The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-04-02
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

wartime production is emphasized in a
tional Labor Office.
Surveying war contracts as they are
currently written in Canada, the
United States and Great Britain, the
report points out that the three gov
ernments have now become in effect
"the employers, direct or indirect, of
large numbers of the working pOpula-
| tiOn."
| The survey Labor Conditions in
War Contracts" points out that gov
| for civilian morale: 1T must answer
both to the workers and to the general
public for the conditions in which de-
fense work is DONE" Calling for frank
acceptance of this burden of morale"
the survey says that there is a grow
ing recognition that the efficiency of
workers depends largely on their we'll
being and on their goodwill.
x X x
The report analyses such measures
as the Walsh-Healey Act under which
labor conditions are stipulated in U. $.
government contracts, the Essential
Work Orders effective in Great
Britain, by which wages are guaran-
teed for more than 5,OOO,OOO workers,
and the regulations enacted in Canada
toward the same end.
The report is an objective study of
one aspect of a problem whose compli-
cations are Il matter of serious concern
in all countries organizing their indus
try for war production.
Means must be found to adapt
working conditions to the changing
exigencies of the war situation in q
way which respects the legitimate in,
terests and commands the ready assent
of all concerned" the report says in
urging tripartite collaboration of gov
ernment, employer and worker wher
ever possible. in practice the only
method is that of joint negotiation and
collective agreement" it adds.
x x +
What is the reaction of the Frencl
workers to the recent British air raids
on industrial plants near Paris? This
question anXiously asked and debated
in the United States, is now answered
by the most authoritative voice, the
voice of French labor. The under
ground labor paper, La NoiX dl
Nord," which has wide circulation
, among workers of Northern France
comments on the steadily increasing
II. A. f. attacks:
'Our skies are crossed by EngllSl
planes, which other planes and anti
aircraft cannot stop. The II. A. f. i:
striking hard and frequent blows an,
goes where it pleases; it is giving III
= Il foresight of what the war will be il
the coming months.
l What can we do? Oh, to be sure
our hearts have bled again at the sigh
of new suffering. :. We know the vic
tins, we have seen the ruins. The sa,
l procession of those who have bee:
bombed out, leaving their Shattere'
homes but still brave, has moved ever,
French person, while barbarian horde
walk about Sneerng. But, in tn
face of such hardShips, and of NOR
} dangers to come, firm, clear resolve
must be made. . Every one must as
sumo responsibility.
There is this irrefltable fact: Th
l English, who are obliged, in order +
win the war, to bomb increasingly al
y factories working for the Germans
must eventually strike at the complet
; German war machine. . Any resio
which furnishes no collaboration L
the Germans will probably be saf
from bombing. Every factory working
i for them is Il fair target for Englis
bombs