To Each Other (1943)

[Music] [Applause] [Music] Divine Providence we mutually pledge to each other Our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor to each other [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Dear Dad your let came today and thanks for the news about home I can admit to you that there are times when I get good and homesick for you and Tom and even the steel mill and I guess I missed the Old Mill more than ever now that I know you're back they're on the job again ever walk up on the hill where you and I used to sit when I was a kid I'll always love that spot cuz that's where I first decided to be a Steelman like my dad remember remember all those times remember sure I remember son this spot up here in the hill means a lot to me too whenever I sit up here I miss you the most maybe it's because because I feel closer to you up here I came up here the day you first went off to war that day I was sad it came up here the day I heard of you winning that medal a day I was proud I came up here today because I just wanton a medal too and I'm proud of it it's not exactly a medal it's the Army Navy e button but it's the nation's way of saying Good Work Well Done It means that the men in our plant have been turning out the T Tage the steel tonnage in this battle of production and that son is the program of every last one of us back here in fact to help us Uncle Sam and our company together are spending over $700 million on a steel expansion program that's the biggest thing in our history because this is a war of Steel so we're enlarging old blast furnaces all over the country and putting up new ones at a great rate we picked up one from Illinois and moved it all the way to a valley in Utah that blast furnace will turn out tonnage for the West Coast a headache for Hirohito and right in the heart of the biggest steel plant in the world there are some immense new Open Hearth furnaces turning out the kind of tonnage the country needs and pretty soon more of it will be rolling out of the big new Open Hearth furnaces that are being rushed along in Pennsylvania wouldn't surprise me if they broke some records out west with a new open he furnaces being built there it's a war of Steel that means we need plenty of highgrade electric furnace steel so new electric furnaces are springing up almost before you can say Jack Robinson there's a new Rolling Mill in Alabama that's increased its capacity 50% turns out big plates 140 in wide they tell me it's a honey and I know of a strip Mill that was built for Rolling sheet metal but right now Uncle Sam needs plates so in 37 Days the boys converted the sheet Mill into a Rolling Mill for plates as thick as 1 in and 72 in wide boy you ought to see it he's breaking production records every month makes you proud to be a Steelman but besides new tools and buildings the steel expansion program calls for whole new plants so pretty soon what used to be Farmland in the shadow of the mountains in Utah will be turning out a crop of Steel it'll be a bumper crop better than 900,000 tons a year this will be the biggest steel mill west of the Mississippi and we've built another new Mill in California to take big 30ft billets and roll them three strands at a time roll them into long thin red hot steel rods miles of them that's no Aid in comfort for the enemy [Music] huh then of course there's steel pipe for oil pipelines that's a War weapon too they call that pipeline big inch it's made in a plant in Ohio the only Mill in America that can turn out such quantities of seamless pipe that big we got to make steel yes we got to shape it too form it into the weapons of war for instance Springs I guess you know by now how much the reliable operation of a machine gun depends on good spring steel made into links for the ammunition belts spring steel is formed into springs for Big Guns Too some of them are for anti-aircraft guns then there's a lot of tiny springs for all kinds of automatic weapons you figh men need millions of Springs and we're making them there's still another way of using steel for war all kinds of wire braided into cables some for military telephones and radios and we spinning steel pipes into big bombs it's the world's newest and most efficient way of making [Music] [Music] bombs remember when I used to tell you that steel was was a man's game but in this war women have joined the ranks of the steel makers you should see him at work in quite a few of the plants and Mills around the country there's a plant in Pennsylvania that used to be a sheet Mill but now its job is cutting and shaping the extra tough protective armor that's needed women in that plant are getting so they're really skillful in their jobs helping to turn out armor for American tanks we're making a flock of uh calling cards for you boys to deliver with our [Music] compliments you'll be glad to know we're building Invasion ships The Invasion ships are built in big prefabricated section I'd hate to be a when a fleet of our Invasion ships is coming in loaded with [Music] tanks we're building a lot of ships good stanch merchantmen and hard-hitting fighting ships and escort vessels to protect our convoys but it took still more expansion to put the ship building program in effect the old shipyards had to be enlarged and improved and the new Shipyard was built for the construction of Naval auxiliary vessels you heard of applying mass production ideas to ship building these days well the idea of prefabricating big sub assembly sections was pioneered by our company way back in 1918 with so many years of experience behind us no wonder we are building more ships and breaking more records and would you get a real thrill if you could see one of our quadruple launchings we've done it time and again since the war started the last time four ships in 14 minutes that's really rolling out the [Music] tonnage so you see son why I say I'm proud of being a Steelman why I'm proud of this Army Navy e means that we're in back of you 100% we're turning out the tonnage we're expanding we're making more steel and more products we're going to keep on cuz we're in the service of our nation too we're sure getting a kick out of being in this thing together with you and just like you we're working and fighting for the Day of Victory the day the day when when you'll be coming home home [Music]