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August 22, 1940.
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VESSOONA: At Kobe, at 7 a.m. en August 22, 1940, N. J. Vessoona. (Shanghal papers please copy).
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American Aims
Any American picture of the kind
of world that should be sought grows most naturally out of those ideals nre Inherently the In- -freedom
and Interests which American Freedom escapable
of
keynote of religion, of individual initiative and economic enterprise, The United States would prefer a world in which such freedoms have as full play as possible.
could
To such a world America and
should make a greater contribu- tion Chan did to the post-Versailles British Lothian,, the world. Lord Ambassador in Washington, rightly pointed out that the economic sins of Versailles were far greater than its political mistakes. We might mora go farther and say that with active operation of the Covenant's plans for political adjustments and without such economic blindness the political mistakes would never have caused war. And on both counts the United States
has a
share of blame proportionate to its power.
The American dream has had three main ingredients-Christian Idealism, HARRY | political union, and economic free-
dom. Am
Americans are bound to think in those terms. In whatever settle- ment ment is their rello there will be need for on what Lord Lothian called the "everlasting arms of justice,
and mercy love" essentials of
peace. making that nothing fosters so well as Christianity.
AIR"
One of the greatest gifts of science
to mankind is the mastery of the air. There is a large demand to- day for professional pilots and engineers in Commercial Aviation.
Already in peace plans there is prominent
of federation. mention either of democratic peoples or of all the nation. Here American ex- perience should be useful in finding practical forms.
One of America's most essential contributions to the peace should be co-operation in economic disarma-
But these men must be specialists..ment and economie fedemtion. For
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than econt co-operation. America in. Her own experience-has
Inroved the tremendous value of tree. dom of trade among her states. In- the political federation for United St
has been rooted In economie
But America has not so far
for effec- tively
this lesson in the Inter- applied national sphere. Her tariff barriers have been among the worst offenders in the economic warfare which has denied freedom of economic opportu nity and access to raw materials to nations that have become sunr- borne in mind and
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strength
STOP
SPEAD
SPEED
SPEID
FULL
SPEED
BRITISH
WAR INDUSTRY
"And if there's anything faster than full-spood they can have it."
(Mr. Herbert Morrison has paid tribute to the untiring efforts of the mualtion mckers.)
She can't make
munitions
ER husband had been called up and she was planning to take up war- work.
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to join the am going Bevies," she told me.
This was a new one on me and I asked her if it was a troupe of glamour girls in an E.N.S.A. tour- ing company.
Good heavens, no," she said, "Bevin's been saying he wants women in industry-well, here's a recruit!"
Ohe had been a receptionist to a dentist before her marriage and while I could imagine her taming the most truculent toothache. 1 could not visualise her charms being anything but a disturbing element in n machine shop.
FACTORY RESERVES THOSE Angers might be nimble enough at fancy stitching, but I could not fancy her stitching a bar- rage balloon.
But I could imagine her being a valuable auxillary to industry.
For instance, there was always in peace-time a big turn-over in semi- skilled female labour in modern mass-production industry,
Girls fresh from school learned machine-minding, became expert, stayed a few years, got married, and were replaced.
Because Industry was just an in-- terval between school and marriage for so many girls, it was always dimcult" pre-war days to get
A
paper.
And there
are
thousands
like her, but they can silli help.
BY RITCHIE CALDER
effective trade union organisation among them.
That very process has, however, created a vast reserve of machine- experienced women now in homes with familles and domestle re- Aponsibilities. In an emergency such as this, they could be called back to the factories if they could be relieved of their home duties.
Buch a possibility is visualised in the creation of the new Board which is taking over the Factories
Department of the Home Office, created 107 years ago and trans- ferred to the Ministry of Labour,
This Board will continue the fine work of factory Inspection, of indus- trial safety, and medical supervi- sion.
It will also initiate schemes of communal feeding, of crèches for the children of parents sharing the industrial war effort, and of ex- tended medical care.
There is work for battalions of Bevica" in that direction.
My ex-receptionist friend, for in- stance, possesses many qualifica- tions.
She took A
THE VOICE
domestic science
MUSSOLINI FEARED
Tlast Mussolini has succeeded. And for many years the Duce Has done gagging the "Osservatore his utmost to cramp its circulation
If the Romano," the Vatican's news-
'Osservatore" published an
Fascista di article of which the approved, Blackshirt gangs would swoop on the bookstalls and buy up all avail- able coples.
Every afternoon in Rome a pro- cession of boy cyclists could be seen streaming over the "frontier which divides the Vatican City smallest State in the world-from St: Peter's Square.
Their job was to deliver copies of the "Osservatore Romano," the Vatican's own evening newspaper, to bookstalls all over Rome.
In recent months they carried bigger Osservatore and bigger londa, for the Romano was the only newspaper which gave the Italian people uncensored news of the outside world.
This year its daily sale fose from 50,000 to about 250,000,.
Founded 79 years ago, tho "Oaserra- tore Romano" ta the semi-official oralf of the Vatican. The official organ is bulletin called the "Acta Apos tolicm Sedla.**
More recently, infuriated by the news- paper's umblased presentation of war. news and by its outspoken comments on Hitler's Hiltzkrieg—iha Fascista have used terror tactics instead of trickery,
When Hitler invaded Norway, the
· Osservatore Romano" dared to speak of King Haakon and his -Ministers as
men of honour." And it added:
"Every man of honour who loves hia country cannot but feel respect for theso diminutive people, who, despite their Email forces, attack, even though
with scant success, to defend their land.”
And, when Hitler invaded Belgium and Holland, it declared that the total war launched by Germany hea clearly revealed itself as a pitiless war of extermination. which is being con ducted in defance of the laws of War.”
Mussolini. Hitler's vassal, could not stomach comments of this kind. Ha ordered his Blackshirts to begin a cam- paign of violence.
*
But you can be sure that the Pope ap proved of every word and every achterice printed in the Osservatore." In former days, na Cardinal Pacelli,-be was him- self a frequent contributor, Farka
To the end the "Osservatore "decided The Osservatore...”, was published by to present news without any comment members of the "Baleziari religious at all. order, and printed by the Vatican Poly- It even left out headlines--because glot Prem
these might be interpreted es comments Its editor. Count delu Torre, is a his, on the news and simply printed tas tough-looking man in his middle fifties, various war communiqués under the Ha las slways been hated by the Pas headings," "Britalo," "Franse,” “Ger-. cists, M
many."
In 1931 they tried to kidnap him, and for many weeks he was virtually a prisoner in Vatican City.
For many years the Glaservatore" has been a thorn in; kaussolini's side..
Yet Mussolini was still afraid. Afraid that Italians should learn the truth. mafraid, in fact, that they should read. -anything -- to which Goebbels: might':
„object,^^^,.
Bo be has gagged the lost free news- paper in Italy-E
courie when she was married, and is an excellent cook and house- Keeper, whose skill could be used in the communal feeding-centres.
She has a "way with children" which would be ideal in a crèche. Her receptionist experience would make her a valuable helper in the works' surgery or welfare depart ment
Again, big transfers of labour may create bulleting dimculties. Hostels will have to be set up and staffed. She might make an ex- cellent matron of a giria' hostel.
Indeed, on the periphery of the industrial effort. there aro In- numerable necessary jobs for a woman like her, without factory ex- perience or aptitude.
They Will Keep Men FIT
•
By Ritchio Calder
AVERY man and woman in
E England has been called to "Action stations," Holidays [have been postponed in all indus- tries even remotely connected with the war effort until Octo- ber. Machines are to be kept producing 24 hours a day and Beven days a week the equip ment which the Allied armies desperately need..
The response
Dssured. Men and women are prepared to work
night and day.
Neither Ernest Bevin, in charge of Herbert Morrison, man power, nor mobilising machines and materials, had any doubts or hesitations fr making the demands which mean merlacing hard-won conditions of employment.
They knew the temper of the working-people of this country-and the working-people know, too, that the men who went into the Govern. ment and gave us Sociniam over- night will look after their interests.
Taking the Strain
Twelve hours a day and five months without halldays!
It is a heavy order, no matter how willing the spirit of the workers may be. The Minister of Labour knowi that, and he is taking steps to see that the strain is not too great
During the next few critical months, men and women will be [working to the limits of their capa- city. There is no option and, during euch a spurt, there are not likely to be any bad effects.
Afterwards the strain is able to
tell.
Better Conditions
A 12-hour day produced no more than 10-hour day would. The Committee recommended the reduc. tion of hours, and regular days off and holidays.
Factory conditions-heat, lighting, ventilation, canteens and welfare supervision-have to be considered und Improved to the utmost.
When the new industrial and trained recrutis, now being mobillard, available, and factories organised, not in ferme of profit but of maximum efficiency, the demands upon the workers can be cased,
fre
arc
Hota systems can be organised which will make it possible for the machines to work continuously night and day, seven days a week, but pro- vide workers with necessary rest days.
For instance, there could be part-
Atrendy, in well-organisedi fac- time" Bories" in every street or dis-
torles, that is possible, and, in addi- trict, selected women prepared to tion, workers can have breaks,"
apart take their share in relieving those
from meal-times, throughout married women reservists of in- the day, dustry of their household chores. Applying modern scientific know- There seems to be a ready-ledge, the Industrial Health Re- made army of women reservista" search Board in conjunction with the with factory experience which equld Ministry of Labour, could remove
most. If ΠΟΥ
all, of the bad effects. be adapted readily to new processes, the recruitment and training of But it would be a wholetime job for other women who want to play their the best experts. part in industry is going on.
Behemes are in hand and, in many instances. In operation for training these women.
TIME. TO SPARE WOMEN are going to play in In-
creasing pars in war-service. The calling-up of husbanda'and the evacuation of children are leaving lots of women with tiợie which could be usefully employed.
No one is going to suggest for the moment, anyway, conscription for women.
But there is a very good case to be made out for the registration of all women willing to take part in war- work and for expert local selection committers to decide the way which they would best be employed. The Minister for Labour and National Bervice has the powers to mobilise women, and, if he sees fit. to reorganise existing services. Some of these services reorganising.
One of Mr. Devin's many pre-war campaigns for the well-being of the dustrial Medical Service. workers was his demand for an In- I remem- ber him arguing the case so vigor ously and conclusively at the annual meeting of the British Medical Asso clution that die-hard doctors cheered him.
It is now imperative.
,
What the R.A.M.C. is to the soldiers, an Industrial Medical Ser- vice must be for the workers. En- lightened Arms already provide it and have their own medieat officers, Food and the Man The industrial doctors would he and additional to different from the Factory Department and the Certifying Factory Surgeons, who have hitherto been under the Home but who should really fune- Ofice,
under the Ministry of Labour.
Industrial doctors would be only with casualties but with welfare, with communal feeding, with
else which concerns the health of the workers.
Hitherto there has been
Blis picion, unjustified, that works doc- tors are "employers' natka,” A ser- vice under Ernest Bevin would leave no such suspicion.
concerned
not
need with everythi. Zactory conditions and
This war will be won by emciency, not by self-flattering goodwill. The parish bazaar spirit will not do in these critical times. Although many of the voluntary organisations have done good work, it is in spite of The Born Leaders who regard war-work as a glorified bridge-pariy,
to
ס
Communal feeding is another of his lively concerns. In Industrial areas the canteens which will have be organised to supply
the workers might usefully be extended, as a food economy, to their families as well.
NO MORE MAYFAIR
HERE a real distrust among mast
women of the women's Everything that can be done for military services the ATB the the benent of the workers will be Mias done. Nothing will be allowed to WAAF2 etc-because-' 45 Ellen Wilkinson, now a junior min-stand in the way of efficiency in pro- ister, used to point out so vigorously, duction, and health and well-being there was too much Mayfair are indispensable to emelency.
Demands will be heavy. Leisure
about them."
Anyway, even if those military ser will be scarce. And it would be vice were put on a proper basis there silly to try to "organise" that leisure is a vast body of women who dislike or to restrict diversions and recrea barrack-square methods and long-term tions. enlistment. There are many who want The Minister for Home Security has wisely declined to "interfere, ,to serve in any way they can but whose
commitments and responsibilities bar until the war, situallon makes it them from Joining up for the duration. absolutely necessary, with the cine-
In addition to the Regulars of mas, dog-racing, and so on...
theae services (including the Land Ahay) who could act as the Expedi- tionary Porco, ready as at present to
A New Order w
But what, the workers "will need
be sent anywhere as the need arises, will be rest and fresh air.
there' ought to be Local Corps.
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One thing is certain. This drive Of course women are already playing will have is compensations not only
a big part in, local ARP services, and
In building an irresistible' and suc- There seem to be hundreds of sporadic cessful war-machine, but in the
revolutionary
voluntary organisations. But there must be co-ordination::;"
And there are millions of women win; } wrought in which will be
ing with proper direction and so guarantee of emclear and democratio organisation, to make themselves useful And join the war strength of this sountry NAMI TANAKA
„Up, “Bevies," andî, as, 'em)
organisation. pot. The old abuses of private ex- The old system is in the melting ploitation are rising like a seam and being skimmed off. A new order being fashioned, in the mould of Socialism.
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