STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134

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69 54 In the transport sector, there were further fuel saving measures. The results were good and were relatively calmly received by the parties involved. Further savings measures are underway and are likely to lead to a strengthening of German influence in the transport and transport sectors. The deanglement of passenger cars and the conversion to wood gas, for example methane, are also continuing. The changeover is encountering difficulties insofar as there is a lack of material and the existing workshops are not sufficient. In the working class, the political processes in the Balkans have had a lasting impact. In the factories there was a tense mood among the workers. In the German-run SKW plants in Jareschau a.N., the work performance of the Czech workforce in the days of the Yugoslavian conflict declined by a considerable amount. It could be observed that the Czech workers formed groups and discussed the political events eagerly. In the Wsetin weapons factories, the Czech worker seized a nervousness that led to an overexcited atmosphere. In a Czech company in Leipnik, people's German workers were treated unkindly by the Czechs and harassed with hidden threats. The recruitment of workers into the old kingdom was, as before, often based on resistance. A significant example of this is the following case. At the end of March 1994 a commission in Gumpolds was set up to recruit workers for the Old Reich. The posters in this regard were posted in Seelau Bez. GumpOLDs only on the day of the recruitment and after their termination in the evening at 6 o'clock in the city office. The workers, who can be taught to work in the Old Kingdom, were therefore not informed until too late of the activities of the advertising commission. The local police officer and the mayoral representative, a retired teacher, made fun of the successful maneuver. Again and again it was noted that the families of the Czechs employed in the old Kingdom