At numerous industrial plants, in this part of England, where 
      hundreds of workmen are employed, only a neglible percent of 
      uch workpeople is not in one way or another adversely affected 
      i %n consequence of air raids. Loss of sleep is a factor even in 
      cases where the workmen remain at home and do not repair to shelters. 
      But, generally speaking, a more potent factor is worry induced 
      by the disintegration of family life. It requires little imagination 
      to comprehend what must be the state of mind of a workman who 
      begins his task in the morning knowing that his wife and children 
      are standing at some windswept bus stop both hungry and cold, 
      or what must be the state of mind of a workman who knows that 
      his wife and family must remain in a house which has been rendered 
      unfit for human habitation and which it is beyond his means to 
      repair.
 
      
 
 
The bombing of working-class residential districts in this 
      area has come to be accepted as an ingenious and effective move 
      on the part of Germany. Moreover, such bombing has come to be 
      viewed as even a greater menace than the damage actually done 
      to industrial plant. What happened at Coventry well illustrates 
      the devilish effectiveness of the bombing of districts inhabited 
      by working-class people. It seems to be pretty well established 
      that as many as 70,000 houses in the comparatively small city 
      of Coventry were affected by bombing and that of these 30,000 
      were made unfit for human habitation, and 7,000 demolished entirely.
 
      
 
 
The big raid on Coventry took place during the night of November 
      14-15, 1940. Since that time some weeks have elapsed and great 
      strides have been made in the direction of make-shift repairs 
      to damaged working-class residences. But there is not a sizeable 
      industrial enterprise in the whole of Coventry whose production 
      is not still being adversely affected by raiding has wrought 
      in the lives of Coventry working people. There hovers over that 
      city an apprehensiveness which has lingered since the raid took 
      place. This apprehensiveness is born of a realization that the 
      Germans can at will again do to Coventry what they did to it 
      during that one horrible night in November.
 
      
 
 
Intricate, costly, and heavy machine tools can be extricated 
      from the cellars of demolished manufacturing plants. Many of 
      them can be repaired and installed in new plant. But the workers 
      who man these machines, so long as they live as they do today, 
      can never attain the efficiency which, before the events in question 
      took place, they maintained as a mere matter of course.
 
      
 
 
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