English Translation

Sheet_4_to_AA_communication_QG-4/37_from_22._April_1937. If, however, there is no other way out of a dispute or if the strike is intended to brand an unsocial entrepreneur as such and force him to behave differently towards the workforce in the absence of his own insight, then the right not to enter Štreik can be withheld because of the given conditions of the workforce, as long as we do not have suitable facilities (e.g. In the Rciche dic Fünktion des "Treu- händers der Arbeit" (Trea- ture of Work) and the application of the last means of fighting are no longer necessary, so long as it would be senseless to prohibit the sudetendeutschen Arbeitnchmerschaft the strike only because it is also a Marxist means of combat, If the party's designated office (central office of the workers' and employees' union in Prague in cooperation with the other central offices) has recognized the justification of the strike, then it is precisely to a duty of the community to support the striking workers' comrades in every respect in this most energetic way and to help them to ensure the success of their struggle. With regard to its opinion on the individual strikes, the party reserves the right, of course, to decide whether or not the strike is justified. The Marxist position cannot be of any importance to them, since the party of the popular community will not be pushed by the Marxists under any conditions in the front of the class struggle. For this reason, too, the interest of the labour force is to ensure that allo other possibilities are exhausted for the time being to reach the goal before the strike is used as a means of struggle. However, it is with all determination that a politicization of the strikes and of all other wage cages must be halted. Dio SudetenGerman Party will not only avoid politicizing wage struggles, for example, but will also make a decisive front against any such attempt by other parties (i.e., primarily Marxists). It will not tolerate the communists, social democrats or Christian Socialists trying to make political capital out of the conflicts between employers and workers in a demagogic way. However, all the wage struggles which are recognized as justified by the party's appointed office (central unit of the labour force and employees) will find their fullest support and thus the mooring by all strata and states of the Sudeten Germanism, as already stated in the strikes in Östbohmen and in West Silesia. The Sudetendeutsche Par- tei will also be on the side of the right in such cases with the use of its authority. However, under no circumstances should the trade organizations of the workers' trades be allowed to degenerate into propaganda, as was the case, for example, in the previous year's stone workers' strike in West Rhine- Westphalia. It would not be a good mistake if the impression were given that the person who is not unionized, i.e. who does not receive strike support from a trade union, is given greater support by the party than the unionized workers. In the light of these considerations, it is essential that the trade union organization of the workforce be made indispensable. The beginnings of wage struggles once again demonstrate the urgent need for workers to belong to a trade union organisation and to a national trade union, so as not to suffer as a result of membership of a Marxist organization.