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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1942-2-4, Page 2)OMINION OF CANADA .ECOND VICTORY LOAN Managers of Industrial plants, nolioers. In those plants., employees f all types o'f business and eom- torcial establishments throughout •;anada, including civil servants; are Presented with •an opportunity to >Rearm (bond .salesmen • between February 16th •and March 71M—the period of the forthemaing Second Victory Loan C'anvpaign, This opportunity is presented to employ- ees throughout Canada in. this campaign because they proved them- selves, so successful ,ait the, job in the 1947, Victory Loan 'Campaign, nye Province of Ontario, for purposes of efficient organization, has: beein divided into sixteenmajor territorial divisions and sixty or More am'aller territorial or sub -divis- ional units, Each of these divisional and sib-ddbiaional units: have been alloted its: own individual ,organizing eomimittee under,ditief organizer and group of assistant organizers. Never before in: the, history of the Province of Ontario has there been organized such a. powerful campaign, machine. The committee within the frame- work of the *Ontario Executive Connnnitte,e led by Mr. A. E. Arscott, Chairman; H. R. Tahoe end R. V. LeSueur, Vice -Chairman. which has assumed responsibility for establish inlg this vast provincial organaaatott, Vi its t Chaunuan W. P. Scott, 1!re.7Tdemt 'e,f Wood, Gundy & 'Many Ltniited; J. ;{("'.:Singer, oy;tl .Securities coiriporation Vice Chairman; and D. Robertson of the Ontario War Say,. Inge Committee, Deputy Vice - Chairman. The committee, which hasaccept- ed repons,ibdlity for organizing work - ens, of industrial plants and all other business and commercial establish - meets including banks, departmental stores, factories, of all kinds, nailvraYs and other business, organiz- ations, is the 'Omtaria Employees Committee. This, camrndttee, which recently began Its preparatory work for the campaign proper, haus as its .joint chairmen, J. A. Fraser, Director of The Dominion Securities Carper- -ration Limited, and. J. F. M. Stewant, President of J. F. M. Stewart and. C'omgvamy Limited,, and R. G, liobents+ of 'The Dominion Securities Oailpoaiation Limited as Vice- Chair- man, and J. D. Wood of A.. E. Ames & 'Co. Limited is Secretary, Its other members are; 1. 'President of Macrae and Company; R. G. Dingman, ,Faa:s,er Dingvaan and Company; E. E. Pooler, and CoanbanY; R. C. C. Henson, Wood Gundy & ,Company Limited, D. D. l,+faalead, nt Macleod, Meech and Company; R. 3. Holmes of ThamP- eatt. 11'talsinsan and 'Company; and J. S. Dickson of Dickson, Jaliffe and •Conupeny. This important committee has *been entrusted with the 'task of onlgandzing every nvanwfaet'uring plant, evert. industrial concern, every business incl co i enciel establish- ment in the Province of 'OTtanio emiployeeiug no fewer than fifty Demons. The first step of this c'om- mrdttee to secure success for tile caampaign 'among tflioSe prospective buyers of Victory Bonds will be t0 establish pliant committees, shop cainanlittees, dePartmental store carntndttee , composed, in all inst- ance, nstance, of 'managers or -workmen • with, in those ,concerns. Thus, the Chairmanof the local plant or office noumniilitee may be the business or plant manager of that concern, :Or, In , the cage of an industrial plant, the ritiiairman, of'the committee, the chielf campaigner, time prinicipal bond salesman and gen eral all-round organite-r and worker for the Victory Loan. may he a machinist, a hanker, an electrician or a saleslntan assmmina, ,f course. Clint the elan or roman invited to undertake the. task possesses the ,capacity to do the walk. Two. of the principal attributes required of campaigners in, the factories, as to all spheres of this canrlpatgn, are a eapaeity to address amass meetings and, *at ,course, to organize. ' Tutsi idea or. establishing plats, office and departmental stare com- mittees originated in the 1941 i Victory Loan campaign, *lieu. it pre' i (Weed. spectacular results. I•Ieuce. , tluia development, evert on a. larger scale for the purpose', of the forth -,c coming Second Victory Loan ,Cann- ,paign, The plan is designedy entourage etndrloyeefs, • to assume .a full share of interest and rezpnlieh pallia, in the, campaign. and to look 1 Moll it as vitally fmiportant to them,' 1 it the, British Empire is to win tHtb war and their future security is to he rss sneeze tor the 'Vciamry Loan v:onehsafed to them., as to their can- ploycr a, J1tPart front this consideration, the hat is a 'ICTO' IONB..? THE BRUSSELS POST WeclneedaY, Febnuamy 4th, 1942 A VICTORY BOND is the promise of the Dominion of Canada to repay in cash the full face value of the Bond at the time stipulated, with half -yearly interest at the rate of 3°1 per annum until maturity. A Victory Bond is the safest investment in Canada. The entire resources of the Dominion stand behind it. A Victory Bond is an asset more readily converted into cash than any other security. __y,,.,;..• National Was Finance Committee, Ottawa, Canada GEr READY 10 VICTORY BONDS ri A40 use of ouployeee in the campaign will serve the ,purpose of drawing to the attention of their employers, eaveoltls, executive and .athe'ti?vise wlaiolt, ordinarily, 'they would, not have an opportunity to reveal. They wi10 be called upon to address mass meetings, oftentimes for the drat time in their lives. They will have a two or three weeks' period of training In a $ei•d' en.tirely new to them; that nt soling bonds. 'They will have a opportunity of develoP' ing organizing and administrative talents by virtue of their novel ex• perience in this, caatnpaign. Over and above all, they will be working dtt the interests of a trettlendou'siy im- portant national rause and will be directly contributing, by their energies, to the, winning of this war, ,Canada's population has consider- ably li reasetl since 1918 when . lite Victory I,,oaw at the, enol of the last war was laturdlted in Moeda. More tivau, .one million, individual Oanad• i•an, citizens *at' interests bought Viiatorp Bonds itt 1918. EverY cttiaon of ,Camila, who bought Victory bonds in 1018, received full pirimrciUal ,and interest.on his tweet- , mint precisely on the slate on which that paYment ofprincipal and Inter- est bennan;e due, This Net is ment- coned to -day because it Is realized by on'ga,nizers• of those financial arrange• meets to keep the government in funds for war purposes that it is the I man. in the street 'Oto decides in the long run Whether e, ,campaign of this bind shall or shall not be an over- whelming .satccaess.' The biggest bulg buyers of Victory Bond,; or those who purchase *the largest blocks, samethntw running into. millions of dollars, are national insuraoe houses, trust companies, banks au.d ,similar institutions. lint those corporations. and 'business houses cannot, by themselves ensnare the full treasure of Weems for the Victory Loan *Campaign demanded by the national programme to raise 5600,000,000, Be'ab0e there are a greater num, her of ,Canadians to -day than there were in 191.8, it is hoped thei, when.. the forthcoming Seeend Victory Loan Cantmpalgtn ends on March 7th, this country numerically wJ11 have 'gape over the tail,' an, never before. The Victory Loan Campaign of 1941 Produced 95,000 inflividaal 'Canad- Mil Investors, The aim 01 the orgamfzers in this catnliaign le non- aidera.lniy to• increase tbat littnnber, An important factor, etmaoin'aging to organizers: at time foiijtieoming campaign, Is that a greater ntttnber ofi Canadians are at work to -day at satisfactory incomes than, at any time in,the entire history o1 this country, . The realization by the man in the street of the vital issues of this war and of What will happen to dildo as well as to his enttpisoyea• if the bun should emerge a victor, is a factor to be forcibly driven into the minds of employees in, every factory end business establishnn•.ent organized by the Employees Committee. ,It is a factor which Is being counted upon to nrailuee •anectaoular results among these categories of Vitrtory Bond invest0ils far Canadian workmen to, day realize fold well what the war meads to them. - Toy Victory Bonds' has, become the slogan in every beetless, esltainlieb- ntettt in ,C'at mle, among employers and employees: alike, It will remain a paramount :slogan front now until ?vl'arc•lt 7111, when. this eatnpatgiv ends, 1 In the Provlrtce of Ontario alone, 2,200 industrial !Plants and business establishments •have been orgaititied by the IJunboyees Committee, each plant with its own organizing and caltvassine cornmttise tvhiirh blas assumed res'anslhillty for a magi - coverage within that plant Or Wetness, enterprise, for the period when the actual sale of Victory Bonds begitns. Bonds. will be offered to employees under various arrangements, calcul- ated to encourage them to buy as nosy as, possible oven though they .this, plan, 11 adopted in this' campaign may not always be over-endowed---wltidlu seems probalbie—every yith ready cash. E7nrploisees will be b,u iuess house in Ontario, if not Invited to purchase bonds on the iiluronghout Canada, will again, by instalment or i,ay4allo,tment plari the ,time' the campaign ends, display which, iu ampler phraseology, Bolton r• Rolla signed, by the Minister means they will be otic to purohwse Iof Illumine as an acknowledgment of boit•ds, by arranging t with tholir their country's, gratitude for their emp'loyeus to Pay for tient over a measure of pa:rticiipation, period of a year or more, from their That mums nip the tempo, of organdz- future salary ttb0gtes. ` attiolt planned for industrial, ai,ffice A touch of colour in the faat017 and other employees et all btuaihess and 'ettupioyee groups will be the and, •commetieiul establtslmneiits insignia or pin: ,hearing the Maple throughout Ontario. (Probably Leaf Emblem which will 'be Present, never before in th:e 'fttistory of this province has ,,'hero been, organized such an energetic programaale taloa. latetd, to reach so great a number of the empldyee,el �iapnlati0n. '•4 ''1 pdayeesi C!ontflnittee. Tile amour 1to11, which was a feature of tibe 19.41 Bictoty Loan 'Campaign, was a certidoate signed by the Minister of Finance, recording the fact that the factory or connetpu went over the .top' in purchasing Victory Bands. If ed to ail employees, and othere who bay Victory Bonds .In this,Catnpaign, It :is moped, of 00111,90, that every em•pl09ea; wary roan, and woman in business enteupl•15es, in ,factories, _ shops; thanks, departmental stores Will be w•oaaing this iustgufa goon after ii obr'ttary 1011t waken Lite .ctim- Paige prober begins, Iiotaltr Rails, taro to bo pr Mean tett i io all firms wiitcth resat ilimeir objee- tiv,os iu oo.ope:rntitnt with .tits, 8141 Purest FORM IN WHICH OHAGCO CAN 86 SMOKED,"