Show going into action on the mining front 4 lot 1 jr A axle axis countries improve position in mineral resources but american workmen make best record soldiers on the fighting fronts need at least 19 workers on the home front to keep them supplied i with weapons and materials to win the war hundreds ot of products ot of tho the soll soil and factory are necessary to equip and maintain tho the armies slid and navy that the united states has put into the field and to assist in supplying supply luK other united nations no industry produces products more vital to the successor success of these armies than the metal mining industry literal ly a thousand and one articles that require metal are absolutely necessary to the welfare ot of our light fight ing forces prior to the war tho the british em pire and the united states controlled 76 per cent ot of the worlds mineral production today however liow I 1 the situation la Is vastly dif i terent fert with the tha countries and islands they have lave conquered the axis powers have improved their mineral position considerably iron a are re now available to our enemy h baa as increased from 6 to 56 per cent steel products from 20 to 34 per cent petroleum from 1 to 7 per cent coal from 27 to 63 53 per cent copper from rom 6 5 to 10 per cent lead from 7 to 23 22 per cent zinc from IG to 27 per cent tin from to 72 per cent manganese from 2 to 30 per cent and chrome from 6 to 60 per cent ot of tho the worlds total so tho the utah miner has a lob job to do dd out produce tile tho axis and lie he Is doing just that these men who go down into tho the dark recesses ot of tho the earth have bavo no apologies to make they are doing a job of 0 importance along with the soldiers at tho the fronts and they will their enemies on tile the homo home fronts ot of axis countries |