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    The extent of this immediate program, according to
 
plans, is extraordinarily far-reaching. All the indis-
 
pensible factors, productive and technical, for the carry-
 
ing out of this program must be made available with the
 
shortest delay, and at the same time making available all
 
obtainable material for building and manufacturing, as
 
well as a sufficient number of workmen. In order to
 
carry out this program the Reich Ministry of Labor with
 
its labor employment offices must make available from
 
250,000 to 300,000 trained, special skilled workers.
 
A part of these special workers will be obtained by
 
recruiting skilled mechanics from certain productively
 
and technically related branches of industry. The short-
 
age of labor which will ensue in the productively and
 
technically related branches of industry on this account
 
will be made up by recruiting other workers from industries
 
engaged in consumption goods. A further part of the needed
 
skilled workers will be obtained by laying idle certain
 
industries related to trades employing skilled workers
 
similar to those required in the munitions industries.
 
The program of rendering certain plants idle might well
 
affect particularly such enterprises as the Pforzheimer
 
factories (gold, silver, Jewelry and watch workers); also,
 
enterprises engaged in the manufacture of typewriters,
 
                              calculating