The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-12-07
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The progress which our valiant
American forces, jointly with the
armies of our Allies, have made since
the invasions Of Southern and West
ern Europe have indeed been steady
but slow, practically every foot Of
ground having to be won through
hard fighting and at the cost Of in
calculable sacrifice.
No less difficult has been the re-
conquest Of the islands in the Pacific,
between Pearl Harbor and the Philip
! pines, marked by many battles
through the iungles and the atolls,
and by the heroic conduct Of our
American land and sea forces. And
yet, the principal islands of the
Philippines, the so-called japanese
mainland, not to speak of the rich
Chinese Coast, Manchuria and Korea.
are still securely in the hands of our
willy enemies. 1t is evidently to be
expected that the closer the battle
lines come to the home lands of the
and our prowess, the harder becomes
the fight and the more determined
their endeavor to frustrate our aims
or at least to make our victory as
costly as possible.
War Effort Must Continue
Under these circumstances, we on
! the home front can conceive the stu
alton in no other light than that our
responsibility number one is the con-
/ tinuation of our maximum efforts to
sustain the men on our fighting
! fronts. Production and more produc-
tion of munitions, weapons, food,
| clothing, medicine, the means of
transportation, is undeniably impera-
tive. 1t were idle day-dreaming and
wishful thinking of the most puerilc
variety to assume that an armistice
or the dawn of peace is at hand, and
that we have but to wait for the
whistles and horns to shrek out the
signals for general exaltation and re-
jonicing.
On the contrary, we must match
the determination Of our enemies and
their stiffened resistance by an in
tensification of our efforts and by the
rededication Of our spirit of sacrifice,
lest through Indifference, oversecur-
ity and sheer stupidity, we deprive
ourselves and the generations to come
after us of the fruits of all the eff
forts put forth SO generously during
the last three years. 1t is no common
experience on the gridiron that a
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teen seconds; let it not be said that,
because of our lack of understanding
and vision, the completeness of the
victory in this great global war,
which seems now SO securely within
our grasp, shall have been diminished
or it's brilliancy dimmed
Labor's Splendid Contribution
Magnanimous has been the work of
the multiple forces which constitute
our home front. American genius has
demonstrated it's marvellous resource
fulness in devising and producing the
means necessary to enlist, equip,
train ard transport to the corners of
the earth our splendid fighting forces
within period of time that makes
the result seem almost miraculous
Under a program of coordination that
has probably never been equalled in
a democracy, our civilian population
has been marshalled into action to an
extent that decade ago might have
been considered utopian. To the credit
of our American workers, spurred on
by the example of the leaders in in
dustry and by the enlightened pro-
gram of their own organizations, let
it be said that never in the history
of our beloved country has there been
achieved a more glorious record of
industry under the impulse of pa
triotism. Prominently in this record
will stand the accomplishment of the
American Federation of Labor and of
it's affiliated organizations in their
many fields of cooperation with the
national war effort. By your industry
and toll you have merited the graft
tude of your own fellow countrymen
as well as of our allies, who share |
with us the benefits through the lend
lease program, that enables them to
join in actual combat our fighting
forces for the common security and |
welfare.
Spectre OF Unemployment
Never again must the spectre of
unemployment be permitted to stalk
over the length and breath of the
land or, for that matter, over any
part of the universe. Unemployment
means hardship and misery; it means
and sickness; it means anxi-
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