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Show Fairer Sex Invade Utah Smelting Industry k 4 i r ' . t ' Mrs. Sophie Pantolone helps war effort at Utah Copper Company, relieving man in Fuse cutting department. Her husband is an electrician elec-trician at the same company. Something new has been added in Utah's milling and smelting industry. in-dustry. It is the feminine- touch. The heretofore hard rock industry that has long boasted o its masculine accomplishments, has given way to the fairer sex in numerous jobs above ground. In short the powder puff has replaced the tobacco plug in the industry for the first time in order to relieve the serious manpower man-power shortage. Reports from the various districts where women have been employed indicate that operations are going ahead on schedule and that the so-called so-called weaker sex are doing an excellent ex-cellent job. The milling and smelting industry indus-try is one of the last to be invaded by women, but they are proving their worth as substitutes for men in this rough work. In the yards, scale houses, ofiices, ore sorting departments de-partments and various other capacities capac-ities will be found Utah women eager to do their part toward winning win-ning the war in the vital non-ferrous mining industry. Needless to say there are many jobs in the milling and smelting industry in-dustry and in the underground that cannot be filled by women and the men who remain in this work are doing a patriotic work that is imperative im-perative to the success of the war. The metal must be mined, milled and smelted and then fabricated into the implements of war. If it were not for these men and women, who are in reality soldiers of the production front, the Allies could not wage war successfully against the enemy. |