HARD FIGHT AHEAD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 264, 7 October 1942, Page 5

HARD FIGHT AHEAD

(9.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. President Roosevelt last night broadcast a message to a meeting opening the annual “Mobilisation for Human Needs” which in wartime has assumed a wider significance in the United States. “We must transform some of our new buying power into growing power as wo face redoubled needs on every hand at home and abroad, and prepare to pull our belts tighter for the hard fight ahead. For most, giving will not be. easy this year, but your giving will provide "not alone strengtli for our nation at war but proof in a world of violence that wc -bold inviolate our belief in the infinite worth of the individual human being.” The Secretary to the Treasury (Mi Morgentbau) announced that the Treasury intends to ask Congress for another tax Bill for at least 6,000,000,000 dollars immediately Congress passes the pending measure. He said that the Treasury must have a minimum of 30,000,000,000 dollars yearly. He estimated that the pending measure and the existing taxes will produce 24,000,000,000 dollars only. The Price Administrator (Mr Henderson) has stabilised rents throughout the nation at the levels at March 1, 1942, in compliance with President Roosevelt’s economic order. “We have won the battle of production,” said the president of the American Federation of Labour (Mr W. Green) in announcing at a Labour convention that all the production standards set by President Roosevelt would be excelled by American workers. “The dictators must know that the armies of America and Canada are coming and the United States armies will be in Berlin and Tokio. When the tyrants are overcome there must be an international democratic force to preserve peace throughout the world.” Mr Green pledged the filllest co-operation of the A.F.L. m the carrying out of Mr Roosevelt s wage stabilisation order.