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WELLAND FACTORY EMPLOYEES TO GIVE MACHINE GUNS
[People’s Press, 3 August 1915]
At a meeting in the Town Hall, Welland, on Saturday night, the Welland Machine Gun Association was formed by representatives of all the local factories. The purpose of the association is to circulate a subscription list among the employees of the factories to purchase machine guns, and, if possible, it is intended to have these guns used by the recruits from the 44th regiment. J.D. Payne was elected chairman of the association and Geo. Day, Secretary-Treasurer. The executive consists of one representative from each factory.
At a meeting Saturday night in Toronto the Acting Minister further announced that over one million dollars had been received by the Government in voluntary gifts from Canadians for machine guns.
In Hamilton an association has been formed and though it has not yet started out on a canvas which is to be made of the city, a matter of $128,000 has already been promised toward the fund.
Reports from the front tell of the wonderful efficiency of these guns, not only checking the enemy, but in permitting the troops to remain under shelter while a few of these guns do the work of many rifles.
A machine gun costs in the neighborhood of $1,000.
Dr. E.W. Wright, Brooklyn, N.Y., has sent $50 to Kingston to help buy a machine gun for the 59th Regiment. He closes his letter: “Good workmen must have good tools, and surely the Canadians are the best ever.”
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