English Translation

55 al workers were exposed to hostility and attacks by the Czechs. On this occasion, the Czech woman Havel, resident in Pibrans II, Zeyergasse l56, was dismissed by the owner of the house Čihák and badly insulted, just as the spouse of the Czech Ladislav Bazik, who was employed at the BMw plants in Munich, Bress- nitzergasse fl, was terminated without being able to find a replacement apartment. Both women found no support in the municipality of Pibrans and were forced to stay in cold stores where they had to put their furniture, causing them to become seriously ill. With the start of the better weather, an increased demand for labour in the Protectorate began, which could therefore not be satisfied, since the lack of the registration obligation at the employment offices made it very difficult to register the persons involved. It was repeatedly found that there was a disapproval of land work in the working class. This aversion is often caused by the poor housing conditions and the poor treatment by the farmers. In the forestry sector, too, there was a delicate shortage of workers, because in many cases heuslér and small farmers were employed as forest workers, who had to cultivate their own land at the beginning of the spring order and quit forestry work. Various difficulties have been encountered by Czech authorities in the field of employment. Thus the Reichsprotektor made available with decree of 2nd February 1994l for the OLB Kladno 50Ö Slovak agricultural workers from the Kon- tingent des Jahres l94l and ordered at the same time that from this the demand of German enterprises and the German-run estates be fully satisfied. The Labour Force Unit of the Oberlandratsamt provided the Czech Labour Office in Kladno with a list of German and German-managed holdings in which the distribution of the Slovak agricultural workers was determined, but the head of the labour force, when reviewing the measures taken by the Czech Employment Office, noted that the instructions given had not been complied with and that there was no tendency either to make the distribution in Slovakia of the workers on the basis of the survey. The