Excerpt from Joint Report of the Executive Council and Officers to the Fifty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Massachusetts State Federation of Labor: Springfield, Massachusetts, August 3, 1942 The 57th convention finds our country at war. We are engaged in one of the greatest struggles known to man and its outcome will decide whether people will live in a free world and enjoy the democratic way of life, or be enslaved and exist as slaves in accordance with the dictates of those who seek world domination. Despite the fact that strong opposition prevented our country from being prepared for this inevitable struggle, it is heartening to see Americans turn to and work hard at the job of making ships, guns, aircraft, munitions and other implements of war. Production has reached an amazingly high level, although production facilities and machinery not yet converted will produce even more. If the outcome of this war is to be decided by quality and quantity of production, then the United Nations are certain of victory, although such victory is not immediately on the horizon. 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.