Show WAKE U UP P America Its It's Late I IThe The Nation needs to awaken to gravity of the peril that confronts us It needs to appreciate how badly we have been defeated in three months of war It needs to understand understand understand under under- stand that it if is possible for the United Nations and the United States to lose this war and suffer the fate of France France- and that this possibility may become a probability if the present tide does not change I It needs to realize that there is grave chance of the Japanese pushing through India and the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans pushing through the Near East to join loin their armies armies armies ar ar- ar- ar mies and resources es in an almost unbeatable com com- It needs to get away once and for all from the comforting feeling that while whir e we Vie may lose at the start we are bound to win in the end Only when fully aware of existing perils will the United States do its utmost Pray God that awareness awareness awareness aware aware- ness does not come too late as it did in France Production Director Donald Nelson appeals for vastly increased output on a hour 24 seven-day seven basis basis basis ba ba- ba- ba sis sis sis- hours a week Maximum production in short Can we get it Not on the present basis basis basis- not under the psychology ogy of rec recent nt years Not until we quit thinking in terms of less work for more money Not while there is greater concern about overtime pay than overtime production I Not while government bureaus bureaus- created to meet meeta a depression that is ended ended- continue to i grab for themselves money needed for armaments Not while an army of federal press agents clamors I to promote and perpetuate activities that have no present great need or great value Not while congressmen try to put over useless canals canals canals ca ca- ca- ca nals and river schemes and take up time of defense officials clamoring for factories one and contracts as if was were a great gravy train Not while despite a shortage of labor seeks to carry on projects which it doesn't have the men mento mento mento to perform or the need for performing Not while ece and NY NYA A stretch greedy hands for funds to pamper young men who ought to be in inthe inthe the armed forces or the war plants I Not while s strikers hamper production despite a solemn promise that they woud stop Not while the life-and-death life struggle for uninterrupted uninterrupted uninterrupted production is used as a weapon to put over the closed shop Not while double time i is demanded for Sunday work which is only part of a hour 40 week Not while a man cant can't be employed on an Army project or in a war plant until he pays 20 to 50 or more to a labor racketeer Not while Fifth-Columnists Fifth are pampered and enemY enemy en en- emy aliens move freely in in defense areas Not ot while the timor timorous us are ore afraid of reprisals to speak for needful corrections Not while the grim job of preparing our homes against air raids is gummed up with a lot of high faulting boondoggling social service activities Not while pressure pressur blocs clamor for bigger benefits benefits benefits bene bene- fits bounties and pensions We will not get maximum production until we realize realize realize re re- re- re alize our awful peril and get over the of recent years Gimmie Gimm e shorter hours me higher wages gimmie bigger profits gimmie more overtime gimmie gimmie gim gimmie gim- gim mie less work gimmie more pensions gimmie greater crop benefits gimmie more appropriations more patronage gimmie plants for my congressional al district gimmie fees and dues gimmie ham and I Thursday I egg gimmie share- share the- the wealth gimmie 30 ev every ry France has no TODAY It had Will the United States wake up TOO Late The above is a reprint of the El Paso Post Herald-Post editorial of March 5 57 1942 distributed in Utah thru the Salt Lake Hardware re Company |