making aeroplanes, tanks and other munitions; some of the industries have been subjected to a drastic concentration of production, and in none of them is there a margin for increased demands. If those demands are made there will be a shortage, the hardship will inevitably fall on the poorer classes and the rationing scheme will have failed. (8). I submit that the choice lies between placing the clothes rationing scheme in jeopardy and finding other means of increasing the staffs in munitions factories.