MATERIALS FOR SECOND FRONT

Evening Star, Issue 24282, 25 August 1942, Page 3

MATERIALS FOR SECOND FRONT

SPEEDING-UP PRODUCTION

LONDON, August, 23,

Tho training of labour must be speeded , uip, inefficient managements swept away, and prejudice against the training of women • broken down to maintain the immense flow cf materials for a second front. This declaration was made by Mr T. W. Agar, general secretary of the Association of Supervisory Staffs and Engineering Technicians, in an address at the conference of technicians, planning engineers, and shop stewards. , Technicians and skilled workers, he added, must follow the invaders and repair the damage resulting from a German scorched earth policy. The conference pledged full co-opera-tion in obtaining maximum production for a second front.

HEWS IN BRIEF

MORE AMERICANS IN NORTHERN IRELAND

LONDON, Aug. 23.—Another big convoy carrying thousands of American soldiers and airmen has arrived in Northern Ireland.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—According to the Department of Commerce, war expenditure constituted 31 per cent, of the national income for the second quarter of 1942, compared with 15 per cent, for the fourth quarter of 1941, demonstrating the progress of America’s war production programme since Pearl Harbour.

RUGBY, Aug. 23. Two enemy fighter sweeps approached Malta today while aquatic sports promoted by the R.A.F. were in progress; but neither the competitors, who were drawn from all the services, nor tho spectators were disturbed. British fighters' met the enemy and turned them back. No engagements occurred. LONDON, Aug. 23.—According to the German-controlled Paris radio, General Melnik, G.O.C. of the Russian troops in Persid, left Teheran for Cairo. CAIRO, Aug. 23. United States Army Air . Force medium bombers operated over the battle area in brilliant moonlight on the night of August 22, and bombed enemy workshops, while R.A.F. medium and heavy bombers attacked bases, dumps, and communications in the enemy’s rear. LONDON, Aug. 24.—The annual report of the Trades Union Congress expresses disappointment at the American Federation of Labour’s refusal to participate in a British, American, and Russian Trades Union Committee on the ground that there are no legitimate trades unions in Russia. The Russian trade unions rejected the suggestion of the T.U.C. to act as liaison between the existing British-llussian and Bri-tish-Amorican Committees.

SEATTLE, Aug. 24.—Members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, returning ftom a tour of Alaskan army and naval bases, declared that American people had nothing to fear regarding a large-scale Japanese invasion of Alaska, since matters wore well in hand there. Senator M. C. Wallgven said: “ We really have a groat story, but it will have to be made in a ccnfiiontial report to Washington.” RUGBY. August 24.—Hundreds of part-time civil defence workers will be released from duty in the next few weeks for training on anti-aircraft gun sites in the London metropolitan area. They will be attached to Home Guard units, and in the event of invasion will return to civil defence work.