NEED FOR PLANES.
APPEAL TO AMERICAN LABOUR. FIRST LINIE OF DEFENCE.
(Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 2o>. It is reported from New Orleans that Sir Walter Citrine (General Secretary of the, British Trades’ Union Congress) told the American Federation of Labour 'Convention that Britain needs “planes, planes, and more planes. Her needs are urgent and extensive.’ Sir Walter drew cheers from the delegates when he declared: ‘ ‘American labour can conquer the Nazis without firing a shot. It may be true that the British Navy is the United States first line of defence. I want you to make the American workshop all democracy’s first line of defence. He pledged Britain to fight until dictatorships were abolished throughout Europe and pleaded that American labour cooperate with the Government in every way in speeding preparedness.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 39, 26 November 1940, Page 6
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