Show i Walter Wolfer WincheD Winchell During Mr WInchell's absence his hit column wIll be conducted by guest By TED COLLINS Do the Job With Job With Safety By TED COLLINS Radio Coordinator U U. S. S Dep Department Department De De- De- De p of Labor for Conservation Conservation Conservation Conser Conser- of Man Power for War Var Industries Every man woman and child in America has a job to do to insure the safety of the war workers who are already on the second front the front the production I line Every man woman and child in America should this moment dedicate himself to the task of protecting these soldiers of production just as much as ashe ashe ashe he would protect members of our armed forces If our production soldiers are injured or killed it is exactly the same as the casualties of war warno warno warno no matter where the battle line In this country there have been many tragic accidents which have aided the enemy In a midwest town a a. car whizzed down the highway carrying five workers from a munitions plant At an inters intersection c- c tion a truck loomed up It Was carrying materials to the plant Crash and six men were lost for a time to war production work two of them forever Hirohito did the chuckling The story of Thelma is typical of a problem that needs some attention Thelma worked in a parachute factory her husband was employed in a machine shop I handling special work for the navy avy Sunday was a grand day for a picnic at the lake Thelma went in swimming and swam out cut too far Her husband husband husband hus hus- band tried to rescue her and suffered a heart attack under the strain Weakness from overexertion overexertion overexertion over- over exertion Drought brought on sickness Two trained workers were lost to war production through lack of plain common sense Had they the right to take such liberty liberty liberty lib lib- lib lib- erty with their lives Today's war emergency says not Workers Work Work- ers must keep fit to carry on the same as a soldier George was a saboteur He was born in this country and loved it He served in World war warI I was a conscientious citizen in his community he raised a afine afine afine fine family and held a good job jobin jobin jobin in an airplane plant He would have hotly denied any connection with sabotage sabotage- yet George disregarded a plant rule by operating a machine without use of the proper safe safe- guards He seriously injured his arm spoiled a nearly nearly completed completed airplane part and messed up the machine Hitler couldn't have asked for more Heres Here's one that sounds like the work of a nazi demolition gang Not long ago a group of workers were in a qua quarry ry blasting blasting blasting blast blast- ing rock for important harbor installations There was a set rule that before the blast allmen all allmen allmen men in the vicinity should be warned The foreman thought they had been He was in a hurry hurry hurry hur hur- ry and took a chance Seven badly needed workmen died and anda a score of other were injured A man working in an aircraft plant was spraying lacquer There was a definite rule against smoking yet he decided to take a chance have just one The resultant explosion and fire set this particular plant back several several several sev sev- eral months in production By 1945 according to present progress we shall have at least men in the armed forces F For r each fighting man there must be a little more than six civilian workers on war production production production pro pro- and necessary civilian production That means that more than men and women must be directly or in indirectly indirectly indirectly in- in directly on the war Var job The bitter truth is that our real enemy No 1 at the present time is our thoughtless inexcusable inexcusable inexcusable able waste of life and ability In 1941 industrial accidents included ed accidentally dead and more than in- in Translate these losses into terms of war of-war war effort and you have some grim facts If enemy sabotage had wreaked such a fearful toll of blood and tragedy on us we would turn on the foe with an implacable hate that would affect affect affect af af- our lives for years to come Losses of man hours mean ships not built tanks not rolling planes not flying and guns not firing j Lets Let's get the job done WITH done WITH SAFETY Copyright 1942 Daily Mirror J |