English Translation

18 On 9.9.41, a stoppage of work was also carried out at Plant III and Plant IV (aircraft construction) of the armaments company Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabriken A.G., Prag-Karolinenthal. ll7 workers refused to work overtime after the normal working hours and left the plant. As a retaliation measure, 6 workers were arrested. In both cases of work stoppage, on the basis of the local proposal, the management of the works has been able to make up for the absenteeism of working hours by means of overtime work. For example, in the plant of the plug-gener- motorenwerke Walter 8O% of the workforce have heavy, heavy and long-time food cards. Of these 8o% are again in possession of heavy-duty food cards about 60%. When the strikes that have taken place so far have been broken, rather the Eindruek has arisen that the parole is used as a convenient and legal excuse for the food problems in the food situation by the workers. In reality, the strike activity is likely to trigger the one of the illegal KPc., event. In a true leaflet campaign, the illegal KPc. in recent weeks has called on the Czech workers to stop work and sabotage. This propaganda is accompanied by the demands of the same kind of enemy transmitters, which are intercepted by almost every Czech. The fact that political motives are the cause of the work stoppages is demonstrated in the night from ll. to l2. September 194l (after the strike in the aircraft engine works Walter ) in the vicinity of Walter-Werke. In several places there was at board fences and walls