The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-11-13
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Production


can soldiers, are today engaged
in the toughest and most exact
ing fight of their long 80 history.
Their objective is to meet the
ever-inereasing. demands of our
factories and arsenals for the. raw,
materials of war: production.
That means, of course. they are
fighting to produce more guns and
tanks, ships and planes for the
Army and the Navy. - 5 -arl nst
Underground. and in tfe,pits, a
million miners are working daily
with drills, picks, and dynamite
to- blast our minerals which. one
day.. as arms and equipment, will
be delivered to us. They are min
ing scores of different minerals
for;Athousands of different uses.
The coal they mine provides
power to e.turn. the. wheels of in
dustry;. to fire the blast furnaces
where ore which other miners
have dug will be fused into iron
and!steel-& 49, --'.A - -
This year copper miners are
providing US with. more than, L.
500, 900. tons of indispensable cop
per. There's ton Of it in the Ga
rand rifles OF. every triangular in
fantry division. There are four
teen tons of it for every million
cartridges we shoot. More than
a hundred, tons, of copper rode in
the Flying Fortresses and Lihera-
. tors. which :, made their famous
daylight attack on Lille, in Nazi-
occupied France. - -.
s1s Miners, are digging out many
nother metals, too, without which
we could not hope to fight. There's
.,zincn lead, mercury, tungsten, ar
'Csenic. There's. bauXite from
which aluminium is made. And
less well known, but equally es-
sential, are metals such as molyb-
denum,, manganese, vanadium'
and chrome. Not one, but most OF
them. are required to build any
of a hundred different weapons
with which we are training now,
with which we shall later fight.
Working in the mines is no pic
mic. 1t means long hours of sweat
and. baekbreaking toll For many
il means days at a time far under
ground where sunlight never
reaches. Yet our miners, like SOL
diers, are determined to make
every sacrifice the nation may
require of them.
They do this as free men re-
solved TO remain free Miners
know that under Adolf Hitler's
new order. they would be the
first to feel the degrading weight
of Nazi chains. Hitler knows, as
we do, that the appetite of q mod
ern military machine for raw ma
lteriAls is ravenous. To appease
it, he has not hesitatsdsto ensleve
the miners of all occupied Europe.
He has worked thousands OF them
to death in his desperate attempts
to destroy Russia. He would like
to do the same thing here.
American miners look to US in
the armed forces to remove this
threat, TO destroy Adolf Hitler and
his little, partner of Japan once
fdr all. But our miners do not Just
stand by and ask us TO fight alone.
They know their job. too in this
struggle and are giving 1t every
thing they've got. They are fight
ing with u.s. As soldiers of pro-
dbction, they are producing the
raw materials for our arms and
ammunition, battleships and
planes, tanks and cofnmunfea-
tions. They, as well as workers
I'M the factories and arsenals, are
the arm behind the Army.
Without us. they would be
workers in chains. Without them.
we would be an Army without
arms. Together, we can and will
whip the Axis.