Statement of Senator Harry S. Truman in Washington D.C.

Statement by Harry S. Truman, U.S.S., Missouri For publication in newspapers Washington, D. C. Monday, April 12, 1943 of Monday, April 12 APCHIVES "INATIONAL RECOROS ADMIN AND I am making this statement as one member of the United States Senate and a United States citizen, on behalf of a group of representative Americans who have joined with me in a foreword to "The Fight to Serve" - a report on the industrial work of Moral Re-Armament. The praise and prayers of our citizens go with the armed forces who are fighting our battles on land and sea and in the air. There is, however, another great Army of Americans - the Army of the Home Front - comprising agriculture, labor, industry and the home. It is this Army of the Home Front that must work and toil and sacrifice so that we may produce more food, more guns, tanks, planes and all the supplies of war for the boys "out there." "The Fight to Serve" records the achievements on the home front of a courag- eous group of intelligent men who have rendered great assistance to the all-out war program by creating a spirit of cooperation between management and labor, reducing absenteeism, heightening all-round efficiency, and increasing production, Their work of Moral Re-Armament, begun long before Pearl Harbor, is bringing patriotism down to brass tacks on the assembly line and in the office and, more than that, it is building sound family life behind the plants. It is bringing home to Americans the ideals of patriotism on which Democracy is founded. I cannot express on behalf of other members of the Senate Investigating, Committee conclusions which are the result of my own independent study. But I have noticed that the chief difficulty in our war industrial program is usually the human factor. Suspicions, rivalries, apathy, greed lie behind most of the bottlenecks, Any answer to these problems is of first importance to the war effort.