English Translation

b7V - 3 - rooms in the bachelor's home, but built for them shaky barracks on a muddy storage site. Some of the barrack were built entirely of wood, Mkë others with thin brick walls. Hundreds of unemployed people were placed in these scourges. Without work, without income and without support, the people were exposed to unwarranted hardship and deprivation, especially in the winter months. For years, many of you could hope for nothing other than the occasional Czech cards, which were just enough for 2 loaves of bread. While the wooden barracks cost no monthly interest, for the barracks with brick walls 5o crowns per month was charged, and if they could not be paid, then the amount was written at the expense and then deducted from the future wage. A few weeks ago, two well-known English ladies from the British welfare system looked at the barracks and also entered some of the huts. They were told about the Czech cards. A woman, the mother of 4 children, her husband unemployed, told them that she had received the following last winter: 20okg potato, 7kg sugar, 25kg flour and 3oOkg coal. The English visitor gränbtk assumed that this support had come from the government or the German Social Democracy, with which she sympathized, but she was very surprised to learn that all this valuable Niikz support came from the Sudeten German People's Aid. This explains much better than long stories the fact that in these miserable huts you can see images and posters everywhere. The German Social Democrats under the leadership of H.Jaksch complain that this is terror. They claim that the granting of support to their former supporters constitutes a planned attack on their acquis among these workers, and that such action is quite unfair. However, there seems to be some scintillating reason for such a accusation, firstly because of purely humanitarian considerations, and secondly because the same people who are complaining about it today were still pro- tected a few years ago because not enough socialists had been given a share of these support, and that the government should therefore ener- gically intervene against the Sudeten German People's Aid. That was still at a time when the funds for popular aid were not so abundantly flowing now, when the whole Sudeten Germandom contributed to facilitate its lot to its German people. The granting of support to the poor could never be regarded as a threat to public order; in the opposite, it is suitable to appease unrest and discontent. However, the political landslide from the social democratic and communist cliffs of Mat has actually increased since the ethnic community represented by Henlein invaded all areas of the people's life. It is precisely the victim on the one hand, and the help on the other that makes all the difference, ix and read- the workers who are poorest in the Kxnzälken feel that he is no longer a "proletarian". At the last Communal Elections at Fischern on the l2th June, 1938, the Social Democrats achieved only 938 compared to 1473 in the last Kkxaxkdawäkxanx parliamentary elections l935. Even Mr Jaksch will not dispute these figures, nor doubt the secret of election.As for the images and posters he considers to be a kind of terrorisation and intimidation, he should go through the streets in an English city at the time of election, where he would see Aehnlich. As much as Mr Jaksch may hurt the decline of his old party: he is a fact, and so he should also understand him, instead of trying to blame him on the imagined acts of terror of his opponents. He should take note of his defeat as a sportsman.