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‘,:;'] p 0 M I N i O N Victo 2y ;QUNDRIES * CGRIMEBY INDEPENDENT sTEEL LIMITED ® FaAMILTONX, CANADA nrewn viuuge in liui}y, Juii i uo \uiuuinill IRGIHL AAASS e * * mmmmmmwwmn much nearer. She thought of him as the little he once was, as she wrote the address: Captain Martin Upper. She knew, with a mother‘s heart, the importance of these letters tohim...howhoom!:lohdlumbonhom, . She understood how the u of war could cause revuluections of home to seem very dim. She knew, too, that the winning of the peace was a desperate task. Martin‘s mother wrote about the plant, : ‘here Martin had been employed before the war, and of the men with whorm }flmhuwm.mb..p..a-gmsu to a little rubbleâ€" strewn village in Italy, part of c"‘::"""m line . . . he had worked. Martin was proud of the plant . . . fond of his shopmates. 1t was for the security of his job, and the men in ihe plant. thct he was enduring the hardships of the "Martin, come of your friends were in to see me," she wrote. *They told me that the Sixth Victory Loan ¢ «s going good in the plant. They say they are going to exceed their quoto: as usucl." Morlin nad writien how prow ‘ he was of Martin‘s mother could picsture !im, comewhere beneath fine thadows of towrering mountains, vpâ€"n the cther side of which waited the enemy. ‘But Martin and his men would be unafraid. The towering praks were not so foreboding. He had told her that her let.ers gave him renewed faith and the plant‘s Victory Loan records. She remembe, :d he had said: "The good old plant . . . all of the boys . . . "ony, Jack and Eddie. I knew they would never iwil us over kere." He was sure they would reach thsir orjective, and more. He know that was the way Dolaszo foik did things. Thursday, May 4th, 4944. ndut (%