Show Tell All AH of the People UTAH'S UTAH'S Produce for Victory day Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur- Satur day didn't go over too well well but but the very fact that it didn't may help to wake us up to our shortcomings and thus in the long longrun longrun longrun run bring about greater greater- production for victory victory victory vic vic- vic vic- tory than if the observance had been highly successful Reid Robinson president of the International International International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Work Work- ers brought that possibility h home me in n his address address address ad ad- dress to the small group who turned out for forthe forthe I the rally at the state fairgrounds Mr Robinson manifestly disappointed over the small turnout and the lack of interest in inthe inthe inthe the the parade scored the people of this state for their lack of consciousness that there is isa isa isa a war in progress progress-a progress progress-a a war war to the finish He wasn't pulling any punches or r- r eliminating eliminating eliminating any groups in his criticism He said And you can tell that to your labor unions your managers your hambers chambers of commerce tell tell all of the people that weve we've got to get down to the business of winning this war and do it now or the privilege of our meeting in even such small groups as this will be denied I It seems there is no realization that these are critical times he declared Its time tune we began giving up a few things started getting more and more more production till we have attained attained at at- tamed that flow of materiel necessary to win the war Those are some pretty harsh words for all of us but us-but but they are words we need to hear And it is particularly have them come not from a government official or an army officer or an inspirational orator but from a headed hard-headed labor union head We need such goading from men whose interest is that of the working people of the nation nation men men who can convince the rank and arid file of Americans that this is really their war and that only through the out all effort of every American can we win winit it For all our vaunted war production for all our skill as mass producers we still are not man-for-man man equaling British war pro pro- A British official Sunday declared that Britain's per capita output in shipbuilding ing is twice that of any other country Her output of planes increased 20 per cent in Sep Sep- Her overall war output per capita he said is greater than that of any nation in the world ally or enemy That is a challenge a a friendly one but still till a challenge challenge to to America and to Ameri Amen cans Its It's time tune we began meeting it Its It's time we began putting victory in this war which means first of all victory in the production production pro pro- effort above everything else We arent aren't any of us doing enough yet to win the war We haven't begun to sacrifice We haven't begun to go all And we haven't as a nation begun to win the war We will never begin to win the war until every individual American begins with sacrifice fice lice determination and out all-out effort to try to win the war each in his own sphere |