Match and pattern plates, matrices, and flasks. Name, identification, and medal plates. Nonoperating or decorative uses or parts of installations and of equipment (mechanical or otherwise), including bases, frames, guards, standards, and supports. Paint (except for ship bottoms). Photographic equipment and supplies (except document-copying machines and equipment therefor for business purposes). Pleasure-boat fittings, hardware, and motors. Pole-line hardware. Powder and paste. Radios. Reflectors. Saddlery hardware and harness fittings. Signs, including street signs. Slot, game, and vending machines. Stationery supplies: Desk accessories. Office supplies. Pencils. Pens and penholders. Statues. Sundials. Toys. Unions (except seats). Valve handles. Valves over 2-inch size (except seats, disks, and stems). PD-167 (11/4/41) OFFICE OF PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT PRIORITIES DIVISION Washington, D. C. APPLICATION UNDER PARAGRAPH (F) 2, CONSERVATION ORDER M-9-C (Return this application in quadruplicate to "Director of Priorities, Ref. M-9-c, Office of Production Management, Social Security Building, Washington, D. C." File separate application for each plant and for each class of product, or article or item, upon which you wish to appeal.) The undersigned hereby reports that compliance with limitations in the use of copper and copper-base alloys as imposed by Conservation Order M-9-c works an exceptional and unreasonable hardship, and hereby makes appeal for relief therefrom on the basis of the data submitted below: A. Paragraphs of Order being appealed: 1. State paragraphs of Order M-9-c which make for exceptional or unreasonable hardship 2. Check (√) actual condition on account of which appeal is based: 100 (b) Interference with program of conversion to defense production. (c) Interference with program to shift: 1. To substitutes for copper. 2. To plating. (d) Inability to dispose of large inventory (state form in which inventory will accumulate and monthly amount of copper or alloy involved). (e) Other hardships: B. Name and location of plant and firm: 1. Name and location of plant affected: 2. Name and location of head office of firm: C. Class of product, article, or item: 1. Name of product, article, or item (description and use) 2. If C-1 is a component part of another article produced in same plant, name article 3. If class of product, article, or item is made in division or department of plant, or single plant of a company having more than one plant, indicate importance of this division or plant relative to value of total plant or total company output D. Production and employment involved under C-1. E. Production and employment involved under C-2 in this plant in production of article of which C-1 is a component. F. Total plant production at this plant, including production not using copper or copper alloys, and total employment at this plant. G. Labor Displacement: Have you filed Form ES-223 with your local public employment office? (Yes or No) (If answer is "No," contact manager of local office at once.) H. Total inventory (pounds) of copper or copper alloy intended for production under C-1 on hand as of: Process scrap (usable in the plant)__ Process scrap (not usable in this plant).. I. Total inventory (pounds) of copper and copper alloy available for production of all products of this plant on hand as of: Finished products Process scrap (usable in this plant). Process scrap (not usable in this plant)__ J. Conservation and substitution: -- 1. Have you been in touch with the Conservation Bureau, Office of Production Management? 2. What substitutions for copper or copper-base alloy have you made or do you expect to make effective January 1, 1942, or earlier? 3. What is total amount (pounds) of such savings per month? (a) Actual___ (b) Estimated_. K. Defense Orders: 1. What efforts have you made to get Defense Orders? 2. Have you been in touch with the Division of Contract Distribution, Office of Production Management? 3. What is the present percent of total plant production that is for Defense? (a) Dollar volume... (b) Number of employees 4. How much do you expect to increase 3(a) by January 1, 1942) L. Sources of copper and copper alloy supply: $. -% % Give name and address of your major sources of supply for copper or copperbase alloy: M. Any other relevant information: N. Define specifically the relief required. I CERTIFY that the information given above is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge. Date filed Firm name (Signature and title of authorized individual) Section 35 A of the United States Criminal Code, 18 U. S. C. A. 80, makes it a criminal offense to make a false statement or representation to any Department or Agency of the United States as to any matter within its jurisdiction. 66481-41-25 DECEMBER 23, 1941. CAPACITY OF THE LARGEST COPPER SMELTER IN THE UNITED STATES The largest single smelting-plant capacity is located at Douglas, Ariz. In terms of ore, concentrates and flux treated, its capacity in round numbers is about 2,000,000 annual tons. This tonnage includes the new capacity added during 1941. JOHN A. CHURCH, Senior Consultant, Copper-Zinc Branch. DECEMBER 23, 1941. STEEL REQUIREMENT FOR A COPPER SMELTER OF GIVEN CAPACITY The concentrating and smelting plant to which the following data apply is the new plant approaching completion at Morenci, Ariz. This is designed to treat 25,000 tons of ore per day at the concentrator, and to smelt the resulting concentrates so as to produce 75,000 tons of copper metal yearly. EFFECT OF THE COPPER-PRODUCTION PROGRAM ON POST-EMERGENCY CONDITIONS The following is offered in response to the request contained on page 694 of the transcript of testimony, for my judgment regarding the probable postemergency repercussions of the copper-production program, in terms of the impact of capacity and available supply on price structures and other factors: In terms of refined copper the greatest peacetime consumption in the country's history occurred in 1929, when the recorded shipments of refined metal to domestic fabricators amounted to 1,119,386 short tons. Normally the consumption in active years ranges from 750,000 to 850,000 tons. Duty-free refined production is estimated for 1942 at 1,141,000 tons, and by 1944 is expected to exceed 1,250,000 tons. These are the basic statistical factors on which a judgment of postemergency repercussions may be formed. At any established level of production, about 3 months' output is constantly in process at the smelters, in transit to the refineries, and in refining process. Therefore, when consumption finally drops from its emergency rate to normal rate, the machinery of production continues to function at the emergency rate for at least 3 months after production at the mines has been adjusted to the country's altered needs. This condition is aggravated by tonnages of fabricated or partially fabricated copper beyond the refineries still moving into finished goods after demand has shrunk. Moreover, the experience of the first World War indicated that after a supreme national effort, consumption drops for a while to a subnormal rather than a normal rate, so that during the postemergency period the excess of peak productive capacity over consumption is more marked than usual, especially while accumulated tonnages of copper moving through the long chain of producing and manufacturing processes are satisfying the subnormal need. Judged by experience, these conditions may be expected to react adversely on copper price levels, and unfortunately on employment. In time the country's normal recovery may be expected to overcome them, but in my judgment they will have to be faced in the immediate postemergency period. Number of Rural Electrification Administration cooperatives in op- 352 Arkansas Power & Light Co., rural electrification program of 355 Brazos and Gilmer projects, Texas, defense projects in areas of 307 140 Canada, rural electrification in. Beamish, Richard J., statement of_ Camden site and Lake Catherine site, Arkansas, difference in power Church, John A., statement of 1 171 165 237, 248 Bonus or other inducement, feasibility of for increased production of__ 85 Cable in hands of Rural Electrification Administration cooperative in 267 Commandeering of surplus acquired prior to priorities. Outlook for adequate supply for immediate future_-_. 262 Pooling of inventory copper now in hands of utilities____ Compared with demand.__. 122 Effect of concentration of smelting facilities in larger companies. |