English Translation

200a - 10 - district of Königgrätz, which still has about 23,000 short-time workers (mostly local women) after a certain decline in the reporting period. But also Brno and Jitschin with a total of 9,400 each. 9,300 short-working textile workers and Pardubitz with about 5,300 - for this there are about 500 in Brno and 80 redundancies in Pardubitz - show that the working situation is still quite unsatisfactory. After all, it is not least due to changes in the production of some improvement tendency to be noticed. Thus, an occupation of Moravian Ostrau and Klattau (Strakonitz) can be observed. However, especially in Prague, where 75% of the enterprises were covered by W-contracts, some enterprises in the district of Deutsch Brod also received military reliefs as well as orders from the Protoktoratsverwaltung. To the extent that in some cases there is initially no prospect of an improvement in the employment situation, the short-time working forces are subtracted, if possible retrained, unskilled workers who are qualified for agricultural work, as in Königgrätz, in greater numbers of agriculture, occupational group 10 Paper production and processing: stagnation in paper production is mainly due to a lack of raw material supply. In some districts, such as Tahc., Königgrätz, Zlin and Jitschin, the situation is described as good, in Pilsen, a main location of the paper industry of the Pro- tectorate, as very good. Likewise, the Prague paper industry is also abundant with orders. It seems remarkable that packing paper is required as a replacement for jute. Production of cement bags is carried out partly in double layers. A paper factory in the district of Trebitsch (Iglau) has started work with more than 50 forces. 43209