CIVILIANS’ PART
OFFENSIVE PRELUDE
HARD WORK & SACRIFICE UTILITY GOODS ONLY (British' OlTicinlAVirHessJ . --i (Nooii) .- ■ ' .18, A,wMn the Br(ugh,forces .on land,.sea gnp-ajg. -in c].ose..co.niupction.;Wlth<theiiLAnifei i ican and .Russian,allies, Avill strike, decisive blows, which. shalLiotally destroy the enemy’s .power.of. resistance,”- declared Dr. Hugh Dalton, .President—of-tHe Board of Trade, speaking at Nottingham. .■ “Impatiently awaiting these events we civilians have nri indispensable part to play,” he continued. “We must work hai’d and make do with everdiminishing supplies. I have ciit the clothing ration white making 'special provision for -, children; and-jnaiistrial workers. I have- the armed forces' and . munitions produe? lion- an ever-increasing number of workers in industry and the retail trade. ' - v -. “The urgent need for the maximum economy in labour and material has led us to concentrate industry to utility production of clothes,.-textiles, crockery, cutlery, furniture and strict price control of utility and other goods. Henceforth; uothing can' be produced which - does non Jsbrve, directly or indirectly, a real war purr pose, including... .the., maintenance of reasonable supplies of the necessary goods for-civilian.-.use.’g-vwi J-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 2
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171CIVILIANS’ PART Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 2
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