73. Mr. TERRELLasked the Minister of Reconstruction what steps he is taking, if any, to create a reserve of work for our factories, so that men now engaged on war work may after the War, with the least possible delay, be turned over to peace work?
§ Dr. ADDISONI am giving the most careful consideration to this subject, and I am in constant communication with the Departments concerned, and with the Committees and Conferences which are advising me on questions connected with the supply of materials and other matters which have a bearing upon this problem.
Mr. TERRELLAre we to understand that up to the present nothing has been done in regard to the reserve work to be arranged in the event of the termination of hostilities?
§ Dr. ADDISONIt is not possible to answer a question of that kind, which involves a number of very grave considerations of a very complicated order with which the Department has to deal. The question is not one that could be answered in simple terms.