STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2343, sig. 109-11/145

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34 - 7 - he explained, among other things, that it was the same vertigo as before and it was therefore not surprising if you stood up to the workers with great distrust.He also told him the pretences already mentioned above and explained, although Chalupa in a previous discussion had refuted the rumors spread by the whispering propaganda that he was not able to participate in the "social assistance" under such conditions, and that he also intended to draw out a round call to the members of the Association of Journalists. To entrust representatives of the press and public opinion with a review of the commercialisation of "social assistance". In the Novina publishing house, he gave the order not to deduct anything from his monthly salary, although this K lo O00 amounts to, for "social assistance" was already made enough deductions for him.Employees of the Novica publishing company, among whom the statements spread rapidly, wondered about this attitude of a so-called Czech activist and explained that Krychtalek's behaviour also wanted to guide him. The general aversion shown by the Czech worker against the obligation of service to the Reich is often due not only to the influence of the hostile propaganda or to the generally passive attitude of the Czech against all Germans, but also to the fact that they are caused by the often wrong labour input of the merit-bound Czech workers.Since in most cases it is not clear whether excessive requirements, i.e. a hoarding of workers by the enterprises ZW.St or misdispositions of the employment offices, the responsibility is not always impeccable. From the examples given below, one can see - 8 -