English Translation

9bV THE PRACTICAL PROTECTOR Prague , July 1940 . in Bohemia and Moravia No.:_II的4_(1)_=_5068/40 For use only ! AS The development of the labour input in 1940 in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mähren. As expected in June, the economic and thus employment situation continued to grow and the number of jobseekers and unemployed experienced a corresponding decline. In the period from 31 May to 3Q June, the total number of jobseekers in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia fell from 15,787 to 14,380 , i.e. by 1,407 or about 11.9 %, which the unemployed - according to the Protectorates' Administration - from 9,584 to 8,170 , that is to say by 1,414 or 14.8 % . Ostrava, Pilsen, Budweis. Other districts such as Melnik, Kuttenberg, Strakonitz show only a hardly significant number of job seekers, among the unemployed. The reports on the work situation in the individual districts of the Protectorate correspond to the figures. It is consistently described as favourable. Agriculture has experienced a considerable relief for minced fruit, hay harvest and the other more urgent Sai- sine work through the mediation of Slovaks. The German farmers and landowners have been taken into account in the necessary way. For the other needs of agriculture, forces from emergency work and short-term industries were constantly used.Even forestry, which in the previous period in sheet 2