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CANADA'S WAR INDUSTRY IN
STRIDE
ITS
CANADIAN-UNITED STATES cooperation in defence moves ahead, especially in the air and on the sea. Recently, a party of American and Can- adian journalists inspected defence activities from Hamilton to Halifax,. Here is a final report from a correspondent of "Christian Science Monitor."
The Canadian Government has just warned manufacturers of war materials to stop enticing skilled labour away from their competitors. This is one of the most significant developments in Canada's wartime industrial revolution. It indicates at once. both the progress made in developing the country's arsenals and the grave problems ahead. Of these problems the bottleneck of skilled workmen is evid- ently the most serious.
BOMBER NAMED FOR BOSTON
The British Air Ministry has given the name "Boston" to the new Douglas DB7 type, twin-engine bombers, in: compli- ment to the United States Ambassador, Mr. Joseph P. Ken- nedy, a Bostonian. A number of the Amer- ican-built bombers.are already in England.
000000006001.
DAY
POPPY
FUND
Previously acknowledged $20,~·
The extent of Canada's attempt been made here but the govern- to make itself, in the words of ment is regotiating with a British Prime Minister-W. L. MacKenzie company which will open an en-134.00, "Anonymous" $25.00, Horg King, "the arsenal of the British | gine factory during Empire" can be gauged roughly year..
by the fact that industrial orders totaling $345,000,000 placed for the Canadian Govern-
of war essentials.
have been
the next Kong Club $40.00, St. Andrews
Canadian. 'Planes
A
Church Collections $73.00, Kow- loon Bowling Green Club $100.00, Whiteaway Laidlaw & Co, Ltd.. (Collection Tin). $5.51, A: S. Wat- ment and $100,000,000 has been At present 130 aeroplanes, minus son & Co., Ltd. (Collection Tin) allocated for the British Govern- engines, are being built in Cana-$1.20, Royal Hong Kong Golf Club. ment. About $225,000.000 has dian factories
(Collection Tina) $32.20, H. M. where virtually been invested in new plants which none was built
before the war. Ships and Establishments $116.05, will manufacture a vast variety By March next the Government Royal Air Force, Kal Tak (Collec- hopes to have increased this out- tion Tins) $25.13, Kowloon Street The figures da not indicate, put to 360 a month, two-thirds Sales $3,617.32, Fortress Engineers: however, the impact of the war of them training 'planes to be used (Collection Tins) $34.08, Further. on the industry of this country. in the British Commonwealth Air Street Sales Hong Kong' $457.05. More significant is the Govern- Training Scheme. The remaining Total $25,261.38.
Further contributions will be ment announcement that employ- third, bombers and fighters, will ment has surpassed all previous be retained for Canadian defence gratefully received by the Secre- records. More revealing are the or, if necessary, shipped to Bri- tary, Earl Haig's Fund. Hong Kong workshops in the midst of this tain, where all aghting and bomb-& Shanghai Bank Building. Che- war boom. the new armament ing 'planes made here so far have ques should be made payable to factories, the first attempt to been sent already. Eleven separate Thomson & make aeroplanes on a substantial types of planes are manufactur-"Poppy Day Fund." scale, the news that for the first ed.
Co. and crossed.
CANADA
SENDS SERUM
time, this country will build The weakest spot in the Cana- aeroplane engines, the spectacle dian fighting forces, as in the of busy shipyards, lathes turning | American, is lack of tanks, Can- out shell casings, girls, stuffing ada has only 20 serviceable tanks cordite into rifle ammunition, and, after failure to get any more
This industrial programme is elsewhere, has embarked on only beginning now, after a year programme of tank construction.: of war, to get into its stride. No About 800. tanks of three designs Canadian denies that this coun- are being built but are some dis- try, like Britain, was slow to tance from completion. The Gov- mobilise its resources and was ernment's programme calls for the
Canada is shipping immediately lulled into delay by unwise re-production of three or four 18-50,000 packages of anti-tetanus llance on the strategy of the ton tanks a day in the near future serum for use in Britain. Maginot Line,
The supplies on hand in the Canadian fighting services also appeared inadequate to a party of visiting American editors, but it must be remembered that virtually every weapon owned by Canada was rushed overseas to Britain after the disaster of Dunkirk, 'Only now is that gap being filled and still ́supplies are moving overseas.
Was Inadequately
Equipped
Canada was
and seven a day by next year. The shipments are being made Four thousand 25-ton tanks will in response to an
appeal from be built for Britain.
the British Red Cross to CoT-
Canadian Light tanks-really Bren gun George Nasmith, the carriera-will be made at the Red Cross Commissioner in Lon- rate of 200 to 300 a month and aidon, who at once got in touch by new medium-weight tank de- cable with Canada.
Col. Nasmith said that arrange-.. aigned here, and powered with
two Ford motors, is about ready ments had been made for the sup- for testing. If successful, it plies to come from the Connaught will be made on a large scale, Laboratories near Toronto, which- for Canada is well equipped to supplied. large quantities during build all forms of mechanical the last war. transport.
come
Major-Gen. O. L. Robinson, ef
mare
This country, in fact, has be- the British Red Cross, said that
the chief world supply
reserve supplies of the not equipped in source for mechanised vechicle serum were needed, and that was any way to produce munitions on transport-everything from station why Canada was approached. The a large scale when the war broke wagons to heavy four-wheel drive shipments would be available for out. Practically all its munition gun tractors. Four hundred units general use where required. The factories had to be built in the a day are being turned out, for serum is for the prevention of The lockjaw, and will be used where last year.
Now fourteen plants use here, and in Britain. are turning out shells, including Canadian automobile industry has necessary in the case of air-raid 18-pounders, 25-pounders, 3.7 become a key factor in the na- victims and wherever else need-.
ed. inch, 4.5 inch, 6-inch and 9.2 tional war effort
inch. Orders for shells already
placed total $160,000,000 and pro- Plants Being Built
duction will soon be at a mini- mum of 1,000,000 a month. New
over the
CANADIAN COAL UP
It is in the manufacture of ex-' Coal, production iri Canada dur- investment in ammunition, shell, plosives and chemicals that Can-ing the nrst half of 1940 amount- cartridge case and fuse plants ada probably will contribute most ed to 8,227,401 tons compared is estimated at $30,000,000. to the munition stores of the Bri- with 6,810,269 tons in the first six
Bren machine-guns and rifles tish Empire. Nine large explo- months of 1939: are in production on a large scale, sive and chemical plants, costing though no figures on output have $58,400,000, are being built and been released. Canada is only carefully spotted all beginning now to make field guns country to avoid concentration in cannot be forescen, but no one is and heavy naval guns and, hay-one area. To produce aluminium worrying about that 'now: Canada ing sent nearly all its artillery to and aluminium products $40,000,- knows that readjustment after Britain, lacks even sufficient guns 000 is invested in a plant already the war, when the war market for adequate training. But by the operating. All the mines and has, collapsed, will cause the end of 1941, the country expects smelters of the country are at gravest economic problems in its : to have built substantial quanti-peak production, just as the tim-history, but when you ask the ties of 25-pounders, submachine ber industry is working overtime average Canadian about it he guns, two-pounder and 5.5 inch to supply lumber to Britain, shrugs and says that, nothing howitzers.
This programme Isamall matters now but victory in the ..compared with those of the dio war. The problems of peace can
tator nations and yet in a coun- walt,
Canada's problem is complicat- ed by the need of meshing its| armament with that of Britain and the United States, when both these countries use different. ar- tillery and ammunition.. Canada secured 80,000 rifles from the United States to replace those shipped to Britain and now has. to manufacture. a new kind of ammunition to fit the American calibre.
try of 11,600,000 people it The growing problem of war "means nothing less than an in- on the industrial front, however, dustrial revolution, Canada is may not wait much longer. Can- operating Industrial processes, | adian leaders realise now that making complicated mechanisms this country lacks skilled hands which had never boon consi-to manage the huge programme of.. dered up to last autumn. munitions manufacture, which For example, no Canadian in- will reach its peale perhaps & dustrialist had the remotest idea year hence. Already industrialists". eight months ago how anti-air protest when the Government. In the aeroplane Industry craft guns were made. Now they seeks to conscript young men for Canada is determined to follow are being built here in Canada war training and many will have....... American designs as far as pos- by workmen who had never seen to be exempted. The greatest sible because. It depends on the such a weapon before last spring, single need in Canada's war effort United States almost entirely for The ultimate effects of these to-day is a programme which engines, though a few come from vast changes in the industrial and will train skilled mechanics on a Britain. Up to now none has economic structure of the country large scale, and quickly,