The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-23
CHURCHILL CALLS
FOR MORE EFFORT
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the transition from the days of
peace and comfort to those of ST.
preme organized and indomitable
exertion."
winding up debate on the man.
power CONSUMPTION bill after prom
lslng commons a chance 10 vote
on 1t later, Churchill explained
that Britain had about 1000, 900
men under arms, counting the
nome guard; that the plan for the
army, with the exception of equip
ment for ten more divisions, was
unaltered from the early days of
the war.
-. 1T is a very large and formi-
dable force, both for fighting over
seas and for Defense" he said.
He went on to say that the bulk
OF the vast series" of equipment,
munitions and supply plants start
ed In 1889 are just now coming
into production. He continued:
Il say that in the next six
months we shall have, for the first
Tune, an intense demand on man
power and womanpoWer. This is
the problem that lies before us. We
are now about to enter, for the
tlrst time in this war, a period of
manpoWer stringency because, for
the first time, we have come to
nave the apparatus and layout
Which this manpower and woman
power will be required to handle.
That is the reason for the far.
reaching declaration of which the
minister of labor thought it neces.
sary to apprise the house and the
country in his statement of yester,
day."
Labor Minister Ernest Bevin
yesterday announced a plan to reg
lister labor for ultimate c%onscrip-
ton.
Red Shouted Down
Shortly before the Prime Minis
ter spoke, the house had shouted
down a charge by William Gal
lacher, lone communist member,
that the government had suppress
sed the communist Daily Worker
and the weekly newsletter, THE
Week., in order to quash opposi-
ton to labor CONSUMPTION.
Herbert Morrison, the home sec
rotary, himself a lifelong laborite,
told the house he intended to main
tain freedom of the press, but he
accused the two publications of
trying Ito weaken the will of u
people to achieve victory.
Actually, there appeared to be
little open opposition to the govern
ment man-power program.
The prime minister's own speech
was peppered with the pungent
phrases of which he is a master.
At one point he said, allegorical-
ly:
1T is not possible to make a
warship go to sea and fight against
the enemy until the fires have
been lighted and the water in the
boilers changed from cold to tepid
to warm to hot, steam generated
and vast power given. While this
is going on there is no S rush.
ing about and uttering alarming
cries"
Comb and Scrape" .
At another point he said the
army and air force will be expect
ed to comb and scrape" to re
duce their demands on the man
power market. . So we shall be
able to man the new factories and
shipyards and till the new
Already, in this 18th month OF
this war, Churchill asserted, there
are several hundred thousand
more munitions and aircraft work
ers than there we're in the 48th
month of the last conflict.
Moreover, he said, in tn e
mercy of God, we have had no
slaughter or wastage comparable
with the last war"
He placed the total of British
folk killed in the last six months
at not more than 10000, nearly
half of them civilians. This, he ac-
knowledged, is "a terrible figure
but it is far less than the lives
lost in a single protracted battle
on the western front in 1916, 1917
or 1913"
Churchill told how he endured
taunts in silence about inaction
against Italy not long ago, be
1 knew the large and daring
measures which had already been
taken" to gain the British victories
in Egypt and Libya.