(775 ILCS 20/2) (from Ch. 29, par. 24b)
    Sec. 2. Every person, firm, association or corporation and the subcontractor, agent, or employee of the same to whom has been awarded a contract and to whom shall be awarded a contract by the United States government or any agency thereof and every person, firm, association or corporation which has been authorized or directed or is engaged in the training of persons for skilled or semi-skilled positions of labor for the United States government or any agency thereof and every subcontractor of any such person, firm, association, or corporation is designated in this act a war defense contractor.
(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 1, p. 557.)