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much more crucial since the building and consumption
 
goods industries have lost 100,000 workers through
 
recruitment in the Army or through transfer to other
 
industrial branches.
 
     How serious the situation has become through dif-
 
ferentiation on account of the purposes of employment
 
of labor is clear from a report which has been received
 
from the industrial group of textile manufacturers.
 
     At the beginning of 1941 supplying the textile
 
industry with workers had reached the point where only 
 
the most essential, orders could be filled, postponing
 
those which came from the Army. Examples of this are
 
the deliveries of canvasses and tents for the resettle-
 
merit of Immigre-Germans. The urgent manufacture of
 
200,000 mattresses for the air raid shelters in Berlin; 
 
the priority in the manufacture of sacks for the transport
 
and storage of grain flour, dry beans, sugar and salt as 
 
precautionary measures against a dangerous crisis which 
 
was feared in the distribution of foodstuffs. The especial
 
urgency of this and other tasks and the impossibility of 
 
carrying them, through with the available workers has al-
 
ready brought it to pass that for certain branches of the 
 
textile industry, through the intervention of officials 
 
who have an immediate interest in the fulfillment of the
 
                              contracts,