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Show weapons and material of war. "Those who fall in battle die for a cause. Those struck down by accidents die in vain. "It is the duty of every patriotic patrio-tic American to conserve manpower man-power for victory. We must stop accidents." o ACCIDENTS HINDER NATIONS' WAR EFFORT CHICAGO July , 30 Casualties Casual-ties to the U.S. armed forces since Pearl Harbor have been 4,801 dead, 3,218 wounded and 36,124 missing a total of 44,143. These figures are from the government. gov-ernment. Casualties to American workers work-ers since Pearl Harbor through accidents have been 30,000 dead and 2,500,000 wounded. These figures fi-gures are from the National Safety Safe-ty Council. The Council offered the comparison com-parison today as evidence that accidents help the Axis in draining drain-ing America's manpower that is vital to victory. The total American accident toll since Pearl Harbor has been 60,000 killed and approximately 5,500,000 wounded, the Council said. Aomng the victims are thousands of skilled workers and key men in the nation's war pro-grum, pro-grum, who cannot be replaced. "Casualties on the battlefront are a necessary sacrifice to perpetuate per-petuate our freedom," said Ned H. Dearborn, executive vice-president of the Council. "Casualties on the homefront, through accidents, acci-dents, are preventable and hinder the efforts of our fighting men by sabotaging the production of the |