WORKERS AND TROOPS
BRITAIN’S! GREAT EFFORT. SENDING TYRANTS TO DOOM. (Received This Day, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, December 4. The Minister for Labour (Mr Ernest Brown) in a broadcast speech said that Britain had 1,250,000 men under arms and that the number was increasing daily. There were. 25,000,000 more employed in productive work than in 1914 and of this number 800,000 more were in the metal industries. —. “Britain will employ manpower and womanpower fully,” said Mr Brown, “then we will all help to send the modern tyrants to their doom.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 47, 5 December 1939, Page 6
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