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A Marine. wounded in the early stages of the fierce struggle for the Marianas, ia getting an injectionef blood plasma Nom .. Navy Corpsman while his com ..~des"tontiRlle the fight.

M.rine Infantrymen on the double move ~Iongs.;pan be~ch to take up new p.itions.

With the beachhead established, Marines dig in...... e be~ch at S~ipan just before moving inland.

Marines dig in on the beach at Sciipan to preparefor the attack on lap position,in the iRterior.

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Thi. ;s " sector of the battle zone at Saipan, wherethe Marines moved in and routed out the laps.

SAIPANNOT long ago your editors, tuned inOA the Army Hour short-waved from theCentral Pacific, heard wi+h interest andp4.easu-re the voice of' Pfc. Zerbino Gab-riell i of Butte, former miner and membert>f the Butte Miners' Union .... ThJs istfie exact br0a?cast as it was given..

ANNOUNCER. T h r 0 u J! hAir Transoorte¥8cuation, the first of. the Saipan wounded havearrived back at their bue 3,750 miles fromAMerica's newest and bloodiest island battleftelds. We have talked with several of the menwho en~aged in action against the ,aps, only1.500 miles from Tokyo itself. One of these men,Pfc. Zerbino Cabrielli of Butte, Montana, is hereat an Army Hour microphone to tell us what hap-pened on Saipan. Private Cabrielli is a foot sol-

, diet' with the 27th Infantry Division aRd his prin-cipal weapon is the Browniftg automatic rifle.SllppOS~ you go on with tIM story.

CABRIELLI: My outfit was ordered intoNttIe shortly after the Mar~ had established abeechhead 011 the southern tip of the island. Ouroa.;.ctWe was the iwtportant Isleto Airfield. Afterwe get ashore we had to take a Stnall hill whichw.M supposed to protect the air base. To get tothis hill we had to cross an open field. It was allt1tM was left of .. ealW) field. o..r artillery fireItad dene a good job of clearing a way for us, but0 ... 'ap mctchine ~.... he~n to give 1M trewble.

ANNOUNCER: What happened then, Pvt.c;abrielli?

CABRIELLI: That's when I got hit. A lot of... !_COthit. The 'aps ""ere aiming quite low, andmGet of us who were wounded happened to gethit in the leg. I was lucky ~hough and managed.. crawl up behind a cement block which I spot-ted just in tilll ••

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.,ANNOUNCED: How big was theblec:k?

CABRIELlI: I guess it was about fout- ,feet.quare and about ten inches thick.

ANNOUNCER: Ten inches of· concrete isn'tftHIeh. is it?

CABRIELLI: Well, it was e..... gh for me.

ANNOUNCER: How 10RI did yOtll have toIhf behind that hoIoek?

CABRIELLI: It seemed like a long titne, butI ,.eu it was ORly about 15 mi ......es. Two of mylMNIdtes were witlt lite, alld believe me, we s...-eIIa4I toe sweat it ovt. We ~d hear the 'ap ma-ch_e pR bllUets spitting apillst eoRCre+e, chip.Pt.c away at ... bllt MMehow failing to ~ us.

ANNOUNCER: LyiRg alongside a foIIr foot.... r. tM,et ieR't .xatly My idea of .eli4 COM-f8Ft. )

CABRIELLI: We didn't have Much choice.The artillery tina"y got to the lap Machtne g....MHI knocked hi", out. For the three of ... well,it .. meet like our part of the wer WH over. Illtell4lgeci to get back to our battaliOR aid station....... they fixed Me lip. Afteto a dtOft time on ahospital sIMp I wee pllt aboaI'd a big hoepi+al plane_ ftewtII bMk to Hawaii. TItey .......... IIM Me

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ANNOUNCERc W. ttMs ,..... fitoet MtioaIII Itt.Pacific?

CAIRtELLI: No, w, .. WHIt.., bat it wasM¥ tiNt airplalM ride.

ANNOU'NC£R: White tt.e HttIe of Saipan.tut gees on, Pte. Z.rbitto Calthallt, Inf.Rtrytnanof I"He, Mo,,"na, is 011 1'0841 to complet.

~ Ncovery from a ... Machi gun w04tftd whichhe receiYed white do"" hie ,..... dvriftg ..... cap-hire of Isleto Air Field Oft Saipaft itt the MaNan~.I.'a'!ds. FrOM the CeRtral Pacific: where actioRthis week took the war almost into .... fapa' frontyard, the Army Howr travels matty thousaftCls ofmiles to Italy, where Allied troop. are pushing tIMNuts back toward CerMafty. COllIe .. Ital,.

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IN our last issue we told you part of the storybehind a typical miner's pay day. In this issue,we conclude the series on pages 10 and 11. That'sthe general office, at the top right, where thedepartments we discuss in this issue are pictured.In the second and third pictures we show you twoviews of offices in the building.

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VOL. II. NO. 26AUCUST 18, 1944

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Here is .... official broadcast from the War De-partment based on an interview' with an ex-Butteminer wounded at Sa_pan.

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The gals are doing a war job at the Smelter bytaking the places of men needed for the "'medServices or heavier jobs.

MACH INE SHOP . .6

Here's another in a series of picture stories OIl

our good friends at the Machine Shop at CreatFalls.

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Here is chemical warf ....e in action. Air-borne in-cendiaries are raising hell with Hitler.

PAY DAY FOR JOHN DOE .._ .._ _ 10

Here's another in the series of stories behind thepay check.

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The Victory Labor-Management Production Com-mittee at Butte, along with our other commit-tees, welcomes suggestions. Here's how a fflWOflthem were submitted •

•COPPER COMMANDO is the official newspaperof the Victory Labor-Management ProductionCommittees of the Anaconda Copper MiningCompany and its Union Representatives at Butte,Anaconda, Creat Falls and East Helena, Montana.It is iMued every two weeks ••• COPPER COM-MANDO is headed by a joint committee fromLabor and Management, its policies are shaped byboth 'sides and are dictated by neither •••• COP-PER COMMANDO was established at the rec-ommendation of the War Department with theconcul'rence of the War Production Board. Itseditors are Bob Newcomb and Marg Sammons;its safety editor is John L. Boardman; its chiefphotogt'apher ;. AI Cusdorf; its staff photographeris Les Bishop ••• Its Editorial Board consists of:Denis McCa""y, CIO; John F. Bird, AFL; EdRenouaHl, ACM, from Butte; Dan Byrne, CIO;[oe "'brick, AFL; C. A. Lemlnon, ACM, frontAnaconda; Jack Clark. CIO; Herb ""Donaldson.AFL, and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, from Creat Falls •••. COPPER COMMANDO is mailed to the homeof every employee of ACM in the four locations-if you Me not recewi.ng your copy, advise COP-PER COMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Street.Butte, or better stiU, drop i.n ....d tell us. Tlli. isVol 2,-No. 26.

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r.I'HE writer who called this a man'sworld has had to back off in the pastfew years and think it over a little more.In war production factories from coastto coast; women have been freeing men'for more strenuous production jobs andfor the Armed Forces. In many civilian'[obs. women have taken the places ofmen so men could be made available formore essential work, either in the pro-auction army or in the Armed Services.

At the Reduction Works at Ana-conda, women have recently bee nbrought in to do war jobs. The drainscaused by the manpower s h 0 r tag ethroughout the copper industry havebeen so heavy that it has been essential,In the interest of maintaining production,that girls and women go to work at theSmelter. Imported male labor has beenavailable, and still 'is, but the prevailingsentiment 'among both members of laborand management is that preferenceshould be given to local people,

When the decision was finallyreached to enlist the services of women,top priority was given to the wives ofservice men who were former employeesat the Reduction Works. Every effort wasmade to establish members of the Ana-conda' Company family in available posi-tions.

The usual grumbling over the adventof women into industry was heard tosome extent at the Smelter. just as italways is when women move in on men's'jobs,' but the men at the Smelter weresmart enough to know that this was anemergency measure, that Uncle Samneeds every able-bodied person to helpwin the war and that the admission ofwomen into labor ranks means no threatto oraanized labor. As a matter of fact,

Ruth McEachran

the spirit of the men toward the womenhas been fine from the beginning-thesewomen, who are doing essential war jobs.are made 'welcome.

Now, let's take a little journeyaround the Hill and get acquainted withsome of these gals:

That's Mary Blaz in the upper- leftshot. Mary, as you can see in the picture,has a wheelbarrow full of grinding balls.No doubt you recognize the balls as thoseused in the Hardinge ball mills. Part ofMary's work is to load the wheelbarrowand take them over to the Hardinge ballmills and load the mills once per shift.Another job of Mary's is to oil the millsevery hour. She's been on the job for thelast two months and likes this workwhich in the old days before the adventof women to the Plant was called a "millman's job."

Mary felt she knew quite a lot aboutthe p'lant even before she started to workthere for her brother worked on the eleva-tors in the Plant before he joined theArmy, and her boy friend, now in theArmy overseas, worked in the Zinc Plant.She likes the idea of fi'nding out for her-self just how things are done, for whenher boy friend and brother get back shefigures she'll be a lot more interesting to.them and will know what they're talk-ing about. She says it was pretty strangeat first but she's gotten all over that andnow she likes it fine.

Frances Scott, shown in the top cen-ter picture picking pieces of wood fromthe vibrating screen, has been at her jobfor two and a half months. This opera-tion too you'll probably remember fromprevious issues of Copper Commando.The copper ore, you may recall, dropsthrough the screen if it's ground suf-

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Kay Croshong and Ernest Johnson

ficiently, and goes to the grinding mills.If it isn't sufficiently ground, back itgoes to the rolls and then comes back tothe screen.

In the upper right shot we take youto the tank house to see Lola Harringtoncarrying on a "tank man's" job. Lolaworked in a restaurant in Anaconda butwhen she jieard that women could workat the Smelter she felt that she'd be do..ing a lot more toward winning the war bychanging her work even though, as shesaid, "I always felt that feeding warworkers was helping, too." Lola nowwatches the valves in the tank house andthus tends the Dorr thickeners where the

Helen McElroy and Helen Heath

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copper concentrate is thickened ready tobe fed to the Oliver filters.

Kay Groshong, shown tn the centerright opposite page picture with CaptainErnest Johnson, is bending w ire s tosuspend the bars in the anode molds.Kay's husband has been in the Ai r Forcesfor the last two years and got hts wingslast November. She has a good instructorthere in Captain Johnson for he's a vet-eran of four wars and has worked in theZinc Plant for the last sixteen years.

Rose Parliament and Coldi.; Mulligan

Ruth McEachran in the lower leftopposite page shot attends St. Mary'sCollege at Leavenworth, Kansas, but isdoing her bit while on summer vacationby watching the feeder of the conveyorbelt to see that it doesn't get stuck. Shealso takes care of the oiling.

The Zinc office formerly had a mandoing the clerical job. now taken overby Zita Robison. Zita's husband workedat the Zinc Plant before he was trans-ferred to the Timekeeper's Office. Hewas sent to Europe in September, 1943,and now has fifty-one missions to hiscredit. At the present time he's in Italy..

May Sasek

There's a team in the two Helens-Helen McElroy and Helen Heath. HelenElroy's husband worked at the High Lineline, dumping ore before he joined theAir Forces, and Helen Heath's husbandworked in Zinc Leaching before joiningthe Navy. Now the gals are taking theirhusbands' places by hoisting lead anodeswith chain blocks in theZinc ElectrolyticRefinery ss shown ln the lower rightopposite page picture. In the upper rightthey're trimming the edges of the leadanodes.

At the Manganese Plant i·nthe upperleft picture, Erma Cron is checking thedensity of the manganese feed to thefk>tation. She does this every half hour.She takes a reading of the feed as it comesinto the tanks every two hours. Sheweighs it and records the results. Ermaexplained that she regulates the densityof the manganese feed so as to keep thetanks clear. She formerly was a schoolteacher but she says she really likes thisnew work of hers.

At the Phosphate Plant it's necessaryto open a valve to draw the acid into theevaporator. That's Mary Sasek openingthe valve in the center upper shot. Alsoit's necessary to wash out and fill themeasuring tanks and discharge the evap-orator. This too is part of Mary's work.Mary's husband, who formerly was apainter at the Plant, is now in the Navy.

Another team pick the wood fromthe ore as it is moved by the conveyorbelts after having been dumped at theTipple. They are Rose Parliament whosehusband worked at the Plant before join-ing the Navy and Goldie Mull'igan whosehusband was a welder before joining theArmy and being sent to France.

Mary Worral takes a three-block walkevery hour in picking up the samples

Helen McElroy and Helen Heath

from the Purification Tanks, the ShriverPresses. and the Acid Tanks. She bringsthem in to Mike Harrington, controlchemist, as shown in the lower left pic>ture, for analysis. Mary also takes ameasure of the clear solution on the Dorrthickeners. Mary says she came out towork because her husband worked at the'Plant before joining the Armed Forces.

. Bill Malone, better known as "Duke,"worked in the tank house as a stripperbefore he went to the South Pacific, sonow his wife Viola. shown in the centerlower picture, does her part by workingin the Zinc Plant Sub-Station.

Mary Stinger, shown in the lowerright shot, hasn't heard from her husbandwho is overseas for nine weeks. !-Ieworked at the Local Tram. Mary likesher job of picking wood from the ore,She says not only does it make her feelthat she is doing her bit to help win thewar but helps to keep her from worrying,

The four gals on tne front cover are,left to right: Mary Worral, Jennie Lee,Nellie Forsman and Helen Aspholn. Thepicture was taken in front of the girls'change house. Each gi rI has her ownlocker and key to her locker. The girilchange into their work clothes on arrivalat the Plant. Mary and Jennie hadchanged from thei r work clothes andwere all ready to leave for home when wegot the picture. We got this shot of Ne~lie and Helen just as they were going ...·to change. All of the girls work in theZinc Plant.

The seventy or so gals working atthe Smelter in Anaconda are doing a finejob and here's hats off to all of them whohave shouldered their war responsibilityby joining the workers at the ReductioaWorks.

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SHOP

I~previous iss~es v:.e showed you somegeneral views of the Machine Shop atGreat Falls, which is one of the mostefficient shops of its kind we have seen.You will recall seeing a view of the shopitself and also a face to face view of theboys. Also we showed you some of themen at their actual work.

One of the men we mentioned par-ticularly in a previous issue was HenryRobertson, one of the Great Falis veteranswhose reputation for quick remarks andfunny sayings is known all. over the Re-duction Works. Henry, who is clean-upman at the Machine Shop, is 'shownhere-at the boring mill.~e is tidying itup and putting it in shape for its nextjob. 'Henry takes great pride in keepingthe Machine Shop looking spick and span,and you can count on it that he does aswell job.

Just as we first happened to visit theMachine Shop we discovered, at one endof the shop, a crew of ropemen (or rig-gers as they are also called) loading loco-motive drivers for locomotives in the in-dustrial railway at the copper refineri'es.This is a narrow. gage road on the HighLine which enables the copper opera-

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tions to move swiftly ana efficiently.These boys handle these big, heavywheels with skill and ease-they seem toknow just exactly where they will go andthey have no trouble at all in movingthem around.

You may remember our mentioningRoy MacRea in a previous- issue. Somemonths ago we took a pictu ....e of his twotwin youngsters at the Clinic in GreatFaHs and the picture of these lovely kidsattracted a lot of comment. Roy, as thefather of these youngsters, is tremendous-Iy proud of them and we got a pictureof him, shown in the large picture at thetop of page 7, working on stainlesssteel pump shafts to be used for sumppumps. These pumps are used to pumpthe solution out of the tanks at the Elec-trolytic Zinc Plant at Great Falls, andthe plant turns to the Machine Shop for.help whenever it needs them. Incident-ally we were glad to see our old friend,Charlie Kisselberg, from the Paint Shopkeeping things in A-l condition-you cansee Charlie there in the foreground andyou 'may recall that some months agowhen we were doing the article on thenew zinc sub-s ion at Great FallsCharlie was on the job.

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/Although the bright I[ght that streams

in through the sky-light and other win-dows makes picture taking pretty toughat t.he Machine Shop because of the lightraises, we were able to get an interesting ,shot of AI Rossberg, the pugilist we men-tioned in a previous issue, as he machineda liner for a sand pump-you can see himin the center picture on this page. Op-posite him is John Ogle and in the back-ground is Ed Meyers who is boring motorbearings. That's Willard Haefer key-seat-ing roll shaft to be used in the Flat Mill-he is shown in the picture at the bottomof the page. These particular rolls areused for rolling the core for hollow con-ductor cable. .

Everyone who has visited the MachineShop at the Great Falls Reduction Worksagrees that it is a big and efficient opera-tion. Not only that, the boys are reallyturning out efficient work so that thewheels all through the plant can keepturning smoothly. After a trlp through theMachine Shop a visitor feels that PeteMcCallum spoke the truth when he saidthat there di-dn't seem to be anythingthat they haven't been able to turn out-that they haven't been stuck yet. Theboys in the Shop seem to have their workwell in hand and that fact is verified bythe other departments in Great Falls whocall OA them fofequently for help,

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WITH this issue, Copper Commandoma rks i,s second birthday.

It was launched fifty-two issues ago 'by the Victory Labor-Management PIfO-duction Committees at Butte, Anaconda.,Creat Falls and EHt Helena at the recom-mendation of the War Department Mld

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the War Production Board. During thecourse of these two years, we have .....tempted to bring to our readers the pic-ture story of the part which copper andits allied minerals play in ta;e war ptG-

gram.At the time we started publication,

the United Nations were taking a lick-ing all over the world. The great Cermansteamroller was p 0 u n din g throughEurope, the Luftwaffe was batteringEngland, and the oppressed people ofconquered European countries were be-ing forced into slave labor to feed thehungry military machines of the Axis.Over in the Pacific, the Japanese ~er. I

hacking away at American and Britishheld possessions and menacing thesafety of the entire Pacific area.

Two years later we find the tablesalmost completely turned. Italy has been,knocked out of the war, the conqueredcountries are .begiltfting to rally slowly,Cermany is taking a terrible poundingand every day brings Tokyo closer wit>hinthe , ....ge of our guns and planes.

BIIf' the road is long and hard. Olllrinvasion, attempts "' Europe, while theyhave been successful, have not yieldedthe results we all hoped for. The Nazisare putting up a fierce last-ditch fight.

Meanwhile here at home, we soldierson the production front are not havingtoo ea.y a time of it. Heaven knows oarlot i. slltOC)tfter aad saf.r and healthierth .. that of the fighting ... en, but ....war is making drains on all of us. M...yof 0'"' goatl Miners and IM...t.,......havebeen talt ... frOM ItS. In the put other itt-dustries haM eAticed ovr .... n aw-ay.With a se.......s ge of MM.,power, weare .. ked to k p up prodvction. Th ....probably i... 't a Man aMOng us who, atsome time or other, ha&ll't felt likethrowin, hi. tools Hide and c.lling itquits.

, But the fighting men can't threwdow .. their gUM and caH it quits. So our..".. Mge, as we .. ark our second birth-day, i. this:

Let's keep ,oUte.

People (;' Places-'

AT the last meeting of the Labor-ManagementCornm-ittee in Anaconda, Lewis M. Browne, Re-giona4 Director of War Production Drive, Minne-apoI~, presented to O. F. Wallen the HonorableMention Award of the War Production Board, asshown tn the picture below. 11'1the picture s'tane..iflg are: W. A. Emanuel, Superintendent of theZinc Plant, who was pinch-hitting as chairmanfor E. A. Barnard, Mr. Browne, who made thepresentation, Mr. Wallen, who received theaward. and Owen McNally, CIO secretary of theLabor-Management Comrnrttee.

Mr. Wallen started worktng "" February.1915, for the Local Tram ." Anaconda but .'"May, 1919, he transferred to t'he Cottrell De-Partment, and has stayed right there. Mr. Wallenwas cited for his suggestion which outsmarted thelaps !'lOt only now but for the future. For yeltrsJapanese bamboo had been used to rap the col-lected dust free from suspended rows of wires tnthe Cottrell treaters into receiving hoppers below.A great many types of poles had been tried in pre-vious years to substitute for the Japanese im-ported bamboo but they didn't work as well,With Pearl Harbor the Cottrell Deparjment W~

faced with a real problem and there were manydiscussions between the employees and manage-ment as to the possibilities for a substitute rap-ping pole. Out o-f these discussions came Mr.Wallen's idea of trying native lodge-pole pines.(Mr. Wallen is the first one to insist that it wasnot entirely· his idea but that it wa, a result ofthe many discussions.I

The bamboo which was shipped in fromJapan came in twenty-four foot lengths and ta-pered in diameter from about one and one-halfinches to a thin end of less than one-quarter ofan inch. Eighteen feet was the necessary length ofthese poles to rap half way m OR each side of thetreaters, so about six feet of the small end of theJapanese bamboo was cut off-it was just as wellfor this part was too light to do effective workanyway. Many of the poles received from Japanwere not suitable--some were too small andman,' were broken on arrival-and when theywere all examined it was usually necessary to dis-card nearly half the poles.

Today the native pines are doing a fine job.witt. very little waste. First only the native pineswhich meet the reqt.irements in diameter, lengthand "whip" are chosen; then they are carefullyselected, cut and peeled by the loggers at Bonner.Result is that poles received at the ,,>l'Iaconda Cot-trell Department obtain good rapping and themen are well satisfied. One of the most impor-tant factors to be considered in this suggestionis that in the future American workmen will re-ceive wages for preparing these tapping poles andJapan will not again benefit.

•THE other day when we attended the Labor-Management meeting in Anaconda with LewisM. Browne, Regional Director of War ProductionDrive Headquarters, Minneapolis, we were very

pleased to hear a suggestion from the A'lembersof the Committee fO(' a story to be used in CopperCommando.

The boys of the Anaconda Labor-Manage-ment Committee not only want to do--and do--a good job of helping Wtl'l this war themselves,but #ley h.we a keen appreciation of the boys whoMe owt OR the fi1"ing liofle. They tokJ us of Cap-ta;"" Harry E. Larsen, Army Alr Corps fighter pilotnow home on leave from EnglMld. We stopped atCaptain Larsen's home on .the way back to Butteand had a fine taJk with him. We could certainlyunderstand the reason for the recommendationfrom the Anaconda Labor- Managment Com-mittee.

Modest and unassuming Captain Larsen says'that his record of sixty-four missions over Ger-many and other warring countries isn't any dif-ferent than that of thousands of boys over inEngland. except perhaps in number, and that hedismisses with: "I was just lucky."

Harry enlisted in the Air Corps in April,1942, at Missoula and after training in Californiaand Arizona was sent to England in August, J 943.In England, he piloted a P-38 fighter, and, as youknow, that means that he flew alone on each ofthose sixty-four missions. In November, 1943,Harry was awarded the Air Medal and today hehas three Oak Leaf Clusters on it. The Distin-guished Flying Cross was given him in April,1944, and since that date an Oak Leaf Cluster hasbeen earned by him for his Distinguished FlyingCross.

We of Copper Commando along with theLabor-Management Committee members at Ana-conda say to Captain Harry E. Larsen: "We ofthe Home Front are mighty proud of you andwhat you are doing for our country, and may youalways have what you term 'luck',"

IN(;ENDIARIES

•An incendiary bomb is an aerial fire

bomb--it now pays greater dividends perround of weight carried in bomb' racksthan does high explosive. To the Chem,icalWarfare Service of the Army ServiceForces falls the job of supplying everytYPE!of incendiary to the Armed Forces,and it also sends considerable quantitiesto our Allies.

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AN incendiary bomb raises hob withanything it hits and the use of air-borneincendiaries by the United States ArmyAir Forces has increased vastly as the warprogresses.

Formerly a third of the work of theChemical Warfare Service, the supply ofIncendiary material now represents morethan fifty per cent of its work. Alreadyseven main types of these bombs areknocking out German and Japanese in-stallations, some of which are shown inthis group of photos supplied to CopperCommando by the United States ArmyAir Forces and the United States ArmySignal Corps.

The Army Air Forces find the incen-diary white phosphorus lOO-pound bomban effective weapon against enemy anti-aircraft positions and parked planes.When it hits, the bomb bursts and scat-ters particles of burning phosphorus overa wide are~. In the top picture at theright, we see these white phosphorusbombs bursting over ~ Japanese bomberand fighter plane on Lakunai airfield, atRabaul in New Britain.

It is very difficult to get good pic-tures of incendiary bombing because ofthe terrific light they throw and thesmoke they raise. However, in the secondpicture, we see these bombs after theyhave been dropped by the Army Ai rForces, spreading their sticky, flamingtenac1es out to cover and burn a Japaneseradio station on New Britain.

The woman at the lower right is amachine operator in a U. S. factory cork-ing the vent holes of magnesium in-cendiary bombs. Weighing two to fourpounds apiece, and resembling giantmetal firecrackers, these bombs areusually released in clusters. A bomber cancarry as many as 1500 at a time. Al-though only one out of a dozen can beexpected to land on something inflam-mable, their wide coverage can starthundreds of fi res at the same ti me.

When the M69. 6-pound jellied oil bombhits. it shoots flaming oil and rubber asfar as twenty-five yards in all directions.

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..Aerial incendiaries put these Japanese fjghting planes out of business.

A Japanese radio stati~n, lower right, gets an incendiary dose.

These malftelium incendiary bombs by now have lone hustling off to war•

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·Here are J. W. Keenan, special accountaint, and E. G. Reed, cashier, at the door of the War Bond De-partment in the General Office. This department haRdles a tremendous number of War Bonds for em-ployees each year. It costs the Anaconda Company over $30,OOG a year to maintain this office.

I N this issue we go across the street tothe General Office, which is pictured onpage 3 of this issue. Most everyone inButte is familiar with this building butperhaps many do not know what it is likeinside and what important work is carriedon there.

Here again the swift and efficientInternational Business Machines helpspeed such things as the tabulation ofWar Bond investments, group insurance,etc.

At this point, those of you who likefigures might like to hear some of theinteresting data we have picked up.

As we told you last time, the centalon these machines (they are not sold butlicensed by the lntemational BusinessMachines Corporation to users such asthe Anaconda Company) amounts tomore than $60,000 per year-over $5,000a month alone goes to maintaining theseHere are other folks from the War Bond Depart-ment in the General Office. Below at left we findVirgiRia Ayers, E. G. Reed, Mike Sheehan and

complicated records so that John Doe mayreceive his check promptly and correctly.

To maintain the records for theworkers of Butte requires a vast numberof tabulating cards sin c e there aretwenty-two possible government andother deductions which can be made. Inone year, in all installations, at the pres-ent writing there are over 10,000,000cards used alone. You can readi Iy seethat it takes a great deal of efficiency andspeed to handle all these and keep themup to the minute.

We have been asked by severalminers how fast these checks are writtenafter the preliminary work is all done.We checked into it and found out thatthese checks, with all deductions andother notations on the checks, roll offthe machines at the rate of eighteen aminute. There are over eighty types ofday's pay classifications and rates, andLeonard Rushton. Over there at the right, we.topped the girls for a minute from the businessof writing War Bonds. They are Rose Ann Moore,

PAY DAY-.

JOHN DOE•

In our l.ast issue, we went behind thescenes with John Doe, a typical miner~You may recall that we showed him atthe mine receiving his check and then wewent back and started a tour through theMines Office to show exactly what liesbehind John Doe's pay check. ~ut-there'$more to be seen ami here it is.

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•over 700 contract rates, caused by thevariety of contracts, the fact that a minerwi II work two or more locations in thesame week, etc.

As we all know, the heavy purchaseof War Bonds by Butte workers andothers throughout the Company locationscall for large personnel and efficient rec-ord-keeping machines. Up to July 1,1944, 199,505 War Bonds had been ac-counted for, with a maturity value of$6,338,425. In addition, the variousmachines which keep records of Bondpurchases have accounted for over $2,-082,760 worth of Bonds which are issuedthrough the banks.

Just to give yoU an idea of how large-scale this War Bond operation is, the de-partment has handled as high as 9,448Bond accounts per month, which requiresover 50,000 postings per month. With-out these efficient machines and thepeople who know how to operate themJanet Brew and Catherine Harrington. That isBob Haran in the background handing files toMiss Moore.

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so skillfully, such a staggering amount ofwork could not be handled in anywhe~enear the time. These machines, for ex-ample, have hendled 12.345 Bond ac-counts at various plants and have de-ducted $364,382.24 per month from pay-rolls. Bonds delivered in the same monthamounted to the rich total of $353,-810.75.

After closing there is a twenty-fourhour operation in the Mines Office andwe thought you might like to kno~ theobjects of these procedures which willsort of bring you up to date.

The first object is to accumulateeach employee's earnings regardless ofthe number of rate's, contracts. or mines.The second is to permit the applicationof income and other taxes on the total.A third point is that these operations help, .maintain reference records, easy to getat, for income tax. vacation. militarybonus and other purposes. It providesfor correct taxing for an open roll checkissued j.n the same week. As we havealready pointed out, the operation per-mits the application of all necessary de-ductions-we have already told you of thetwenty-odd kinds of deductions. Stillanother point is that these operationsenable checks to be prepared as easily aspossible. Not only that. they provideproper identification to each employeeso that he may be guarded against forgeryand stolen checks. Another point is thatthe system gives each employee a detailedstatement of shifts worked. amountearned and deductions withheld.

The system makes it easy to reportearnings to the government for incometax ';00 Social Security as required bylaw.

The operation makes it possible topreoare important statistical reports.which are naturally necessary to the oper-ation of any large business.

LMt but far from least. the systeminstalled at the General Office makespossible the speedy posting of War Bondaccounts !O that each employee can benotified and receive his Bond as soonas possible after it is paid for ..

In the old days before the time ofSocial Security t a xes. unemploymenttaxes and similar assessments, the em-ployer had a pretty easy time of it so faras calculating wages was concerned. Hehired a man, for example. for X dollars aweek, and when the end of the weekcame around. he simply dug in the casherawer and handed the man that amount.The employer didn't have to worry aboutincOfY'let~-e5-if the employee was liable~ any, he paid them himself.

But over a period of the past fewyears. with social benefits for workersbeing adopted throughout the country.and with a gigantic world war to pay foro.Uncle Sam started looking to the em-ployer to l"Aeinta.inmore and more records.to make rnore and more deductions forh government.

So keeping the books is not child'spJay any more. No matter how large ors;h1a11the business, it is no simple matterto maintain records of employees.

Caroline McCarthy and Barbara Kautzman areposting War Bond ledger accounts.

Supervisor of business machines is R. E. (Bob)Sheridan. He's the man in charge •.

Fred Balkovats and Ray Sullivan operating a tab-ulating machine for War Bond records.

Punc:hing cards tor warehouse stock are HelenLeary, florence Matkov.c, Mildred Sullivan.

Arthur Berry and Alex Blewitt who handle 14,500employees' insurance records. .;{' ....... '":""~...., ~ ~

Janice Curry and Frances Ward sorting canceled'checks-35,OOO are sorted monthly.

Creeting visitors to the Ceneral Office is Cather·ine Sustarsic, stenographer-receptionist.

Keith McCauley at a reproducing summarypunch and James Walsh at a sorting machine.

Dolores M<:Carthy micro-films canceled check ••Entire box becomes small film roll.

SUCCESTION NO. 281r suggest a change in the bits used by the carpen-ters at the various mines, for boring guides. Ihave found that by filing notches in the spur andin the cutter of the bits, the following results areobtained:

1. The bit cuts faster. 2. The bit makes themachine easier to operate. 3. T'fte bit is saferto use.

Signed: CHARLES ORNSBYMine: Badger State

• >SUCGESTION NO. 293

suggest that a miner's lamp with red lens beissued to each motor at beginning of shift and tobe carried on motor at aU times except in case ofaccident at which time the lamp is to be hungover the pipes in the drift at a distance of atleast 50 feet to the rear of the rear car.

Signed: 10HN P. CLARKMine: Belmont

•SUCCESTION NO. 295

A shop made, one inch, three way valve, is usedon the air and water blast instead of two standardone inch valves as used in the present practice.

Signed: CEORCE MIKICHMine: Belmont

•SUCCESTION NO. 301

An underground car stopper consisting of a 20 ~pound rail and two chains. One chain is fastenedpermanelttly to the tie and end of the 20 poundrail. The other chain fastened4to the tie and has a,loop large enough to slip over the 20 pound ra;1.When the car stopper is in use the 20 pound railis thrown across the track and held in place by thetwo chains •.

Si~ned: HARRY OFELTMine: Badger State

•SUCCESTION NO, 305

I am submitting a sketch for your considerationof an Electronic Slack Rope Alarm to warn theEngineer of slack rope at the cage anytime thecage "Dogs" if chairs are left in or it hangs up inany way it will .end a tignal to the engineer.

Signed: LEONARD DAVIESButte Mines Electric Shop

•SUCCESTION NO. 325

I suggeM tfle use of a bracket placed on the bot-tom of the Cranby cal' ... pporting the attachmentto the Mechanical loader.

The constant pushing altd pulling of the me-chaltical loader caused the front end of theCranby cat' truck severe damage. To overcomethis I have built a Mace to support this attach-ment.

Signed: EMMETT CASEYMine: BelmontAddre .. : 628 S. Colorado

WHEN the Victory Labor-Management Production Committees were formed atthe four Montana locations of the Anaconda Company, Suggestion Sub-Committeeswere formed at each place. Out of these u ..its have come a variety of helpful su.ggEls-tions, designed to aid production and thereby bring the Axis more quickly to itsknees.

But what kind of suggesl'ions Me wanted'? How should they be presented?What is done with them when they are submitted? These may very easily be ques-tions that you, readers of our Labor-Management Committee newspaper; are asking.

So here we have picked, from the fil es of the SU'ggestion Sub-CommiHee atButte, six suggestions. We show how they were submitted, by whom, and the loca-tion of the employee. In the second column we show a sketch of the sugge9tion,and in the third column, we show the assignment report-in other words, we showwhat happened to the suggestion.

In Butte, suggestion boxes are I~ated at various working places so that workensmay submit their ideas. Cash awards are made for every idea accepted and a furtheraward is made if, after a reasonable period of time, it is shown that the suggestionhas greater value.

SLmESTION -# 281

SUGGESTION #295

SU3GESTION '"305

SUGGESTION14 325

ASSIGNMENT REPORT-SUCCESTION 281Mr. Ornsby's idea is good and the notches cut inthe large circumference of the bit will undoubted-ly facilitate the drilling of the countersink in theguide. However, teeth properly proportioned andground will-do this work much easier as it willmake the cutting more positive and clear away.the cuttings much easier.

Dept.: Mechanical

•ASSIGNMENT REPORT-SUCCESTJON 293

It is our opinion that this suggestion merits. fur-ther investigation.

On levels on which more than one locomotive isused. it would be a good idea to have some meansfor guarding in case of derailment.

We are now trying to find a suitable red lens fortrial.

Dept.: Bureau of Safety

•ASSICNMENT REPORT-SUCCESTION 295'

By using Suggestion 295, the follow",g savingwould be affected: .

1" malleable tee $0.14. 1" male valve $2.08, '"close nipple $0.04. Total $2.26 (used in staltdardpractice.)

Cost of 1" t(,ree way brass cock $1.95. A saving of$0.31 is made.

A water blast will be made up as suggested byMr. Mikich. .

Dept.: Engineering Research.. •ASSICNMENT REPORT-SUCCESTION 30T

The suggestion of Mr. Harry Ofelt of a car blockhas some advantage oyer car blocks that are nowused. '

A sketch will be made of the block and will besubmitted to the Operating Department for theirconsideration.

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Dept.: Engineering Re.earch

•ASSIGNMENT REPORT-SUCCESTION 305

Due consideration hae been given this proposaland I wish to reCOMmend the adoption of Mr.Davies' suggestion.

I wo .. ld aho J'eCOfftmend that the device be in-stalled on the cases at the Steward and Mt. ConMines where the electronic signal has been inservice for some tirne. Very little difficulty shouldbe eXpet'ieneed in the installatten.

Dept.: Electrical

•ASSICNMENT RE,ORT-SUGCESTION 325

As this bracket has been very effective in dim"'-ating repairs on Cranby cars when using a me-chanical loader, several brackets will be made upilnd given a trial at other .... nes.

Dept.: En,inewinl Research