POLISH REFUGEES
EMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, January 15. Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service, declared open an. employment office for Polish nationals. in London,, today. Among those present were General Sikorski and M. Stanczyk, tlie Polish Minister of Labour and Social Welfare. In his speech, Mr. Bevin said that the defence of Warsaw will represent an epic story in history. “To-day, we welcome into our industrial ranks and field of production your scientists and engineers, your skill and labour, and your sailors, knowing only too wel Ithey will make their contribution to the prosecution of the war, so as to add to the common pool and equipment of our common forces, wild are engaged in the united task of ridding the world of this pesr of aggression. We send our greetings to our oppressed comrades in Poland to-day, and desire them to know and feel that, if their resistance was broken by overwhelming force, we none the less prize that resistance. We shall fight on until liberty and justice are re-established, in the world.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 January 1941, Page 8
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