HISTORIC PERIOD FOR LABOUR

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 291, 7 September 1942, Page 6

HISTORIC PERIOD FOR LABOUR

Threat Of Europe’s Fate

(British Official Wireless.) (Received September 6, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 5.

“There has never been a Labour Day aS significant as this one,” President Roosevelt states on the fifty-fifth anniversary of American Labour Day. “In many countries free labour has ceased to exist. A blackout of freedom has darkened Europe, and the sturdy working men who once walked erect in the sun now stumble along beneath the lash of their slave masters.” Freedom was threatened and besieged everywhere, he continued, and lie expressed appreciation of the energy shown by the workers of the United States to meet tlie demands of the present crisis. They were working till their muscles ached, but they knew what they were working for and what America was fighting for. There were bound to be stormy days ahead and all would be asked to make sacrifices, but all they had to give would be litUe enough to maintain freedom.

Labour Day has also been made the occasion for a message to the British workers from Mr. Paul McNutt, of the United States War Manpower Commission, in which he pledges the workers of the United States to play as great a part as the British workers have done under the blows of the power-maddened foe. “Our workers are teamed with yours to win through to victory, and when victory is won we shall build together with all the peoples of the free nations a firm and lasting peace,” he says.