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..0N .th·eevening of February 25, Henry [. Kaiser will make the commencement address at

the Montana School of Mines in Butte. As the world is well aware, Mr. Kaiser is the geniusshipbuilder of all time; many people regard hi m as the country's foremost industrialist. Hehas smashed productiolt recOl'd after production record anel has put teeth itt the greatestshipbuilding program in the history of mankind .•.• Until 1940 Mr. Kaiser had nevercbeamed of building ships; had never even seen one launched. His experience with shipshad been limited to two .Id ones he had bought that very year. But once he decided to buildships, it didn't take him long to learn plenty a bout them. His slogan is "Nothing is impos-sible."

At Portland, Oregon, in the fall of 1942 a 10,500 Liberty ship was launched at a Kaisershipyard 10 days 11 hours and 55 minutes after its keel was laid, clipping 14 days off theprevious record foto shipbuilding. This ship was delivered to the Maritime Commission inless than 14 days after the keel-laying, breaking the former mark of 29 days, which hadbeen held by another Kaiser yard at Richmond, California. A British shipbuilder called onthe Ministry of Information to obtain a slow motion picture of the Kaiser methods.

Only six weeks later, at the Richmond, California. yard, another 10,500-ton fre.ighterwas launched 4 days 15V2 hours after its keel was laid, and was delivered to the Maritime~ommission 7 days 14V2 hours after the keel-laying thus not only beating the eIoc:k againIMtt smashing the' record of the other ship by a wide margin. The second ship was loaded... d ready to sail 14 days 1 hour and 18 minutes after its keel was laid.

The Kaiser orgaltixation also has its Labor-Management Committees. With labor and.. anagement pulling together throughout the Kaiser property, nothing, as Mr. Kaiser says,• impossible.

COPPER COMMANDO feels that the visit of Mr. Kaiser to Butte is an epochal eventIn the life of the community and the state. COPPER COMMANDO feels it may say. f~r allMontanans: "~elcome, Mr. Kaiser."

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OIdtimers of Butte's Electrical Union were honored January 22. See story on page eight,

•COPPER COMMANDO is the official

newspaper of the Victory Labor-Manage.

ment Production Committees of the Ana·

conda Copper Mining Company and itsUnion Representatives at Butte, Ana-

conda, Creat Falls and East Helena, Mon-

tana. It is issued every two weeks ••••COPPER COMMANDO is headed by a

joint committee from Labor and Manage-~ .

ment, its policies are shaped by both sides

an.d are dictated by neither •••• COPPERCOMMANDO was established at the

recommendation of the War Department

with the concurrence of the War Produc-tion Board. Its editors are Bob Newcomband Marg Sammons; its safety editor islohn L. Boardman; its chief photographer

is AI Cusdorf; its staff photographer'is Les Bishop •••• Its Editorial Board con-sists of: Denis McCarthy, CIO; Iohn F.Bird, AFL; Ed Renouard, ACM, from

Butte; Dan Byrne, CIO, Joe Marick, AFL;C. A. Lemmon, ACM, from Anaconda;Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson, AFL,

and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, from Creat

Falls •••• COPPER COMMAN·DO ismailed to the home of every employee ofACM in the four locations-if you arenot receiving your copy advise COPPER

COMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Street,Butte, or, better still, drop in and tell us.This is Vol. 2, No. 134 '

February 18, 1944

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FRONT COVER 1Joseph Dodds, shown rewinding a 200h. p. stator in the cover picture, servedhis electrician apprenticeship in the coalmines in Scotland. Joe came to the UnitedStates in 1927. After two years as a minerin Butte, he joined the c.rew at the ButteElectrical Shop on September 23, 1929.

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WAR REPORT 4General H. H. Arnold, head of the ArmyAir F-orces, submits a report to his Chief,Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson.Many of the questions on peoples mindsare answered by General Arnold, whoserevealing report COPPER COMMANDOis proud to publish in the interest ofkeeping its readers informed.,

POWER FOR PRODUCTION _ ~6It's up to the boys in the Butte ElectricalShop, located in the south end of the newParrot Machine Shop building, to keepthe power furnished for ClII the operationsof. the mines. A trip to the Shop revealsthat a large part of the work in the Shopis that of repairing underground equip-ment.

ZINC OPERATINC DEPARTMENT .... 9All the reports on zinc, from the time itis a concentrate until it's the finishedproduct ready to be shipped out, are han-dled by the Zinc Operating Departmentat Great Falls. A daily report is madefrom the various zinc departments re-ports and at the end of the month theyare combined.

ON THE POWER LlN,E 10Trouble shooters, line men, sub-stationoperators, and an inside and outside gangof workmen all play their own part inkeeping the power supplied for the Smel-ter at Anaconda. The eighty men em-ployed at-the E}ectrical Shop do a fine JODin seeing that the power is on hand whenit is needed.

OBJECTIVE: DEAD lAPS 12Here is an announcement of three grimwar pictures to be shown at the FoxTheater in Butte on Sunday, Feburay 20, (1944, under the sponsorship of the Vic-tory Labor-Management Production Com-mittee. You will want to read about itand go to it.

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HENRY L. STIMSONSecretary of \Alar

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Commanding General, Army Air Forces:

A few weeks ago Henry L.'Stimson, Secretary of War, re-ceived from the Commanding General of the Army. Air..Forces, a report on the status of the war in the air. Here areanswers to some of the questions you are asking. They'come from the man who is i,-. a position to know .

. IN September, 1939, when the Euro-pean war started, the U. S. produced only117 airplanes. Four years later, in Sep-tember, 1943, the U. S. produced 7,598planes. During November, 1943, approxi-mately 8,800 planes were produced.

During the last eight months of1943, the airplane industry experienceda 37 V2% rise in labor productivity. "Ouraircraft workers, men and women alike,have done what Adolf Hitler was surethat an unregimented people could notdo: out-think, out-work and out-build hisrobots."

In the next 15 months 145,000planes are scheduled for completion.They will be heavier and more elaboratelyequipped. The average airframe weight ofairplanes being produced now is twice asgreat as it was a year ago. The weight ofheavy bombers to be produced in the next18 months is scheduled to exceed that ofall types of planes produced in our firstyear and a half of war. There must be nolag in production.

Perhaps most important of all is anindustrial system' to replace planes lost incombat. The working life of any airplaneis short. I can now reveal that in one ofour theaters. the typical Flying Fortress is

at present in operation 231 days before itis lost in combat or damaged mechanic-ally in routine flights so that it is torndown and used to rebuild other B-l7'sand the crew assigned to another plane.During this average life period ... theaverage B-17 will fly 21 combat missionsill this particular theater. _

As we go deeper into Germany, wehurt her more and pay higher prices. Ina sense it is bombardment in depthagainst defense in depth. Inevitably, ourcampaign must be accompanied by pro-duction in depth on the home front.

CombatBy October 31, 1943. the Army Air

Forces had flown over a quarter of a mil-I

'lion combat sorties, expended in combatmore than forty million rounds of am-munition, used up nearly two billion gal-lons of gasoline, destroyed in aerial com-bat 8,748 enemy airplanes, probably de-stroyed 2.555 more and damaged another2,834. .

We have shot our enemies down inaerial combat at a rate of never less thantwo planes for one in any theater of war,and at an overall rate of four to one.

During one year's operations (Nov.8, 1942-Nov. 7, 1943) in the Mediter-

ranean Theater, Allied aircraft of theNorthwest African Air Forces dropped92,233 tons of bombs on enemy installa-tions and supply routes. Of this total 65,-377 were dropped by the AAF. In thistheater we destroyed in aerial combatand on the ground 5.511 enemy aircraft,probably destroyed 750 and damaged1.903. Of the total destroyed it is esti-mated that 4.100 were German, the restItalian. Aircraft found abandoned inenemy territory total 3,491--of these1,986 were German, the rest Italian. Dur-ing the same year. the Northwest AfricanAir Forc~s sank a total of 185' merchantships, totaling 173.400 tons; probablysank 110 ships, totaling 187,000 tons:and damaged another 243, totaling 373,-700 tons.

American fliers of the 14th AirForce have from February 2, 1942 to Oc-tober 31, 194~, brought down 351 Japa-nese aircraft, with a loss to themselves ofonly 68, an unrivaled record. That is notcounting enemy aircraft probably de-stroyed or damaged.

On May 6, during the final drivefrom Medjez el Bab to Tunis, we flew2,146 sorties, the great majority of whichwere bomber, fighter-bomber or strafingmissions on a 6,OOO-yardfront. We blast-

ed a channel from Medjez el Bab toTunis.

Air TransportThe transport and ferry systems of

the Ai r Transport Command now extendsome 110,000 miles of routes. In recentmonths an average of more than twelvemillion miles a month have been flown inferrying operations and more than tenmillion in air transport.

By December 7, 1941 about 1,200ferried planes had been flown to Britishand our own Ai r Forces and the fi rst de-livery had been made across the SouthAtlantic to Egypt. From that time to thisthe number of planes in the air and thevolume of freight carried have steadilyincreased. On one recent day 680,000pounds of materiel, munitions, and sup-plies were delivered by air to one theaterof operations.

Complete hospital s e r vic e nowmoves with the mobility of war itself. Sixdays after the Army hospital in Nome,Alaska, burned down, a new and com-plete 25-bed hospital had been flown infrom a distance of 3,400 miles. Two fieldhospitals were flown over the Owen Stan-ley Mountains in New Guinea. In Sicily,a 50-bed hospital was moved by air a dis-tance of 44 miles in 2 V2 hours from thetime it was dismantled until the time itbegan receiving patients at the new site.

All Japanese efforts to reinforce theBuna-Gona region were frustrat~d by ourlong-range heavy bombers. Our TroopCarrier Command flew a striking force-troops, equipment and food-into thearea. In one air movement 3,600 troopswere brought from Australia to PortMoresby, and 15,000 from Moresby overthe high Owen Stanley Mountains to theair strips near Buna. These troops werenot only transported but were supplied byair at the rate of more than two millionpounds a week. Construction equipmentand steel mats and asphalt moved by thesame route. A four-gun battery of 105mm. howitzers was ferried over by aB-17. Sick and wounded were evacuatedon the way back. The entire operationproved to be of far-reaching tactical con-sequence.

Four thousand additional transportplanes could be used today if we hadthem.

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the costly and time-consuming defeat ofGermany, we can by a simple order flyour planes to China, bomb Tokyo, andbri ng Japan to her knees, do not yet un-derstand the need for vast supply-lines,well-equipped bases, and planes built tofight under entirely different conditionsfrom those that prevail in Europe.

Supply is our problem in China. Tosupply our growing air strength in thatcountry has been perhaps the greatestsingle challenge to the efficiency of theAir Forces. Every item of equipment nec-essary for the maintenance and operationof our 14th Air Force must be flown intoChina from the outside. That is the pri-mary, fundamental fact of our presentstrategy in Asia.

It may throw some light to considerthis fact in terms of gasoline alone. In theround-trip over the Hump between As-sam and Kunming, the C-87 transportnow in use can deliver 4 tons of 100-octane gasoline. To do so, the airplanemust consume 31/2 tons.

The crews of a heavy bombardmentgroup in China must ferry over their owngasoline, replacement parts and every-thing else in their own B-24's (the C-87'is a converted B-24). Before this bom-bardment group can go on one combatflight, it must make four trips over theHump. To perform one extremely dan-gerous mission, those crews must makefour separate flights over the most haz-ardous mountain terrain in the world.

17,OOO-foot mountains have to be

cleared by instrument flying; if our menveer to the North they meet 22,OOO-footpeaks while to the South they drift overJapanese-held Burma -. It is no country tocrash-land in.

, That is the route our supplies musttravel AFTER they have al ready beenshipped more than 10,0'00 miles. Forevery pi lot overseas the Ai r Service Com-mand sends out the surprising average ofNINE TONS'OF AVIATION SUPPLIESMONTHLY, not including food and otheritems handled by the Quartermaster.

Until such time as we conquer theterritory and build the road into China,and/or capture a seaport, we must followthis procedure whether it is for 40 air-craft or 4,000.

To win the war in the Pacific requires the ma-intenance of difficult and lengthy suj)plylines. For example, every single bit of gasoline in China has been flown in. But todeliver four tons of gasoline over the "Hump," the transport plane must consume3V2 tons!

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Power for Produ~tion'f,he Electrical Shop at Butte was moved last year to the south side of the new Parrot MachineShop building. A more up-to-date electrical shop is hard to find. Considering the fact thatthe Electrical Shop keeps the underground equipment operating" it's been a mighty goodthing for production that the Shop was able to handle all the jobs brought in for repair •

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T HE 'work of the el~ctricians in Buttein some respects is somewhat differentfrom that of the electricians in Anaconda.as shown on page ten of this issue. At theShop, located in the south side of the newParrot Machine Shop building, there aresix rewinding stands for armatures andsmall motors. The reason for these six re-winding stands is that the coils of thearmatures burn out and it's necessary toreplace the old coils with new ones, ifthe underground locomotives' are to bekept moving out the ore. Since Pearl Har-bor it's been mighty important that theunderground locomotives be kept i.o goodworking order and the boys in the Elec-trical Shop have certainly done their sharein keeping them in good condition. Thereare around two hundred fifty locomotivemotors used underground and usuallyaround twelve of them will be found infor repair.

Another different feature of theButte Electrical Shop is the radio depart-ment, which is upstairs from the Elec-trical Shop. Leonard Davies is in charge.Leonard makes and repairs radio signalsets for operating the mine hoists. Withthe signal sets in operation it does awaywith the installation of expensive signalcables in the shafts. This system has beenil")effect for two years. It is used in goodstead for emergency stops if there is shafttrouble and for routine shaft inspection.Before these signal sets were used, it wasnecessary to ring the bell from the station,but now the signal can be given from themoving cage itself. Needless to say, it'san additional safety measure. Leonard hadcharge of the planning .and installation ofthe public address system used in themines which has proven to be very benefi-cial in reaching the miners on short notice.

John Bradford, Kenneth Rohrer andClarence Wasley, shown in the ~positepage bottom picture, are all armaturewinders. John and Kenneth are rewind-ing armatures for the five-ton batteryunderground locomotives which are usedfor transporting the ore to the shaft.Clarence is rewinding a 5 h. p. Hi-Speedfan motor, of which there are 900 inservice. That's a close up in the centershot of John Bradford rewinding the lo-comotive armature. .)

In order to make a locomotive stopand go, a controller is used. In the top

, picture John Currie is repairing ~ loco-motive controller at the work bench.

The bottom picture shows the mo-tor generator sets which are used forcharging the batteries which furnish thepower for the underground locomotives.John Palmer is shown testing the brushesto see that the brushes and the commuta-tor are working. John is a trouble shooterat the Shop and works out of the Shop forthe most part of the time.

Joseph Dodds is rewinding a 200h. p. stator in the cover picture. A statoris the part of the motor which drives theblowers for circulating the air throughthe mines. Any of the miners will tell youhow important it is that the blowers bekept operating.

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NEXT Tuesday the people of this coun-try will pause briefly in the thick of fight-ing a war to recall that it marks the birth-day of George Washington, the father ofour country.

One .is reminded. when thinking ofGeorge Washington, of the bitter winterhe spent at Valley Forge. With an armyunder-staffed, under-clothed, and under-fed, serving without pay of any kind,George Washington kept the morale ofhis men up and in his final skirmisheswith the foe, he overcame every hardshipt: .at faced him. Because of his refusal togive up, he freed the country from itsshackles and started it on its' way t? be-come the greatest of nations.

It was part of Washington's basicbelief that if you I 0 v e d something€'1ough, you've got to be willing to fightfor it. You've got to be willing to fightfor it if you want to keep it and, if it'isn't worth keeping. then it isn't worthfighting for. Washington's ranks werefilled with defeatists-fellows who com-plained of the cold and the lack of foodand ammunition; fellows who said in ef-fect, "Oh, what's the use. Let's go hometo our farms and fami Iies. Let's let theenemy have the country-we'll get alongall right." Against such weak - spined'thinking, Washington fought with all hispersonal strength. There were times, too,when he felt like throwing in the sponge,but he refused to do it.

Millions of American boys today arecarrying on in the Washington tradition.They. too, would like to return to theirfamilies and friends. They, too, would like'to escape the rigors of cold and hardshipand suffering. But there's a fighting spiritthat keeps them going on.

If we'd been smart, we would havemade sure away back at the time of theRevolutionary War that our countrywould never be assaulted again, but wegrew fat and prosperous and lazy and wedid nothing to prepare ourselves againstsuch attacks as occurred at Pearl Harbor.~he boys who are fighting this war today'are correcting that mistake. When theycome back, let's make certain that themistake is never made again..8.

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People (;' Places..IN recog~ition of the splendid job doneby several operations of the AnacondaCopper Mining Company, the MontanaIndustry. Committee for Industrial Sal-vage, cooperating with the War Produc-tion Board, has issued a certificate ofaward. These awards (we show a repro-duction of one in connection with thisarticle) are given in recognition of "pa-triotic and meritorious service in connec-tion with the Industrial Salvage Program,sponsored by the Montana Industry Com-mittee for Industrial Salvage, in coopera-tion with the War Production Board."

The award was "'1ade in the fiveareas into which the state is divided. InArea 2 the Company at Great Falls wasawarded the certificate; in Area 3 theBonner operation was recognized, whilein Area 4 the salvage record was givenrecognition at East Helena, Anacondaand Butte.

This vitally important operation is avital factor in helping to win the war andthe committee is driving away at bring-ing out the "dormant" scrap. Dormantscrap is abandoned or obsolete equip-ment, and its salvage requires that in-dustry look into every part of the plantfrom rooftop to basement. All out-of-the-way places must be explored. To lickthe Axis the War Produ'ction Board needs

- obsolete tools, dies and machines; steelfloor cplates and gratings; miscellaneousstructural iron and steel; abandoned fireescapes, broken work benches and manyother items which have out-lived theirusefulness.

The state must furnish 16,800 tonsof scrap metal by June 30. For the lastsix months of 1943, Montana exceededthe industrial scrap quota by eighty percent. Industry has done a splendid job sofar and the committee hopes to equal oreven surpass the fine record made so far.

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OLDTIMERS' PARTY

Local No. 65 of the InternationalBrotherhood of Electrical Workers got to-gether on Saturday night, January 22, atCarpenters Hall for Oldtimers' Night.Here more than one hundred fifty mengathered to honor those old time electri-cians who have laid down their tools andtaken up the pension to which they andother members have contributed regu-larly over a period of years. Honored toowere former members who have left theorganization for executive and admlnis-'tration positions.

The oldtimers honored were: FrankShott, Lawrence Mulholland, John Hag-gerty, Allen D, Aiken, Harley H. Thur-man, Ed J. Drout, Tom W. Robbins, Rob-ert Brimston, Frank Cochrane, WilliamHoskins, Fred Nesbitt, Edward E. Teasie,Chris Springer, Nels Lindquist, Neil Mc-Donald and Walter Lewis.

These members, the majority ofwhom were former employees of theAnaconda Copper Mining Company intheir wire-twistin' careers, were present-ed with attractive gold badges of honor.

One "younger member," Neil Mc-Donald, retired from active service in theorganization, was presented a bag.

The program was presided over byKenneth Mulholland, local president,who welcomed the group and introducedthe master of ceremonies, Leighton Grib-ble. Gribble presented the gold badges tothe oldtimers and introduced Jack. Dono-van who presented the traveling bag.

Rated one of the best events of itskind in roca I history, a lot of credit goesto Bernard Morrissey, chairman of thecommittee, Bill Conroy, Walt Crase, DaveEverett, and Russel (Spotty) Williams. Apicture of the group is shown on page 3of this issue.

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THAT'S George C. Moline, head clerk.Joe Wagner, typist, Gordon Ellis, clerk.Bill Mondik. clerk, and Felix St. Jean inthe picture above. They're ,the boys whomake out the daily and monthly reportsfor the Zinc Operating Department. Lookat their service records and then take an-other look at them for it would seem theyshould be a lot' older than they are-butthey'lf tell you it's such a good place towork that no one ever quits. George hastwenty-eight years to his credit. William<;.omes next with twenty years. Gordoncame two years later and Felix boasts ofseventeen. Carl Stamm in the picture tothe right is a clerk in. the next room. It'shis job to keep account of indium pro.duction and shipments. He also boxes theindium for shipment, is a research typistand occasionally pinch hits for the weigh-er in the Zinc Casting Department. Carlhas been on the job for seven years.

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THE Zinc Operating Department atGreat Falls handles all the reports on zincfrom the time it is a concentrate until it'sthe finished product ready to be shippedout. These records from all the ZincPlant Departments are made into dailyreports. A daily report from the recordsgoes to the department from which itcame and at the end of the month a re.port is made out for the General Office.All operating records of tonnages treatedon the finished zinc, cadmium and in-dium are handled by this department.Too, they keep the labor reports of themen working in and out of the Zinc Plantas well as the seniority records. Ernest C.Van Blarcom, acting superintendent ofthe Zinc Plant, and Robert J. Smith, act-ing assistant superintendent. shown Inthe picture above, are responsible for alloperations in the Zinc Plant.

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Power LineElectricity is one of those things whichwe take for granted. The only time werealize how, priceless it is, is when some-thing goes haywire and it is shut off. Ittakes a crew of men at ~nacondit to seethat nothing goes haywire. That helps inthe production of WM' materials.

THERE are around eighty men working'in the Electrical Shop at the Smelter atAnaconda. Trouble shooters, line men,sub-station operators, and an inside andan outside gang all play their own part inkeeping the power supplied for the Smel-ter. Usually there are four electriciansand a machinist and his helper in theshop.

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Ray McCarren has been superinten-dent of the Electrical Shop and of theSub-Stations for the past five years. BlakeWestgard is the electrical draftsman. Itis up to him to make the tracings forblueprints for the electrical jobs of thedepartment. His work may include a jobto plan the power feeders for the Hill orit may be the fire alarm circuits or it maybe anyone of many other jobs needing tobe figured out for the Hill's operation.

There's a storeroom above the Elec-trical Shop and if you don't think it's wellstocked, just look at the section of it jnthe top picture which shows Henry Johns.a motor winder, gettin~ a set of coilsfrom Johnnie Pusick. Johnnie is a Pur-chasing Department employee stationedthere. He gives out all the supplies need-ed by the boys in the Shop and keeps aninventory of stock on hand. When sup-plies are running low, he reports it to JimMcv'lcars in the office:

Eddie (jackson) Myers. shown inthe middle picture. is general shop re-pairman. Twenty-five years around theshop has made him an expert in small re-pair work and salvaging of material. He's

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shown safvaging a safety switch wh~had been brought ~A for repair, That's thesw1tch box In front of him and the swiotGlw. to t.t.le side,

We sot the offtGe gang just as Sot)Glenn from the Time Office dr-opped m topick up the time sheets. Jean M<:NptneBoscovich {she just recently was matIIoo

. ried and her husband t.s ROW ifl servtc~and {Royal Barnell are clerks f.or theElectrical Shop. They keep the #me ree-ords and all other department records.tJim McVicars is in the office with them..:

The lower right picture shows An-drew McVicars, who has been janitor atthe shop for around twenty yeMS. An-drew has. four sons working for AC~you~U remember fr<>m the story In Issue19, Volume 1, ofCOPPERCOMMAN~

Hank Johns is slotting the commu-tator of a, 100 hp D. C. motor from theconverter cranes in the top picture,That's the baking oven in the background,After the motor is rewound, the motor isdipped in varnish and baked, which keepsthe moisture out of the motor and in-creases the life and efficiency of the mo-tor. Jim Lyon, shop foreman, is sit/fing ona 40 h. p. gear motor used on the elevatorin the copper concentrator,

Oldtimers Bill Atcheson and HarryTucker are shown in the center pictureworking on aA induction motor. Harry i$

the machinist and Bill is his helper. Bothare employed in the shop full time.

Atl outside electrical work at theSmelter, including third rail, power lines,and yard light work is taken care of bythe linemen shown in the lower rightshot. Left to right are: Henry Gray, Da-mas Launderville Sid Jackson, Bud Haver-mann, foreman of the line gang. Top row:Ernie Costlow, Thorp Johnson, LeonardWebb, Chuck Chumrau, "Black" Larsen.truck driver, Tom McCarthy, Bob Fergu-son, Peter Peterson. They're always outon some job, so they have their own linetruck for transporti ng them.

In the lower left shot "Cuber" Learyoperating the twenty ton nand controlledcrane used in moving the machinery .

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Ohje~tive: IOO~OOO~OOODead JapsTHE more we see what has been done, the more we understand what must be Clone, thesooner we will bring the Nips to their knees.

Your Butte Victory Labor-Management Production Committee, i.n cooperation withthe War Department, will show t.hree new war films on Sunday, February 20.

~he place: The Fox Theater.The time: Three shows, at...2:30, 7:00 and 9 :00 p. m. •. The cost: Nothing; admission is by ticket issued at mines and plants through the Vic-

tory Labor-Management Production Committee.Three great war pictures are to be shown. The newest War Department film, called

WAR DEPARTMENT REPORT, gives eye-opening facts on possible avenues of attack onCermany and Japan. This is hitherto confidential material on the strength and weaknessesof the enemy, illustrated by the finest combat scenes filmed by Army and Navy cameNcrews. Captured Cerman film is included.

FILM COMMUNIQUE NO.3. How the tank landing ships operate, with actual scenesof landing under fire at Sicily. The finest combat picture to date of American planes blast-ing Nazi fighters from the sky over Europe.

BAPTISM OF FIRE. Rated the most revealing and grim picture to come out of thewar. Produced for showing at ports of embarkation to acquaint the soldiers with combatconditions in an attack.

The ticket issued to you tells the time of the performance of your s"ow. T~E TICKETIS COOD ONLY FOR THE TIME SHOWN. There will be no speakers.

The Victory Labor-Management Production Committee at Butte acknowledges itsthanks for the services provided by the Theatrical Stage Employees and Motion PictureOperators, Local 94; by the Musicians' Association; the management of the Fox Theafre,the Montana Power Co. and the Miners' Union Auxiliary.

\WAR FILMS SECTION OF LABOR-MANACEMENT COMMITTEE

JOHN F. BmD, ChairmanRepresenting AFLEUGENE HOGAN

Bepresentln, ACM CO.

BERT RILEYBep~ntinr CIO, Miners

JOHN CAVANAUGHR.epresentln, (JIO, En,in_