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contracts, certain workers have been ordered back from
 
the front or through forced induction into service, so
 
that the contracts could be taken care of.
 
     Similar reports are available from all sectors
 
engaged in the manufacture of consumption goods. For
 
example, an important firm in the clothing industry
 
feels that the detemined quantity of clothing available
 
in accordance with clothing cards can be made available
 
in view of the present availability of the workers only
 
with the greatest difficulty; and if in the future the
 
situation becomes more critical with respect to the
 
supply of labor, the goods cannot be manufactured.
 
If the difficulty of the present situation has not
 
become apparent in a general way, that is due to the
 
fact that stocks of goods in the mills and retail shops
 
are being drawn upon.
 
     It must also be mentioned, in connection with the
 
employment of workers in the consumption goods industries,
 
that these factories have to a very large extent been com-
 
pelled to employ workers of limited capacity (war veterans,
 
old retired persons, etc.) in order to make up for the
 
loss of workers to other industries.
 
     An increase in 1941 of the production for the defense
 
forces of another 10 percent will mean the additional
 
                              employment