Show What Metal Miners Are Accomplishing American miners like American soldIers soldiers sold sold- are today engaged in the toughest and most exacting fight light of their long history Their objective Is to meet the increasing ever-increasing demands of our factories and arsen arsenals ls for the raw materials of war production That means of course course- they are fighting to produce more gUD gUDa a and 11 tanks ships and plau planes s for the the- Army and the Navy Underground and in the pits a million million mil mil- lion miners are working dally daily with drills 1 picks and dynamite to blast our minerals minerals minerals min min- which one day as arms and equipment equipment equip equip- ment will be delivered to us They are mining scores of different minerals for thousands I of or different uses Tho coal they mine provides power to turn the wheels of industry to fire the blast furnaces where ore which other miners have dug will be fused into Iron and steel I e eThis This year copper miners are providing us with more than tons of In Indispensable indispensable In- In dispensable copper Theres There's a ton of ItIn it itin in the Garand rifles of or every triangular Infantry division There are fourteen tons tona of It for every million cartridges we shoot More than a hundred tons of copper rode rodo in the Flying Plying I Fortresses and Liberators which made their famous day light attack on Lille in occupied Nazi-occupied France Miners are digging out many other metals too without which we could not hope to fight Theres There's zinc lead mercury mercury mercury mer mer- cury tungsten arsenic Theres There's bauxite from which aluminum is made And less well known but equally essential el are metals such as molybdenum manganese mangan mangan- ese vanadium and chrome Not one but most of them are required to build any of a hundred different weapons with which we wo are training now with which wo we shall later fight Working in to the mines is no picnic It means long hours of sweat and backbreaking backbreaking backbreaking back- back breaking toll toil For many It St means days at et a time timo far underground where sunlight sunlight sunlight sun sun- light never reaches Yet our miners like soldiers are determined to make every sacrifice the tha nation may require o or of them They do this as free rree men resolved to remain free Miners know that under Adolf Hitler's new order they would be bethe bethe bethe the first to feel the degrading weight of Nazi chains Hitler knows as we do that the appetite of a modern military I machine machino for raw materials is ravenous To appease it he has not hesitated to I enslave the miners of or all occupied Eu Eu- rope He lIe has worked thousand of or them theme to death in his desperate attempt to destroy Russia He lie would like to do the i same flame thing here j American miners look to us in the I armed forces to remove this threat to destroy Adolf Hitler and his little partners partners partners part- part i ners of or Japan once and for fOJ all But our I miners do not Just stand by and ask us to fight alone They know their Job too in this struggle and are giving it everything everything every every- I thing they've got They are fighting with us As soldiers of or production they are are- producing the raw materials for tor our I arms and ammunition battleships and planes tanks and communications They as well as workers in the factories and I arsenals are the arm behind the Army Without us they would be bo workers in chains Without them would we be an Army without arms Together we can I and will whip the Axis ALFRED M. M EVANS I Army Air Base Salt Lake City Utah |