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                              Berlin, January 5, 1941.
 
Supplement to -
 
Estimate of the Situation in the Armament Industry.
     The Problem of Insufficient Labor in 1941.
 
                                  I
 
                 General Considerations
 
                                 1.
 
        In the Reich (including Austria and the Sudeten
 
areas) the number of laborers and employees engaged were
 
as follows:
 
      On September 1, 1939.........................24,461,000
 
      On January 1, 1951............................ 22,652,000.
 
 
        The decrease-in the number of men employed amounted 
 
to 2,100,000; the increase in the number of women employed, 
 
approximately 2,091,000.
 
       Of the total number of laborers and employees engaged 
 
on January 1, 1941 there were 2,900,000 employed in agri-
 
culture and forestry; in the productive branches (industry,
 
handwork, commerce and transportation) and in special 
 
administration, altogether 19,252,000.
 
       Since the beginning of the war there has been no 
 
unemployment and no short time workers in Germany.
 
 
               
                                   2.  Before