UNSPARING EFFORT
IN PRESSING FORWARD TO VICTORY PROMISED BY DETROIT WORKERS. LETTER TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) DETROIT, April 9. The United Automobile .Workers’ Union of the Committee for Industrial Organisation promised, in a letter to President Roosevelt today: “We shall outproduce the Axis nations. We shall furnish our armed forces with the weapons which they need to speedily take the offensive, to win the war and to insure a peace in keeping with the aspirations of free people everywhere.” The letter referred to the union’s decision at the war conference on Tuesday to give up premium pay for weekends and holidays and said: “May we suggest, Mr President, that our actions constitute a direct challenge to the employers. Let them match us in corresponding sacrifices to further the successful prosecution of the war."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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140UNSPARING EFFORT Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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