Men For War Work

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 October 1915, Page 2

Men For War Work

mi , : w mechanics An increase in lactone should only ai t.i:e present moment do a heeoiidary anion. "NVliat i.s necessary, says Engineering, is that those shops now c.iiippcd .should be operated to the liill<vi possible extent. This is not now 1 e case, not only because the men'will n ii work at their fullest capacity, lint i> •■•UIL-γ there is groat (shortage ol lali.■'■i. itn<l obviously the niiiltiplxv-ilioii ol •!i>ries e.'iniKtt supply this. .Mr Uoyd (.• • rue .said that the enlistment of iiiiinilii.ns volunteers had Deen "a .suct&" Nearly 100,000 had been willed, the ;J ;rent bulk ol tlioiu skilled men in the enjiineei ing trados and edii|)biiildins. On the face of it tin's looks i'i'iily satisfactory; but he: proceeded 'to pom I out that foiir-iiftJis of these, men were already ongaged on iiiiinition.s work. .Some ot tlicm were not aware of tin , fact. He admitted that oven til'. , omiiloyci'e 'Were not couaciouti t.lial the work they worn doing »a.s essential to the of tliG war; a fact whiub siiow.s laxity on the part of those giving the order, becau.se every man engaged oi> Oovenuneut supplies ought to be fully conscious of it, o,Uierwi«e lie can not be proud of the lad. Therefore, out of this great movement for volnnt-

oers for munition work we have only 2().(KJ() men. and then,' should very quickly and easily be absolved ino existing factories, with the immediate resiili that the supply of munitions would be greatly increased. What is immediately wanted is not .so much to increase (lie .shell factories as tho utilisation, to the fullest extent ancMor the twentyfour hours per dn.v, existing shops. With a sufficiency of men 'working in relays and shifts {His mil Id be achieved, and tliore would be no need for any of that exhaustion of energy which may arise .because conscientious workers—and there arc many of them

--display their patriotism by working 80 and even HO hours per -week.