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stands as the greatest base metal

exporting country in the world and
the fourth greatest war producer
among the United Nations,

"The story of the near industrial
reyolution that has taken place in
the Dominion since the beginning
of the war was given in detail in
a report presentéd to the House of
Commons last week by Hon, C.
D. Howe, Minister of Munitions
and Supply.

Declaring that by the end of
last year Canada was delivering
“in substantial quantities every
item of war equipment for which
we had received orders in the first
two and a half years of the war,”
Howe gave this concise summary
of the Dominion's industrial con-
tribution to the Allied war effort:

“Every week we are launching
six or more vessels, either escort,
cargo r patrol.

“Every week we are turning out
80 planes. Every week our automo-
bile factories produce 4,000 motor
vehicles and’ 450 fighting vehicles.
Every week our gun plants make

940 heavy guns, barrels or mount-|

ings, and our small arms plants
turn out 13,000 smaller weapons.

AMMUNITION OUTPUT.
“Byery week our ammunition

i) THE B.C. LUMBER wont

June 28, 1943

Munitions Minister States
Canada Now Huge Arsenal

OTTAWA, Ont. — Canada nowé-

reason to be proud of their con-
tribution to the war effort. Re-
cently the Burrard DrDy Dock
Company set a record by delivering
the Fort Wedderburne in 89 days
from the laying of the keel.

“At West Coast Ship Builders
a ship has been launched 45 days
after the laying of the keel. Our
cargo shipbuilding progra is now
at its peak. It will be maintained
there.”

It was noteworthy that among
the plants specifically mentioned
for excellent production, were
some like Small Arms Limited,
outside Toronto, where a labor-
management production commit-
tee plan hag been in operation
for some time. Small Arms, Howe
said, has doubled its output of
“the No, 4 army rifle, Canadian
version of Lee-Fnfield,” and is now
producing in exéess of 34,000 a
month,

In the base metals field, alumin-
um output has increased six times
since 1939 and “is now greater than
the total 1939 production of the
rest of the world,” enabling Can-
ada to supply “about 40 percent of
the war requirements of the Unit-
ed Nations.”

This year," Howe said, “our out-
put of base metals will attain the

_ factories make 525,000 rounds of highest peak in our history. This

heavy ammunition and 25,000,000 has been achieved by the enor-
rounds of small arms ammunition.’ mous expansion of the aluminum

“Bvery week our chemicals and industry, the

revelopment of a

explosives industry has an output Canadian process for the produc-

of 10,000 tons, Every week our fac-
torles produce $4,000,000 worth of
instruments and communications
equipment,

“We have launched 500 snips and
delivered 8,000 aircraft. We have
delivered 575,000 motor vehicles
and 24,00) fighting vehicles. We
have delivered 55,000 heavy gun
barrels or mountings and 630,000
small weapons. We have produced
800,000 tons of chemicals and ex-
plosives. We have produced in-
struments atid communications
equipment to the value of $160,000,-
000.

“These ate some of the high-

lights of a program which includes ;

almost every type of equipment
and supply needed in modern war-
fare, The total dollar value of our
deliveries to date is over $4,500,000,-
000. We estimate employment in
war industry at upward of 900,000
‘men and women.”

The tremendous industrial ad-
vance reported by the Minister was
@ great tribute to Canada’s work-
ing men and women, whose skill
and productivity now rank among
the highest in the world. This was,
in fact, referred to in the report
As a basic factor in the unpre-
eedented progress made in the air-
eraft and ship-building programs.
RECORD SHIPBUILDING.

Pointing out that not a single

"seagoing merchant ship had, been

in this country in the 20 years

dian yards engaged in this
boat program have every

tion for the production of magne-
sium, the extension of recovery op-
erations at large base mines, the
revival of old mines, the expansion

;of existing properties and the de-

velopment and exploitation of new
marginal and sub-marginal depos-
its. ;
“Canada is now producing 95
Percent of the combined nickel
output of the United Nations; 20
Percent of the zine output; 1234
percent of the copper output; 15

|Percent of the lead output; 75

percent of the asbestos output, and
20 percent of the mercury output.”

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In addition, the production of
many other vital metals lacking at
the start of the war has been stim-
ulated. :

HELPED MONTGOMERY.

Canada has done an outstanding
job in supplying Allied forces with
fighting vehicles and motor trans-
port.

“Tt is generally agreed,” Howe
said, “that a major factor in the
victories of the British armies in
Africa was the quality and reliab-
ility of the motorized equipment
they had at their disposal in the
Egyptian, Libyan and Tunisian
campaigns. More than 36 percent
of . the motorized equipment.
throughout the entire Middle East
is of Canadian make. Fifty per-
cent of the loadcarrying vehicles
used by Montgomery’s victorious
8th Army were Canadian made

Military vehicles, “as distin-
guished from fighting units,” are
being turned out in more than
100 different types at a rate of
4,000 a week, Soon the 500,000th
such vehicle “will roll from the
assembly line of one of our auto-
motive plants.”

Three new industries have been
created to meet the demands of
the radio industry. “They are a
dynamotor industry, ceramic in-
sulation industry and a crystal in-
dustry.” And 1,700 Ram tanks have
been produced to date.

GAS AND RUBBER.

The petroleum situation, Howe
said, is still very serious, necessi-
tating “a further curtailment in
the supply available for civilian
use.” On the question of rubber, he;
said, “we must still concerve ex-
isting supplies,” adding:

“Construction of the government-
owned Polymer Corporation plant
at Sarnia, Ont, is progressing at
capacity, the plant will have an
output of 34,000 tons of buna-S
and 7,000 tons of butyl rubber per
year.”

The whole output planned for
Sarnia will be used for war pur-
poses,

Keep Your Bonds

Holders of Victory Bonds and
War Savings’ Certificates are caur
tioned to guard their investments
carefully in the June bulletin of
the Better
Vancouver,

“At no time in the history of
Canada -has so much wealth—real

Business Bureau of

wealth, not paper profits such as
existed in stock market boom days
of 1928—been in “the hands of
working men and women,” states
the bulletin,

“Never has.there been an incen-
tive to crooks and swindlers to

‘cook up’ attractive ‘investments’

which would promise big returns.
Never was there a time when the
general public needed protection

against those swindlers more than
now and after the war is over.

“There have been four Victory.
Loan drives since the war start?
ed, and a campaign to sell War
Savings Certificates has been go-
ing on throughout each year.

“For the whole of Canada, the
sales of Victory Bonds to salary
and wage earners were as fol-
lows:

Ast Victory Loan
2nd Victory Loan .
3rd Victory Loan
4th Victory Loan ,

$279,500,000
336,526,900
366,305,650
512,694,100

$1,495,026,650

“Of the total, British Columbia

purchased $146,910,759 or $184 per
man, woman and child, or approxi-

“In addition, salary and wage
earners of B.C. invested another
15 million dollars in war savings
certificates; or about $90 per fam-
ily. That makes a total of nearly
$1,000 per family. x
“Can you not imagine that, al-
ready, unscrupulous promoters and
outright crooks are scheming and
planning to relieve the public of
as much of this wealth as poss-
ible? Can you not recall the big
and little swindles that were
‘pulled’ not so many years ago?
British Columbia _ had plenty of
those wonderful ‘investments’ that
would make the investors ‘rich
overnight’ or ‘double their money.’
We are likely to have another crop
—some have sprouted already.
There will be new sub-divisions,
fabulously rich gold strikes, inven-
tions, partnerships, oil wells, and
a host of other swindles. We are
going to be asked to sell our bonds
and re-invest in various enterprises
that promise security and wealth
but are more likely to bring dis-
appointment and misery,”

In order to help firms protect
their employees, the Better Busi-
ness Bureau is making available
to employers, copies of a notice for
posting on’ plant and office bulle-
tin boards; The notice warns hold-
ers of Victory Bonds and Certifi-
cates to investigate carefully any
propositions that appeared to offer
opportunities for better earnings
than their present holdings,

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