Evening star., 1944-09-01
The Bridge Of Hands To Victory
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by A. N. SPANEL
Prssidsne Of International Laex Cerpo.sl1eN

The blood and roaring guns will soon be over and s
million fighting will return the Of civilian life They
the who sacrificed much preserve our free.
dom and our dignity as human beings.
Many of them will be unprpared for peace they wers
for when called them the color but for long
Some Of them coming back with unhappy estimate Of
the real contribution made by induy labor this gobal
and victory; but for long Every strike every work.
soppsge had been vvid played them planned sabo
the enemy
often hold false pictures while their very hands bodies touch
the demonsrable evidence of real accomplishment the guns
the planes the tanks the ships the very tools help spell
victory.
And what the whole truth? There was produced such
rushing surgng stream of weapons of in the
history of Every known and every Technology wa.
hrnessed by American industry produce enough and
Ye American ndustry.awar whose fabric is MANAGEMENT
and labor with 25 900 600 aborng and women or.
ganized and unorganzed drawn like fighting men, from
every walk of fe of themselves in work. in
blood to make enough and time reality and empty
promise.
There have been deporabe soppages Strikes far too
many them with America 1t been
mes for Government take factories be-
cause their forgot and dire other
workers. blind necessity had be pressed back to
work nexperience eracy greed Neither industry
can Arsenal OF Democracy with its free and
women produced day and night that heroic fighters
might have enough and on time.
Significantly there have been fewer hours lost by war
workers than by equal numbers workers previously
in civilian production
Enough and time took meaning industry and it,
labor in this gobal the task tho
weapons not only fighting but Allies as WELL
England, Russia, China, France!
Theo he nj +ho.o IL.
these made by industry with free American labor pro
duced on ratoned time and in astronomical quantesi
/" freedoms cause, this the great poyof.
The price not in profits earned wages paid Nor in
sweat or blood alone Since Pearl Harbor nearly workers
died through accidents the rush speeding war work the nm
sung of the Battle for Production . $4,000 aborng men and
whose labor ended in eternity They sacrificed no less
than their brothers and husbands fought and died on
the battlehelds of tortured world.
AS this enough, and it wasn't enoueh American
labor called upon to man Merchant Marin. ~. h;,
that made bridge of for and for the whole free world
They asked deliver and they delivered the guns tanks
planes and food through keyed with sudden death
through seas alive with the waiting below their
deahoung planes above Clay pigeons were never more a,
sailabe than these human beings.
Little do we realize when read in papers that when
1000 ships out to invade enemes $500 of them are
merchant ships manned by merchant seanen
Since Pearl Habor 5000 brave they who manned
bridge of ships these deiverers in more ways than one m
known to have died 5000 free American workers. who too
loved life Compared to their numbers merchant sesmen
have gwen their lives in this struggle than any of our .rmed
services have been called upon sacrifice
They aso the unsung No coler ads to blaze %
glory; only their Deeds
History will record that enough and on time B,e.. for
American war industry and its labornx men and
women direction and goal world freedom throueh world
victory victory quckened the upendous production ,ev
were called upon to give. And they gave
Every TOOL every weapon Of supplied fighter.
Is concrete evidence and the sed proof Of the fu con-
buion made by free American labor and industry. in h.ln
to destroy the nazascst enemies of free people Of
In our great sacrifice for victory let y. ..,er tors
As 4 PUBLIC SERVICE
e 'e this a"'oer to the dssunled ho ,oouA des from the
unprecedented performance Of free american Industry md abor {.
this 'car for human freedom.
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