| Show TOOL INDUSTRY ASSURES AID IN DENS DEFENSE PLAN Roosevelt Urges Unity Warns Against Traitors WASHINGTON May 27 AP Manufacturers AP-Manufacturers Manufacturers of of machine machine ma ma- a- a chine tools responding to President R Roosevelt's C call for forthe forthe forthe the best speediest ie t a and d most efficient mass pro production promised Monday to give the government first call on tools vital to acce acceleration of defense industries We W are confident of our ability to me meet t the requirements Clayton R. R b Burt o of Hartford Conn n. n said citer ter he e and and five five- other leaden leaders of the mach machine ne tool industry conferred con con- ferr d with vitti tr treasury war wan navy and commerce department We intend to get our teeth into this thing Burt added Appeals for Unity Mr Roosevelt made malle the call upon private industry in a radio appeal Sunday night for national unity in which he coupled a pledge of military security with a warning Yarning against Trojan horse treachery and the undiluted poison of foreign- foreign sponsored dissension Before a meeting of the National Aviation forum Monday General George C. C Marshall counseled against any assumption that vast projects can be completed on a basis of enthusiasm alone The army's chief of staff said Our difficulties in the last World war suggested that it was best t to promise in the way of defense improvements only what we can reasonably expect to achieve Accompanying Burt were John JohnE E E. Lovely of Springfield Vt president president president dent of the National Machine Tool Builders' Builders association Tell Berna of Cleveland general manager of ofHie tile the association Norman D. D McLeod McLeod Mc- Mc Leod Lead of Providence R. R I. I Charles CharlesJ J J. J Stillwell of Cleveland and Howand Howard Howard How How- ard and D. D Dunbar of Worcester Mass Extra Shifts Shirts Planned While no details of ot the conference conference confer confer- ence ece were announced it was understood understood understood un un- un- un that the manufacturers indicated they could meet many of ot the new requests for machine tools by putting extra shifts to I in existing factories It was hinted that building of new factories factories facto facto- ries nies or or enlargement of existing ones might not be necessary at least now Mr Roosevelt in his fourteenth radio fireside chat called for an end to fear illusion and c calamity calamity- Continued on Page Palte Two Column One TOOL INDUSTRY PLEDGES SPEED I f TO HELP DEFENSE PROGRAM aw Y Continued from Page One howling bowling saying that American defense der de de- r tense forces would be built up to 0 whatever heights the future may 1 V require He denied charges of critics that I money spent for the army and w. w navy In the last few years had gone down the rat hole Instead he said This money has been used to tomake tomake tomake make our army and navy today the largest the best equipped and the best trained peacetime military es establishment establishment establishment es- es in the history of this I country Two Deficiencies I Senator Lodge D. D Mass told I i the senate that no adequate provisIon provision provision pro- pro vision had been made made to eliminate t two grave in the army a a lack of mechanized equipment r I and Insufficient man power Lodge a captain in the army re- re r r- r serve returned Monday after observing observing ob- ob r. r serving army maneuvers in LouisI- LouisI 1 1 ana He asserted that the morale L a among the men was high and that officers were doing a good job 1 But he added the nation now has only tanks That would be enough for just one finger of one of these fanlike German advances J he be continued That number would 1 1 be destroyed In two days of the European war Drafting of a unified home defense defense defense de de- de- de bill to prohibit private t armies in the United States and to create an industrial defense corps In the militia was proposed t I Monday by the senate military committee Chairman Sheppard D D. Texas a said three bills containing home defense measures would be sent to the justice department for consolidation consolidation con con- into one Should Be Coordinated Sheppard noted that many states dates already had begun organizing organizing organizing ing ing home defenses and he s said d federal legislation should be co coordinated coordinated coordinated co- co with local measures Beginning a study of a bill bilI to appropriate for construction construction con con- and rehabilitation of military posts the committee made these changes in the measure Increased appropriations for Schofield barracks Hawaii from to for Fort Benning Benning Benning Ben- Ben ning Ga from to and for Fort Knox Ky from to Decreased the appropriation for arsenal from to r Eliminated for Frankford Frankford Frankford Frank- Frank ford arsenal Pennsylvania already provided for in an an appropriation bill Added Appropriations Added appropriations as follows Fort Sill Okla Fort Pickens Pickens Pick- Pick r eris ens Fla Fort McPherson Ga Fort Story Va 1 After declaring that nothing in inthe inthe the present emergency justified breakdown or cancellation of any of the great social gains gains' under the n new w deal Mr Roosevelt asserted asserted asserted as as- that threat to our national security is not a matter mattert t of military weapons alone We must deal vigorously he said with spies saboteurs and traitors The new technique of i weakening a nation at its roots 4 he continued is discord aimed at creating confusion of counsel t public indecision political paralysis is and eventually a state of panic i New Forces Unleashed i Campaigns of group hatred or class struggle have never made much headway among us and are not making headway now he said But new forces are being unleashed unleashed unleashed un un- leashed deliberately planned prop prop- to divide and weaken us in the face of danger as other nations have been weakened before be- be be be- fore These dividing forces are undiluted undiluted un un- 0 diluted poison They must not be allowed to spread In the new world 1 as they have in the old The president said that the past two weeks have meant the shatterIng shattering shattering shatter- shatter Ing of many illusions for persons J who had closed their eyes to 1 events abroad or who would not admit the possibility of the approaching approaching approaching ap ap- ap- ap stormi storm i f They have l lost fist st the illusion he hec c declared that we are remote and andI f f I isolated and therefore secure against the dangers from which no no other land is free 1 The presidents president's address was I largely a review of the expanded defense program and its effect on i l labor and consumers He spoke at a desk In the diplomatic cloak room on the basement floor of the White House surrounded by a few Invited friends Immediately afterward he lefton left lefton lefton on an overnight yachting cruise down the Potomac He was accompanIed accompanied accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied by Secretary Hopkins who has been active in plans to step up industrial production for defense purposes The president reiterated the adminIstrations adminIstration's administrations administration's administrations administration's ad ad- ministrations ministration's promise to advance advanceR R F C money to private Industry to help expand factories and personnel personnel personnel per per- under the preparedness program pro pro- gram We are calling on men now engaged engaged engaged en en- in private industry to help us In carrying out this program he said and you will hear more of this in the next few days Private Industry h will have the responsibility of providing the best speediest and most efficient mass production of which It Is capable Should Not Bo Be Broken Mr Roosevelt declared however however however how how- ever that the administrations administration's offensive offensive offensive of I against social and economic Inequalities and abuses should not be broken down by the pincers movement of those who would use the present needs of physical military military military mili mili- tary defense to destroy it it There is nothing in our present emergency he said to justify making the workers of our nation toil for longer hours than now limited limited limited lim lim- by statute As more orders come in tens of thousands of people who are now unemployed will receive employment Similarly he continued there is no reason to lower wages or break breakdown breakdown breakdown down the old age pension and unemployment unemployment unemployment un un- un- un employment insurance system The policy and the laws providing providing providing pro pro- viding for collective bargaining are I still in force he noted and la labor labor labor la- la bor will be adequately represented in Washington in this defense pro pro- gram The president called for protection protection protection tion of consumers against higher living costs and asserted that no new group of millionaires should come into being In this nation as asa asa asa a result of the struggles abroad Propose Legislation Senators Connally of Texas and Clark of Missouri Democrats immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately proposed that legislation to impose heavy taxes on war profits be enacted at this session After opening his talk with an appeal to aid the Red Cross war relief fund Mr Roosevelt detailed advances in the army and navy during his seven years in office The navy received more since 1933 he said than it didin didin did in the seven years before that date For that money he explained fighting ships were laid down or commissioned personnel rose from to and useful navy aircraft Increased from 1127 to 2892 planes on hand and on order The army received more since 1933 he continued than thanin in the seven preceding years Since 1933 it purchased planes the president said making these other army comparisons 1933 1940 Enlisted men Antiaircraft guns 1700 Modern infantry mortars 24 1600 Modern tanks armored cars cars 48 1700 Pilots 1263 Practically doubled Unity of Control Needed Mr Roosevelt announced that the air forces fortes should continue to tobe tobe tobe be part of the army and navy for he said recent wars have shown that fighting efficiency depended on unity of control The world situation he said may so change that it will be necessary to reappraise our defence defence defence de de- de- de fence program at any time In such case I am confident that the congress and the chief executive will work in harmony as a team team- as they are doing today I I will not hesitate at any moment moment moment mo mo- mo- mo ment to ask for additional funds when they are required In discussing Increased industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial operations under the preparedness preparedness preparedness pre pre- program Mr Roosevelt expressed certainty that responsible responsible responsible sible leaders will not permit some specialized group which represents a minority of the total of a plant or Industry to break breakup up the continuity of employment of the majority of the |
