WAR PRODUCTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1942, Page 5

WAR PRODUCTION

BRITISH AND RUSSIAN WORKERS CONFERENCE IN MIDLANDS. PLEDGES OF UNITED EFFORT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 4. At a conference of the Midland trade unionists in Birmingham, three of the members of the Soviet Trades Union delegation, including Mme. Nikolayeva, secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, were present. A resolution which was adopted at the meeting stated: — “In reciprocating the good wishes extended to the British workers .by their comrades, of the Soviet Union, this conference expresses its profound admiration of the heroism and selfsacrifice displayed by the Soviet people in their resistance to the brutal German invaders, which has resulted not only in an overwhelming defeat of the German forces before Moscow and Leningrad, but also in the forcing back of the German Army along the entire eastern battlefront. “In endorsing the Eight-Point Agreement which was reached by the Anglo- . Soviet Trade Unions Committee, it recognises the urgent necessity of achieving and maintaining the maximum production of all forms of war material, particularly aircraft, . guns and ships. It welcomes the evidence of solidarity and unity of effort contributory to this end given by the representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the British Commonwealth of Nations in the Washington and Moscow conferences. “This conference pledges the organisations here represented to untiring effort to speed up and keep up war production in order to ensure and has- : ten the victory of the forces of liberty in the fight against tyranny and barbarism.”