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                     2.
 
        Before the outbreak of war, about 20 percent of the
 
productive workers (industry and hand-labor) was employed
 
 directly in satisfying the needs of the defense forces;
 
at the end of 1940 there were employed about 66 percent,
 
including production units which have been working for
 
defense purposes. For defense needs up to April 1941
 
about 70 to 75 percent will be employed, consequently
 
the consumption goods production industry will be corre-
 
spondingly reduced to from 30 to 25 percent.
 
                                        3.
 
       The shifting of the workers into essential industries
 
was accomplished through the well known system of mobiliza-
 
tion of labor, that is, in the first place, through con-
 
centrating with great energy all available workers into
 
factories engaged in public utilities and essential defense production.
 
       Since the beginning of the war the total number of
 
persons engaged in compulsory labor service (in accordance
 
with the war-compulsory service law) amounted to 1,175,000.
 
In the meantime, for a large number of these persons
 
engaged in compulsory service, the period of duty has
 
elapsed. In February of this year a new recruitment of
 
persons obliged to do compulsory labor service will be
 
                                    called