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COPPER COMMANDO is the official newspaperof the Victory Labor-Management ProductionCommittees of the Anaconda Copper Mining

• Company and its Union Representatives at Butte,Anaconda, Great Falls and East Helena, Montana.It is issued every two weeks ••• COPPER COM-MANDO is headed by a joint committee fromLabor and Management, its policies are shaped byboth tides rid are dictated by neither ••. COP-PER COMMANDO was establishe~ at the rec-ommendation of the War Department with theconcurrence of the War Production Board. Itseditors are Bob Newcomb and Marg Sammons;its safety editor is John L Boardman; its chiefphotographer is AI Gusdorf; its staff photograph-er is Les Bishop ••• Its Editorial Board consists of:Denis McCarthy, CIO; John F. Bird, AFL; EdRenouard, ACM, from Butte; Dan Byrne, CIO:Joe Marick, AFL; C. A. Lemmon, ACM, fromAnaconda; Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson,AFL, and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, from Great Falls.•.• COPPER COMMANDO is mailed to the homeof every employee of ACM in the four locations-if you are not receiving your copy, advise COP-PER COMMANDO at l'12 Hamilton Street,Butte, or better st1I1, drop in and tell us.

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LET US PLAY!FOR the first time in almost threeyears, Copper Commando breaks its edi-torial pace to bring you an issue that isnot related at all to the war. Yet in manyrespects it is an issue devoted to that verything for which we are fighting. Andthat, good friends, is the 'right of a hu-man being to enjoy himself.

Here, in Montana, at Butte and atAnaconda, we have two parks devotedto the pleasure of people. In the manytimes we have visited Columbia Gardensnear Butte and Washoe Park at Anaconda,we have been impressed by the number offamilies of employees who regularly takeadvantage of the fun and relaxation theseplaces afford.

We got to kicking the idea around inour minds that maybe a Ricture tour ofthese two spots would be of interest, notonly to the youngsters and grown-upswhose pictures we got, but also to hun-dreds of others who would recognizethem.,

As most of our readers know, thesetwo recreational parks are maintained bythe Anaconda Copper Mining Company

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and operated for the pleasure 'of the peo-ple of the two communities, not only foremployees of the company but for resi-dents who have no company 'connection.By far the largest users of the two parksare, of course, employees and their fam-ilies.

On our tour of Columbia Gardensand Washoe Park, we found literally hun-dreds of children of miners and smelter-men and craftsmen. We wish we couldhave 'gotten pictures of all those peoplewe saw, but your publication just isn't bigenough. We reached Columbia Gardenson a Thursday devoted to the chi Idrenand nearly 4,000 were there. The swingsand slides and teeter-totters were loadedwith kids all having a wonderful time.We visited Washoe Park the followingSunday and there we found many groupspicnicking, strolling and enjoying the sun-shine and fresh air.

We are going to let you in on a littlesecret! We could write lots of wordsabout both these places but we thoughtwe'd rather give this issue over almost en-tirely to pictures..3.

All aboard for Columbia Cardens! Thereat the right a group of youngsters poses infront of the bus, ready to take off for aday's fun. All these other pictures weretaken in and around Columbia Cardens.See if you can find yourself and yourfriends.

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Sunday is fun day at Washoe Park and here friends of yours and their children aresnapped by the photographer as they relax and enjoy themselves at this inviting park at. An;aconda. One of the park's greatest attra ctions are the broad, blooming gardens yousee nearly everywhere. The beauty of the flowers gives a lot of pleasure to visitors.. ,

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On these two pages arerandom views at Columbia

, Cardens and at WashoePark. On the oppositepage we find scenic viewsand close-ups of young-sters at Columbia Car-dens. This page of picturesis devoted entirely tovie w s in and aroundAnaconda's Washoe Park.

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HERE we go again, good readers! Youreditors had no trouble at all in gettingfolks with their at tract lve youngsters toline up before the camera. Those twopictures at the top of the page are ofgroups at Washoe Park and that is an-other Washoe Park view in the large pic-ture at the right where the folks are re-laxing for a game of cards. In the twoviews below, we catch groups of activeyoungsters at play at the Columbia Gar-dens in Butte. If you take a close lookin the lower righthand picture you'll tseeone young fellow hanging head - downfrom the ladder. That is Charlie Puhlman,ten, the son of a miner at the MountainCon, who took your editors under h!s wingas soon as they arrived and guided themon their tour of Columbia Gardens, NowCharlie, like many other Butte youngsters,spends countless happy days at the Gar-dens and is thoroughly familiar with itsatt ract ions .

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• L'KE everything else, recreational parksneed staffs. For such places have to bemanaged and believe us, when you havea bunch of healthy youngsters runningaround, you must have supervisors.

In the top picture at the left, wewant you to meet W. H. Cockayne, whofor forty-five years has been superinten-dent at Columbia Gardens-he startedthere at the turn of the century. At theupper right, surrounded by friendlyyoungsters, is William McC. White ofthe Columbia Amusement Com pan ywhich maintains the concessions at Co-lumbia Gardens. At Washoe Park inAnaconda, E. E. Pickell is in charge. Overhere at the" right we see the ColumbiaGardens playground staff.

. Those two center pictures show howfirewood is delivered to the ovens at Co-lumbia Gardens. The maintenance crewthere sees to it that the wood-pile is al-ways h.igh so that the visitors to the Gar-dens can prepare hot food.

The unusually warm weather in Julyhas attracted many people to both Colum-bia Gardens and Washoe Park.

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"Irs true, as we h~ve said, that this special issue of your Labor-Management new~paper is not related

, to the war. We have shown here not the gri.m realities of battle, but the pleasures of people at peace.

This is the type of world our fighting men want to·come back to. They want to enjoy the freedom

- of the outdoors, and they want their children and th eir children's children to enjoy it. Over in Cermany,• fanatic named Hitler once had different ideas. He did not believe that people should play; he believedonly that as soon as children were old enough to wa Ik and talk they must be forced into youth organiz ..tion~ whose only purpose was the total enslavement of the world.

In this country we don't believe those thingS: ,.Maybe that's why we have been able to smash the Cerman military machine. Maybe that's why in theyears to come we shall be able to convince even the Nazis that a peaceful world is really the only world. .worth fighting for.

These recreational centers, Columbia Cardens anCiWashoe Pa~t were created for your pleasure. The~hildren of many of our readers today are enjoying them.

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