The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-10-15
Labor Secretary Challenges
Any Humdn Institution
To Do As Well
BY N. b. OF O. p. DELEGATES

The bond of friendship between
Canada and the United States has al
ways been strong but never as strong
and as binding as it is today. Our
countries are united in a common
cause and dedicated to bring about
the end of dictatorship and the restor-
alton and continuation of the way of
life of free peoples everywhere.
There is an identity of interest be-
tween these groups today which is per-
haps more strong and more important
than at any other time in the history
of the peoples who settle and live upon
this great continent.
We salute Canada for her great eff
fort for the United Nations, for the
sacrifices she has made and for the
loyalty, sallantry and bravery of her
sons battling on land, on sea and in the
air in many far flung lands We of the
United States find inspiration in the
way in which our Canadian friends
have brought all their people into the
war effort organizing industry, agri
culture, and social life for the one pur-
pose of winning the war. This spirit
will prevail and the capacity for vol
untary organization and cooperation
of our two great demOcracieS will be
the dominant factor in the ultimate
and sweeping victory which will make
this world a better place in which to
live for all time, and the skill and the
speed and the intelligence with which
the labor groups in both the United
States and Canada have applied their
knowledge and their organization and
their ina gination to making their con-
tributiOn in the war effort has been
Il great inspiration. l have had the
privilege this morning of being taken
about, being given an opportunity to
examine in some detail the work be-
ing done in two of the great enter
prises here in the neighbOrhOOd of
Toronto where they are making eX
clusively munitions of war, and the
most important kind of munitions of
war 1t is a very great inspiration, a
great bit of education which the Cana
dian government has offered to the
government of the United States in
making this education available to me,
for | saw there just the kind of thing
we want to see-'round- the-clocl oper-
alton, good skill, well applied, the
testimonial of employers that they
have moved to three eight-hour shifts
in the interests of efficiency and better
production, for less fatigue, and for
reduced abSenteeiSm, the testimonial of
no lint ha ho a
found that where they made women
physically comfortable they had full
production results. If they are physi-
cally comfortable they can do the work
as well as men. | was interested in
that and | was interested in the spirit
with which these young women had
approached their tasks, showing in
telligence, skill and devotion to duty,
which is such as | believe we ought to
expect of Canadian women and women
in the United States. But it is inSpir-
ing to us in the United States, who are
Just beginning to use women to the
full extent in war and mllnitiOn plants.
A year ago, at your convention in
Seattle. Washington, | had the plea
sure of discussing with you the grow
ing status of trade unions as a neceS-
sary social institution. | talked about
your great organization, not as a group
that was struggling to be recognized,
but as vital part of this democratic
society | recognized that trade union
ism was no longer a principle barely
tolerated but rather it was Il widely
accepted instrument of cooperation on
behalf of the great mass of industrial
workers in this nation.
Today labor'S response to the Nation 5
need has indicated the capacity and
adaptability of trade unionism as an
institution i'm IL nations day of peril.
And that is the test, is it not, of any
social institution that it can adapt it
self and face the necessities when Il
nation is imperiIled.
American labor is to be cOngratu-
lated on the way it has faced its re.
SpOnSibilitieS since the United States
was forced into the second World War
Trade unions have demonstrated theil
sense Of discipline and public respon
sibilty.
The fury of unprovoked attack fell
upon members of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor as soon as il fell
upon the armed forces of the United
States. Your members kept the faiti
in that dark hour. The raids of thf
japanese on Guam and Wake lslan'
found the members of your organiza
tion working there side by side, doine
their work with the heroic sailors anC
marines who defended those island out
posts.
Today those Of your members win
did not die in that defense are il
enemy concentration camps. They KEEP
the faith and worked to the last fol
the sake of the freedom they rightly
cherished. Still others among YOU
brothers, members of the TeamSterS
organization, have riSked their live
and have made the supreme sacrifice
in the noble work of keeping open thu
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