English Translation

28 have been employed only partially for a long time as a result of the reduced paraffin and stearin allocation. Therefore, their capacity is not fully utilized. For the processing of the available raw material, part of this work is sufficient. Whereas it was necessary to exclude, from the outset, the micro-enterprises operating on a manual basis, since the closure of these enterprises would not save any labour or energy; whereas, in addition to these micro-sectors, there are still 7 enterprises in this sector, of which 3 are again soap-making departments; In order not to affect their economic viability and because the maintenance of their candle-making departments involves a relatively small amount of coal, auxiliary raw materials and labour, the closure of these candle-producing divisions has been avoided. The production of the remaining 4 plants has been moved to the candle plants mentioned above. All 4 plants closed down are to be regarded as Czech plants. Although the closure of the Gebrüder Lochmann company has released only 4 workers, the closure had to take place because the relocation of the raw material quota of this company increases the cost-effectiveness of the candle plants and can also be completely saved by the shutdown of the company's coal and energy, workers and auxiliary raw materials. It is not necessary to mention in particular that, in the election of the establishments to be set aside, a personal attitude could not be decisive, because the proposals drawn up by the economic groups were coordinated with the relevant staff of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour and were discussed in a consultation which I had led and which I submitted to the Minister of Economy and Labour. In order to put into practice the aspects of concentration, it was not possible, in spite of the best will, to avoid the closure of German enterprises. It could therefore not always take into account /.