English Translation

2/3 - 6 As the need for yarns for harvest bindings cannot be fully covered by fibrous materials, individual plants in hemp spinning and bonded fibre spinning have undertaken experiments in the production of paper yarn for harvesting bindings. The jute industry is still employed, but domestic sales leave much to be desired. In the linen weaving mills, various production difficulties arose as a result of the decline in the production of linen yarn. In the field of exports, there was a strong restriction on exports to the occupied territories. The occupied territories have independent raw material management, with no additional increase in their textile potential by more than 10% by importing v•n finished goods from the rich. The total cell wool quota for export for the months of March-April is very low. The quota system has therefore led to tough disputes, in particular because the low raw materials are to be exported mainly to highly refined products, so that ex porteurs in raw materials and non-printed coloured fabrics have not been partially taken into account. In the clothing industry, there is a great deal of complaint that the supply side of the textile companies is increasingly stalled by public contracts, lower processing costs, etc. The outerwear industry is currently well employed, since the mechanical plants are almost half of their capacity occupied by Wehrmacht contracts and the homeworkers companies take in large bulk wage labor from the rest of the Reich. Wage labour has an unfavourable effect on wage policy, because for this wage labour considerably higher wages are paid. This was the case under the existing wage agreements and the system of collective agreements for home work, with its rates, is well below the wages now effectively paid.