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Show INDUSTRIES TO SACRIFICE WORKERS. Non-essential Industries must sacrifice sac-rifice millions of workers under a labor recruiting plan being worked out by the labor policies board to speed war production. War industries, Including agriculture, agricul-ture, will- need approximately 1,-500,000 1,-500,000 workers in the next six or eight months, "tentative figures show. No labor, skilled or unskilled. Is to be had In the open market. Means of withdrawing these workers work-ers from non-essential industries with as little disturbance as possible to the country's economic life, has been put up to a committee which will report to the board Friday. A sub-committee Is to meet Thursday Thurs-day to consider a zone plan by which labor quotas would be apportioned among the non-essential Industrie? of all states. Under the plan outlined so far by the policies board, the government govern-ment will establish a corner on the country's labor market through a centralized recruiting and distributing distrib-uting agency. Private and nubile employers engaged en-gaged In war production will apnlv to this agencv whenever men nr needed. AprlorIty committee p the hoard may be crpatPd to tips' on snch demands and decldp which shall hp supplied first. |