Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1103, sig. 110-11/41

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3 M 3) Sickness increases, especially among workers living outside the place of employment. Numerous cases of slight self-mutilation, which often cannot be proved. 4) Worsening of work morale in general. The step from breach of contract to criminal activity, even more to anti-state activity (resistance movements - partisans) is small. /AI Mining and heavy industry in the Ostrava region propose the following measures to raise pre-marked misdemeanours in relation to work ethic: l/ Reinforcement and legalization of the criminal law of the company manager with the right to impose fines of 2 to 3 shifts. 2/ Stricter punishment in the context of the criminal procedure by the employment offices and, above all, faster prosecution procedures. 3/ Reproduction of the executive bodies in the Ostrava district, teaching them about the strictest measures in the case of prosecution. Also in the rest of the Protectorate, more executive bodies for the repatriation of contract breakers. 4/ continuation of the extensive investigations already carried out. 5/ supervision and uniform management of the use of pre-existing safety organs in the fight against guerrillas in the bescrew landscape. There is no doubt that there is a lack of uniform control and control to bring together the multiplicity of the individual security bodies and to be able to carry out effective large-scale actions. We refer here to the known disarmaments of gendarmerie posts by guerrillas, robbery and theft in food and clothing shops, related procurement of shoes and clothing by raids in workshops, guest houses, at the same time must be pointed to the proximity of partisan nests in the area of Wall.-Meseritsch and Frank-stadt with emphasis. ad 3/ An innumerable number of reports returned in recent times from the gendarmerie postsLautet: seeker hides himself in the village or in the woods, has several places of residence, the work is said to have started again (where, of course, the named did not appear at his workplace).