LABOUR’S PLAN TO BUILD PLANES
Use Of Idle Motor Plant (Received December 29, 8.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON. December 29. Mr. Walt Reuther, director of the General Motors Division of tlie United Automobile Workers, who is the author of the Congress of Industrial Organization’s plan to build 500 lighter planes daily with the aid of idle automobile plant facilities, broadcast a plea for the speedy adoption of Hie plan lest it be too late to aid Britain. He said that 'if the plan were implemented immediately enough planes would be turned out after six months to swamp lhe Luftwaffe. “This is Labour’s plan." he said. "Why should Labour concern itself with speeding plane production? It ir concerned because il believes that lhe country’s main defence is a little fortress isle holding off tlie Nazi bombers on the other side of the Atlantic.”
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 81, 30 December 1940, Page 8
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