Copper Commando: The Official Newspaper of the Victory Labor-Management Production Committees of Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls, Montana, was the first known labor-management publication in the United States. Published biweekly from 1942-1945, Copper Commando was distributed to all employees of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. This "picture newspaper" depicts workers supporting the war effort through increased metal production. Robert I. Nesmith was the chief photographer until early 1944.
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Copper Commando - vol. 2, no. 4
October 15, 1943
In this issue...merit award, Fred V. Lane, Stewart Mine, safety, conservation, war fronts, purchasing, Anaconda, precipitation residue, refinery, Greart Falls, derricks, train operators, planes, copper, reduction works, metal
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Copper Commando - vol. 2, no. 3
October 1, 1943
In this issue…Butte salute, copper workers, craftsmen, recognition, awards, parade, miners' union, cavalcade, Gaudalcanal, Harvey D. Howard, purple heart, celebration, soldiers of production, H. O. King, home front, achievements
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Copper Commando - vol. 2, no. 2
September 17, 1943
In this issue...Women, Barbara Cole, Marjorie L. Wymore, marines, Butte, poster, water, reduction works, orkc drills, repair, war materials, poem, slag, zinc, East Helena, safety, Great Falls, war effort
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Copper Commando - vol. 2, no. 1
August 27, 1943
In this issue...Army Navy "E" awards, excellence, production, war, metal, calyx drilling, ventilation, mine levels, power plant, Anaconda, steam, compressed air. slag, East Helena, Sal Pinto, meat, copper workers, New Guinea
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 26
August 13, 1943
In this issue...war effort, copper industry, Montana School of Mines, Anaconda smelter, workers, Butte, underground, production process, Great Falls, furnace
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Copper Commando - Butte Labor-Management Issue
August, 1943
In this issue...W. Ellison Chalmers, War Production Drive, pioneering teamwork, Labor-Management Committee, Crafts Unions, American Federation of Labor, absenteeism, Philip Murray, William Green, Sub-committees
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 25
July 30, 1943
In this issue...Posters of the Week, Sheldon-Claire Co., bushmasters, jungle fighters, Panama, rock drills: stopers, buzzies, drifters, jackhammers; vanadium, hard steel, Clara E. Dahl, Industrial Nurse, platter chatter, lunch, fire firghters, Ab Gray
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 24
July 16, 1943
In this issue...Wounded, kids, Edith Snediker, fuse threads, gilding metal, Great Falls, shell fabrication, Anaconda garage, production line, Hitler, Hirohito, gals, war effort
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 23
July 2, 1943
In this issue...Donald M. Nelson, War Production Board, production line heros, East Helena, slag treating plant, Anaconda phosphate plant, food shortage, Miners' Union Day, meat, copper, platter chatter, food, points, Lillian Merritt, machine shop, Butte
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 22
June 18, 1943
In this issue...Mothers as soldiers, food rationing, shortages, platter chatter, Dorothy Ogrin, Commando Kitchen, points program, phosphate plant, Anaconda, Butte machine shop, mine repairs, reduction works, war bonds
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 21, Special Issue
June 4, 1943
In this issue...Copper, war, Brehon Somervell, War Department; Copper in: Signal Corps equipment, planes, M-4 tanks, medical equipment, ordnance, PT boats and battleships, second front, materials
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 20
May 21, 1943
In this issue...Donald (Lefty) Orlich, Motor Transport, Africa, salvage drives, Marg Sammons, diamond (bit) drilling, war weapons, ships, planes, copper, molten metal, anodes, reduction works, Great Northern, Great Falls, medical equipment,
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 19
May 7, 1943
In this issue...Tabaracci family, war effort, cadmium, rust, Great Falls, dynamite, primers, powders, newspaper coverage, reverberatory furnaces, converters, copper, Joe Dee, smelter, machinist, Belmont, flying fortress, machine guns
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 18
April 23, 1943
In this issue...Great Falls, casting bag house, filter, Richard, J. "Moon" Rogers, Butte miner, U.S. Army, Australia, skips, zinc plant substation, rotary converters, dynamite, powder day, victory gardens, John Coulter, smelter, calcine, iron, supher, copper ore
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 17
April 9, 1943
In this issue...War bonds, bullets, machine guns, ammunition, material shortage, production quotas, copper, Leonard mine, water pumps, boiler shop, steel, food shortage, rationing, phosphate, Anaconda, parts mending, forges, blacksmiths, safety
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 16
March 26, 1943
In this issue...Admiral Ernest J. King, Connaner-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet, supplies, ships, guns, Anaconda reduction works, repair foundry, blacksmith shop, war materials, blasing, safety, Mike Wynn, boiler shop, Montana agates, war bonds and stamps
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 15
March 12, 1943
In this issue...Wave, Andree Goddard, Butte, gilding metal, brass, government, production, shells, machine shop, war materials, Al Campbell, Butte Geological Department, safety tips, mine rescue, Red Lodge, Montana, Bureau of Safety
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 14
February 26, 1943
In this issue...L.H. Campbell, army ordnance, copper, strategic metals, supply, Montana, Great Falls, gilding metal, brass, refinery, production, Geological Dept., veins, Butte Miners' Union No. 1 Drum and Bugle Corps, floation, hearth furnace
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 13
February 12, 1943
In this issue...C.W. Fisher, USN, Stalingrad, Washington DC, Bob Nesmith, Butte mines, underground, Mining Engineering, stope books, informal news, Henry Porter, precipitatin plant, zinc, Anaconda foundry
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Copper Commando - Special Issue
February, 1943
Special Issue...Winners Army-Navy "E" Award, Anaconda Reduction Works, recognition, Smelter production, war materials, ceremony
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 12
January 29, 1943
In this issue...American wounded, North Africa, home, J.C. Magee, Surgeon General, copper, medical supplies, concentrators, cadmium, Bud French, mine ore, floatation, zinc production, safety record, accidents, Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito.
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 11
January 15, 1943
In this issue...John D. Bulkeley, USN, Washington DC, zinc leaching plant, Great Falls, Montana, precious metal, smelter, war product, reduce paper usage, Sam Treloar
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 10, Special Issue
January 1, 1943
In this issue...W. H. P. Blandy, Bureau of Ordnance, Pacific, first year of war, navy, gals, home front, Pearl Harbor, industry, maneuvers, WAVES, WAACS, SPARS, production, Axis, housing, Bendix, readers letters
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 9
December 18, 1942
In this issue...shooting, Christmas, ore, miners, shaft, fitness, fishing, losing and winning war, High Line, Anaconda, tipple, smelter, blasting, accidents
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Copper Commando - vol. 1, no. 8
December 4, 1942
In this issue...Donald M. Nelson, War Production Board, Great Falls reduction works, WAAC - Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later the WAC), Virginia Hall, Fort Shaw, Montana, grinding balls, miners, equipment, zinc, Red Cross, Pearl Harbor anniversary