The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-05-27
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

AS was to be expected, latest Nazi
methods to boost war production by
drastic methods are antagonizing the
German workers and have added con-
siderably to the smoldering discomfort
among the masses.
Well aware of this growing antagon
ism, the Nazi labor authorities con-
slider it the better part of wisdom to
remain in the background and to leave
the enforcement of their orders to the
employers and management, the Inter-
ma ational Transport Workers Fedora
ton has been informed through reli-
able underground channels.
Employers in Berlin have been in
structed by the regional Labor Trustee
not to call on him for enforcement of
penalties against workers, but to i'm
pose fines directly, land if necessary
| repeatedly, up to the amount of a days
wages, exclusion from welfare serv-
ices of the establishment, such as cam
teens, ETC., and Withholding payment
for holidays"
All instances of breach of contract,
| slow work, absenteeism and indisci-
pline generally on the part of foreign
workers in Germany must be reported
to the Nazi Labor Front, and if no
remedy is forthcoming, to the Gestapo
itself. Charges against recalcitrant
German workers are handled by the
labor exchanges.
Any comment we might make on
| world affairs this week would seem
puerile in comparison with the forth
right assertions made by Winston
| Churchill, Prime Minister of England,
| to the Congress of the United States
this week.
Consider what he said about matters
which have been weighing most heavily
on the minds of Americans.
| The final attack on Japan:
ut is all agreed between us that
we should at the earliest moment
similarly bring our joint air power to
bear upon the military targets in the
homelands of Japan. The cold-bOoded
execution of United States airmen by
the japanese government is a proof
not only of the barbarism but of the
dread in which they regard this pos
sibility.
ut is the duty of those who are
| charged with the direction of the war
to overcome at the earliest moment the
military, geographical and political
| az Nd hn
necessary and desirable of laying the
cities and other munitions center of
Japan in ashes. For in ashes they must
surely lie before peace comes back to
| the world.
And here let me say, let no one
| least as great an interest as the United
States in the unfiinching and relentless
waging of war against Japan. l am
| here to tell you that we will wage that
| war side by side with you in accord
| ance with the best strategic employ
ment of our forces while there is
breath in our bodies while blood flows
in our veins"
The war on the Atlantic:
I'm January, 1912, the United States
| undertook the main responsibility for
prosecuting the war against Japan and
| for aiding Australia and New Zeal
| land to defend themselves against Il
japanese invasion which seemed far
more threatening then than it does
now.
''On the other hand we took the
main burden on the Atlantic. This was
only natural. Unless the ocean life line
which joins our two peoples can be
| kept unbroken, the British Isles and
all the very considerable forces which
radiate therefrom would be doomed"
DESTROYER To RE NAMED