WORK FOR POLISH NATIONALS
EMPLOYMENT OFFICE IN LONDON (British Official Wireless) (Received January 16, 6.30 p.m.) 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 the Polish Prime Minister, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, and t M. Stanczyk, Polish Minister of Labour and Social Welfare. In his speech Mr Bevin said the defence of Warsaw would represent an epic story in history. “Today we welcome into our industrial ranks and the field of production your scientists and engineers, your skill and laboui and your sailors, knowing only too well that they will make their contribution to the prosecution of the war so as to add to the common pool of equipment for our common forces who are engaged in the united task of ridding the world of this pest of aggression,” said Mr Bevin. “We send our greetings to our oppressed comrades in Poland today 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-estab-lished in the world.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24338, 20 January 1941, Page 10
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