English Translation

thS - 5 - 3./ Attitude in the Czech Follow-up: I have reported this in detail to the competent authorities of the party and state. The mood was probably somewhat depressed at the beginning when the first executions were announced, but there is complete calm in all sections. The representatives of the Czech workers already expressed their loyalty to me twice, which was also reported by me. A man of the company was at the 39-member workers' assignment at the Reichsprotector SS-Obergruppenführer General Heydrich. I let him give me a report, which I conclude in German translation. In addition, in general - in the presence of good will to be a truly social supervisor and manager of the company - it is not difficult to bring the Czech workers to positive cooperation. I was able to tell the workers that, after a few hours of approved pay improvement, the Czech directors had tried for months in vain to ensure that they were so satisfied that the Czech workers' representatives have come to me since then to express their wishes and leave their former Czech superiors completely out of the way. It should not be forgotten that the workers in the group, both the German and the Czech, were not communist-minded even in earlier times with very few exceptions. It was always relatively well paid and materially satisfied. A company as many long-term employees as this will rarely have to have such a large number of employees. The human dimension that creates here is a very good one. A considerable part of the workers' attitude - mostly those living abroad - has brought it to a home of their own through austerity and diligence. The Czech Intelligence is essentially different, which seems to make no sense outside, but which almost completely rejects us. 4./ "Combination-action" with employees. By the decline in production and business at all, by the necessary increase in working time also for the purchase