GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 443, sig. 110-4291

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15a - 2 - a discrepancy between the insurance of industrial and industrial workers on the one hand, and that of agriculture and forestry on the other hand should finally be eliminated. It is known to me from the preliminary consultations on the amendment to the Accident Insurance Act of 2l.l2.l943, Coll.1/lg44, that the agriculture, represented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the relevant sections /Central Association of Agriculture, Forestry and, in principle, have welcomed this extension of the insurance of agriculture and forestry, but that at all stages of the legislative process of the amendment they repeatedly raised the objection that the present time is not suitable for the entry into force of this reform, since the price policy in agriculture currently makes an additional burden unsustainable. This objection was taken into account by the amendment, in that your understanding in the amendment determined that the date of entry into force of full insurance in agriculture and forestry should be moved to a later date to be determined by the regulation. As the accident insurance institutions in Prague and Brno, the sponsor of the Reich accident insurance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, have felt this beauty error of the novella difficult, but could assume that in the course of further negotiations with the competent authorities the paths are paved, in order to also allow the insurance of the agriculture and forestry in the sense of the amendment from l.l.1944 in effect. The enforcement of this claim is particularly urgent for the institution/accident insurance institution for Moravia in Brno, which I run, because the flat-rate agreement under which the state administration paid the insurance contributions for the small-scale holdings for Moravia was terminated with 3l,12.1943, so that, if the extension of the property does not enter into force in due time, the Insurer- the institution would be obliged to behave the individual peasant owners themselves to pay the insurance contributions, a research which would not only be connected with manipulative multi-works, which cannot be justified in the present time of the total set of war wines, but also in the circles of the small peasant landowners without doubt justified arousal 56116 BAL