The Labor Front

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The purpose of this series in providing an international background to world problems is well achieved in its dramatic study of war manpower. Films from Germany and the conquered European nations vie for interest with scenes of Russia, China, Britain and the United States. The point that this is still a war of men in spite of the greater use of machines is illustrated by exciting sequences from the battle fronts. Labor at home is pictured briefly in the period of great unemployment and in the present full use of skills and resources. A sequence from conquered France shows the gathering of slave labor for Nazi machines. Stuart Legg, who edits this series for the National Film Board of Canada, foresees in his commentary a "people's century" after the war to which men will demand the right to make their fullest contribution.