The Independent . ry andevery man, woman and child is sinew of industry, of transpor-tation and of finance must be har-nessed in the countrys service. In Eng-land two years and a half ago therewere three government arsenals. To-day thousands of Englands industrialplants are being operated as Govern-ment factories, for the production materials, and many other thou-sands of plants, still under private con-trol, are centering their energies in thissame direction. The teaching of themunition making art to these thou-sands of manufacturers and to millionsof industrial workers,
The Independent . ry andevery man, woman and child is sinew of industry, of transpor-tation and of finance must be har-nessed in the countrys service. In Eng-land two years and a half ago therewere three government arsenals. To-day thousands of Englands industrialplants are being operated as Govern-ment factories, for the production materials, and many other thou-sands of plants, still under private con-trol, are centering their energies in thissame direction. The teaching of themunition making art to these thou-sands of manufacturers and to millionsof industrial workers, both men andwomen, has called for a work in indus-trial organization and education suchas the world has never seen before. We have here in the United Statesvast resources in manufacturing andproducing equipment, but they are un-organized and uneducated for the na-tional service. Our observations of theEuropean war have taught us that it isupon organized industry that we mustbase every plan of military defense. In. Paul Thompson MR. COFFIN the event of trouble with any one ofthe several first-class1 powers, betweeneighty and ninety per cent of our in-dustrial activity would, of necessity,be centered upon the making of sup-plies for the Government We havelearned also that from one to twoyears of time and of conscientious ef-fort are needed to permit any largemanufacturing establishment to changeover from its usual peace time com-mercial line to the quantity productionof war materials, for which it has hadno previous training. We have had no experience in thekind of warfare now being wagedabroad, and yet this is exactly the sortof thing for which we must prepare,or immediately enter upon if warshould now be declared, or it is worsethan useless that we prepare at all. Wehave the investments in plants, in toolsand in machinery, and more importantstill are our resources in skilled work-ers. But it is only thru the most care-ful methods of organization and edu-cation in time of peace
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