Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1941 — Page 15

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Forward March!

A message to General Motors folks everywhere

ECENT events have made it shockingly clear our country faces a peril that threatens to engulf all that we have and hold dear.

That peril is known. We need not define it. But we do need to define the obligation which it places upon the shoulders of every one of us.

That obligation is first of all to get done as fast as can be the vast defense task upon which the nation is engaged, and to stick at it regardless until we do get it done.

In assuming its share of that task, General Motors has in good faith taken responsibility for the production of defense orders totaling about

$750,000,000.

It has done this with confidence in the loyal cooperation of its employes, and has undertaken to spread production as widely as possible for the local benefit of cities where its plants are located.

The millions of people fighting for freedom throughout the world look to America as the arsenal of Democracy. They pin their hope on America’s productive power. And our machines are futile without the willing hands of men to run them.

In this crisis, every hour counts. Every hour

moves us closer to the day when defense materials will flow to our embattled friends in Europe in volume enough to swing the scale.

This is no time to falter, to hesitate, to let our effort be weakened or encumbered by differences which can be settled in discussion by reasonable men.

At a time when your country is asking for sace rifice, can anyone justify seeking selfish advantage at the cost of production?

Certainly General Motors wants no special advan. tage of any kind.

It seeks only to go ahead now with its duty to the free people of America and the free people of the world.

We all hope our country shall never itself need to wield the weapons we are building and will build in increasing volume.

But the best assurance against this is for us to go forward as Americans who stand inseparably together in order to get this defense job done.

For the defense of our country, an idle or even an

inefficient factory is today no better than a bombed

one.

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