WOMEN AND WAR MUNITIONS

Evening Star, Issue 21319, 25 January 1933, Page 11

WOMEN AND WAR MUNITIONS

An echo of the presidential address to the South African meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1929 is to be found in a letter published by the ‘ Western Producer,’ of Saskatoon, Canada, Under the pseudonym of “Pierre Ferry,” a correspondent says that Fate has given the women of Canada the power to stop the manufacture of war munitions all over the world without trouble or loss to themselves. Nickel is indispensable to munitions manufacture, but to few other industries, and the. only nickel in the world, with two very trifling exceptions, lies in the heart bf Canada. “Every battleship, gas-plane, tank, submarine in the world would be useless without Canadian nickel, and war rifles only harmless toys without nickel-jacketed bullets.” The writer goes on to appeal to the women of Canada to press their members of Parliament, irrespective of political party, to introduce either an embargo or prohibitive export duty on nickel, and then there would be “no more need for Disarmament Conferences at Geneva or anywhere else.” If this could be made a positive contribution from a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations to the World Disarmament Conference, the proposal would be well worth consideration. If, further, the idea could be re-enforced by an embargo on other necessary raw materials, such as molybdenum, chromium, copper, and the rest, the difficulties of waging war would be almost insuperable.—‘ Headway.’

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