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PaidButte. Mont.Permit No. 139

Here begins the order for hard hats for Butteminers. At this giant high pressure molding ma-

Editor's EyefulTHIS issue Gf yoar Labor-Management CGmmlttee news-paper is devGted to Ute miner's prGtective bard bat andlamp.

We tbGught YGUmight like to know bGW it all start-.ed: A few weeks agG we were undergrGund in BuUe anddudng dinner (YGU ImGW the miners have dinner atDGGn and supper at night) we gGt to chinning witha few Gf tbe boys about hard bats. Being pre"y ipGrantabout tbe whGle thin;:-, we gGt to lingering Gur Gwn bardbat and asked a few of tbe boys wbat it was made Gf,wbere it came from and a Jot Gf o~her such questiGns.Everybody seemed to Imow someUting about Utem, butDGbocly knew everything. incJuding us.

S. we «Gt the idea we'd .ike to find .ut where thesebard bats were made, wbat they were made .f, and aDabout them.

It resoJted in a tGur 01 the Mine Safety AppliancesCompany in Pittsburgh.]>a. This is wbere these hardbats are made and this issue teUs tbe story. We got alucky break. because we were able to fGllow an actualBuUe onler right frGm the beginning to the end. Thebats we saw being constructed are in use right now inthe Butte mines. We have alse dGne the story Gf the1&m)J8.

You'JJ dntI Gut later Gn Olaf. the prGtective headgear~ by our fighting men is made Gut of the same stufland in the same way. We have devoted several pages., this issue to teUing how the liners which fit underthe solcUers' steel helmets are made.

-chine, four hard hats are made at one time. Theoperator, Alex Copeland, shown in the rear een-

Inside StuffWE dGn" know whether YGu're interested in the behind-.the-scenes account Gf hGWan issue Gf CGpper CGmmandGis put together. but we'n take a chance. We knGW mostGf Gur readers barely give a thought to the pJanning

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ter, stands next to the mold for the special BU"e5kuh guard, which is known as the type- C.

and sweating tha.t go into tbe making up of an Issne-«YGUhave to be a newspaper man to understand that.

Here is bow this particular issue was put together:Wben the idea of "cGvering" the c4Instruction Gf hardhats was agreed upou by our advisGry board frGm laborand m~~gement, Bob Ne\vcomb arranged 00 a returntrip frGm WashingtGn and New York to stop in Pitts-burgh. He spent one fun da.y in the Mine Safety plant,was jGineq that eveni.ng by our photGgrapher to whomhe blocked out the story and arranged IGl' tbe pictures.The follGwing day the pow, compJete witb camera andotber photographic equipment, tackled Ute story. BycarelU'. planning tlley were abJe to clean it up in oneday. Upon his return to Butte, Bob and Marg Sammonslaid out the issue witb small pciores, eaJJed "CGntactprints." The pictures were apprGved by our editorialboard. the request was then issued to oar pbGtographerfor Iar;ger pictures so tbat AJ Ashton, our engraver,could make engravings. The OOpy was written andchecked locally with our editorial beard and Gtber tech-nical men so that nG inaccuracies would eccur in Gurcopy; Marg Sammons Gn bel' wa:1 East carried Ute printsand text, cleared &.beCGPYin Pittsburgh so that no mis-statements might appear. Uten took the entire issue toWashingGn fGr apprGval by Army and Navy Gf text andpictures. (TIlis is maoc1atory because yGar pub.icatiGDmust nGt reveal any fac16 of a eonfideniial military na-'ure.) AJter Washingtoo approval, Ute material wasairmailed back to Butte. the plates made. the type set,and the job run Gff. It ~alred about eigbt weeks.Simple, 'isn't it?

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VOLm NO. 23

COPPER COMMANDO is the Gfficial newspaper Gf theVictory Labor-Management ProductiGn Committees GfUte Anaconda CGPper :&linIng Compaoy and its Unionioepresentatives at Butte, :Anaconda, ~reat Falls andEast Helena, Mootana. It i!l issued ~very tWGweeks ..•COPPER COMMANDO is headed by a joint committeefrGm Labor and Management, its policies are sitape(l byboth sides and an dictated by neither • • • COPPER.2.

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COMMANDO was establjshed at tbe recommendation orthe War Department with the cooeurrence 01 lhe WarProductlGn Board. Its I!'ditors are Bob NewcGmb andMarg Sammonsj its salety editor is John L Boardm:\D;lis cbief phGtographer is AI Gusdorfj 116 stalf phG-iogTapher is us BishGp •.• Jts Editorial Board consistsof: Denis MeCarthy. CIOj John F. Bird. AFL; Ed Renou-ard, ACM. from Butte; Dan B)TDe. CIO; Joe Mariek.

"AFL; C. A. LemmGn, ACl\ol, from ADaeonda; Jack Clark.CIOj Berb Donaldson, AFL, and E. S. Bardwell. ACM,from Grea~ FaJJs ••• OOPPER COMMANDO is maLedto tbe home Gf every emplGyee of ACM in the fGur loca-cations-if yGU are nGt receiving your ClOpy advise COP-PER COMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Su-t. Butte, or bet-Ier sUll, drGp in and tell us. 7hia 18 Vol. 3, No. 23.

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Here the plastic 'treated cloth is being laid onthe molds by the operator. When the molds arecovered, the operator closes the press and inabout eight min"tes, these four molds will de-liver miners' hat "shells," later to become ourunderground protective headgear.

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Did you ever stop to consider ·how a min-

er's hard hat is made? Have you ever

wondered how the cap lamp came to re-

pl-ace earlier types? Your editors got to

wondering about these things and thought -

.... that all our readen might like to hear and

see how these items of equipment are

!' manufactured. Come along with us on

this picture-and-text tour of the vast, .

plants in Pittsburgh from which this min-

ing equipment comes. We guarantee you

that you will find the trip just as enter-

taining alld exciting as we did.

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~ HIS is a picture-story about thehard hats and the lamps used inthe mines of Butte. Not all of ourreaders, of course, are Butte min-ers. Your Labor - ManagementCommittee publication reachesthe smelterrnen and craftsmen atAnaconda, at Great Falls and atEast Helena. We also reach thephosphate miners at Conda (whowear hard hats too), the loggersworking out of Woodworth andthe lumbermen at Bonner.

The hard hat or Skullgard(that's the trade name for it) is aminer's institution. The,cap lamprepresents him also. But we hope,and we trust you do too, that astory of particular interest to theButte miner will be of interest toour other readers as well.

roday the same general type of

hard hat used by the men under ..ground at Butte is being used byour sons and brothers and friendson the vast Pacific fighting front.

We found the-process of manu--l'facturing the hard hat most inter-esting. As you will see as w,egoalong, we were able to follow anactual purchase order from theButte mines. We started off withit at the time the order was re-ceived and carried it completely -through to the point of shipment ..The hard hats we picture duringthe various stages of manufactureare already in use by the boys at'the Anselmo, the Mountain Conand other Butte mines. We have ahunch that many of our miner-readers will take a eloser look attheir headgear and at their lampsthe next time they have a freemoment.

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,rom Flynn removes the shell from the mold. Notethe excess material which must be trimmed off•.

The lighter round crown piece is re-enforced byscreen cloth, providing added protection.

At the band saw Alex Copeland trims off the"flash:'- Note that he wears a hard hat him-

setf. The shells are now buffed and smoothed; •we see them next at the Hat Assem

Tom Ference, head of the Hat Assembly Depart-"ent, shows the order from the Purchasing De-,.rtment at Butte to Copper Commando editor

Bob Newcomb (wearing hat). At the right, Ro-land Rankin and Lit.ian Hahn are starting off theButte order. Lillian insert. hat sise markers •

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HARD HATSin the Making

;y-OU'D find it hard to believe that theminer's hard hat (or Skullgard as it istechnically known) in its original state isa flat piece of material resembling canvas.If you look at it from a distance, it lookslike black sandpaper. When you get closeto it and feel it between your fingers, itfeels exactly like a stiff piece of'canvas.

This material is cut and molded intoforms. These hats are made in Pitts-burgh in large quantities for metal mines.The Butte hat, with its black flexible brimat the back, was designed especially forthe Butte miners after various sampleswere submitted to Anaconda's ResearchDepartment. It is known as the Chat:It consists of three sheets of this materialplaced one on top of another, a piece ofscreen cloth at the crown, and a length ofhemp rope which is molded Tight into thehat around the brim to strengthen it.

The material when assembled is laidupon an open mold. The assembled ma-terials are then put under about onehundred fifty tons of pressure at a tem-perature of three hundred degrees Fah-renheit for about eight minutes.

When this interval is up" the "shells"are removed from the press-ethers is ailouter rim of excess material or "flash"which must be trimmed off by hand on aband saw.

The shells, trimmed and buffed, arethen moved across the street to anotherplant where head size labels are put in,ventilation and other holes drilled, minelamp brackets attached, lining assemblieslaced in, and the final job inspected andpassed.

As we have already told you, we werelucky in being able to follow an actualButte order right through. The orderhad arrived in Pittsburgh from the Pur-chasing Department in Butte the sameday and called. for a quantity of Buttemodel or C hard hats. We started offfrom the very moment the order beganmoving, and you see here hard hats forthe Butte miners actually being made.• The job is 'done in two plants = Themaking of the shells takes place in themain plant in the hat molding departmentand then it moves across the street forcompletion of the order to the hat assem-bly department.

These hard hats can stand tremen-dous abuse, as most miners know. One ofthe severe tests to which they are sub-jected before being shipped out is this iAhard hat is placed in a machine restingupon the hat band, just as it does when aminer puts the hat on his head, then asteel ball weighing eight pounds is drop-ped five feet right on the crown of thehat. If there is any defect, the hat isdiscarded.

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Ventilation holes must be drilled in the shells,as well as holes in the front of the hat to hold

the lamp bracket. At the left Raymond Mc--Donough is drilling ventilation holes while at the

right Jerry Hutchin is preparing the hat for thelamp bracket, made from the same material.

At the left, Jerry Hutchin attaches the lampbracket. Above, an order of linings for theButte mines is being filled by Helen Hotujec.At the right Margaret Moden is assemblingthe linings and attaching the flexible brim •

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•Here's the finished jo&. Inspector Crace Wag-ner looks over the finished C hat for Butte. The"at now goes to the shipping room and is started011 its way to the Butte ... ines.

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Over here at the left we see Frank Ladeda fillingModel P Batteries with distilled water. The P

battery is the improved model-now in use inButte--and is superior to the model formerly

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used. At the right assistant foreman Sam DeLuca takes a reading on P batteries.

To Light the Miner's Way•

DARD hats or Skullgards are by nomean the only thing which the MineSafety Appliances Company of Pitts-burgh, Penna., makes for the Butte minerand the smelterman. We have no spacein this issue for such interesting mattersas the manufacture of breathing appa-ratus and first-aid equipment, and othertypes of safety equipment widely used inour mines and our reduction works. Itmay be that, if you like this issue wellenough, we may some day return to tellyou how this other equipment is made.

But now we turn our attention to thelamps for the miners. These lamps, aswe all know, are affixed to the front ofthe hard hats and connected by a cableto a battery.

The first lamps in Butte were in-stalled experimentally at the MountainCon in August, 1932-they were made upespecially for the Butte mines at the sug-gestion of Jim Carrigan who was work-ing at that time as general superintendentunder W. B. (Bill) Daly, the generalmanager of mines. There were onlytwenty cap lamps installed at that time-the company and the miners themselveswanted to find out how they would workout.

The Butte miner had long beenaccustomed to carbide hand lamps whichwere often awkward to carry and greatly.6,.

•The lamp and battery worn by the Butteminer was invented by Thomas A. Edison,

probably one of the greatest inventors of

all time. In Pittsburgh today, these lamps

and batteries are assembled for use byminers throughout the world, and this,equipment is also serviced here. The

keen-eyed Butte miner, visiting this de-partment. would be interested to see that

the copper he mines in Montana returns

to him in terms of copper used in his

lamp. Let's visit this interesting depart-ment and follow the job along together.

•increased the hazard of fire. Accordingto several of the old-time miners we havetalked to, there was some resistance tothe cap lamps because the hats seemedheavy on the head. But gradually theygot used to them and, as one old-timeminer told us, "We wouldn't be without

hard hats and lamps today.: Some of theboys who work on the surface often weartheir hats above ground even though theyhave nothing but the blue sky abovethem."Cap lamps of the Model K type were

ordered for all the mines in 1934, andhard hats were ordered at the same time.They were used until the new Model P-3Elamp was developed and introduced inButte in May, 1942. The advantage of theP-3E is that it weighs less and has at~enty per cent greater light capacity.

The Butte mines today have 7,550Model P-3E lamps in use. These areEdison lamps manufactured by the EdisonStorage Battery Company' of WestOrange, New Jersey, and are sold andserviced by the Mine Safety AppliancesCompany. No Butte lamps are servicedin Pittsburgh since the Butte MinesElectric Shop has every facility fortaking care of the local lamps. One hun-dred twenty-five lamps are kept foremergency use only at the TramwayRescue Station.

We felt that you might like to knowthat Butte copper, mined by Butte miners,often returns to them in the form ofcopper cable used in the lamps and cables.The lamp cord is rubber covered coppercable. Butte copper is also to be found inother parts of the lamp.

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The average life of a lamp cord isabout two years. When additional cableis required, the Purchasing Departmentfor the Butte mines files an order atPittsburgh and these cables are sent outto the Anaconda warehouse in Butte. Asreaders of Copper Commando are aware,there is a lamp house at each mine whel'ethe lamps are charged. They are servicedat the Butte Mines Electric Shop. So'important is the work of keeping thelamps 3IDQ cables and batteries in tip-topcondition that the Mine Safety AppliancesCompany keeps a resident representativein Butte. He is H. H. (Mac) McMillen,who came to Butte about thirteen yearsago and who is well known to most of theminers on the Butte hill. He keeps inregular touch with the lamp house menand instructs them in the proper care ofequipment. We show him in these pagespaying a visit to Dan Crowley, foreman ofthe Tramway Rescue Station. In thatpicture you may see some of the onehundred twenty-five lamps which arekept for emergency use only. The policyof keeping these lamps in readiness haspaid dividends in human lives in com-munities outside Butte where lamp equip-ment has not been available.

Old-time miners, who can .recall thedays of the candle and the carbide lampwhich followed it, who can rememberwithout difficulty the old days of thehorse-whim and the underground mule,sometimes marvel at the great stridesthat have been made in mine safety overthe years. The Mine Safety organization.in Pittsburgh, however, is not satisfiedto rest on its laurels-the company main-tains a large research laboratory which isconstantly improving present equipmentand planning for the future.Here, then, is the picture story of the

lamps. We hope every miner who workswith them will be as interested in seeingthem as we were .

•H. H. (Mac) McMillen, western representativefor Mine Safety Appliances Company, talksabout lamps with Dan Crowley, foreman of theTramway Rescue Station in Butte. Shown inthis picture are some of the one hundred twenty-five lamps which are maintained by the Ana-conda Company for emergency use only.

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Here w~ find. Ceorge Stover assembling a rheo-stat which Will be used for charging batteries

f~r mines. This is a rheostat such as is in.use atthe lamp houses in Butte. .

Next stop: The Butte Mines Electric Shop. HereAgnes Monahan is shown putting terminals on

the cable. These cables were ordered for Butteand are now in underground use in the mines.

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Here i. the assembled job. Margaret Ceragimakes the final tests on the lamps before they

are shipped out for use in the mines. be"lamp undergoes a rigid inspection..7.

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C I Joe's helmet liner enters the drying tunnel.This article tells you all about it.

~ HE hard hat you wear as a miner ispractically the same as the liner for thesteel helmet worn by our millions of boysmoving in to mop up Japan. That factstruck your editors right between theeyes.

The miner's hard hat shell is made inthe same department as the soldier's hardhat, and on these three pages we want toshow you how the job is done.

The soldier's protective helmet lineryou have often seen in war pictures. Itis slightly thinner than the Butte miner'shard hat because over it fits the three-pound steel helmet worn in actual combat.The protective helmet liner is used tocushion the head against shock.

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ARMED FORCESHard hats aren't in use in mines alone. They are being suppliedby the millions to be used as protective headgear for our fightingmen. The hat the BuHe miner wears and the helmet the fightingman wears are made out of the same stuff.

Although we don't. show you thethree-pound steel helmet in these pictures,you all know what it looks like. And youhunters will get a kick out of this: Thesteel helmet worn by our soldiers willstand a bullet from a .45 calibre revolverat seven feet without penetration. It hasbeen estimated that, had these steelhelmets been used in the last war, ourcasualties as a result of head woundswould have been fifteen per cent less.These military helmet liners are being

turned out by the Mine Safety AppliancesCompany at one of their plants in Pitts-burgh and they are batting them out ata tremendous rate.

The first step is tomold the laminated

plastic shell and this is done in the sameplant and on the same type of press thatthe Butte bard hats are molded. The hatsare trimmed and buffed in the same waythe Butte hats are; they are then in-spected and shipped along to the assemblyplant. Here is an assembly line operation.. ·The hats move on a conveyor belt, andgirls lift off the shells and insert the tt"lining in practically the same way thelinings for Butte hard hats are inserted.They move along this endless conveyorbelt to a spraying machine where acamouflage spray is squirted on them andthen through an oven where the paint isdried and hardened. From there theymove to the battlefronts.

Hard hats for miners and hard hats for soldiersundergo the same treatment. Here at the left

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Paul Krachala, Alex Copeland and Tom Flynnput the finishing touche. Oft the shells. At the

right Jim Mann inspects and packs the helmetlinen fOI' transfer to the assembly plant •

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Using an actual three-pound steel military hel-met Ann Kieffer checks every shell for fit. Overat the right, Annette Gliatto drills the 'gromet

holes. Note stack of shells at right which willsoon start down the assembly line. The drilledshells are placed on an endless conveyor belt and

will now move down the line to the girls whoinsert the linings. Th.e girls work at lightningspeed cushioning headgear for our boys. .

Here's a close-up of part of the assembly line.The gromet holes have been drilled and the girlspick up the hats as they move along the conveyor

belt and insert the linings. This plant has spe-cial equipment installed for the manufacture ofproducts required by the Army and Navy. The

three-pound steel helmet it carries will sta'ld a.45-calibre bullet at seven feet. Take a tookat the helmet on page twelve.

Cirls are used widely throughout Ea.tern warproduction plants. Here we find two of theminserting the linincs ill the military helmet liners. .•

.At the left i. Marie Rinella, and at the right wefind Agnes Traynor. These helmet liners willnow move to rotatine pedestals, undereo a quick

paint spray and then be put through the lin.drying tunnel, where the paint is dried and hard·...ed under great heat•

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iThe girls shown in the picture above-Rose Mc-Farland and Catherine Mosblack-are actuallystanding almost back to back. Rose removes

from the moving pedestals the finished helmetliners after they have passed through the dryingtunnel. Catherine puts the unpainted liners on

the pedestals and starts them on their waythrough the spray into the drying tunnel. Thisoperation is a continuous one.

\-l'his is a close-up of the spray and the ent~anceto the drying tunnel. Look closely and you will!lee the helmet liners coming one by one on the

revolving pedestals into the paint spray. Thepaint chambers are shown in the' foregroundand al the liner passes into the paint chamber it

gets a quick paint bath and then moves on, aayou can see at tlte right, into the dryin« tunnel.See the circular picture on page eight. •

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W E' enjoyed our" trip to Pittsburgh verymuch. The men of the Mine Saiety AppliancesCompany are mining men from away back, andwe got 10 buzzing around learning some of thehistory of the organization itself. We thinkyou'd like to read a little about it, too.

The two men behind the Mine Safety Ap-- pliances Company were John T. Ryan andGeorgeH.Deike. Both of them had been on the

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Librarian Stella Vetter, at right, and assistantBetty Marquis, in one of the Mine Safety Ii.braries.

-..staff of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. Mr. Ryan,who died suddenly about two years ago, was inBriceville, Tennessee, in December, 1911,whenMr. Deike joined the Bureau. The Bricevillecatastrophe which caused the deaths of eighty-four miners and other rescue work followingmine explosions started the two young men tothinking. They decided to organize a companydevoted to the manufacture of equipment de-signed to help prevent mine accidents and toIncrease safety in mine operations. The com-

Here we find Jack Nolan filling out an order forbattery covers to go to Butte.

pany is now over thirty years old and it manu-factures countless items of safety equipment.

On this page we show you pictures of JohnT. Ryan, Sr., whose widow came originally fromAnaconda (her maiden name was Mary Gavin);Mr. Deike, who served for some years as chair-man of the board while Mr. Ryan was presi-dent and who has taken over the presidencysince the death of Mr. Ryan, Sr., and John T.Ryan, Jr., who is following in his father's foot-steps.

Service PlusIN order to speed up service to mining organi-zations, Mine Safety maintains a special ship-

_. ping department, and on this page we show twoorders being filled for Butte ....=one for cable andanother for battery covers.

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PlacesOne of the things that really hit us between

the eyes was the tremendous research library inPittSburgh. Here we met Miss Stella Vetterand her assistant, Betty Marquis. The librarycontains practically every piece of literature onmining and safety you can imagine.

Not only are hard hats for Butte manufac-tured in Pittsburgh and protective helmet linersfor our fighting men, but hard hats for coalminers and helmets for firemen as well.

Frank Doyle, supervtsor of the hat moldingdepartment, showed us the various models.They are all made from the same material.

BigTownPITTSBURGH,like many other industrial cen-ters in the East, is booming with people. Wehave visited there a few times in the past-asnewspaper people we "covered" one of the dis-astrous floods against which Pittsburgh Is nowprepared. Today it has a tremendous popula-tion, and at the time we were there it reallywas going strong.

MSA PeopleTHE folks at the Mine Safety organizationknow a lot about Butte, and a great many ofthose we met had visited Butte at some time.It was interesting to us to hear that, accordingto the boys in Pittsburgh, who are in a positionto know, the Anaconda Company Investigatesevery single development in mine safety. Oneof the officials there told us that there is nonew development in safety equipment that is .not studied immediately by the management atButte. He declared that in his opinion, "Ana-conda has always taken advantage of the lates~in safety equipment."

For the ServicesAS we have already indicated, the Mine Safetyorganization today manufactures not only safe-ty equipment for the mining industry, but it isdeep in w~r production. When your editorsvisited several of the plants, we had an oppor-tunity to see at first hand the tremendous pro-duction of first-aid equipment for the battle-fronts.

John Sisk is checking out an order of cable ~the Butte mines.

Women and girls are used to a great extent1n these operations, which require great skilland speed. You've probably seen those glassammonia capsules that people break with theirfingers and then inhale. They are used in ordi-nary life to revive fainting people or to act as astimulant. These capsules are encased in gauzetied at each end, and the tying operation mustbe done by hand. One of the gals who wasworking on the tying operation-the capsulesare strung along a long cord-worked so fastin tying the knots at each end and then snip-ping them with a pair of shears that the humaneye simply could not catch it.

We asked her to slow down a little so thatwe could see how she did it, but she laughingly,told us that it wasn't possible.

Copper Commando editor Bob Newcomb, seated.is shown a Butte hard hat by supervisor Franl(Doyle.

Well-known to Montana people was JoI,n T.Ryan, Sr., beloved co-founder with Ceorge H.Deike of Mine Safety Appliance. Company. Mr.

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You said it, it's a hard h~) It is a hard, hat for use in the minesarid it is a hard hat on the battle fronts. Here's a War Depart-ment photograph of Sgt. John R. Morton of Booneville, Missouri,who is pointing to a bullet hole in his helmet made during thefight on the Metz-Nancy front. The bullet, as you can see, didn'tinjure him. He is the first living soldier to receive the Distin-guished Service Cross in the Sixth Armored Division. He killedtwenty-six Germans with a carbine after his half-track wasknocked out. Then he killed three more with a tommy gun. Hardhats save lives on the battlefronts and on the production front aswell

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