received the awards in the past for accepted sug-~estions are: AI Giecek. H. S. Burgess. Max Ramsey, C. W.Triolett. James Shea. C. J. Fifield. Pete Evankovich. John Glase,M. J. Kielv. E. A. Diller. John Cavanauch. Fred Lane, H. E.Spencer. John Morgan, M. Griffiths, C. Tuttle and W. Tapio.

At a recent meeting of the Labor-Management Commit-tee. J. I. Carrigan announced that "Provided that a suggestionhas sufficient merit in the judgment of the Management tojustify any award. after it is tested over a period of time. andadoo+ed. thp. minimum award will he $5.00 and the maximumaward will be determined by the Management."

Following this. an announcement was made that H. E.Soencer. shown in the picture above. had been awarded ~250.00in war bonds for his suaaestion of a wire bit carrier. His ideaconserved metal and simplified the carrying of bits.

At the same time it was announced that Fred Lane wouldreceive $200.00 in War Bonds- Mr. Lane was recently citedat an impressive Labor-Management Committee ceremony forhie:;constructive suzvestion of a safety door as shown in Issue4. Volume 2. of COPPER COMMANDO under date of October15. 1943. Mr. Lane's suggestion was referred for official WarProduction Board approval and recently he received an awardfrom Washington. in addition to the award received at theLabor-Management meeting.

Both Labor and Manaeement know that the really helofulsuzzestions come from the men on the job.- After all. if a fellow.is working in a mine or a shop. he is more aot to think of ideasto increase his efficiency and make his work easier. It is easyto submit a suaeestion-c-simolv write it out-for the men on'the committee know the different ohases of mining and are ableto graso an idea Quickly. Not all ideas are. of course, accept-able. Some simply cannot be used because they are not prac-

. tir al. It is un to the Suggestion Sub-Committee with its mem-bers from CIO~ AFL and Manazement to decide to which de-partment the suaaestions should be sent for consideration.Then it is up to Manazement to determine. if it is accepted andtested over a period of time, the award to be given the suggester.

Suggestion rules are on the back page; look them overca.refully and if you have an idea turn it in. Don't be like"Scene" who said: "I got the idea two years ago after workingwith a heavy carrier. I kept it at home for a year before I pre-sented it. I didn't know what they would think." Spenc knowsnow that it pays to turn in suggestions.

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Official U. S. Army Signal Corps PhotoOnly 100 yards from Jap positions on New Cuinea, these three members of a U. S. Infantry unit pause in their task of cleaning an 81-mm. mortar. The

..,. reason for the pause is to read the all-important mail from home.

COPPER COMMANDO is the officialnewspaper of the Victory Labor-Manage-ment Production Committees of the Ana-conda Copper Mining Company and itsU~ion Representatives at Butte, Ana-conda, Creat Falls and East Helena, Mon-tana. It is issued every two weeks. • . •COPPER COMMANDO is headed by ajoint committee from Labor and Manage-ment, it:s policies are shaped by both sidesand are dictated by neither .••. Co.PPERCOMMANDO was established at therecommendation of the War Departmentwit,h the concurrence of the War Produc-tion Board. Its editors are Bob Newcomband Marg Sammons; its safety editor isJohn L. Boardman; its chief photographeris AI Cusdorf; its staff photographeris Les Bishop .••• Its Editorial Board con-sists of: Denis McCarthy, CIO; John F.Bird, AFL; Ed Renouard, ACM, fromButte; Dan Byrne, CIO; Joe Marick, AFL;C. A. Lemmon, ACM, from Anaconda;Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson, AFL,and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, from CreatFalls •••. COPPER COMMANDO ismailed to the home of every employee ofACM in the four locations-if you arenot receiving your copy advise COPPERCOMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Street,Butte, or, better still, drop in and tell us.This is Vol 2, No. 12.

FEBRUARY 4, 1944

In This IssueFRONT COVERThe story of COPPER COMMANDO go-ing to press wouldn't be complete--eventhough we see it delivered to the homes-unless it is read. Here we have Frankand Luella Levandowski with their son,Gerald, reading COPPER COMMANDO.Frank works at the Electric TrammingDepartment in Great Falls.

SUCCESTIONS PAY .. 2

Recently H. E. Spencer of the TramwayMine received $250.00 in War Bonds andFred Lane of the Steward Mine received$200.00 in War Bonds for suggestionsdropped in the suggestion boxes at themines. If you have an idea which youthink will increase production, drop it inthe box.

V-MAILV-Mail is one of the most helpful andamazing developments of this war. Withthe invention of V-Mail, men on thefighting fronts allover the world are en-abled to hear regularly from the folks athome. Here are the steps the V-Mailletter, which you have just written, goesthrough

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1 COPPER AND TIN SHOP ... __._.• 6The Copper and Tin Shop at Anacondadoes all the sheet metal work for the manydepartments on the Hill. It may be aminiature part for the Laboratory or adust pipe five or six hundred feet long.The boys do a fine job by way of keepingthe orders up to date and that meanshelping Uncle Sam.

ZINC RESEARCH _. ._.. _ _ _. 9At the Research Laboratory of the ZincPlant at Great Falls, experiments aremade for the development work of zincbefore an operation is recommended tothe Plant. There's no better place tolearn what goes' on-for the presentprocesses are continually being tested forimprovement.

4 TEAMWORK __..__ 10A Labor-Management newspaper, suchas COPPER COMMANDO, depends uponthe teamwork of all the boys and girlswho put the job together. In this issuewe show you how it is done from startto finish. The finish is well portrayedby the front cover which shows the Levan ...dowski family reading it..3.

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o NE of the resolutions most oftenmade by parents and friends of the boysabroad is to write as often as possible.Messages from home keep up the spi ritsof the fighting' forces and it is littleenough to keep our fighters informed ofwhat's going on on the home front.

One of the most helpful and mostamazing developments of this war is V-mail. This invention, which was born inWorld War II, has made it possible formen on the fighting fronts all over theworld to hear regularly from home. Wereit not for V-mail there. certainly wouldhave been placed an embargo upon cor-respondence because the ships plying theseas and the planes carrying preciousfighting cargo have too little room for let-ters written in the normal way .

On the opposite page we are able toshow, through the courtesy of the Indus-trial Services Division of the Bureau ofPublic Relations of the War Department,just what steps the V-mail letter you havejust written to your son or brother orfriend goes through. The technical ser-geant in the picture at the upper left ofthe opposite page is photographing V-mailletters. The ingenious device he is usingtakes the letter you have written and re-duces it to small form on film. In thesecond picture, you see the soldier in-specting the film for flaws. From thispoint the film is transmitted to the pointof distribution and in the third picture we

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•Nearly everybody these days is usingV-Mail to keep up the spirits of our boys,just as they write to us by V-Mail to letus know how they are. But how many ofus know how V-Mail really works? Here'sa picture story about this great invention.

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see the enlargements of the filmed lettersbeing made on the continuous enlargerafter the microfilm has been received atthe point of distribution.

In some respects, V-mail is handledmuch the same way as a newspaper isprinted-in the fourth picture the paperreproductions are developed, fixed,washed and dried on a continuous photo-graphic paper processing machine. In thefifth picture, shown at the bottom left onthe opposIte' page, two soldiers are in-specting paper reproductions. After theyhave been inspected, the papers are cutinto individual letters bv a chopping ma-chine. In the last photograph this soldieris handling the finished letters; it is hisjob to sort them-preparing them forsending to the person to whom they areaddressed.

Of course, as we all know, V-mailworks both ways; that is, not only do thefolks on the home front keep in touchwith the men on the fighting front, themen on the fighting front use this devicewidely to keep in touch with the fol ksat home.

And what's the net result of the let-ters we write? Take a look at the pictureat the top of this page which shows a sol-dier at the mail distribution center eager-ly awaiting his letter. This picture wastaken in the Southwest Pacific and thesame scene is re-enacted whenever themail arrives .

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Ana~onda~s Copper and Ti.I Shop. If you want to see what can be done with sheet metal, go to the Copper and Tin Shop atAnaconda. The boys in the Shop playa big part in helping top production records on theHill by turning out all the sheet metal work for all the Departments. Whether it be a minia·ture part for the Laboratory or a large ventilat ion or dust pipe, the boys fill the orders •

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THE Copper a~d Tin'Shop at An~conda. is called on by all the departments on theHill for any and all sheet metal work.Around one hundred fifty orders a monthare brought into the Shop from the vari-ous departments. One order may keepthem working for two weeks and othersmay take only a few minutes. A lot of thework done in fhe Shop is for -testing andsampling equipment ordered by either theResearch. Department or the Laboratory.Then, too, it's in this Shop that all theventilation and dust pipes are made whichpick up the dust and rid the various de-partments of fumes. These are usuallythirty-inch pipes and will be five or sixhundred feet long at times. Now let'slook in on the Shop.

We got the top picture on the oppo-site page when Angelo Dira was home onfurlough. Angelo enlisted in the Navy inJuly, 1942. After five weeks of trainingin San Diego he went to sea. In theSouthwest Pacific his boat was sunk andAngelo floated on a plank until daylightwhen he was picked up by a destroyer.He's shown talking to Hans Einfeldt, fore-man of the Shop. Hans has worked in theShop off and on for the last twenty-fiveyears and for the past six years he hasbeen foreman. That's Mike Shagina,helper in the Shop, to Hans' right. Re-member the story on the Sampling MillLaboratory? That's a sample screen whichhas been made for the Lab directly infront of Angelo.

Morgan Evans. a mechanic, is work-ing on a bubble breaker in the oppositepage lower picture. This bubble breakerwas being made for the Research Depart-ment and will be used in running tests.It breaks up the bubbles and thus stopsthe overflow.

In the upper picture that's LouieClucas and Joe Devine. They're both me-chanics. Louie has been in the Shop since1935 and Joe since 1936. Louie is mak-ing five-eighths inch clamps for cables.They are made of galvanized iron and areused to keep the cable ends from unravel-ing. Joe is making guards to cover gears.These are used as a safety measure inmost departments.

For the last ten years George Burton,a sheet metal worker, shown in the centerpicture. has worked on just about all-kinds of metal work brought in the Shop.In the picture he's making tallow potswhich are used for oi lers in the variousdepartments- They're first formed on aroll, seamed, and the top and bottom puton and seamed. The spout and handleare added and the pot is complete.

r! Ed Hard and Bob Shryock, mechanics\ shown in the bottom picture, are riveting

a duct for electric wiring in the ZincPlant. The wires are run through it tokeep them out of the dirt and acid. Too,the duct is a safety measure in that it's aprotection against short circuits.

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MISSINC IN ACTION

MISSINC IN ACTION! We think werealize the import of those three words-but did you ever stop to think whatthose words mean to the baby of the manmissing in action. You may think thebaby is too young to know-and willnever know. But that's where you'rewrong.

Perhaps the Moth~r has the greatestrealization of just what those words meanto her son as the Commanding Officerpins on the Distinguished Service Cross •.The Mother knows that that bit of metalis the only thing her son will ever haveto take the place of a Dad.

She knows that it can't teach himhow to cast for trout in a mountainstream ... or how to pitch an outcurve•.. or how to drive the family car.

It can't pat him on the back andsay, uYou're okeh, Son."

It can't sneak up at ~ust the rightmoment an~ ;15k= "lll')nk, feUa ... are youheading in the right direction?"

And because the Mother knows thatthe medal must represent his Dad, sherefers to it freauently throughout theyears of moldin~ her son's character. Thatbaby of today and youn~ man of tomor·row will prize that medal as nothing elsein the world. To him it is symbolic efwhat a man stt.uld be- Alon~ with theyears and experiences of life, he'll kltOwthat he gave an awful lot.

You may meet this young man someClay and if you do-and get to know himwen-he may show you his cherishedmedal. While you're talking to him,he'll be th inking: "I wonder what sacri.fices he made." And he may ask you.If he does, can you answer him from theheart and tell him what you did to helpwin the war? There'll be a lot of reckon-ing for all of us in the future.

Now is the time fot- us to take stockwith our conscience of the future. The4th War Loan Drive started January 18and continues through February 15. Theobjective is $14,000,000,000. We mustsacrifice if we are to stop the "Missing inAction" telegrams. No sacrifice is toogreat when it comes to backing up themen who are offering everything •.. andK: keeps! .8.

LET!>S ALL BACK THE ATTACKTHE other day we were pleased to havea young soldier-home on furlough-stop in the office. He saw that we had agreat deal of 4th War Loan Drive posterson our desk. The conversation was so in-teresting to us that we asked him if wecould use it in COPPER COMMANDO.

The conversation ran something likethis: "Once in a while we soldiers sitaround and talk about things .•. backhome. And we just can't help wonder-ing why anybody's got to be asked to buyWar Bonds, when the very lives of theirbrothers, their sons and their loved onesdepend on the things that War Bonds buy.We all buy them. (See picture" at thebottom of the page.) We know that ifwe can have tank for tank, plane forplane, and gun for gun-we'll beat thejaps and the Nazis. And the more andfaster we get them, the sooner we'll win-yes, and the fewer will be the whitecrosses on the battlefields.

"Gosh, you sure realize the need ofthe things that War Bonds buy whenyou're crammed down in a fox-hole whileall Hell breaks loose around you. It makesyou think, believe me::

It's true that all of us would buymore bonds if the life of our own son orbrother depended on it. We'd scrape to-gether every dime if we were sure thatthat was the case. Actually we have noreason to believe that it isn't. Uncle Samhas told us that he needs $14,000,000,--000 in order that our boys have a chanceto live. If we sell him short, we may beshorting our own of needed supplieswhich may mean his life.

That's the reason the Bond Commit-tees of the Labor-Management Commit-tees at Butte, Anaconda, Great Falls andEast Helena are asking you to take an-

other notch in your bert and put every lastdime and dollar you can possibly affordinto War Bonds to this 4th War LoanDrive which started january 18th and willcontinue through February 15th.

AS WE CO TO PRESSAt Anaconda the Bond Committee

of the Labor-Management Committee isheaded by R. j. Daniels, AFL, chairman,and J. J. Donovan, CIO. They have com-mittee members in each department atthe Smelter who are contacting each em-ployee:

In East 'Helena a notice was postedon the' bulletin board explaining thedrive and the request was made for theemployee's co-operation. The first shiftsolicited .was one hundred per cent forthe purchase of an additional War Bond.

Great Falls' committee is headed byPete Fontana, CIO, chairman. Othercommittee members are E. S. Bardwell,ACM; Herb Donaldson, AFL: E. C. VanBlarcom, ACM, and Mike Rebar, CIO.Forms have been printed and committeemembers at each department are so-liciting each employee's co-operation.Twenty per cent had signed up beforethe drive was officially opened. '

John Cavanaugh, Engineers' union,CIO, and Gene Hogan, ACM, were ap-pointed by the Labor-Management Com-mittee in Butte to represent the commit-tee in the community drive.

War Bonds are money in the bank.They are a sound investment. They paygood dividends. They work for yourcountry, while they build future securityfor you, Let's' dig in with our dollarswhen we are called on by the committeesat Butte, Anaconda, Great Falls and EastHelena.

U. S. ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC-AMERICAN SOLDIERS OVERSEAS BUYBONDS, TOO. TO SUPPORT THE WAR THEY ARE FICHTINC

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THE Research Department offers I ex-perience of the best to the boys. There'sno better place to learn what goes on nowin the Plant and what will go on in thefuture. The present processes are con-tinually being tested for improvement.After enough time spent in the lab it's nottoo difficult to go out into the Plant andsupervise the work there for the lab train-ing has laid the foundation. There areseven men in the lab at the present, notcounting Tom Wever, who is in charge,and the janitor. In the center pictureCharles (Chuck) Taylor is filtering asample and Cecil Good is washing out abeaker in the lab in the basement. Inthe picture to the right Bill Zele.zny is de.termining the acid content of a samplein the same lab. The growth of the .zincoperation at Creat Falls brought about thenew location tn the Rese.rch Building in1928.

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AT the Research Laboratory of the'Zinc Plant at Creat Falls experiments aremade for the development work of .zinc.Many tests are made at the Labora-tory before an operation is recommendedfor the plant. It must first be made towork in the Research Lab. Tom Weverto the right ,in the above picture is super-intendent of the Indium and Rare MetalsDepartment and· has charge of the Re-search Department. Ralph Smith, theman with whom Tom is working in thepicture. is foreman of the Indium 'Plant.Usualfy there are from eight to ten testsbeing carried on in the lab. There aretwo labs in the basement--one is devotedto the control work of the Leaching Plantand the other is devoted to straight re-search work. Upstairs, the lab off Tom'soffice is used for routine work and the bigroom is used for miscellaneous tests and iswhere most of the real work is done.

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TeaDlworkA Labor-Management Committee depends for its successupon teamwork between labor and management. Equally aLabor-Management Committee newspaper depends upon thecooperation of all the boys, and girls who put the job together.

$0 many readers of our Labor-Management Committeenewspaper have expressed an interest in how COPPER COM-MANDO is assembled that we thought we would like to tellyou about .it in picture form and give credit to our fine crew ofco-workers who make the production of this newspaperpossible.

By now most of you know how the editorial material is,¢athered and the photographs taken. This material is assembledby the editors; the photographs are made up into "layouts."and the text written from notes usually to fit the pictures.

In the upper Jefthand picture of the opposite page we seeAl Ashton ana his assistant. Johnny Hearne', making engravingsfrom the pictures supplied them. These engravings are madefrom zinc and when all the plates for an issue are completed,they are sent along to the printers.

In the adjoining picture Tom Davis and Francis (Marty)Martin discuss headings for COPPER COMMANDO-Tom issetting up the headlines. In the second left picture we see the'linotype machines from which the type is cast-that's JohnBaker in the background. W. E. Peterson in the foreground andBill Mann in the center. These two operators are among the'ones who help set the type such as you are reading here. Nextto them we find Frank Tooke and Mabel Bye--Mabel IS awoman linotype ooerator-e-while in the background E. A. (Ole)Ericson and C. F. Aultman talk over the completed issue withBob Newcomb. COPPER COMMANDO editor. In the third pic-ture on the lefthand side of the opposite paze we find RoyNelson and Harry Overand discussing the COMMANDO sub-heads. Roy is head of the local typograohical union. Boththese men are crackerjack linotype operators.

When the type is cast and the plates are made. they areassembled on flat tables and sent to the stereotype room formoldinz. Each mold is a semt-clrci ,br di~'< which rl~mos overthe rotary cress downstairs. That's Joey Hughes, Connie Kra-dolfer and Frank Shields in the picture.

"Now we're ready for the press-in the lower lefthandpicture Neil Giles looks over an issue just off the Dress. Theman in the white paper hat at the ris:!ht is Pressman Bill Farley,and you can get a better olcture of him at the lower riaht hand-in~ a bundle of copies to Marg Sammons, co-editor of COPPERCOMMANDO. \ /

Now COPPER COMMANDO is ready for distribution-it must go to the mail room. where Kenneth Mevers supervisesthe circulation of COPPER COMMANDO. lim Scullen and Les

.' Perryman. shown in the picture. help with the mailing. Copiesare bundled. individual cooies stamped and the whole cargo'transported by van to the Butte post office. That's a sectionof the crew at the Butte post office in the second picture--Frank Monaghan. postmaster, may be seen at the extreme reartoward the ri~ht standing with Bill Jackson. Those are allC()PPER COMMANDOS on the truck, ready for sorting anddistribution by the post office crew. Some of the men who de-liver your copies may be seen in the picture--see if you canrecoznize the man who delivers your own COPPER COM-MANDO each two weeks.

But COPPER COMMANDO represents not only Butte. Itzoes to Anaconda and to Great Falls. So the editors of COPPERCOMMANDO depend upon the fine cooperative service ren-dered by the post office staff at Anaconda and Great Falls also.In the third picture at the right, Frank Finnegan, the genialpostmaster at Anaconda. is examining the copies soon to be dis-tributed to the smeltermen. He is surrounded by a number ofhis men who regularly see that our Labor-management Com-m ittee newspaper reaches the home of every employee. In thebottom picture we see the cooperative group from Great Fallswhich keeps our distribution going up there.

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AWARDS POR SUGGESTIONS THAT ARE ACCEPTABLE

ANACONDA COPPER MINING COMPANY - BUTTE MINES AND PLANTS

l~ A suggestion IljUstbe a definite propo:;al. telling ~ 1.be improvementcan be made to increase production. •

2. ~at it wi~l acoomplish.3. What it will save.4. Each suggestion must be signe~ by the suggester. Also hi~mine and

home ,address.NOTE: The mere statement that a certain operation can be improved or that~hod of procedure is wrong ~ be oonsidered asan acceptablesuggestion.NOT ELIGIBLE FOR AWARDS

The following are not eligible for awards, as it is their routine dutytQ set 'up their jobs with the best possible methods of operation:

A. All SupervisorsB. Departmental HeadsC. Employees of Engineering Research Department

Whi~e the above defined employees are not included in this award pro-cedure, it 1s understood that suggestions from them are invited and willbe fully considered by the management.ASSIGNMENT OF SUGGESTIONS:

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Suggestion award~ ..ill be figured as fo~o"s:Provided that a suggestion has suff'icieot merit in the judgment ot the

management to justify any'award, after it is tested over a period of time,and adopted, the minimum ayard will be $6.00, and the maximum award willbe determ,illed by the management.

In making the award, such factors as the savings to be made trom theadoption of the suggestion, must be considered. i. e.

1. Safety2. Increase prodUction3, Improving, working condi tions; shops or mine4. Reduction of costs5. Waste eli~ination6. Design of mine or shop tools or equipment7•. Improvement in handling tools or eqUipment8. New production' ideas9. Saving of time or material

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