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Here's Lester Bishop, Ceneral Production Foreman at Butte, explaining "Service" to the Anaconda andButte Labor-Management Comr;;ttees at the meeting held August 29, at which time the AnacondaCommittee members were the guesh,of the Butte Committee. According to Les, how well the ServiceSystem of the Anaconda Company works depends on the cooperation between the workers. The serviceprovided by the Company includes the keeping of a man's time while,working, his records for check-off, hospital, insurance, social security, tax and safety. Then there's the underground service which isclassified into three main groups: Timber Service, Car Service .and Tool Service. Les used slides to,illustrate his talk. Too, there was a panel of underground shots on display at the meeting.

The fellows from the Anacol'lda Labor-Management Committee sat on the sidelines and looked on.

This picture shows part of the Butte committee as well as the Anaconda Labor-Management group.

Here's some more of the Butte Labor-Management group sitting around the table at the meeting.It.

GetTogetherA SHORT time ago the Butte Victorylabor-Management Production Commit-tee acted as host to the Committee fromAnaconda. The boys from the SmelterCity came up in a body, sat in, heard aninteresting talk on "Service," given byLester Bishop, Research Department, andthen the crowd broke up, to mingle so-ciably and to swap Labor-ManagementCommittee experiences.

This event wasn't so important be-cause it happened. It's important be-cause of what it means. For the growingtrend throughout the country, accordingto a memorandum recently handed theDirector-General of War Production DriveHeadquarters, is that labor and manage-ment in many sections are deciding tohold the framework of the Labor-Manage-ment Committee to aid in solving the hardproblems of conversion. ~

One of' the top War ProductionBoard officials recently put it this way: '"If ever there was a time when labor andmanagement ought to work together, for (their own common good, that time is now,Practically every industry faces problemsin changing from war to peace produc-tion, and if employer and employee startwrangling within an industry, that indus-try is going to be sabotaged and a com-petitive industry, with a healthier labor-management structure, is going to wint"ou .

Bit by bit, government controls overindustry are being eased. To the extentthat the government can protect home in-dustries, it will probably do so for a time(whether it is Roosevelt or Dewey in thedriver's seat) ; but the day of wholesalecoddling of groups is coming to an end.Amerlcan-industry must stand on its ownfeet; it must be given the freedom tomove ahead once more. But it can't movefar and it won't move fast if it is ham-pered by strife from within. And whenyou destroy an industry, you destroy thelivelihood of those who work for it.

That's why the visit of the AnacondaCommittee to the Butte Co~mittee is im-portant. For the problems ahead of usare not management's alone. They are thejoint problem of management and labor,working together.

The simple fact is that many indus-tries, after the war is over, face competi-tion such as they never faced before, notonly from within our own country butfrom countries throughout the world,struggling to regain a lost place in worldtrade. The industry which gets off to aslow start. through failure or inability toconvert as fast as the next fellow,. or'through dissension between labor andmanagement within, is apt to be taggedbefore it gets to fi rst base.

Labor-Management Committees allover the country have helped to keep theircommunities informed as to the progressof the war, and the part their particulargroups are playing in it. That spirit canand should continue.

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View of part of Bonner where the Lumber De-partment of the Anaconda Company is located.See article beginning on next page of this issue.

*COPPER COMMANDO is the official newspaperof the Victory labor-Managemnt ProductionCommittees of the Anaconda Copper MiningCompany and its Union Representatives at Butte,Anaconda, Creat Falls and East Helena. Montana.It is issued every two weeks ••• COPPER COM-MANDO is headed by a joint committee from. Labor 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 theconcurrence of the War Production Board. Itseditors are Bob Newcomb and Marg Sammons;its safety editor is John L. Boardman; its chiefphotographer is AI Cusdorf; its staff photo~rapheris 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; Hert, 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 are not receiving your copy, advise COP.PER COMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Street,Butte, or better still, drop in and tell us. This isVol. 3, No.3.

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In This Issue:CET TOCETH ER ~. . /

When Commando Kelly and Lieut. Childers spoke at the Labor-Management COI'"Yhmittee meeting in Anaconda, some of the Butte Labor-Management members wentalong and attended the meeting. They enjoyed sitting in on the Anaconda meetingand figured the Anaconda group might like to come to Butte. The Anaconda Com..mittee accepted the invitation and judging from the pictures, they thoroughly enjoyedthe meeting.

,THIS IS BONNER : :.....................................................•........................... 4'In the last issue of Copper Commando we left the logging operations near Wood-worth, Montana. Now we take you to Bonner, the homesite of the lumber operationsof the Anaconda Company, to follow the logs through the mill and see them gotten

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FAIR TI M E : 8Everyyear during Fair week at Great Falls thousands of people stop in at the AnacondaCopper Mining Company's booth to "take five." It's the popular meeting place for theGreat Falls Reduction Works' employees. Allover the Plant you hear the folks say~'·'J'II meet you at the Anaconda booth." We stopped in ourselves and got a few shotsof the folks resting and waiting .

PAY DAY ~ 10Previous issues of Copper Commando carried a series of articles, "Pay Day for JohnDoe," which was the story behind the pay check in Butte. Now we go to the ·Smelter.in Anaconda and show the six cards used to represent the record of each employee afthe Reduction Works: There's pictures of the folks in the Business Machines depart-ment. too. .3.

This IsBONNER

Bonner is the homesite of the lumber op-erations of the Anaconda Copper MiningCompany. We left the loggin~ opera-tions near Woodworth 1n our last issue,and now we move to Bonner to see whathappens next. Let's take a look aroundthe community first and see how it looks.

*ONE of the major necessities of miningis lumber. Not only are logs used in mod-ern mining, but plenty of sturdy timber isrequired.

In our last two issues we took you ona picture tour of the vast Montana loggingoperations in the woods out of Wood-worth. Here the lumberjacks devote theirtime to providing logs for the mill at Bon-ner, which is about fifty miles away. AtBonner lumber is fashioned for the minesand smel ters: a great percentage of thetotal production of the mill is devoted tomi'ning operations. Over and above that.the mill at Bonner furnishes lumber invarious forms to commercial customers.-For nearly fifty years the Anaconda Com-pany has operated this mill at Bonner. Themill and the community lie in a valleyformed by the mountains. The Big Black-foot River courses its way past the town.It is a "company town" in the sense thatall who live there are employed by theAnaconda Company.

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The history of Bonner sprawls backover nearly sixty years, and it owes its ex-istence to the fact that railroad construc-tion in the early 80's called for vast quan-tities of lumber. Bonner was one of themills which was built at that time to pro-vide ties, bridge timbers and lumber forgeneral construction. The Northern Pa-cific, at that time was battling its way tothe Pacific Coast, with construction goingon from both ends. The two hundred milestretch was 'finished in the fall of 1883;the golden spike was driven at the townof Drummond about fifty miles up Hell-gate Canyon from Bonner.

As we have said, copper mining re-quires plenty of lumber and timbers andW. A. Clark and Marcus Daly were rivalsnot only for the mining territory but tim-ber as well. The town of Bonner cameinto being in 1886 and was named for E.l. Bonner, an early associate of A. B.-Hammond, who was prominent in lumbercircles west of the Continental Divide andwho was responsible for the actual build-ing of the mill.

The Anaconda Copper Mining Com-pany acquired the Bonner operation in1898, when it was bought by MarcusDaly, and from that day to this has pro-vided for the mines and smelters the vastquantities of lumber and timbers requiredto carry on thel Anaconda mining andsmelting operations.

Outside of the mountains, whichseem to surround Bonner on every side,the town looks like pictures of a littleNew England community. There is themill sprawling' along the river bank withthe vast lumber yards at one end. Thenthere is the Company office building andthe wide tree-lined streets with small butcomfortable houses. There are two mainstreets which are at right angles to eachother. As you enter the town from themain highway,' you curve past a smallwhite church and a substantial lookingschool house. On the right is a ball parkand beyond it a long row of neat houses inwhich Bonner employees live. On the left,as you proceed toward the mill, is thegreat lumber yard where huge stacks oflumber are air-dried. You take a lefthandturn into the street leading to the mill.Here again, on the right, is a row of com-fortable dwellings. On the left is an oldhotel known as the Margaret, full offriendliness and dignity. The Company of-fice, a neat one-story frame dwelling, issurrounded by birches and willows and alarge expanse of neatly-trimmed lawn.Down the street, perhaps a stone's throw,just before you reach the mill proper, isthe Bonner post office. the general store,the dining hall and recreation rooms.

In later issues, we hope to show youthe way in which the logs are handl-edafter they are brought down from thewoods near Woodworth. In this issue,let us tell you about the community itself.

At Bonner there are roughly onehundred houses, the general store andpost office, in addition to the office build-

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Here is the bright and airy lunch room where the boys gather for a snack at noon. As the whistle blows,the fellows hustle to the lunch room for food and talk. In the warmer weather, and even in the coolerweather, the fellows like to gather outside after they are through eating. The general store, which is acouple of doors away from this lunch room, is a favorite gathering spot for the fellows. Here they sitand visit, before going over to the general store to get candy bars, cigarettes or whatever they may want.

Outside the lunch room, after the noon-day meal is finished, the fellows gathered for a photographfor Copper Commando. Just as a favor to the photographer, they didn't pay much attention to the "KeepOff" sign on the lawn. This lawn is the pride and joy of Jim Johnson, an old-timer with more than forty,ears of service, who works in the box factory during the colder weather and takes care of the lawnsand gardens in the spring and summer. Jim has some grandsons, in the service of whom he's proud.

Many of the men at the lumber camp are veterans of the woods. They grew up in the logging and lum·ber industries and don't care for anything else, The Armed Services have made heavy raids on man ..power here as they have at other locations throughout the country. But these Bonner men are carryingon their essential wartime jobs with a fine spirit. Here we see a group of them gathered outside thegeneral store following their noon-day meal. A cigarette hits the spot after a morning's work.

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Most of the men at Bonner are experts in someform of lumbering. With plenty of experiencebehind them, they know the tricks of the trade.This picture shows a group outside the lunch

room. At the right is the Hotel Margaret, which ison a side street facing the office building andgrounds. A~ this hotel the men without familieslive and are served their meals. Sundays often find

them on the porch, relaxing in the sun and talkingabout the war and politics. It is quiet and restfulat.·the Hotel Margaret. Plenty of home-cookedfood served family style helps to make it home.

'Bonner has its own pOSf"office, and when the edi-tors of Copper Commando paid a visit to thisinteresting little community, we invited the Post-mistress, Lena L. Fleming, to pose on her porch,

surrounded by a number of her lumbermenfriends who work at the mill down the street. Atthe right we see the neighborhood commissaryor general store, presided over by Charles A. Hart

--he is the man in shirt sleeves in the center ofthe picture. Here the Bonner folks stop in fortheir purchases of merchandise, or. to sip a coke,and linger to talk to their next-door neighbors.

Here is a view of the interior of the first-aidroom. Cuy Trenary is shown here putting the fin-idling touches on a bandage for Jalmer Karkanen.who kindly preten·ded to be a patient so that

Copper Commando could get this picture. Actu-ally there wasn't anything wrong with Jalmer, butyou have to admit it makes a better picture. Cuyhas charge of all first-aid work at the Bonner mill •

Over there at the right. we have another group ofthe boys standing outside the commissary in thesunlight taking five before going back on the job.Lunch time gives them a chance to swap stories.

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Ia-Bonner's school children are bright and c~eerful youngsters. The fathers of all work at the Bonnermill. In the background of the picture are W. F. Akin. superintendent; Mrs. Ruth Wagner, teacher, andH. R. (Jack> Root. assistant general manager. Jack is chairman of the school board.

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ing and other plant operating buildings.The town itself is about seven miles fromMissoula. There are about four hundredpeople living in Bonner and the school wejust mentioned includes pupils from thefirst through the eighth grades.

The manager of the Lumber Depart-ment, as you know, is W. C. Lubrecht,who has to his credit almost fifty years'continuous service with the Company.Upon the retirement of his predecessor,Kenneth Ross, Mr. Lubrecht took overthe operation of this mill and has servedwith skill and distinction. He is widelyknown and universally respected through- ~out western Montana and the intermoun-. tain regions, not only for his knowledgeof the lumber industry, but for his hu-mane qualities. He is known by everyresident of Bonner and he in turn is ableto call virtually every man by his first,name; one thing he does particularlyknow is the names of the youngsters whoskip along with him whenever he leavesthe office and starts off for the mill.

His assistant is H. F. (jack) Root,who joined the Anaconda organization in1906 as a rate clerk for the B. A. & P. In1906 he was transferred to the Account-ing Department of the Company at Ana-conda and two years later was transferredto a Company subsic:ijary at Hope, Idaho;in 1921 , he was transferred to Bonner andbecame assistant to Mr. Lubrecht. Wewi II have a chance later to get better ac-quainted with Jack also. You've alreadymet Don MacKenzie in the preceding twoissues. who went to Bonner nearly thirty-five years ago as a logger.

Personalities, of course, play a largepart in a town like Bonner where every-body knows practically everybody else.One of the standbys of the crew is W. F.Akin, who has been superintendent of theBonner school for the last thi rty years.

Mr. Akin has seen the community growand his small pupils reach manhood.

The boys all assemble for their noon-day meal at a neat dining hall just outsidethe entrance to the mill. The dining hall,or lunch room as some call it, is kept ship-shape by Charlie Waldie who worked inthe mill for about twenty-five years andfor the last two years has acted as janitorat the lunch room.

About one hundred forty men comein for lunch each day; the boys leave theirlunch buckets at the lunch room and pickthem up when eating time arrives. Be-cause there is no smoking allowed in the

mill. on account of the fire hazards, themen really enjoy sitting around after thenoon-day meal and having a cigarette.The night shift goes to work at six in theevening; the boys on night shift have theirsupper at ten o'clock and they go off shiftat three o'clock in the morning.

Bonner has a definite communityspirit. The houses in the community areall Company owned, but they are rentedout to employees at very low rental. Onecommunity project, is the victory gardena couple of blocks from the main street.Here there are 126 individual plots foremployees' families. The plots are fur-nished free of charge to the employees,and plowed, fertilized and irrigated by theCompany. It is by no means an uncom-mon sight at about sundown in the warm

• summer to see workers and thei r wivescaring for their gardens. The garden •.which was started during World War I.provides a rich harvest for the people ofBonner in terms of fresh vegetables.

There are many recreational activi-ties in the town such as baseball. skatingand skiing. Of course, the people of Bon-ner are pretty close to great fishing andhunting country. With Sundays off. Sat-urday evening will usually find a numberof them hustling up to cabins they havebuilt for themselves in the mountaincountry to the north.

The visitor to Bonner likes it. On theone side is the busy and bustling mill,supplying lumber essential for mining andsmelting operations. On the other sideis a quiet, restful, beautiful little town;with nice streets, broad lawns and shadytrees. The Big Blackfoot courses its easyway down beside the town. The bluffs ofthe mountains rise on both sides andthrough the ravine to the north come thelog-laden railroad cars which bring theircargo each day to the Bonner mill. so thatthe copper mines can keep producing.,

Bonner gals learn to cook in the domestic science 1Iepartment of the Bonner school. These girls havetheir own interesting kitchen in the basement of the school where students from the University teach.domestic science on Friday.. While the ,iris cook, the boys take manual trainine.

HERE'S Mark Delanty and his wife at the Anaconda Copper Mining Com-pany booth at the Fair held in Creat Falls from August 7 to August 12. Mark.is in the employment office at Creat Falls. They were waiting for friends.

THE Phosphate Plant of Anaconda ~ad a booth in the Agriculture Building.A dummy, "Anaconda AI," shown here, had the answers to a number of fer-tiliser questions. You punched a button and AI answered th~ questions.

R. J. LAPEE, shown standinll with Mrs. AI Conrad, was in charge of thebooth. Mrs. Conrad and Mrs. Frank Levandowski were hostesses workingalternating shifts. Doc Miller from the Copper Refinery is there, too..

FAIR TIMEANYBODY who has ever been to a Fair knows what awelcome relief it is to find a place to sit down and relax for afew minutes while "doing" the Fair. Footsore and weary folksat Great Falls stop in the Anaconda Copper Mining booth.There are sixty chairs provided-although it's usually a littledifficult to find a vacant one. Water from an iced water coolerin the booth quenches the thirst of the Fair-goers andon a hotday, the electric fans at either end give relief from the heat fora few minutes at least. The booth is brightened by hugebouquets df flowers and the Anaconda neon sign. But best ofall, everyone meets their friends there. It's the gatheringplace for thousands of Great Falls folks during Fair week. Wegot these pictures of some of the folks "taking five" on Fridaynight and Saturday afternoon. See how many of them youknow ..

YHERE was always a crowd around the water coolers. We got this shot whenMike Chupurdia and his son stopped by for a drink. The WACS were fromGore Field. Walking around the Fair was like a postman's holiday for them.

•.8.DEAN DALY, Electrolytic Copper Refinery; Anton Marsik, Boiler Shop; JoeRobert, Wire Mill office; R. I. Lapee, Electrolytic Copper Refinery, andMrs. Frank Levandowski are in this picture. See if you can find them •

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THIS is Volume 3, Number 3, of your La-bor-Management newspaper.

Editors, like most other people, haveto plan ahead. They must know not onlywhat is going to be in their next issue, butthey must be able to look many monthsahead and plan for them.

We thought you'd like to know whatwe have in mind for the year to come.Perhaps you'll have an idea or two to con-tribute. We like to get your ideas-as amaHer of fact, practically all of the ar-ticles we publish come as the result of asuggestion from a miner or a smelterman.or a man from management's side.-Anyway. here's what we're shooting

for:First, to continue to report the prog-

ress of the war, with up-to-date picturesand official text. Wherever we can, wewant to be able to tell you where yourmetals are going. We want to do storieson new developments such as the Super-Fortress, the new landing craft, etc.

Second. we want to continue to tellyou of the operations of this great miningorganization. We know, for example, thatthe BuHe miner likes to see pictures andread stories about operations at Anacondaand at Creat Falls. Men from Creat Fallsand Anaconda have told us that they liketo know -more about how the mines areoperated. We've gone a liHle farther ac-tually; for some time we've been workingon stories on other Compa~y opera"ionsin which we think you will be inte,ested.

Third, we want to tell you about in-teresting people among us.. There are theold timers who can recall the early days.there are the young fellows back from theArmed Services. there are the folks withinteresting hobbies. there are the leHersand the snapshots of our sons and broth-ers and friends fighting on the battle-fronts of the world. We keep our eyespeeled all the time for stories of this sortand we want and need your help.

Fourth, we want to talk but notpreach safety. We want to stimulate sug-gestions from workers. We want to aidworth while causes such as the Red Crossand the War Bond drives. We want toreflect the activities of our Victory Labor-Management . Production Committeeswhich are considered among the best inthe who,e United States--we want totell you about them, what they are sayingand what they are trying to do for you.

That's the program in general. How /about giving us some of your own ideas?

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People ~ PlacesUNARMED transport planes speedthrough the air in every quarter of theglobe helping to bring victory closer bycarrying men and strategic -and vitallyneeded war materials to the Front. Theseswift aerial supply trucks now are flyingover a global network of sky routes. Thekind of cargo carried by these transportsis as varied as the war needs they serve.The pilot of one of these C-47 transportsis Captain George A. Rylance. George isthe nephew of Frank J. Laird, master me-chanic at the Machine Shop in Butte . ..Re-cently George visited his uncle while onfurlough and the boys; in the MachineShop met and liked him, as well as whathe's doing. The boys from the Shop calledus and tipped us off to get the story. Hereit is:

Captain George Rylance enlisted inAugust, 1941, and'since October, 1941,has been in the Air Force. He has hadover twelve hundred hours in the air over-seas since he landed in England in Octo-ber, 1942. Quite a few of his hours start-ed from an African base and took in Italyand Sicily; others started from Englandand covered flights to France during theinvasion. On D Day, George flew overCherbourg and reports that it looked likea Fourth of July display from the air. Hesaid it was hard to believe that there couldbe so much aircraft in the sky at one time.

We asked him about his ribbons-there's one to show that he is a pre-PearlHarbor man; another to show that he hastaken part in the war outside of the Unit-ed States; another to denote that he hasbeen in the European war and three starsto designate the three campaigns in whichhe's participated-the Sicilian, the ital-ian, and the French. In addition to theseribbons. George wears the air medal rib-bon awarded him for his "drop zone"landings of paratroopers on "0" Day.

George showed us his "short snorter"and told us the story. Originally the only

boys eligible to 'belong to the famousshort snorter organization were pilots ormembers of the crew who had flown theAtlantic. If a man overseas gets caughtwithout a short snorter he is compelled topay a dollar of American money to everymember present. In turn all the memberspresent sign one of HIS dollar bills andswear him in. As the members go to thevarious countries. they get a bill from thatcountry and attach it to the originalsigned American dollar. George has billsfrom Belgium. Congo, 'Egypt, Italy, Spain,French Morocco, Gibraltar, Algeria. Tu-nisia, England. Scotland, Irei and, Iceland,Malta and Sicily.

It's boys like Captain George Rylancewho are winning this war. They arecourageous young men to go back into thethick of the fight time after time, know-ing full well what they are up against, butalso knowing full well what it means ifthe supplies and men are not at hand atzero hour. We are proud to know theseyoung men and proud to write of them.Thanks for the tip, Jimmie Cusick.

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The children, as well as the mothers and dad: enjoyed Copper Commando's second birthday party onSaturday, Au~ust 19. Over seventy of the Butte, Anaconda. and Great Falls labor-management mem~bel'Sdropped In at the "open office" durin, the afternoon to wish it many happy retur ...

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PAY DAYTaking care of payroll and deduction rec-ords for workers at the Smelter· is nocinch. Behind every check issued is aninteresting story and nice people. Let ustell you the story here and have you meetthe people.

So many folks expressed their enthusi-asm for the series of articles called "PayDay for John Doe," which told the storybehind the pay check, that we have de-cided to move along to the Smelter anddo the same sort of story there.

As you can see, we dug up six cardsshowing a typical workers record· atthe Smelter, and we bet rl)ig~ty few folksthere realize that so many records arenecessary to keep a fellow's pay checkstraight and to get it to him on time. .

The Business Machines Department.as it is called, is located in a light and airyroom in the basement of the General' Of-'fice Building at the Reduction Works.B. M. Macintyre who helped build thedepartment from scratch i.sthe supervisor .

•SHOWN at the left are six cards whichrepresent the record of each employee atthe Anaconda Reduction Works. The c.ardat the top is caned the master card andeach such card carries the payroll em-ployee's name-although you don't see it,it is picked up from the code punches inthe first twenty-five tiny columns.

The second card is known as theearnings card for the week. It carries theidentification of the employee, the worknumber, date, occupation, code number,department, total shats and total moneyearned.

The third card is the tax card-thisshows the total shifts and earnings wjththe withholding tax and Social Securitytax also shown.

The fourth card is the one used torecord group insurance. This card showsthe a",ount df policy and the premium.

"[he fifth card is the one devoted tomaintaining a record of War Bond pur-chases. This card shows the amount con-tributed each week toward the purchaseof Bonds.

The last card, at the bottom of thepage, is the deduction card for hospitali-sation. This shows that the worker hasdeducted from his wages one dollarmonthly. Other deductions are handledelsewhere.

•Here they prepare all payrolls, draw

all checks. and keep all earning records.At the Reduction Works they alsohave their key punch operators whopunch the record cards from time sheets.These cards carry name.. work number,department, occupation, time or shifts,and money paid. It is all done by code--those are the code punches you see in thecards.

This job is done every day: ·at theend of the week. the cards are combined

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by working number and an earnings cardis made up. It IS all done by machines.

The information is used too, of....course, to furnish all required governmentreports such as Social Security reports andincome tax reports, which are sent toWashington, and the State Unemploy-ment reports for Helena. The office fur-nishes individual income tax reports notonly to the gov.ernment but also to theemployees.

Pay day at the Smel ter is Monday-the system is somewhat different fromthat in Butte. At the Reduction Worksthey pay at the Time Office in the morn-ing from 6 :30 to 8 :00; from the Pay Of-fice down town from 8 :00 to 2 :00 in the :afternoon, and then payments are re-sumed at the Time Office from 2 :30 to4:00. The men go individually and getthei r checks-the checks can be cashedanywhere.

The department starts the prepara-tion of the payroll about Thursday morn-ing-it is no cinch to whip all this infor-mation together quickly and accuratelyand still be ready to pay practically at theqrack of dawn on Monday.

With one or two exceptions, the girlsall started in the department. They hadno experience with business machines-they picked it all up on the job. Macstarted in March of 1936-there wereonly four machines then. Today the num-ber has trebled due to taxes, etc.

In the room is a long row of ma-chines at which the key punch operatorssit. These are the girls who punch outthe cards by code from the time sheets.The tabulating operators work the tabu-lating machines in the center of the room-these are the machines which get allthe information from the cards and put ittogether. The whole business runs likedock-work, as you would expect it to do,and there is no time wasted in this busylittle department.

So that's the story in words and pic-tures of how the folks at the AnacondaReduction Works get their checks.

Step up and meet B. M. Macintyre, the geniallupervisor of the Business Machines Department.Mac started with the department almost at thebeginning and is credited with having devisedmanr Itreamlined improvements in the operation.

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Key punch operators, front to rear; Mary Lenihan, Eva Thompson, Salle Hoyt, Lois Aryish, Rena Stearn.

his is a tabulating machine with Roy Olson; that is Virginia Ewing at the left. Both are operators.

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These pretty gals, Mary Lenihan, Celia Ward, Alice Bubash, Marci McBride, are key punch operator ••

,WHEN a white pennant with the National Safety Emblem, which is awhite cross on a green gackground, is seen flying at a mine, the boys on theHill at Butte sit up and take ~otice. There's a reason and this is it. The onlytime that it can be flown is when that mine over which it is seen flyinghas operated for the whole previous month without a single lost time injury.If any of you folks went past the Badger State Mine in Butte during themonth of August, you saw it. Yes, siree, the boys at the Badger during theInonth of July were one hundred per cent perfect. John Caul, superin-tendent, and John Eathorne, foreman, were plenty proud of their boys,as was John Boardman, so they passed out cigars.

The top picture shows the night shift which worked from 6 P. M.to 2 :30 A. M. at the Badger State Mine during the month of July. They are,first row, left to right: Richard Heath, Ed Parker, Steourd Branyard, AntonSel:eth, Ceorge Strohl, John lowney, leslie Williams, John Crandovic,Frank Rock. Second row: Frank Cawley, William lyle, Carnet Tretheway,Alex Mcinnis, Robert Toole, John Harrington, Jack FitX'gerald. Third row:Melvin Emery, leonard Dodo, George Myott, Joseph Webster, Walter Bol-ton, Charles Herzog, Tom Cook, Arthur Crandy, James Ciniomini, JohnCreedon. Fourth row: Ed larson, Fred Cragwick, William Curski, HowardPaul, Frank Palfy, Edward Cundry. Paul McCinnis, John Rajola .. Fifth row:Dan McDonald, John Meimi, Henry Murray, Vincent Chazer, Arthur Carl-yon, Ed Dunn, Phillip McDermott, James Bolick, Ray Robinson, WilliamFarnham. Sixth row: James Hislop, Anthony Arnoldi, William Carlyon, Wil-liam Mollock, Joe Elich, louis Doshen, Mike Petise, Bob McCarry, CabeHoffman, Ceorge Holling. Seventh row: Dominick Bontempo, Alex Mc-Leod, John Stevenson, Peter Bugal, Ted Davis, John Viel, Shirly Owen,Thomas Murray, Fred Meier and Willie Johns.

The day shift worked from 8 A. M. to 4:30 P. M. at the Badger StateMine during the month of July and is shown in the lower picture. They are,first row, left to right: Maurice McCrath, Joseph Mark, James Ramey,Joseph Stroup, Ed Richards, John J. O'Neill, Clen Zorn, Woodrow· Shrader,William Wiser, Lyle Holling, Pete Yardvosich. Second row: John Caul,John Eathorne, John Cronley, Walter Rogers, Thomas Morris, Ed Bugal,Neil Shea, Americo Marchioro, Ray Sutton, Shelby Wiser. Third row:Frank Vumst, Herbert Carlson. Fourth row: John McCoy, Thol!'as O'Con-nor, Dan O'Neill, Joseph Steinberg, Frank Kolak, AI Skoglund, Joe Haugen,William Bailey, Charles Kryzanoski, Jim Davis, Matthew Caddy, JohnKenny, Joseph Watson, William M~tthews. Fifth row: William Murphy,safety engineer; Anton Kolman, Harry McGillan, Alex Zarnicki, ArthurWebster, David Denofre, Roy Skoglund, Hal Johns, Anton Zucco, ConFitzpatrick, Thomas Ivey, John Fib, John Phillip, Harry Cill. Sixth row:John Jenkins, Henry Halstrom, James Lynch, James O'Connor, Frank, Loh-man, Thomas O'Leary, John Col, James Bradley, Sulo ~akka, Fred Marsh,John Cately, Earl McCregor, Pat Callahan, AI Maunder, James Cately,Ceorge Skeli. Seventh row: Charles Ornsby, Tex Kimball, William Cately,Eugene Vice, John Kuntz, Frank Van Dorn, Mike Rubick, William Berry-man, Dennis lynch, .Ceorge Wyatt, Otto Nelson, Joseph Bateman, JamesKelsoe, Thomas St. Marie, Frank Marolt, leland Stewart, Carl Shafer, Wil-liam Delaney, Joe Riley, Jack Malcolm, Melvin Batten, Mike Kenny, JamesScully, Alexander Donald, AI Ruch, Thomas Kelly, John W. Isaacs, HarryLeonard, John Tomazich, Donald Mutchler, Alva Heater, Joe Lowney, FredChristopher, Harry Ofelt, Percy Tretheway. In front of banner: John Wool-cock, Frank Clemo, Joseph Northey, Thomas Strike, Victor Selsek; [r., CecilPascoe, Ceorge Pascoe, Nelson Wherl, Ceorge Hackett.

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