'We are going to win,' Churchill tells war workers

The most useful national service of Winston Churchill’s visit to Glasgow on Tuesday was probably rendered when he received some 50 representatives of the Clydeside engineering and Shipbuilding Trades Federation to discuss in intimate conversation grievances disturbing the full effectiveness of output in war industries. The Minister of Munitions listened with keenly sympathetic intelligence to the statements of men and women officials of the trade unions who possess close personal knowledge of the causes of the trouble and explained them with lucid reasonableness. Mr Churchill asked questions and made answers which appear to have convinced his hearers not only of his intense interest in the problems submitted, but also of his practical grasp and clear understanding. Sir Thomas Munro, the experienced and tactful Labour adviser of the Ministry, undertook to spend the day in dealing with some of the matters discussed, and others are to be dealt with as soon as the Minister returns to London. If Mr Churchill’s tour had produced no other result, this useful conference alone would have justified it. Clambering on to the top of his motor car to reply to the friendly welcome of 15,000 girls and women, he said: ‘If you promise not to tell anyone, I’ll tell you a secret. We are going to win. We are going to win right out. ‘We are not going to be robbed of victory at the last moment.’