STEADY SUPPLIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 8, 21 October 1941, Page 5

STEADY SUPPLIES.

APPEAL TO BRITISH MINERS.

LONDON, October 19

A stirring appeal to the coalmining industry—executive and miner alike— Avas made by Mr Ebby Edward, seciotary of the Mine Workers’ Federation of Great Britain, in a broadcast address to-day.

Pit committees, said Mr Edwards, bad a responsibility as much as the miners themseh’es of making sure that shipyards, electrical, and gas undertakings and factories, were supplied with coal to aid in defeating the Nazi menace.

“Had our Na\ r y and Air Force boys, folloAving the evacuation of Dunkirk, failed in the fight for Britain, our country, like others in Europe, would have been but part of Nazi slavery today,” he said. “Our material resources Avould have been disposed of by Hitler in opposition to the Soviet Union. Hitler’s world poAver would lin\-o boon certain. How thankful avo ought to be that it is not so.”

Mr .Edwards concluded with a telling summary of Germany’s aggression to date. “Imagine,” he said, “that you are looking on the face of a great clock. The hours are clearly marked. At 1 o’clock the Nazi regime takes Austria, at 2 o’clock Czechoslovakia, at 3 o’clock Poland, at 4 o’clock Denmark, at 5 Norway, at 6 Holland, at 7 Belgium, at 8 France, at 9 Yugoslavia, at 10 Greece. At 11 o’clock the Nazis strike at the Soviet Union. At 12 will come the British hour. Arise! The alarm has sounded. It depends on action now.”—British Official Wireless.