MUNITIONS DRIVE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 5 June 1940, Page 7

MUNITIONS DRIVE

DIVERSION OF CAPACITY. SURVEY IN BRITAIN. GARAGES MOBILISED. (United Press Association—By Electrie Telegraph—Copyright. ) (British Official Wireless.) Received June 5, 9.30 a.m. RUGBY, June 4. It is expected that a large amount of manufacturing capacity which can be diverted to munition production will be. disclosed by the Ministry of Labour in a big-scale survey this week covering a wide range of industries, including chemicals, explosives, metal goods and oil and paint manufacture. This follows the earlier survey in April, when the returns related to ■work people employed by. 14,000 engineering and 600 shipbuilding firms. At the same time the Institution of Motor Engineers is organising a scheme immediately to mobilise garage proprietors with their machine tools and workers into 17 areas throughout the country to increase the output of munitions and aircraft components The machine tools in each area normally used for private car repairs will be employed to create a factory , at a central point in each region, probably in the biggest available garage. FRENCH WORKERS’ PLEDGE. M. Leon Jouhaux (general secretary of the French Trades Union Congress), in a message to the Daily Herald says: “Tlie French working class has not weakened in its efforts and will not weaken, however great the ordeal we have to face. We are determined to win the war, and win it we shall! France to-day is straining every nerve for victory. You can rely on us as wo reply on you.”