Supplies for all the Forces
How do we stand in regard to equipment? Lord Beaver- brook made a very reassuring statement last Sunday on the ubject of aircraft production. Of course, he was unable to give exact figures. He said that in June we produced more than double the total of aeroplanes produced in the same month last year, when war preparations were already in full blast, and a still greater proportion of engines. In addition, substantial shipments are arriving from America. Since Mr. Morrison and Mr. Bevin joined the Ministry there has been an immense speeding up in the production of munitions of all kinds. Both are concentrating on quick delivery, the one by working fac- tories to full capacity, and bringing in more factories, the other by organising and redistributing labour and ensuring its co-operation. Through the training centres the Ministry of Labour proposes to give the munitions industry Ioo,000 trained men a year. Stoppages of work will not be allowed—an Order is being issued for the regulation of wages and arbitration in all matters of dispute. In the first eight months of the war progress was lamentably slow. Now it is what it should be.
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