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organizations, which, on account of the character of
 
deliveries made (essential war industries), are able
 
to claim preference in their demand for labor. Among
 
these, 5 to 600,000 are considered as urgent demands.
 
       The most urgent demand for labor, and also the most 
 
difficult to satisfy, is that for metal workers of all
 
kinds. These demands for additional workers are made
 
primarily by armament industries, chemical industries,
 
locomotive, automotive, agricultural machinery, tool
 
machine industries, manufacturers of mining machinery,
 
water power, electrical machinery, and industries engaged
 
in export (that is, f or the most urgent Russian orders).
 
       From factories engaged in manufacturing  munitions
 
at the beginning of 1941 there was an extraordinarily
 
urgent demand for approximately 150,000 workers, which,
 
it was estimated, would increase to 250,000 on the 31st
 
of March and to 450,000 on the 30th of June.
 
            Of a number of other urgent demands for workers a
 
few may be mentioned as, for instance, the need of the
 
mines for workers (from 60 to 70,000 men) for the purpose
 
of inc reasing the mining of coal from 25 to 30,000,000
 
tons.
 
       For the building of important defense projects new
 
workers and builders required will total about 175 to
 
                              200,000;