English Translation

17 - 2 - The German Labour Front is not in a position to recognise or accept the expectations acquired in the mostly Utraquist trade unions for itself; for, on the basis of the current regulation, an asset dispute cannot take place with these trade unions. The members of these Utraquist unions living in the Sudeten German territories would lose their rights acquired by twenty years. From a purely political point of view, it is intolerable that the people's Germans remain in the protectorate in the Utraquist trade unions.These utraquistic, according to their members predominantly Czech trade unions are currently grouped together in a Czech unity association. If an asset dispute over the German share cannot take place, German people's assets will be lost at the same time. The German Labour Front cannot assume the duties of the previous trade unions / e.g., support in the event of unemployment, incapacity for work, old-age allowances, death grants / if not the German part of the assets from the former institutions at the same time passes to them. In this case, a balance of wealth with the Utraquist trades would be required on the basis of the ties before the solution of the Sudeten German territories from former Czechoslovakia /l.7.1939/. the German Cultural Association and its local groups, the local groups of the Federation of Germans, the associations affiliated to the Sudeten German Sängerbund and the associations of the German Turnverband. In addition to these, however, there are numerous associations whose members are mostly in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and which are not affiliated to an umbrella organization at all. Thus, in addition to the numerous associations closed to the German singers' association, there is also so-called wild singing associations. While some of them are undergoing a substantial reorganization through the stillness of their structure and are affiliated with the German Singers' Association Berlin while respecting their legal personality, the others remain in their present-day, often libe- ./.