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By Donald M. Nelson, Chairman,War Production Board

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LrOTHE WORKERSOF A~ERICA:

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Today, the first Fourth' of July since the United Nations took the·offensive in the Eu-ropean the~ter of war, we have something to celebrate as well as something to remember.No less praise can be given the heroes of the battlefield than the tribute we pay to theher~es of the past.

But in paying such trii;ute it is well to remember the heroes of the produc:tion lin·e.t"hese men, by their loyalty and faithfulness to their jobs in the mines, the smelters andrefineries, on the machine tools and assembly lines, in the stockrooms and offices of thenation, have shown the world that a free people can, and have and will out-work, out-pro-duee and out-fight any combination of forces that can be brought against us by Nazi Cer-,.,any, Fascist Italy or the "new order" of Japan.

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As Chairman of the War Production Board, I want to express to you the gratitude ofyour government; but I must emphasize that, ~hile the job is being done, it is not fin-ished. We cannot relax and must not for a minute-not even on the Fourth of July-un-til the job IS done, and our enemies have given the unconditional surrender our Com-mander-in-Chief demandedJ :.0

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A View at the East Helena Slag Treating Plant. See Front Cover for Another View.

COPPER COMMANDO is the officialnewspape .. of the Victory Labor-Manage-ment Production Committees of the Ana-conda Copper Mining Company and itsUnion Representatives at Butte, Ana-conda, East Helena and Creat Falls, Mon-tana. It is issued every two weeks. • ••COPPER COMMANDO is heaoded by ajoint committee from Labor and Manage-menti its policies are shaped by both sidesand are dictated by neither • . • COPPER

/ COMMANDO was established at therecommendation of the War Departmentwith the concurrence of the War Produc-tion Board. Its editors are Bob Newcomband Marg Sammons; its safety editor isJohn L Boardman; its chief photographeris Bob· Nesmith; its staff photographeris Les Bishop .••• Its Editorial Board con-sists of: Denis McCarthy, CIO; John F.Bird, AFL; Ed. Reneuard, ACM, fromButte; Dan Byrne, CIO; Joe Marick, AFL;C. A. Lemmon. ACM, from Anaconda;Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson, AFL,and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, from CreatFalls•••• COPPER COMMAN'DO ismailed to the home of every employe ofACM ill the four locations-if you arenot receiving your copy advise COPPERCOMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Street,Butte, or, better still, drop in ad tellus. TlMs is Volume 1, No. 23.

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In"This IssneM,R. N,ELSON SPEAKS 2The Fourth of July reminds us that, whilewe are making progress in the war of pro- 'duction, we haven't won it yet. DonaldM. Nelson, Chairman of the War Produc-tion. Board, has an important message forus. Let us all give it our earnest atten-tfon and benefit from it.

EAST HELENA 4One of the most tnteresting and impor-tant operations is at the Slag TreatingPlant at: East Helena. In this, the first ofa series of articles on this Plant, we giveyou a general idea of what this operationlooks like from the outside. Watch formore dope on the operation of the Plantlater. '

HELPINC HAND ._ _ 6The Phosphate Plant in Anaconda does aswell job of producing phosphate ferti-lizer, which to Uncle Sam means lendinga helping hand in producing bumpercrops and lessening the food shortage.It's necessary to bag, stitch and weighthe fertilizer before shipment and here'show it is done.

PEOPLE AN D PLACES 8With Miners' Union Day and a Meat-for ..Copper-Production mass meeting all inthe same week and in the same town, our.column seems to be putting emphasis onButte, but there have been so many wellknown people in and out of the officethat we thought you would like to knowabout them.

PLATTER CHATTER 9.As you know from the last issue, Platter:Chatter is exactly what the name implies,We aren't going to deliver a lot of lee-tures on food, We are going to listenwith interest to what the housewiveshave to say in regard to making their redpoints stretch. In this issue Mrs. LiHianMerritt gives us her slant.

BUTTE MACHINE SHOP 10We just couldn't cover the Butte Mines"Machine Shop in one issue. Instead weare stretching it to three issues, and thisis the second of the series. There are somany parts of machinery and equipmentbrought into the Shop from the minesthat we did~'t want to_miss any of them,

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EASTW E thought it was hi~h time that weintroduce our readers to the Slag TreatingPlant at East Helena. which is a divisionof the Great Falls Reduction Works. Ittook a long time to get around to this in-troduction. but it was not because it isnot playing a most important part in thewar program. In this issue we want tofamiliarize you with the buildings as youapproach the Slag Treating Plant and in.another issue we will go through the Plantand see how it operates.

It is here at the East Helena SlagTreating Plant that zinc. which formerlywould have been lost. is recovered. Zinc

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is one of the most essential metals for thewar program and it is highly important inthese days of great need for the boys atthe Fighting Front that none of this vitalmetal be lost. Not only does the Plantreclaim zinc. but it also salvages lead. an-other greatly needed war material. Ac-tually, the Slag Treating Plant performsthe task of cleaning up the metallurgicalprocesses both of the ~inc plant and thelead smelter.

Experiments were made in 1926 atthe Tooele. Utah. plan" of the Interna-tional Smelting and Refining Company,an Anaconda subsidiary. to determine

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whether the zinc present in lead blast fur-nace slag could be recovered econom-ically; The tests proved that it could. Asa result of these favorable tests, thepresent Slag Treating Plant was con-structed in 1927. •

The leach residue from the Electro-lytic Zinc Plants in Great Falls and Ana-conda still con.tains a certain amount ofzinc, as well as part of whatever lead waspresent in the original zinc concentrate.This leach residue is first sent from GreatFalls and Anaconda to the AmericanSmelting and Refining Company's leadsmelter at East Helena, where most of thelead is recovered in a lead blast furnaceoperation.

The slag from the A. S. & R. furnacescontaining the zinc from the leach residueis moved over to the East Helena SlagTreating Plant, where a recovery of theresidual zinc in the form of zinc oxide i:

made and it is then shipped back to theGreat Falls Zinc Plant, where electrolyticzinc is the end result.

Too, the zinc contained in the leadores and concentrates treated by the leadsmelter is in the same manner recoveredand is transferred in the zinc oxide, to theGreat Falls Zinc Plant, since all slag fromthe furnaces of the A. S. & R, are broughtto the Slag Treating Plant.

The lead which is left in the slagsresulting in the combined smelting of thelead ores and zinc plant residues is almostcompletely recovered by the process andgoes into the zinc oxide fume. At GreatFalls, this lead drops into the zinc plantresidue and is returned to the leadsmelter, where it is finally recovered.

The upper picture on the oppositepage shows the flue system with thepower house in the foreground and thefurnace building in the background. The

coal pulverizing buildings are to the right ... The lower left shot shows the flue systemlooking toward the bag house. The lower.right is looking north from the furnacebuilding toward the bag house. That's ~ladle into which the molten slag is pouredin the foreground.

The upper left picture on this pageshows the cool ing tubes and part of the.flue system and the upper right is another,shot of the bag house, Joe La Liberty,had just finished shaking the bags. That'sa general view of the bag house and cool- I

ing tubes in the lower left.For a good many years the slag front

the lead smelter's furnace was dumped ai\the side of the smelter, and is in effect ~high grade zinc mine which gradually isbeing brought successfully into produc ...tion by the process of the Slag TreatingPlant. That's the slag pile mined fromthe A. S. & R. slag dump below.

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HELPING·HAND

The Phosphate Plant in Anaconda has acrew of enthusiastic men and that goesfor the men bagging and preparing t.hephosphate fertilizer for shipment .. Thesemen know that they are lending a helpinghand to Uncle Sam with each one hun-dred-pound bag of fertilizer shipped .

.A S you know, the phosphate fertilizerproduced in the Phosphate Plant in Ana-conda is mighty important these days. Itplays a real part in lessening the foodshortage. Every paper carries the newsof the great need for more crops this yearin order that our Armed Forces may befed; that Lend Lease 'requirements bemet; and that our own civilians have thenourishment needed to keep the produc-tion lines moving. Every article writtenindicates the important role of phosphatefertilizer.

In the last issue we left phosphatefertilizer as dustless Treble Superphos-phate, the finished product, ready to doits job of making Mother Earth increaseher production. Now it is necessary tobag this valuable aid to production andprepare it for shipment to the distrib-utors.

That's a picture of the Phosphate..and Vanadium Plants in the upper pic-ture. You'Il remember from the story inthe last issue that the strong phosphoricacid was sent to the Vanadium Plant forthe removal of vanadium and then to themixer for the production of raw TrebleSuperphosphate. Because of this part inthe process of making Treble Superphos-phate, it is necessary that the VanadiumPlant be in the same series of buildings.

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The building to the right in the pjctureis where the bagging and loading of thephosphate fertilizer" is handled. Thetrucks pull right up there to where yousee the steps and are loaded wi th thehundred-pound bags. Last Spring therewould be several trucks, owned byranch owners close by, waiting in line toget thei r phosphate. More and moreranch owners are becoming aware of theincreased production resulting from the'use of phosphate fertilizer.

In the middle picture on the op-posite page you see some of the fellowswho help make the Phosphate andVanadium Plants tick. From left to rightare Cal Stevenson, shift foreman, RayCaro, superintendent, Charlie Schneider,Clerk, Jim Nelson, phosphate engineer,and Clarence Tow, general foreman.

That's a shot of the bagging ofTreble Superphosphate in the lower pic-ture on the opposite page. It's a slickoperation. The bags move around, as ona merry-go-round, and are filled as theymove. That's the "merry-go-round" fill-ing machine in the background withMark Burns looking on to see that thefeed is okay and that the bags are beingfilled correctly. After the bags are filled, .they are moved off the filling machineand on to the stitching machine. Fromthe stitching machine, the bags go to thescales. Everything is done automatically,but Harold Collison watches the stitching

n and Pat Mulcahy checks the weighing toprevent any slips. There are one hun-dred pounds of phosphate in each bag andabout four thousand bags are filled daily.The stitched and weighed bags are storedand in the upper left picture we caughtTommy Sneberger and Clarence Tow in-specting the bag stock.

There are by-products of Superphos-phate fertilizer. One of them is the Am-moniated Phosphate. In the upper rightpicture Harold Hamel, Walter Hubbard,Paul Loberg and Gerald Palm are busysacking, stitching and weighing thismixed fertilizer. The bags of AmmoniatedPhosphate are moved by truck for storage,as seen in the lower picture, with BillyLeonard as the driver. Billy is stacking

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the hundred-pound bags in the warehouse.The trucks handle two tons of the hun-dred-pound sacks at a time and are used toload from the storage room into the carsandtrucks for shipment. They are keptplenty busy storing the bags after weigh-ing 'and filling orders as they come in forshipment.

Another by-product of Superphos-phate is the mixed fertilizer used forgarden crops. This is a mixture of phos-phate, ammonium sulphate and cyana-mide. That's Tommy Sneberger, foremanof the phosphate loading, showing off theprize fertilizer for Victory Gardens in thecenter picture.

The men working in the Plant are soanthusiastic about the future of phosphatefertilizer that a trip through the Plant

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IT'S funny how a few dinky conquestswill set us all to thinking that victory isin the bag. It's funny, but it's pathetic,too.

No one is going to discount the NorthAfrica campaign, or make light of ouraccomplishments in the Pacific. But,when these conquests are compared wi ththe enormous job that still lies before us,they amount to mighty little.

Yet, in the face of these small gains,the entire country has started to rest onits oars. Under Secretary of War RobertP. Patterson, recently let it be known thatlosses in production are getting to beworse and worse. The country has gone"complacent" again. A few weeks agowe had the privilege of having with usGeorge B. Holderer of the Copper Divi-sion of the War Production Board. Mr.Holderer addressed the Labor-Manage-ment Committee in Butte, and he madeit mighty clear that we haven't evenBEGUN to win this war. We have to ourcredit some victories in North Africa anda conquest or so in the Pacific, he -said,yet for the most part we have only recap-tured territory taken from us earlier bythe Axis. Where do we get the idea, Mr.Holderer properly inquires, that we arewinning the war? We are miles fromwinning it.

We're miles from winning it and, atthe rate we're going, we are YEARS fromwinning it. The boys with the rose-tintedglasses who predict the early collapse ofthe Nazis are dealing in pure theory, justas are the fel lows who tell us that a fewair raids over TOKio are going to put us onEasy Street.

let's snap out of it. We Montananshave our boys and girls in this war, and ifwe want to bring them back, we've got tostir ourselves to a full effort. We have toget on the job, AND STAY ON THE JOB,because the men on the manufacturingend of this war can't build planes andtanks and ships and guns if we don't.

While we're on this subject, let's ex-plode this business of figuring you'Ve doneyour job if you buy War Bonds. You don'tmeasure patriotism by the amount youcontribute-to a secured investment. You'repatriotic, sure, but you're also smart. Thefellow who doesn't buy Bonds is simply afool of the first order, because he doesn'tknow a good buy when he sees one.

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People ~. PlacesBECAUSE things happened to fall thatway, this is somewhat of a Butte column,But you can't have Miners' Union Day

, and a Meat-for-Copper-Production massrally all the same week, in the same town,without having the emphasis go in thedirection of the town.

Miners' Union Day fell right afterthe closing of our last issue, so it's a sortof a late job we're doing on it. However,the show was fine in spite of the rain, andeverybody had a good time. We saw lotsof friendly faces from Anaconda andCreat Falls, too.

o The occasion brought forth severallads from Washington, and a numberfrom the armed forces. The Saturdaynight before the big day, the Miners pre-sented a war show with Captain HarryD. Williams of the Sigtl.~1Corps in charge,and some veterans of the current mess inthe Pacific-Sergeants Russell and Dover,and Corporals Bartha and Cook. The boysdid a magnificent job, and we· weremighty glad to see them.

On deck too for the big ceremonieswas Major M. J. Tierney from FortDouglas, 'who gave a whale of a good talkat Columbia Gardens. We had a three-day visit too from Harry Chellson, editorof the "Mining Congress Journal" of theAmerican Mining Congress in Washing-ton. Likewise an amiable call from Eu-gene Cervi of the Office of War Infor-mation in Denver. '.. along with otherswe don't seem to have the space to men-tion. Anyway, glad you came and comeagain!

More Meat"More meat for copper workers" is

the slogan of the "Meat for Copper Pro-duction Committee" in Butte" whichsprang from the many efforts of. suchgroups as the Miners' Union, the MiningAssociation of Monfana, the Butte Labor-Management Committee and manyothers. A few evenings ago a mass rallywas held at the Fox Theater in Butte, andthe group was honored to have severalleaders on hand.

In the picture below, we snappedCarl Trauerman, secretary of the MiningAssociation of Montana, pleading for

more meat for copper workers. If youreyes are good, you can see behind him,reading from left to right: Dr. Thomsonof the Montana School of Mines, JamesH. Rowe, Stanley Babcock (president ofthe Miners' Union), Chief Justice How-ard A. Johnson, Governor Sam C. Ford,Marg Sammons and Bob Newcomb ofCOPPER COMMANDO, Mayor BarryO'Leary of Butte and Sheriff AI McLeodof Silver Bow County.

'by this time, a minimum of 25,000postcards asking for more meat for cop-per workers should have descended onWashington. If they haven't, it can onlybe ~because copper workers and thei rfriends haven't fought hard enough intheir own interest.

Take a Bow

We promised in our last issue to tellyou about the pats on the back our Edi-torial Board got for our special Copperand the War issue on June 4. The CIO,AFL and Management lads on our Boarddeserve a lot of credit, we think, becausethey hatched the idea for a special copperissue, and it has gone over like the last, War Bond Drive.

We can't possibly quote. because wehad too many letters, but you might liketo know that our special issue has drawn,so far, favorable comments from theWhite House. Donald M. Nelson, UnderSecretary of the Navy Forrestal, Under. \

Secretary of War Patterson, Rear AdmiralWoodward of the Navy's Incentive Divl-

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. General Brehon Somervell, PresidentAlvin E. Dodd of the American Manage-ment Association, as well as heads of sev-eral government bureaus and executivesof companies throughout the country.Makes us feel pretty good, and makes usfeel pretty proud too of the labor andmanagement boys on our Editorial Boardwho did the job. ."

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MRS. LILLIAN MERRlrr, who is pic-tured below serving dinner in her home, isthe wife of Harvey Merritt. That's Harveyto her right in the picture. Harvey hasbeen a miner for seventeen years and isnow mining" at the Emma ,.mine. Mrs.Merritt's" father, Maurice Holland, toHarvey's right, works at the PrecipitationPlant. To Mr. Holland's right is Tom Teas-dale, who is Harvey's brother-in-law, andlikewise his part.ner at the Emma. To L,il-lian's left are her two sons, Harvey, Jr••and Daniel. Th~ Merritts have another

-, son, Private Cornelius Merritt, who issome~here overseas. Mrs. Merritt's threebrothers, the sons of Maurice Holland,are also overseas. Daniel is in NorthAfrica. Maurice is in New Cuinea an~Thomas is overseas at an unknown loca-tion.

Mrs. Merritt wants to help the war·program in every way possible for shewants her son and her brothers backhome. While her family is away, fightingfor our country, she wants them ~ havethe best food possible and is willing tosac,rifice in order that they may have it.Mrs. Merritt is doing all she can to stretchher meat points in order that her husbandcan be well fed and continue getting outthe vital copper ore, which is turned intothe ammunition for the boys on the firingline.

Mrs. Merritt says that with less meatavailable, meat stew solves many a din·ner problem for her. It permits a widechoice of meat. Stew .extends the appe-, tite-stimulating flavor of meat and makesthe most of its nutritional essentials bycombin'ing with other foods.

Meat stew is also a convenient time·saver. It is' as good or better served' thesecond day and it may be cooked at anytime and reheated at the dinner hour.Wide variations can be obtained by dif-ferent combinati;"s of vegetables. Dump·lings are delicious with stew and make itgo farther too.

Mrs. Merritt says: "More care shouldb~ given to planning a ste~. A litt~e c~reand thought can make thiS comblnahonof'1neat and vegetables a colorful, flavor-fui dish.

"Appearance is important. Cut themeat into pieces of u.,.iform size. If youwant a dark, rich stew, brown the meatfirst. Dredging with flour before brown·ing heightens the color and flavor. Thevegetables should be picked with an ideaof color, too. Onions and potatoes com·bined with corn or carrot's and green peasor beans along with reel tomatoes make acolorful and delicious meal. Always use- some vegetables that are soft in texture •a~ combine with others which are crisp.

"For extra flavor in stews use thewater drained from cooked vegetables;dissolve a bouillon cube in the stew; add afew drops of prepared gravy flavoring, orperhaps a little lemon juice, vinegar orsheny. _

"Try a cup of sour cream (whencream is plentiful) in veal' stew. Try a lit-tle curry in lamb stew. Combine differentmeats-veal, lamb and beef can be usedtogether in a stew. In a pinch, leftovervegetables. leftover gravy and leftovermeat can be combined with fresh meat."

Here are some suggestions from Lillian Merritt and the gals who gathered at theCommando Kitchen (you saw the pictures in the last issue). Th~se reC'i~es s~e!chmeat points. In addition to making meat go further, these recipes .wlli prOVideworkers in the copper industry with nourishing food •.

LILLIAN MERRITT said: "When I'mstarting from scratch to make a stew, Icut the meat in uniform pieces, usuallyabout one -and one-half to two inch cubes,season with salt and pepper and dredgewith flour. I brown the meat well in itsown fat or in hot lard and then add justenough water, either hot ,or cold to coverthe meat. Then I cover the kettle closelyand cook at simmering temperature untilthe meat is tender-usually about oneand a half or two hours. I never let it boilfor it makes the meat dry and stringy. Iadd the vegetables just long enough be.fore serving to insure their being cooked.I remove the meat and vegetables andthicken the stock with flour smoothed ina small amount of water (2 tbsps. flourfor each cup of liquid). I stir it in gradu-ally and bring to a boil and cook untilthickened, stirring constantly.

"I serve stew various ways. Some-times I arrange the vegetables in groupsaround the meat. A casserole keeps thestew hot longer than a platter. I serve athin stew in an old fashioned tureen.Sometimes I arrange a beel stew around a.head of cauliflower, cooked separately.Other times I serve stew with tomato,bacon or parsley dumplings. Other timesI top it with pie or biscuit crust or border.it with tnashed potatoes sprinkled withgrated cheese and browned in the oven.It's mighty good served with hot biscuits."DOROTHY OGRIN said: "I plan to servespaghetti at least once a week. Here ismy recipe for it: One-half pound of ham-

burger, one-half pound of sausage, onelarge onion, one clove of garlic, salt andpepper, one can of tomato sauce or to-matoes, one package of spaghetti. Brownthe meat, onion and garlic, add it to thetomato sauce and simmer for two hours.Cook the spaghetti until tender, drain thewater a~d pour -the sauce over it. Sprinklegrated cheese on top."HELEN BISHOP offered this: "I have agood recipe to use left-overs. I'll give youthe recipe as it was given me but what Ido is just take any left-over. meat andgrind it up and combine it with the left.over mashed potatoes. One and one-halflb. ground beef, one-third cup finelychopped onion, pepper and salt, one andone-half teaspoon Worcestershire sauce,one-third cUfj instant whole wheat cereal,one beaten egg, one-half cup milk. Mixall ingredients and spread half of it in thebaking pan, cover with mashed potatoesand add meat mixture. Cook in a 350 de-gree oven for one hour if fresh meat hasbeen used or one-half hour if the meat iscooked."MARY ORLICH said: "I think it's a sin tothrowaway bread. Here's my suggestionfor using left-over bread. Dice a loaf ofstale bread and soak it in milk. Add threebeaten eggs, salt, pepper and any left-over meat or cheese. Make in little balls. •Roll them in flour and corn meal and lelstand for fifteen minutes. Cook them inboiling water for one-half hour and servewith white sauce or white sauce withcheese."

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-'BIJTTE MA(;HINE SHOPThere's a lot to see in the Butte Mi"es' Machine Shop. All the equipmenthas been motorized and even with this added help to production theboys· are kept busy keeping the equipment for the mine~ in A-l condi-tion. The equipment must be kept in repair if the vital ore is kept roil-ing toward the Fighting Front. ,

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W HEN you go into the Butte MinesMachine Shop you see one of the' bestequipped machine 'shops to be found. Inthe shop there are twelve lathes, twoplaners, two shapers, one borirrg mill for .•turning car wheels, one radial drill pressfor drilling holes, six smaller drill p'resses,one milling machine which cuts gears,etc., one universal grindej- for grindingtools used in the mining machine, andtwo, two hundred fifty ton presses, whichpush the shafts and axles in the mine Loco-motives. Though it .s hard to bel ieve,there ;,S still plenty of room in the shopfor the addition of new 'machinery afterthe war, when machinery is again avail-able.

As you know aU the equipment hasbeen motorized, and the boys will all tellyou what an elbow grease saver that is.The boys will also tell you that it is amighty good thing that the time saver de-vices have been installed for it keeps themhumping to keep the many parts repaired

, which are brought into the shop each andevery day. There are sixty-five men work-ing on the two shifts at the shop and theyare aU kept busy overhauling and main-taining machinery to be used in the mines.

In order to give you a better idea ofjust what the shop looks like, we got theupper shot of the small lathe division ofthe Machine Shop. The first three. ma-chines are electric lathes, then there is amilling machine (used for cutting gearsand key ways), a grinder and two shapersare shown in the background. The grinderis used for servicing milling machine toolsand .reconditioning hardened tools. Theshapers are used for flat Surfacing metals.There's fine light in the shop for, as youcan see by the pictures, the sides of theshop are glass enclosed.

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In' the lower right picture Anton.Malesich was caught with his mouth open.'He was engrossed in fifting a tram motorwheel by the crane preparatory to landing".it in the lathe to be machined. It's tick-lish business operating a crane and gettingthe equipment to be repaired in just the

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- right spot and Anton was helping directthe job. J. S. (Sid) Carkeet was turninga discharge plug for a Butte hoist com-pressor on the lathe when we snapped.him in the lower left shot, opposite page.

Now for the pictures en this page.Robert (Bobbie) Dwight was machiningbushings for mechanical loaders used inthe mines in the upper left picture. Youmay know that Tony Jovick is a cracker-jack bowler, -but did you know that he is acracker-jack on the radial drill press?That's what was absorbing his attention

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in the middle-shot. When we got this pic-ture, Tony was drilling holes in the endframe for a ,mine locomotive. John Den-nehy was slotting a draw for the Buttemine cages in the upper right shot. The .draw bar suspends the cages or skips inthe mines, so you know how important itis to keep it in condition. John was anapprentice at the time the picture wastaken but now he is a full fledged jour-neyman.

In the lower left shot Harold Hamanwas drilling a draw-bar for the mine cage.

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. .That operation follows the slotting doneby John Dennehy in the picture above,Jimmie Bonner was turning the under-ground locomotive wheels in the boringmill in the lower right shot. This wouldnot usually be done on this machine butin the absence of the wheel lathe, Jimmiewas successful in performing the opera-tion on this machine. .

There's more to come on the ButteMines' Machine Shop. We had to breakit up into three parts, so~atch for a laterissue so you'll have the story complete.

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MINERS~UNION DAYJUNE 13 marked the sixty-fifth anniversary of the Butte Miners~ Union. Despite rains and

cold, the miners turned out in droves to observe the ceremonies. Here are some pictures

taken of the parade with various groups participating. In the afternoon the celebrants

moved to Columbia Card~ns for a recreational program and speeches •.

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