WAR PRODUCTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1940, Page 9

WAR PRODUCTION

MR MACKENZIE KING’S TRIBUTE TO LABOUR. “When victory is won, Canadians will remember what they owe to Labour,” said the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, in a recent speech. “In Canada, Labour has extended its hours, surrendered its holidays, and in its determination to increase and advance production has taught the young and the inexperienced the intricacies of complicated trade. It will be the duty of the people of Canada, realising these things now, to remember them in the hour of victory. In the deeds of the men who on land, on sea and in the air, offer their lives to save us. Labour is the partner and the ally. Hundreds of skilful hands, unerring eyes and strong arms helped to Create the aeroplanes in which early in September our own Canadian tighter squadron made the skies of the British Isles vivid with the swift adventure of their skill and courage. How proud Labour must feel to have worked for such men! Thus it is that with Labour rests the power to shorten the duration of the war and thereby to save multitudes of human lives. Every workman j knows that every bolt; every piece of steel, every bullet, every machine part fashioned in Canada is a work for victory. Every workman knows that lacking the machines of war, the bravest meh in the world will avail nothing.”