A POPULAR DEMONSTRATION BY THE NELSON COLUMN IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE, 



LONDON, ON NELSON DAY 



fare ; or that we have trained and organ- 

 ized and are now employing on war work 

 some 3,500,000 people ; or that we have 

 discovered and utilized the immense, the 

 hitherto unused, industrial capacities of 

 women. 



It is not merely that the government is 

 branching out in a hundred helpful direc- 

 tions and backing up our merchants and 

 manufacturers with all the resources at 

 its command. It is not merely that our 

 biggest firms are everywhere getting to- 

 gether and organizing the trades to which 

 they belong as they have never been or- 

 ganized before. 



Xor is it merely that questions of in- 

 dustrial welfare and efficiency and the 

 whole economy of production are being 

 studied with incomparable zeal, and that 

 nothing since the introduction of the 

 steam-engine has so renovated, sent such 

 a stir through all branches of British in- 

 dustry, as this war. 



These are not the things that matter. 

 What matters is that Britain is work- 



ing ; has taken off her coat ; has ceased to 

 be a land of leisure, and has become a 

 land of infinite labor. And to what ef- 

 fect she is working may be judged by the 

 fact that in spite of the vast exodus from 

 industry to the army and navy, and in 

 spite of the concentration of the main la- 

 bor force upon munitions, her exports of 

 ordinary commercial commodities reached 

 last year a value only once exceeded in 

 the most prosperous times of peace. 



A MIRACLE OF ACHIEVEMENT 



Talk of German efficiency and German 

 organization ! I know of nothing in Ger- 

 many's conduct of the war that for sheer 

 genius and flexibility surpasses the indus- 

 trial transformation that the past thirty 

 months have produced in Great Britain. 



How we have worked up our output 

 of high explosive shells to a point where 

 it leaves the German factories far be- 

 hind — and less than two years ago Ger- 

 many was turning out a hundred times as 

 many of these shells as we were ; how we 



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