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THE CHINA MAIL,
SEPTEMBER 2, 1941.
THE PLEDGE TO SMASH HITLER
President Roosevelt's Labour Day Speech
Call For Further Intensive Drive For Production
"ON THIS DAY – THIS AMERICAN HOLIDAY” WE CELEBRATE THE RIGHT OF THE FREE LABOURING OF MEN. THE RESERVA- TION OF THESE RIGHTS IS NOW VITALLY IMPORTANT NOT ONLY TO US WHO ENJOY THEM BUT TO THE WHOLE FUTURE OF CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION,” DECLARED PRESIDENT_ROOSEVELT IN HIS BROADCAST SPEECH IN NEW YORK YESTERDAY ON THE OCCASION OF LABOUR DAY.
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The President continued: "American
with which we jointly dedicate labour now bears a tremendous responsibility ourselves to the production
weapons of freedom will deter- in winning this most brutal and most terrible of all wars.
mine in no sinall part the length of the ordeal through which humanity must pass. We cannot hesitate, we cannot equivocate in
Tho defence of America's freedom must take precedence over every private alm and over every private, interest.
We are engaged on a grlin and perilous task. The forces of
"In our factories, shops and arsenals we the great task before us. are building weapons on a great scale, great in its magnitude. To all the battle-fronts of the world are these weapons being despatch- ed by day and night over seas and through the air, and this nation is now devising and deve-insane violence have been let loping new weapons of unprecedented power we must do our full
loose by Hitler upon this toward the maintenance of Democracy.
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BERLIN BOMBED BY
SOVIET 'PLANES
A special radio an- nouncement from Moscow lost night reported Soviet air raids on Berlin, Konigsberg, Danzig and Memel, during Sunday. Incendiary
and high explosive bombs were dropped on military targets; at all four places. One did Soviet machine not return.-Reuter.
Alexandria Bombed
conquering them, for these forces - Hostile aircraft dropped bombs, may be unleashed on this nation on Sunday night on Alexandria as we go about our business "Why are we doing this? Why against Hitlerism
of and the Suez Canal area states increasing protecting the proper interests of are we determined to devote our volume
Ministry of the Interior com- each day. But these our country. entire industrial effort to the enemies also know
munique issued in Cairo yester- prosecution of a
day. war which ac-American effort is not yet enough The task of defeating Hitler may tually has not yet touched our and that unless we step up be tong and arduous, said the Pre- own shores?
the total of our production and sident.
more greatly safeguard it on its
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that our
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Peace Hopes
At an ordinary session of the Medjless, (Parlia- ment) in Teheran yester- day, the Prime Minister, Furughi informed the De- puties that conversations were proceeding satisfac- torily and that the situa- tion was
becoming clearer.
He hoped that the matter would be settled in a day or two.
Referring to various rumours circulating in Teheran, the Prime Minister sald he regretted that the people were in such a nér- vous, state that some were even quitting the capital and he as- sured the House that there was absolutely ΠΟ danger to the. population, government or any- body else.
Such rumours were circulated by mischief makers, he said.
The Prime Minister urged the people not to hoard. bread and other foodstuffs, assuring the Two persons were killed and 43| House that there was ample for injured at Alexandria and slight all and he asked Members to aumage was done in both regions. circulate his words so that Gov- No casualties are reported from ernment could work until the
problem is settled, Reuter..
"We are not a warlike people:
never sought glory as a journey to the battlefields, these There are a few appeasers and nation of warriors. We are not enemies will take heart in push-Nazi sympathisers who say that it the Canal area. Reuter. interested in aggression. We are ing their attack in old fields and cannot be done.
not interested as the Dictatorg | new.
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In looting. We do not Solemn Warning covel one square inch of the territory of any other nation
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I give a solemn warning to "Our vast effort and the unity those who think that Hitler has of purpose which inspires that | been blocked and halted that effort are due solely to our re- they are making a very danger- cognition of the fact that
ous assumption. fundamental rights including
When in an area your enemy the rights of Labour
secms to
slower be making. threatened by Hitler's violent at-
progress than he did the year tempt to rule the world.
before, that is the very moment to strike with redoubled force to throw more energy Into the job of defeating him — to end forever and all time a menace of world conquest, and thereby end all talk or thought of any peace founded on com. promite with avil itself. We knew that a free labour system is the very foundation of a functioning democracy. We
The Bond
There never has been a moment in history when the Americans were not ready to stand up 215 free men and fight for thei rights. In times of national emergency one fact is brought home clearly to us décisively that all our rights Dre inter- dependent.
THEY ASK ME TO NEGO- TIATE WITH HITLER —
ΤΟ PRAY FOR CRUMBS FROM HIS VICTORIOUS TABLE,
They do in fact ask me to be. come a modern Benedict Arnold and betray all I hold dear, my devotion our freedom, churches, to our country. course I have rejected.
to
I reject it again.
Great Privilege
our This
Instead, I know I speak for the conscience and the determination of the American people when I say we shall do everything in our power to crush Hitler and his Nazi forces.
NO APPEASEMENT OF JAPAN IN PROSPECT
WHILE PRESIDENT Roosevelt enunciat-
know that one of the first acts of American workers, American ed no new American policies or further steps The righta of freedom of the Axis dictatorships has been farmers, American business men in his present policies in yesterday's broad- Worship would mean nothing to wipe out all principles and and American churchmen-all. of the rights of free labour, as we able to establish for its own pre-ponsibility and the great privilege his emphatic assertion that there will be no without freedom. of speech and standards which labour has been us together-have the great res-cast, interventionists in Washington welcome know them to-day, could not servation and advancement. of to build a democratic survive without rights of free enterprise. That 18 an
in Forbidden Philosophy world on enduring foundations.
May it be said on 'some future negotiated peace as far as he is concerned. destructable bond between -all| us Americans.
Trade Unionism is a forbidden Labour Day by some future Pre- Inter-dependence of interests, philosophy under these rule-or-sident of the United States
ruin dictators. For trade union-we did our work faithfully and privileges and opportunities
well-Reuter. inter-dependence of rights, that ism
demands freedom of
ex-
is what unites us-men and wo- pression and peaceful assembly. men of all sections. That is why Trade unionism has helped to we have been able to defy and give everyone, who toils a posi- frustrate enemies who believed they could divide us and control us from within.
Naval Strategy
The present position of labour
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that
tion of dignity which is his due. TOOK BOMB
ON HIS CYCLE
in the United States as an inter- dependent unit in the life of the nation has not come about by chance. It has been a› revoļu- These enemies all know wetionary process of healthy-demo- possess, a, strong navy gaining in cracy at work, strength. They know that that navy as long as the navies of the British Empire, the Nether- lands, Norway and Russia exist -can together guarantee free- dom of the seas.
Hitler has not worked that way. He will not, cannot work
-learnings or the churchi
men
They likewise heard: with satisfaction. his declaration that he will not beg for crumbs from Hitler's victorious table, as well as his appeal for redoubled efforts now that the Nazi war machine is being slowed down by Russia's valiant fight.
Similar welcome is given his assertion that Germany must be defeated-if-Americans are to continue to enjoy the rights, they now enjoy, although there is re- gret in some American quarters that he did not, speak in plainer terms, in regard to what that is likely to Involve.
QUIET CONVICTION
ALTHOUGH INDIFFERENT RECEPTION DUE TO BAD "AT- MOSPHERIC CONDITIONS MARRED THE EUROPEAN- TRANSMISSION OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S LABOUR DAY SREECH, MOST OF THE PRE- SIDENT'S WORDS WERE AUDI- BLE TO SHORT WAVE LISTEN- ERS IN LONDONDER
that way. Just as he donica A constable, setting off all rights to Individuals, he must deny all rights to groups on his bicyle for the police of labour on business or station, held a "strange These enemies know that If those other navies were de- He has abolished trade unions object" on the crossbar.
The speech" is regardèdi de stroyed, the American; navy (as rüthlessly as he has persocut-
calculated to prapare Americana cannot now or in the future ed religion. No group of Ameri- There was an explosion. He was He thought it was a shell case.
for giving up, many things, they maintain freedom of the Boas cans has realised more clearly
now have in order that the Several against all the rest the what Nazi domination means than fatally injured.
of
production of War materiala world.
has organised labour what I nearby were wounded.
The "strange object was
may. Increase: These enemies know our army means to their standard of liv is increasing daily in all round ing, their freedom, their lives, bomb, dropped on a north-east THE PRESIDENT'S STATE strength, and these enemles know No group has a greater stake in town by a ralder.
MENT THAT AMERICAN WEA- President Roosevelt spoke with that to-day the chief American the defeat of Nazlism.in
the
The story was told at the in- PONS OF WAR ARE BEING calm deliberation and listeners. fighters in the battles now raging preservation of fundamental free- quest on Police Constable William SENT DAILY TO ALL FIGHT were struck by the quiet convic
Gordon Ward: are those engaged in American dome, in continuance of democracy An Army sergeant and a pri- AS AN INDICATION THAT measured tones as he spoke dards ING FRONTS IS WELCOMED tion which appeared through his industry employers and em-throughout the "world. ployees alike, These" enemies 1 know that the courge, of Amor!-
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vate, it was stated, had tried to THERE IS NO CHANGE IN Nazi threat to labour standards take the "strange object" to pieces AMERICA'S POLICY OF SEND- all over the world.
The 15-mlhute, speech was fol- can production in the past year We have already achieved with a hammer. It was put in a ING SUPPLIES TO CHINA AND has shown enormous gains and much; it is Imperative that we trencit, where it lay for some RUSSIA AND THAT WASHINGlowed by the playing of the the product of these industries is achieve infinitely more. The time..
TON IS NOT "APPEASING" "American national anthem, by, a. |JAPAN; → REUTER.
military band, --- Router,
moving
to the battle-fronts | single-mindedness and sacrificel Verdict Accidental' death.
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