Page Six oR 2 nO eas Europe Can RIME MINISTER CHURCHILL has told us that there are 40 to 45 German divisions holding down Europe. Fortifica- tions are employing 100,000 laborers in Norway, together with double that number in France and the Low Countries, and these numbers are being steadily increased. This brings yital in army consideration of the second front. The chief aim of the invasion is to relieve the pressure on the Red Army, enabling Stalin to use his strategical reserves in a counter-offensive before it is too late. By forcing Hitler to draw men and supplies westward across his already over-loaded and extended communication lines, we would cre- ate a two-way traffic jam that would be extremely vulnerable to bombing and sabotage, and would throw out his entire supply system to the eastern front. Here, again, time operates, for every week that passes enables Von Runstedt to build up supply r@serves in France, thus postponing the date when the trafie breakdown must occur. Fiave we the man for the job? We seem to have ample forces, with our own men, the Canadians, and the Americans, all awaiting re- lease like a coiled spring. And they are trained for the work, for, ac- cording to a review issued by the War Office on Sept. 2, preparations for invasion of Europe have been proceeding since January — that is, for nearly nine months. ce UR striking-power will be lim- ited not by man-power but by the shipping available. It is certain that, to get speedy victory and help our allies, our people would in the time-factor,y [willingly cut their present stan- dards to release shipping: It should be remembered that small shipping evacuated 250,000 British troops from Dunkirk — an impromptu effort at a few days’ notice. Dunlirk can be reversed and avenged. The Americans have no doubts on this score. Joseph Curran, presi- dent of the American Maritime Union, observed, on returning from consultation with the Washington and London authorities: “I know how many ships we have, and I can say we have enough for the second front.” - And Maj-Gen. Devers, Chief of the American Armored Forces, has said: “If we transport units 7,000 miles across the Pacific and 3,000 miles across the Atlantic, it doesn’t seem reasonable to suppose we can't transport them another 200 miles.” ce A FOR our equipment, no clear- er indication can be- imagined than Lord Beaverbrook’s speech last April, with all the authority of a recent production minister be- hind it: “How admirably-britain is equipped in weapons of war for directing such an attack on Ger- many I well know.” This war is already rich in exam- ples of successful Invasions. The Japanese landed ten divisions with small boats and sampans in Malaya, British Wor KeLS Strive For New Records LONDON. AV ORESSS and management of a big flying boat plant near London, determined to raise production to ensure a second front, have inaugurated increase production by of the Russian Revolution. a plant-wide “ctakhanovy movement to 200 percent by Nov- 7, 25th anniversary Results in the first week, when pro- duction increased by 75 percent, were so startling that Oliver Lyttleton has circulated an analysis of the plan among regional production officials. The flying boat plant, employing more than 20,000 workers, has @hallenged other aircraft and en- gineering works to an efficiency competition like these now taking placé throughout Soviet industry. The National Council of Shop Stewards has hung a banner in its national headquarters in Holborn Hall, London, to be presented to dhe winning factory. Inter-depart- mental competitions in the flying boat plant are in full swing. Women workers in one department, having doubled their output by improving the rigging of one job, have urged the technical staff to cooperate with them in making more improvements. Women com- prise 40 per cent of the plant's workers, and the leaders in the 200 per cent movement are wives and mothers of men in the services. The plant’s management, which formerly hesitated to hire women) and to pay them the same wages as men, has now agreed to take them on in all capacities. Craft unions have relaxed their union rules, permitting women to work as coppersmiths and riveters. Whole shifts have volunteered to work longer hours. The eapstan-lathe department, which has averaged 59 hours a week, has challenged other departments to work that or longer. The plant has hired new doctors to protect the workers against colds, which have been the primary cause of absenteeism, and X-rays are being taken of all workers. The management is negotiating with municipal authorities for nurseries and special bus facilities to enable mothhers to collect their Children after work. It has made <— la deal with the local retailers’ association to keep stores open late on a staggered basis so that workers work, These can shop after developments will permit women to work overtime five nights a week. The Amalgamated Engineer- ing union has established a roster of skilled workers to train unskilled women and part-time workers. Joint production committees in each department, control all aspects of the drive. “When we increase production by 200 per cent by Wovember 7,” the chairman of the shop stewards’ committee says, “it will be a power- ful argument for the immediate opening of a second front. And we're going to do it.” More than 500 factories in Britain have formed shock brigades of young workers, which is another ideea inspired by the example of Soviet factories. A few days ago, at an ordnance factory in Scotland, a brigade of eight workers, all under 19, worked 15 hours on Monday, 16% hours on Tuesday, and then continuously from 8 a.m. Wednes- day to 5 p.m. Thursday to fulfill a contract for the Scottish Command. | In an arms factory in Coventry, a shock brigade increased the out- put of one aircraft part from 65 to 152 on one shift, At a Park Royal factory, an 18-year-old miachinist organized seven brigades in one day, including 98 workers all told. Daily reports of each brigade's progress are posted on the plant notice board and prizes will be awarded to the winning brigade on Nov. 7, The seven brigades are named Sevastopol, Churchill, Roose- _velt, Stalin, Lancaster Bomber, By Maj. A. S. Hooper In Reynolds News London together with stores, armored cars and tanks — and this in the teeth of the monsoon gales. Rommel has used beach landings of tanks and supplies, carried by motor lighters, to support all his Worth African advances. Hitler’s capture of Crete, 60 miles from mainland, by parachute troops, gliders and air transport, is an example of air invasion even without command of the sea. But it is the Red Army which has given the best examples of a reso- Be Invaded E lution and enterprise in landings on a fortified coast. The capture of Theodosia and Eupatria in the Crimea were examples of diver- sionary attacks, while the seizure of such a stronghold as Kerch in winter gales was a masterpiece Jf combined operations. eo FIAT none of these operations possessed was a system of well-protected air bases within close range. This we have to per- fection, enabling us to cover much of the enemy coast with an air umbrella of fighters. With this protection, landings can be made at many points, some diversionary, some to form the main bridge heads. The mobility of sea trans port enables our reserves to widen and extend the initial successes. With an offensive leadership, this would lead to the capture of tir bases in France itself, enabl the rapid extension of air ]) tection as the armoured thri penetrate inland. EY Andre Philip, Socialist mayor Lyons, states: “In the event an Allied landing, would give support to a man” adds, however: “But if you k arousing expectations of action do nothing it might lead to di culties for the French undergro jf movement.” fe The three essentials that an aj- needs for victory are the arms, men, and the leadership. If have the arms for this task— we have been told that we hz |p if we have the men with the sj jj to bear those arms—and we ce ly have, and if we have the leai va ship with what military doctijind calls the “will to win’—then viel); is OUTS. im FE ROM mountain fast- nesses, such as this, the Yugoslav guerrillas continue their struggle against the German and Italian troops which maintain the puppet regime, by their courageous and determined resistance inspiring all the peoples of enslaved Europe. Radio station “Free Yugo- slavia,” reporting on activi- ties of the guerrilla and vol- unteer forces, claims suc- cesses at many points dur- ing recent weeks. e Outstanding among these was the attack on German controlled oil wells near Kutina, when Croat guerril- las destroyed nine wells and several oil refineries. From Belgrade came re- ports of increasing sabotage in Yugoslav enterprises working for the occupation forces. Police are sending persons considered “unre- liable workers” to special plants, where the regime closely resembles that of a concentration camp. Yugoslav Guerrillas Conducting Unceasing Fight Against Fascist: Hongkong and Dunkirk. Fifty shock brigades in a South Wales metal plant, numbering over 800 workers, are led by a 19-year old shop steward. Highteen-year- old Ron Colins, employed at an aireraft factory in North London, normally works two capstan lathes, but onoe day this week when his department was short of men he worked eight. After two weeks of shock brigade activity in a.Dagen- ham engineering works, the labor- management committee has re- quested the mayor to eall a town meeting of the production com- mittees of other factories in the area to get them to adopt the scheme. The workers in this fac- tory, some of whom are turning out 300 per cent of their normal quotas before the brigades were formed, voted a few days ago to put the. brigades on a permanent basis, with $50 monthly prizes for mem- bers of the winning brigade, the best departments to be given trips tto Bomber Command airdromes. After a broadcast to British workers last week by youth leaders at a Moscow arms plant, shock brigaders at the most important British bomber plant have challeng- ed the leading brigade in the Rusian plant manufacturing Stormovik bombers to a competition in Novem- ber. Mongolia. Recently Chinese trade union members in Ulan Bator, Mongolia’s capital, collected 125,000 tugriks (150,000 rubles, about $33,000) in one day for Russian war relief. Every worker in Ulan Bator now gives two per cent of his monthly salary to medical aid for the Red Army. Monoglian unions, sup- ported by the farmers of the cattle- raising country, raised enough money in the last month to send a 30-car trainload of meat, Sugar, the European front. Money is eolumn to be called “Mongolia;” and the leather workers of Ulan { 2° Mongolian People Al e = e id Soviet Unia (PReee years ago, in the summer of 1939, Soviet troops hel the cavalrymen of the Mongolian People’s Republic } yack a full-scale Japanese attempt to invade their country £ Manchukuo. The Mongolian people, led by their trade uni! have frequently shown their gratitude, and when the So Union was invaded a campaign to aid the Red Army sv) milk, canned goods and wine to being raised to purchase a tank Bator are preparing thousands of fur jackets, felt boots and sheep- skin overcoats to be sent to the { x ? t 5) amc ne |Rea Army for the winter c¢ paigns. : Fifteen years ago, out of a pt Jation of 900,000 spread over area a fourth as large as United States, there were 225 dustrial workers and 100,000 F dhist lamas in Mongolia. Tc there are no lamas but thouse of workers are engaged in indu: More than three quarters of workers are native Mongols, s of whom were actually lamas | fore Mongolia emerged from — Middle Ages in the early 1930’: Substantial help from the Sc Union made it possible for golia to build a flourishing in try. Its biggest enterprise, the dustrial Combinati in Ulan B. built in 1934.