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will not be one single man or woman
who will not have become sobered by
the events of the last ten months.
We know now, if we have not known
it before, that this war is glObal in
extent and total in characted. Total
war means or must mean that we are
all engaged or we are not fully at war.
1t is war that must be fought not on
one front but on a hundred fronts
the battlefront, the production front,
the home front, the educational front,
the governmental front. There is not
an area of life where men are en-
gagged where we must be fully engaged
in this titanic struggle. 1t is against
the background of a world in revOlu-
ton that | make bold to make to you
my annual report on education and
| labor. This is a vast human drama in
which you and l are not only both
audience but actors as well.
These last twelve months since last
you met in Seattle have been moment
Gus days for all of us, as well as mo-
mentous days in the development of
program of workers education. Edu-
cation more than ever is vital in this
peoples war, For the modern army
is an army of specialists. Napoleon
once said that every army functions
ing.
For every one hundred men who are
drafted into the armed services of
these United States SO are there and
are subject to special training. Forty
per cent of the men who have gone
out into the armed services have been
graduated from the high schools of
America 100000 on the other hand
have been deferred because they are
illiterates.
Education and training are thus not
only Indispensable in modern mechan-
lied warfare but our surest defense
against subversive forces within.
Let me be more specific in relating
our training needs to our war effort.
Today the armed services faces
acute shortages of skilled men. You
would think in America, with more
radios than any people in the world.
that we would have a great abundance
of radio mechanics. Yet when the
Army looked over the draft list and
wanted to find at least u mechanics.
! in every thousand draftees they found
but one and We're short IA. When they
looked for medical techncians they
found that they needed 4,5Ol medical
technicians; and they could discover
but 1876 in every 100000 inductees, with
a Shortgae of something over 1880
In America where everybody has learn
ed to drive an automobile, they found
that in every 100000 inducteeS there
was Il shortage of 1O,437 automobile
! mechanics. There was q shortage of
1929 telephone and telegraph linemen
! Master mechanics were short 1,54S in
every 100000 inductees In Il word,
what our statistics disclose, that in
an army of 100000 men we face to-
day ma jor shortages of skilled men
totalling S3S,040.
SO, you see that today a modern
army must be an army of specialists
and technicians.
This should have a special Signiii-
canoe for labor. We have said that the
trade union movement was not only a
bulwark but one of its basic inStitu-
tiOnS. Today | woilld add that the
trade union movement as a repository
of the skill of the worker has become
thrice important as providing the very
condition of victory.
But this is Il specialized view of
education and training. There is that
other vital task of acquainting the
membership of labor with the gravity
of this world revolution. | do not know
how many Of you who had the high
privilege Of listening to Brother TObin'S
radio address on September 26 over the
Columbia Broadcasting System 1t was
a report to the American people ON
what he found in Great Britain. If you
| did not hear that | commend to your
reading and to your sober reflection his
address printed i'm full in the current
issue of the Transfers Journal. What
he saw with his own eyes and what he
learned about what the British people
faced these past years, he has given
30 us in vivid word picture.
But few of us will have the privilege
of seeing at first hand what he has
seen, or hearing what he heard but
we can read how the British labor
fights and learn better What are the
stakes of the life-and-death struggle in
which we are engaged?'
That has been the ma jOr emphasis of
our educational services these past
twelve months to give labor wherever
it has assembled in convention halls,
in labor temples and trade union halls,
in conferences or institutes or univcr-
Sity campuScS.
\ sense of the nature of this Strug
gle, the issues involved and the role of
labor both in the war and the peace
to come.
Our lectures and visiting lecturers
from overseas have gone up and down
this country holding our Institutes and