Munition Workers in England and France

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Excerpt from Munition Workers in England and France: A Summary of Reports Issued by the British Ministry of Munitions Out of the exigencies of the great war there have developed in England exceptional industrial difficulties. After nearly a year of wasteful production that exhausted men and machinery, government officials realized that for the workers, instead of "sprinting as if for a short race, the course would be a long one", and that for the nation its labor power should be as zealously safeguarded as its military strength. The recklessness of helter-skelter haste was dramatically brought home to all England by the famous shell shortage in the spring of 1915, for which Kitchener was blamed. It was a case of the situation's running away with those who should have controlled it. The sudden call for large amounts of clothing, munitions, food, and other necessities of war time, had taken the manufacturers completely by surprise, and the rush to fill orders demoralized industrial conditions. Overtime became the rule, night work and Sunday work were common. Trade unions saw the gains of years swept away. Nearly a year was gone before the government assumed responsibility for organizing the huge business of making war supplies, and almost another year to complete an organization which was efficient. The crux of the situation was of course in the munitions industry. August, 1914 found the nation without enough guns, shells and other war equipment to carry on its great military operations and with no way to get them quickly or in large volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.