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M~JOR SARRE flew over Toulon -exactly twenty-five yearsafter he had visited the city while in charge of the firstAmerican Red (:ross -cection en route from Paris to Milanduring the last war. Now an intelligence officer at FlyingFortress Headquarters, he served with the French, Italianan.d American armies in World War I. These pictures show. the actual bomb run from the approach to the target to thefinal turn-off. Just remember that this operation tookonly five minutes.

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WITH the invasion at full blast, readers of Copper Com-mando may like to see these four pictures which were takend.uring a U. S. Army Air Forces raid on the submarine> pensand re~air facilities at Toulon recently. These four-motorbombers dumped hundreds 0' tons of high explosives on

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the Nazi-held harbor within five minutes. (These pic-tures were taken in less than three hund'red seconds, andthe man who operated the camera was Major Cordon Sarre,New York City, who was a combat photographer on thismission.)

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THE picture at the top.of the page shows t.he U. S. Army AirForces Flying Fortresses approaching the southern coast ofFrance before beginning their bomb run over the Nazi sub-marine pens. The second picture shows the bomb bay dooropening on the B-17. The plane wm s~n be directly overthe target. Bomb away! In the third picture, the first bombto drop on Toulon is on its way, and in the pioture at the leftyou see the smoke arise from the direct hit on Toulon. .

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COPPERCOMMANDOVOL. II NO. 23

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This bomber is on ifs way to repay NaziGermany tenfold for the assaults of theLuftwaffe. It is one of many thousandsthat are shattering the Nazi empire •

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COPPER COMMANDO is the officialnewspaper of the Victory Labor-Manage-ment Production Committees of the Ana-conda Copper M'ining Company and itsUnion .Representatives at Butte, Ana-conda, Great Falls and East Helena, Mon-tana. It is issued every two weeks. • ••COPPER COMMANDO, is headed by ajoint committee' from Labor: and Man-agement, its policies are shaped by bothsides and are dictated by neither. • • •COPPER COMMANDO wa~ establishedat the recommendation of the War· De-partment with the concurrence of theWar Production Board. Its editors areBob N~wcomb and Marg Sammons; itssafety editor is John L Boardman; itschief photographer is AI Gusdorf; itsstaff photographer is Les Bishop. • • ItsEditorial Board consists of: Denis Mc-Carthy, CIO; John F. Bird, AFL;' Ed Re-nouard, 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 _Great Falls .••• COPPERCOMMANDO is mailed to the home ofevery employee of ACM in "he four loca-tions-if you are ftOt receiving your copy,advise COPPER COMMANDO at 112Hamilton Street, Butte, or better ..still,drop in and tell us. This is Vol. 2, No. 23.

In This Issue'F·R0 NT COVER _ .__' __ , __.."'" _ , _- )'The Fifth War Bond Drive is on the last stretch. With the invasion at full blast, w.all should be willing to dig a little deeper.

MISSION OVER TOULON __. . __-;__ _.._ 2Here is a photographic record of five minutes over Toulon. These pictures are rated -among the best to come out of the war.

BIRTHDAY PARTY = 4Butte's Labor-Management Committee is two years old, so the labor boys threw C\party for members of management. Here's the picture story.

PEOPLE & PLACES................................•........ ~ __ __ a,The mail we like the most is the letters from the boys in service. We'd like to hear.from more of you fellows when you get a chance to write.

'AWARDS AT ANACONDA _ __•.......................... _ ~Prize-winning suggestions submitted by Anaconda men were recently applauded b~Herbert Heasley, Chief of the Non-Ferrous Metals Section of War Production DriveDivision. •

MACHINE SHOP lQOne of the vital cogs in the copper-production machine is' the Machine Shop at GreatFalls. This is the first of a series of articles on this important operation.

KIDS' N IGHT OUT. __ __ 1~The Sports Committee of the Butte Mine rs' Union recently sponsored a party fo~Butte's young skaters. This is the picture story of another helpful activity of t~Miners' Union.

Charlie BIKk; labor'. chairman, does the honors with the baked ham.

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BIRTHDAY PARTYAt the enClof two years, ,the Victory Labor-Management Production Com4

mittee at Butte staged a meeting an d party, with labor acting as hosts toJnanagement. First committee to be ff;)rmed in the entire non-ferrous",eta's industry, the Butte unit is recogni%ed as one of the best in the coun-try. Here's a picture story of who wa s there, what was said and what wasrlone.

ON the occasion of its second anniver-sary, the Butte Labor-Management Com-mittee took stock of its accomplishmentsat a meeting well attended by membersof both management and labor, and lateradjourned to the Miners' Union Hall,where labor entertained members ofmanagement.

Letters Are ExchangedThe decision to mark the second

birthday of the Committee originatedwith Charlie Black, veteran chief of the

. Labor Section of the Committee. Char-lie was aided in the program's planningby a committee of four-Hubie Benjamin

I .of the Ironworkers (AFU, John Cava-naugh of the Stationary Engineers (CIO).Jimmy Cusick of the Machinists (AFUand Curly McLeod, recording secretaryof the Butte Miners' Union (CIO).

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plans not only for the meeting but forthe party which followed, at which mov-ing pictures from the Navy Departmentand the War Department were shown ..The bi II for refreshments was footed bythe labor boys themselves, who dugdown into their pants and contributed toa fund to entertain management.

Officials of the Anaconda Companymingled with representatives of theunions. The delegation from manage-ment included D. M. Kelly, R. H. Glover,F. A. Linforth,' H. J. Rahilly, and othermanagement members of the Commi ttee.Present also was W. B. Daly, ex-generalmanager, who has recently returned fromHollywood for the summer.

A feature of the meeting, which pre-ceded the party, was the reading of aninvi tation sent by the labor committee toexecutives of the Anaconda Copper Min-ing Company ·in New York. The invi-tation was sent to C. F. Kelley, chairmanof the Board; J. R. Hobbins, Companypresident, and W. H. Hoover, vice presi-cent and genera! counsel. Black's invita-tion read in 'part, "We are all Butte peo-ple and we believe in this community andin this industry. We think that if wecan sit down with you management menin a time of war and solve problems, weshould be able to sit down in peace timesand talk sensibly to each other .. , . Onething we realize is this: The one way tosolve problems between employer andemployee is to meet and thresh out theproblems in as friendly a manner as pos-sible ... Now, with the invasion underway, there seems to be a greater need forteamwork between us than there everwas before. Labor ...bas arranged an in-teresting and varied program, and we willlook forward to having you with us."

Although pressure of important workin New York prevented any of the threefrom coming, the replies to labor's invita-tion were most pleasantly received.

Mr. Kelley, replying by wire, said inpart, "I Wish to express my deep appre-ciation of your invitation and to assureyou of my best wishes. . . I have fol-lowed with keen interest the reports ofproceedings of the Labor-ManagementCommittee in Butte and have been grati-

Part of the group which gath~red for the business meeting.

fied by the spirit shown and its accom-plishments. I hope the contact thusmade may be continued in the future, asboth management and labor wi II profi tfrom mutual 'understanding and sym-pathy. "

President Hobbins replied that he was..extremely interested and appreciative ofthe sentiments which you express andyour concept of the present and poten-tial value of the Labor-ManagementCommittee ... The Committee has madea very great contribution to the produc-tion effort, and in view of the critical de-mand for copper, it has thus made a greatcontribution to the war effort ... I be-lieve also that the meetings have been ofincalculable value in establishing betterunderstanding and relationships betweenthe men and management, and I am defi-nitely in accord with your statement thatthe best manner of solving problems be-tween employer and employees is to meetand thresh out such problems in afriendly and practical manner."

Mr. Hoover, expressing regret that hewas not able to attend, wrote "to assureyou of my sincere interest in the successof this co-operative effort from its veryincepfion and of my hope and belief thatthe Committee has a proper place. insolving the problems of production forwar and thereafter the problems of peace-time production, which may be just as

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D. M. Kelly, as permanent manage-ment chairman for the Committee, re-sponded as spokesman for the local man-agement and paid high tribute to theCommittee and its accomplishments. Hepointed out that fhe Committee hadearned its place as one of the outstand-ing committees of the country and urgedit to continue its good work in backing

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up the men at the fighting fronts. "La-bor .has _dug in its pockets to entertainmanagement tonight," Mr. Kelly con-cluded. "Management wants to enter-tain you fellows in turn. So set a dateand make it soon." The management af-fair for labor will be held in the near fu-ture .

W. B. Daly, called upon to say a fewwords, remarked that he had watchedwith interest the operations of the Com-mittee from the beginning and felt cer-tain that it would continue to maintainits high standard. Similar viewpoints,were voiced by Messrs. Glover, Linforthand Rahilly.

Brief remarks were made by HubieBenjamin for the AFL, Curly McLeod forthe Butte Miners' Union; and John Bird,also AFL. ·Among those who cited theaccomplishments and responsibilities ofthe Committee from the floor wereHenry Young for the Engineers, JohnCrawford, president of the SiIver Bow.'Trades and Labor Council; John O'Neilland John Boardman of the Company, andothers.

Following the meeting, managementand labor men gathered at the Butte Min-ers' Union, where labor acted as hosts tomanagement. The first war film ,was"Battle of the Beaches," a Navy releasemirroring the progress of naval warfare.The second picture was .. Battle of Rus-sia," a documentary film showing theRussian war machine in action. Refresh-ments were served following the filmsand the labor and management men min-gled far into the evening.

A review of the accomplishments ofthe Butte Committee in the two years ofits existence clearly shows that manymilestones have been passed. Observersfeel that the committee has been respon-

Bill Daly says hello.

Cur1y McLeod speaks up.

Dan Kelly h.,asa few words.

Roy Clover takes the floor. .

Jphn Bird reads the mail..5.

Hal Rahilly reviews the year.

Henry Young makes a point.

Arthur Linforth explains suggestions.

Charlie Black speaks for labor.

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At the Miners' Union, the boys squared away their refreshments.

sible to a great extent for building a warconsciousness in the community. Notonly has the importance of copper in thewar effort been driven home to theworker and his family, but it has beenemphasized to residents of the commu-nity as well. The Publicity Sub-Commit-tee, which is responsible for the placingof posters and other literature, has ac-complished a great deal in this direction.

Haute boots for the miners.

The Committee has eased many pro-duction problems through the fact thatmembers of labor and management havemet and tackled them together. Aftermany months of disappointing effort, theCommittee was able to obtain Terre

For many months there has been agreat shortage of time-pieces throughout.the country, but the Committee was ableto arrange for a quantity of watchesthrough the War Production Board-they were not new time-pieces, but theywere the best to be obtained at the time.The Committee for several weeks hasbeen working on the matter of alarmclocks, although the shortage is nation-wide. The Committee is also busy onthe matter of obtaining priorities for'work clothes and tools.

Transportation difficulties have beenironed out to a large extent by the Com-

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mittee so that workers could get to theirjobs on time, and last wi~ter the Com-mittee tackled the matter of obtaininganti-freeze for workers' cars and was ableto arrange for a quantity to be shippedinto Butte.

Credit goes to the. sub-committee onrationing, which expanded into the MeatFor Copper Production Drive, which washeaded by a labor-management man. Itis prevailing sentiment that the smashingdrive this committee- put forth againstWashington agencies played its part inthe easing of meat points.

The Suggestion Sub-Committee and theAbsenteeism Sub-Committee have madegains. The Committee has been helpfulin attemptin,g to ease the drains on man-power through the pointing out to gov-ernment agencies the urgent necessity ofkeeping copper workers within the indus-try. The Committee has given substan-tial aid to War Bond drives .

•Within the past year, the Committee

has been directly responsible for the pres-entation of two great shows in Butte-theArmy War Show held last summer in co-operation with the War Department andthe War Production Boa rd· and theAwards Ceremonies held later, whichwere conducted in collaboration with theCopper Division of WPB, at which timethe contribution of copper workers tothe war program was officially recognizedby the United States government.

The tribute paid to copper workers re-sulted from asuggestion which occurred. within the Labor-Management Commit-tee itself, At that time a number ofyoung employees. frozen in their jobs,were subject to humiliation because oftheir failure to be in uniform. The situa-tion was serious and the Committee tookthe matter up directly with the chief ofthe Copper Division of the War Produc-tion Board. As a result, awards weremade to all copper workers who had

e worked a certain number of shifts in thesix-months period previous. The WarProduction Board sent representatives toButte; a parade was staged and a verysuscessful dance followed the ceremoniesat Columbia Gardens.

The Labor - Management Committeeprogram was launched in Washington alittle over two years ago by Donald M.Nelson, head of the War ProductionBoard, at the specific request of PresidentRoosevelt, who urged labor and manage-ment to work together to help win thewar. Today there are nearly 5.000 suchcommittees in the country, -and they arewidely credited with having encouragedthe amazing war production record ofAmerican industry. The Anaconda Cop-per Mining Company and the unions wereinvited at that time to form committeesat the various Montana properties of theCompany, and this was done. There arefour Anaconda committees in Montana-in addition to the one at Butte. unitsare functioning at Anaconda, Great Fallsand East Helena.

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Bill Daly :).nd Dan Kelly, center, get a minute to visit.

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1--abor and management chin; McCarthy, Oaas, Hogan and Reese.

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Labor di,s in: Strike. Hills. Lacey, Birmingham, Young, Casey.

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mittees of the Anaconda Copper MiningCompany and the unions have passedtheir second milestone. They we,re ~he

»:first to be formed in the whole non-fer-rous metals industry and, without brag-ging too much about it, they are concededon all sides to be among the best.

When Donald M. Nelson, head of the 'War Production Board, followed the rec-ommendation of President Rooseveltthat I.bor and management get togetherto win the production battle on the homefront, the Anaconda Company commit-tees were the first to respond. Duringthat two years' interval, there has been acertain amount of locking of horns, whichcould be expected. But, on the whole,both labor and management were pro-gressive enough and intelligent enough toput aside differences of opinion and pulltogether to do a job on the Axis.

Who are these men who representmanagement and labor in on the VictoryLabor-Management Production Commit-tee? So far as management is concerned,they are men chosen from various depart-ments of the Anaconda Company. So faras labor is concerned, they are the choicesof organised labor. For more than twoyears these representatives have sat downin a pretty satisfactory spirit of harmony,to iron out difficulties and keep the pro-duction wheels moving. In Butte; for ex-ample, for a time the union men appearedon union time, just as the managementmen appeared on management time.Then, by common consent, they decidedto meet in the evening instead of theafternoon so that each man who sits onthis committee today does so without be-ing pa~d for it except in. terms of satisfac-tion he gets out of doing'a good job.

We aren't going to stop here to sumup the things that the Victory Labor-Management Committees have done toaid the cause of the war program-any-body who has followed Copper Com-mando for two years is pretty well awareof what they are. Nobody will deny thata whole lot more could have been done,but both groups have their feet on thefourth rung of the .ladder and are mov-ing up. Some day the time will arrivewhen both management and labor the na-tion over can meet in friendly harmony.When that time comes, everybody who"as anything to do with American indus-try will be better off.

People .~ PlacesMarine SpeaksCHIEF Chemist Gutchell of theAnaconda Reduction Works haspassed along to us this interest-ing letter from Pfc. Stanley Sal-omonson, who is a former

•smelterman now with the Ma-rines. We thought you wouldlike to read this letter:"Ahoy, you landlubbers and

coppermen:

"I can just imagine you'll bemuch surprised to get a letter

PFC. SALOMON SON,from your former employee andhard - to - get - along - withco - worker. Having forgottento write a line now and then, itsrtuck me like a hammer blowwhen I opened a package fromhorne and in it were the De-cember 24th and January 7thcopies of the Copper Com-mando. What a splendid pa-per! Boy, what a feeling I gotwhen I saw you fellows in theLab and in the Research Dept.You can never imagine how Ipoured over each picture andsentence. After being withoutreading material and necessitiesfor long stretches at a time, Ifelt as though I was home oncemore, everything so neat andclean and everyone on the job.I lost no time in letting the oth-er fellows in the squad know.who each person was, what hewas doi ng, how I used to workthere, etc. It's so easy to tellwhat you've done, who you'veworked with, your troubles andjoys, but when it comes in pic-tures and print, you feel asthough you're among thosethings again. I heartily thankand congratulate the VictoryLabor- Management ProductionCommittees for editing andpublishing such a splendidnewspaper. I'd like very muchif you'd send me copies. It's agreat morale builder after be-ing on the go most of the time.

"I know you'll post this inthe weighing room, for it is..toall of you. Keep up the goodwork, fellows, and we'll keepon chasing those who are los-ing face every day.

"I know you all would liketo get more news from me, butcensorship doesn't permit it.However, I can tell you that Iwas in the Cape Gloucestercampaign. Am still hale andhearty, and always anxious tohear from home. It'll be a longtime before I see the Statesagairi, so don't forget, I keepthinking- of you boys, and howswell it would be to be amongyou again."

A Mother WritesONE of the many, many letterswhich come to us that im-pressed us a great deal arrivedhere from Mrs. H. H. Foremanwho lives in Spokane. We arequoting her letter because wethought it would please you asmuch as it did us:

"Dear Editors: ,"Some time ago a friend of

ours gave us a copy of the Cop-per Commando for March 31,.1944. In it mention was madeof my son, Howard C. Foreman.now a corporal in the UnitedStates Marine Corps. Do youhave an extra copy so that I cansend one to Howard? This oneI want .to keep for his scrapbook if I can-I suppose youknow he was awarded the SilverStar for gallantry in action.

"I just can't find words toexpress our appreciation ofyour commendation of him-and I am very sure that it giveshim a real inspiration to knowthat he has the ..Mines' ....backof him, for I know of no groupof people in the world whose-espect and friendship he wouldrather have than these men inButte that he worked with andfor.

"I know it gave me a thri IIjust to read that copy of youroaper, and it will certainlymean a lot more to him. Ithink you have found the truemeaning of 'morale':'

Two FriendsWE have had a great many:::ompliments paid to our specialissue devoted to the invasionwhich came out two weeks ago.A.t this time we thought you'dbe interested to know that thishard-boi led pictorial materialwas provided by a gal in theWar DepartmenT by the nameof Virginia Drayer. Ginny, aswe here in the office know her,has been with the EmployeePublication Section of the Bu-reau of Public .Relations of the.War Department since beforePearl Harbor, and she has a re-markable grasp of the entirewar picture. She has been aloyal and dependable friend ofCopper Commando a-n d wewould like to say "Thanks" toGinny publicly. We wish thatall the readers of Copper Com-mando might know her andknow how efficient and capableshe is.

Another friend of.ours in theWar Department has bee ntransferred to the Office ofStrategic Services. This man,whom we hate to see go, islames D. Hart, formerly re-search director of the Bureauof Public Relations of the War. Department in Washington,

We labor and managementeditors of Copper Commandohave leaned on Jim heavilysince we first started publish-ing two years ago. WhereverIim goes, and whatever hedoes, he will do a bang-up jobof it.

Call Him CharlieWE got' nosing into safety rec-ords the other day and dug upwhat we think is a champion.He is Charles Brunell, a motor-man at the Mountain Con, whostarted work in Butte March 5,1913. During the past thirty-one years he has served a totalof twenty-four years, threemonths and twenty-five days,and during this long intervalthere is no record of accidentalinjury nor of infraction of safe-ty rules. Charlie has worked inthe Badger, Tramway, Leonardmachine shop, West Gray Rock,Alice, Bell, East Colusa, SilverBow, Elm Orlu, Original, Ansel-mo and Mountain Con. In thethirty-one years he has hadtwenty-five different jobs, ofwhich eight were due to trans-fers because his min e sus-pended operation.

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most of the time. He lives withhis wife in a comfortable littlehouse on W est Daly streetwhere we visited him. The Bru-oells have three sons-one iswith the Army in England, an-other was given a temporarydischarge after being wounded,and the third works at the Gen-eral Office of the AnacondaCompany. Charlie drove a horseunderground in the old days,but he thinks the motor is hereto stay.

If there's a better safety rec-ord in camp. let's hear about it.

Michael J. Kelly receives award

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Heasley greets Joseph Antonich

WPB Division Chief hails Brown

Heasley, with Barnard and McLean

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AWARDS AT ANACONDAT HE Victory Labor-Management P!"o-duction Committee at the AnacondaSmelter recently acted as host to HerbertHeasley, chief of the Non-Ferrous MetalsSection of the War Production Drive Di-vision, Washington, D. C. Heasley madea special trip to the Smelter to make Sug-gestion Awards irrperson or:'behalf of theWar Production Board.

pends entirely upon the good faith of bothsides; it is not possible, the Division Chiefpointed out, for a committee to accom-plish desired objectives if either side lentonly half-hearted support to the effort.A large committee audience attended.

In a brief speech which followed theceremonies, Heasley compl imented theSmelter committee for its outstandingcontributions to labor-management har-mony. He pointed out that the successof any Labor-Management committee de-

More than 5,000 Labor-ManagementCommittee are in existence in the UnitedStates, Heasley pointed out, and whilenot all are active still great strides arebeing made in many plants where com-mittees are in existence. The Divisionchief praised the Anaconda Companymanagement and the heads of organizedlabor in Montana for pulling togetherso ably.

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MACHINESHOPONE of the operations in which thefolks at the Great Falls Reduction Workstake the greatest pride. is the MachineShop. This busy establishment is goingalong, doing its fine share in backing upthe metal producers at the ReductionWorks.

We stopped in there a short time agoto see this interesting operation at closehand and to get a good view of the manydifferent operations which the boys inthe shop perform. There doesn't seem tobe anything that they haven't been ableto turn out-they haven't been stuck yet,in the words of Pete McCallum, whostarted there in 1917. Pete worked asan apprentice and stayed on the job, andtoday is foreman of the shop.

As you roam around, you see some fa-miliar faces in the shop--two that camequickly to mind were AI Rossberg, theveteran fighter who once beat Dixie La-Hood in a fight at Great Falls; another isRoyMacRea, whom we identified quicklyas the father of those two charming littletwins whose picture we took at the Clinicsome months ago. Still another is HenryRobertson, one of the. plant's old-timers

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and a man who is known for his philos-ophy and ready wit.

That's a picture at the top of the oppo-site page taken from one end of the Ma-chine Shop - you get the idea prettyclearly that it is a large place--not onlythat, it's as.clean and neat as any machineshop you'd want to see. The boys them-selves take pride in keeping the placelooking right and they realiie that in ashop of this kind neatness and orderlinessare essenial to safe working.

In the picture below that of the Ma-chine Shop we find A. Grasseschi, drillingextra heavy steel flanges for use on boi 1-ers, while in the picture to the right onthis page we find Paul Bucko in the toolroom taking care of Lawrence Tinejli, whois standing outside the cage selecting adrill-this is a common sight, of course,in the Machine Shop.

We knew you would want to meet theboys face to face, so let's identify thegroup in the picture above. In the backrow, left to right, are: Paul Tinelli, RoyMacRae, George Severson, Earl Jensen,Robert Shaffer; in the second row, left toright, are Bill McGorrin, John Ogrin, EdMeyers, John Ogle, Lawrence Tinelli andA. Grasseschi; in the first roW are PeteMcCaHum, foreman; T. Hatfield, super-intendent; Paul Bucko, Peter Petrini,Willard Haefer, Henry Robertson, AIRossberg and Walter Williamson.

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Trophy winners pose with Mrs: Fisher and Presi-dent William Mason (center) as part of colorfulceremonies

MONTANA State Speed Skating tro-phies, skating medals and certificateswere presented to the winners at a partygiven recently at the Butte Miners' UnionHall. The activity, which is sponsored bythe Sports Committee of the Butte Min-ers' Union, gives recognition to the tal-ents of these youngsters who have setskating records. '

William Mason, president of the ButteMiners' Union and member of the Butt'eSkating Club, presented all trophies,medals and certificates to the winners.Among several present were Ann Fisher,who was unanimously elected presidentof the Club for the fifth term; WilliamPickthall, secretary, and Bert Rodda, Sr.,treasurer. Other guests present includedOscar Hills of the International Union ofMine, Mill and Smelter Workers; JohnMcLeod, recording secretary of the ButteMiners' Union, and Dave Reese, secre-tary-treasurer of the Miners' Union and aClub member.

The Montana State Speed champion-ship races are held under the auspices ofthe Butte Skating Club, under the regu-lations of the Amateur Skating Union of.the United States. Trophies are donatedeach year by A. E. H. Clarke of the Hoi-land Rink. The certificates are furnishedby the Club and the Butte Miners' Union.sponsors of the party.

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Winners of certificates face the camera with their awards. The moving pictures preceded thegiving of the certificates

The girls gathered early in the meeting hall at the Butte Miners' Union, eagerly awaiting theirawards and the party that followed ....

A group of the youngsters await their awards {above}; (below) Secretary-Treasurer Dave Reese and family

More of the youngsters (above); at right, below, Billy Pickthall, WilliamMason and Mrs. Fisher.

AWARD WINNERS included: JackKleme, Agnes Jean Cromrich, EmmettFogarty, Jean Ann Fisher, Tommy Penna-luna, Beth Hubber, Dan McKinnon,Frank Crebenc, S h i r ley Pennaluna,'Mickey Evans, lone Kranit%, Donald De-Borde, Jewell Ann Cromley, John Matson,Jim Harris, Donald Tierney, Mary ChloeStears, Jim McCaughey, June Evans, Ar-thur Harris, Wilbur Rodda, Fred Cirard,Walter .McKinnon and Melvin Fisher. 4.