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for 'the ° naw:; and ' for .l a •, prod of
18 months -British armies: in �;t parts,
, of the world'- Nere•,aliost oft et1 . me*A;
add of ' air support. There was also
an immenss problenn , of traz portae
tion, for now the enemy bolds 'gi the
west coast ,of ,Europe and his 1JPboats
work much more havoc on uncgnvoy-
yessels _than ,in, 191_.4-18. For ,eighteen
months it was' impossible to supply
the armies in the fteld� to meet the
enemy on equal terms; and this is
-the chief reason for the failures in
North Africa, the Balkans and Malaya.
This is not to say that there have
cit beep some defects in the leader-
ship, political and military. Twice
the conquest of No1sh Africa was halt-
ed
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ed , in brder to send support else-
where, to the Balkans and to' Malaya,
and the support went in vain. On
,purely military considerations Lhis
ought not to have been done; Greece,
Serbia and Singapore should have
been left to themselves and the con-
..; quest of Tripoli completed. But can
we not imagine the storm of criticism''
that would have fallen on Great Bri-
tain for • not helping the gallant
Greeks and Serbians or the Allies in
the East Indes? And the foremost of
'the critics would .be the very people
who now complain that Great Britain
is not doing much. I shall not hide
my opinion that the 'leadership at
Singapore was defective and that in
North Africa last. summer was also
• poor, leading as it did to the retire-
' went to 'the Alamein, line.
There is no war, however, in which.
poor leadership does not crop out
somewhere, and we may remember
-that the U.S. navy has made .changes
in its commands in the Pacific for
this reason. There has not._been an
undue amount of poor leadership in
the British- army even though the
army does not get as good officer ma-
terial as the navy or the air force;
and the failures of the British army.
have been mostly due to' circumstanc-
es beyond its control. Now, however,.
the. tide has turned and the success-
es of Generals Alexander and Mont-
gomery in Africa'�•,haveshown that the
British army can do" great .things
with tbe right equipment- and leaders.
We may now turn to the records •of
.British industry in the war. By ,rea-
son ,of pacifist opinion, British factor-
ies- were compelled to start from prac-
tically nothing in 1937 in their effort
to equip the services. The arrange-
ment at Munich; ' lamentable • as • it -
was, gave another year in which 'to
workanrl the .fair quiet of ,the war. in
1939-40 gave eight Months more. In
this period' factories were dispersed
and the making of parts was given
over to many small shops, itt order
that bombings would do much less
damage, and dummy factories ...were
built to serve the same purpose. In-
dustry now went to work and' (built
the navy up to a strength sufficient
to withstand the Germans and Italians
even when France withdrew from the
war. The R.A.F.•got its new Spitfires
and Hurricanes and • was' able to do'
the great things it did, with4he. help
of the radiolocator device, the inven-
tion of a. Briton. Then came the
bombings of 1940-41 and many plants
suffered but so • *ell were. arrange.
'rents made that production was not
seriously interrupted. By mid -1942
Britain wpas. producing 22 'times the''
number of aircraft of January,,, 1941,
five tidies the number of tanks of
July, 1940. four times the naval ship-
building of the spring of4939 and 10
times the amount of ammunition -of
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poitillation is the'higltast in theworld
and' .is 44111 'Oohing. 'President
Roosevelt referred recently to this
fact w$ien' he Said --that in proportion
to their population,' Great—Britain and
Russia were shill pi•oducing more than
theU.S., although absolutely the U.S.
is mow' ahead. A' group of American
aeronautical 'experts recently survey-
ed Britain's air industry and had
glowing praise for its organization
and the productiveness of its work-
ers,
orkers, who produced .at a faster rate
than workers in the U.S., they said;
and we repeat, this is an American
Opinion. British shipbuilding workers
have ,an output twice as great per
head as those of any other country.
Taking war goods as a whole, produc-
tion in Great Britain in June, 1942,
was nearly three times that of Janu-
ary, 1941.'! Some of this production •
has gone to American forces;' whole
squadrons of Americans are flying
Spitfires, other• Americans are travel-
ling in British ships, firing.British am-
munition; eating British food and
wearing British clothes. After Pearl
Harbor Great Britain rushed barrage
,balloons and anti-aircraft guns to the
U.S. for the defence, of the harbors
and of the Panama canal. All this suf-
fices to show the heroic efforts nmde
by Britsh industry and p over that
this industry 1s solidly based and is
managed by competent directors and
workers. At the same time agricul-
tural production has been -greatly in-
creased •until the country which 'used
to import most of its food now pro-
duces twuthird's of its wants. •
Tl.is has required an enormous deal
of sacrifice and hard work; and,•we
may recall that recently the order
went out that arty,`' woman not work-
ing more than; 54 hours a week was
to do fire -watching at night, which
means that for women 54 hours IS a
normal work -week while here in, New
York State we consider 48 hours the
maximum fora women. For men, 60
hours is the normial figure; and most
of them have. home guard, warden or
other duties in their spare time. Nev-
er was'a nation so mobilized for war
as Great Britain now, with mein wo-
men and children working to the lim-
it where they are most.. useful. There
are 33 million people between the e.g-'
e.s of 14 and 65; 2a% millions of these
are in the armed forces or war. in-
rifistry, 61/2 millions are in volunteer
war work and only three miiiiont are
nut directly employed in the war ef-
fow t and these include., the. elderly, tbe
cripples and the sick.. The muster
for a total war is indeed a remark-
able achievement.
Incidentally we may remafk that
British consumers have less to eaL
than any others of the 1Tniicd Na-
tions. Apart from fish acid potatoes,
about the only food not rationed in
coffee, the local product being ,so
poor that nobody wants it. The Bri-
ton has half a pound of butter, ,mar-
g.rine or fats but only half a pound
of the three, a week; a quarter pound.
of. cheese, a half pound of suggr• 'like
ourselves; two ounces of tea and 23
cents• worth of meat per week and one
pound of jam a month. r`ivilian' tam-
ales have •,been ruthlessly cut down
and in November, 1941, were already
24 .per cent. of the quantity of Sep-
tember, 1939. Britons pay the high-
est taxes on income, .$S3 per person
per year and buy war bonds most
heavily, $319 per person. This ,is
true; that the Briton works' harder
and makes more sacrifices in every
way than the citizens of any other of
the United Nations.
Some of the :loudest criticism of
British policy have been refuted by
events.; 'for Instance, Dreiser's picture
of an American public on its knees to
Churchill begging for a second' front
and a weak Churchill refusing from
his timidity. This and •the like fault-
finding now appear so thane that we
trouble about them no more• A rumor
actively spread by Axis broadcasterrs
is that Great Britain sacrifices the
soldiers from the Dominions and saves
her own. The casualty Iists• dispose
of this contention; until January, 1942,
71 per cent, of -all casualties on land
were from • the,British Isles from a
population twodhirds of the total of
whites in the 11;mpire. Mr. Dreiser
says that at Dieppe Canadians were
thrown away and Britons saved from
danger, This shows profound ignor-
ance of the employment of Cdnadian:s.
For three years there have been Can-
adian troops in Britain and they have
not fought so much as a skirmish with
the enemy. Their turn was much
overdue and they. had it at, Dieppe.
Canadians did not complain of this,
'use of their troops and we might sug-
gest to. Mr. Dreiaer and his like to
let the' Dominions judge the employ-
ment of Dominion troops, and to seek
some -other exercise for their fancy.
British armies are now well equipped
and well led and we are ready to let
their perforina'nees be the answer to
the prdfessional fault-finders.
In conclusion, we May quote Gen-
eral Smuts who paid trill;tite to the
fighting spirit •of the Am`hrl ans, Rus-
sians and 'other pee.ople, and said of
the British: ' .tipeople of this is -
.land are the.,rfeal heroes of this ept'c
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landings in North Africa are driving
one arm from the west and the great
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BREWERS OF CANADA PLAYIMPORTANTPA'fl'
,A NEW CLASS OF
ARMY MECHANICS
..-. arrives ;for, a course of prat,-
tical instruction in ,the Army
Mechanics . Trade School, car-
ried on by John. Labatt Limited
since 1941 as a contribution to
the war effort.
KING THE TOOLS
that will finish .the job.
Employees of John Labatt
Limited turn out parts for.
weapons of war.
The"non!-war" industries of Canada today are
making a very definite contribution,, in many
different ways, to thesuccessful prosecution of
rite war. Not the least,of this extra help for the
war effort comes from the breweries of -,Canada,
which, apart from their intrinsic valve in help-
ing to maintain the morale of civilians and
fighting men- alike, are, making 'noteworthy
direct contributions as well. Here, for exampled,
are some of the things one Canadian brewery
is doing to help win the war: -
At John Labatt Limited, century -old brewixlg
concern of London, Canada„all the usual -ways
of helping the wat effort—Victory Bond and
War Savings subscrif tions, "backing" for the
men in uniform, advertising in aid of war pro-
jects, and so on—were cheerfully undertaken
• by both management and employees ...then:
they looked around for other ways' to help.
TRAIN ARMY MECHANICS
In days of peace, a welcome sight to many a
motorist in distress were the huge streamlined
transports of Labatt's, !which never failed to
offer practical help tot a car in trouble. Behind
these trucks was a highly efficient maintenance
service and it was this service which suggested
an important part of Labatt's extra warteffort.,
Back in 1941,.arrangements were completed
With the milita.i-,yauthorities to operate in the
Company garage a trade school for army motor
mechanics, utilizing the facilities of the garage
and , the services of the Company's expert
mechanics as instructors. Since then, seven
classes of skilled mechanics have graduated
from this school, arid a great deal of mechan-
ized equipment for the Army has been repaired
and overhauled by the student mechanks.
MACHINE SHOP INSTALLED
Then Canada's "bits and pieces" programme
' offered an opportunity•for a further contribu-
'' tion. Equipment for a complete machine shop
was purchased and installed in the Company's"
garage. Employees of the Company's -Intel
Service Division, released froin their regular
duties through restrictions on services, under-
took an intensive course of machine shop
training. Machines and men are now engaged
in turning out a• steady stream of materials
for weapons of war.
CONSERVE RUBBER AND GAS
Months before restrictions were imposed on
the use of trucks, Labatt's began transferring
the bulk of.its shipping from road to rail and,
evennow, are far ahead of the regular'ions in
this respect. The mileage covered in the past
six months in less than one-third of that covered
in the same period of last year, and represents
a saving of almost 9,000,000 tire miles.
ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY
The management and workers of this Company
know that the present British Government,
remembering the experience of Britain during
the last war, regards brewing as an essential
industry. Munitions production, it has...been
proved, is damaged if the working man is de-
prived of a reasonable supply of his beer.
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THEN AND NOW
One of Labatt's famous stream-
liners in all her glory and
another on the blocks in the
garage. Labatt's wholesale con-
version from road to rail has
saved something like 9 million
tire miles in, six months.