WARTIME FACTORY

foreign [Music] [Music] Factory does more than provide some of the weapons of war it has become the nation's most vital source of military power small group of components may be altered it produces but if output should fall our national strength would be threatened [Music] at this critical stage in the war an aircraft Factory is priceless this time each lathe each drill costs thousands of tons in time of War they may be Irreplaceable except after vital weeks of lust production yet the most precious contents of this Factory are not made of metal it is upon the men and women who stand behind the controls that Victory or defeat ultimately depend these men and men work long speed up ours they take over from the night shift at half past eight in the morning and work on until half past eight in the evening at least 60 hours a week at the machines besides long hours the war has brought other threats to factory welfare black art must be perfect but the day shift can't afford to lose the benefit of daylight and ventilation electrically controlled shutters are one of the welfare measures which can help the workers understand the strain of speed up month after month [Music] Factory medical centers industry today new resources of adult labor must be found the women entering industry must be pulled fit for the job they must be trained patiently their pace of work was not be forced however great the need too fast to Pace means string and strain means inefficiency and frayed nerves the needs of War are not served by neglecting safety devices the hands of the worker have never been more valuable than they are today [Music] the lives of the workers have never been more precious overshadowing the danger of industrial accidents are the new dangers of Total War upon the air raid defense system may depend the lives of thousands smooth working must be perfected by regular rehearsal the workers are ready to defend themselves with their own guns they are ready for gas [Music] yeah but if a casualties they are ready for their Factory to become a battlefield where the central control officer would maneuver his defending forces like a general [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] places of the benches but soon the Gunner will be back at his captain there the structure Bearer at his inspection bench and the control officer will be Works engineer once more the best Factory discipline is the self-discipline of the worker he knows better than the clock and better than the foreman just run a quick break for refreshment is not time wasted in this Factory there are always hot milk drinks available for dentures trolleys circulate through the workshops all day the men may buy cigarettes and smokes and when they please it's their speed up and they know that output is not increased by a prison like discipline in Wartime the canteen manager is a key man he knows that the industrial Army marches on its stomach the food which passes across the canteen counter is as important to the output of the factory as the steel and aluminum which goes through the workshop the war has finally proved the advantages of communal feeding the workers here can buy a complete meal of two hot dishes for eight months here are the men and women who work for legs the grills the Milling machines and the furnaces here are the assemblers of testers the inspectors of the storm here are the clerks the typists the accountants and the bookkeepers the human machine is being recharged and for an hour the factory is silent tr's work a week leave little time or energy for exercise but lunch hour football is a British factorial tradition and it would take more than a war to stop it the older men prefer quieter pleasures after long hours standing at the machines they get tired the midday break means rest and relaxation as well as a meal the energy of the factory is being regenerated ready for the longest the spread of the day's work which is still to come men working 60 hours a week may get jumpy perhaps their work begins to take too much out of them perhaps it gets monotonous and boring expert in industrial fatigue have found a way in which the BBC can cooperate to ease trained nerves and relieve monotony [Music] [Music] at half past five in the evening there's half an hour's break recreation hall is busy now and it'll remain so for the rest of the evening some of the workers are waiting for the night shift [Music] others may have the day off and a chance to see something of the truth they're working on a rotor system which gives them one free day and six today's Shift Works on into the evening aside in the dusk our workers were prepared to use what little Leisure they have to organize their own defense the factory has its own anti-aircraft gun to repair attack by air it has its own armored cars to play their part in repelling attack by land at half past eight in the evening the shifts change [Music] the men of the day shift report progress on the job they explain the set of the machines the night shift settles down when they leave the machines it'll be daylight again and beside them will be a small mountain of the parts they are making week after week each part precisely identical with the next for the third time during the 24 hours the workshops are silent half an hour after midnight the night shift relaxes the Night concert provided by the workers themselves symbolizes the new spirit which is growing in the factory in face of the common danger and under the common strain of a great industrial effort the workers of this Factory have been welded into a community providing its own organization its own Recreation its own protection [Music]