STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1998, sig. 109-7/5

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40a is exempt from the duties of superiors, at their own discretion, to place employees who have reached the age of 45, even against their widows in retirement, is interpreted as a measure against the legionaries, through which in a particularly hateful way the socially weakest are to be taken, which is an external retirement genal o V. . This is not the case in the United Kingdom. "most of the former legionaries, according to many long-term interventions, were transferred to public services in 1935 and therefore count, together with the previously applicable legislative advantages, only few years of service eligible for the fixing of retirement salaries. This fact of increasing unrest is exploited by revolutionary Czech elements, in order to attract the employees' legionaries for their needs even before the possible discharges. The secretaries of the union central of the public employees in Prague participate in this work, although they are not legionaires themselves. The editorial "The Legionnaire's Clique Is Unbearable" published in the "The New Day" was distributed today, in disfigured forums, through its mediation of 57122 in all the state offices in Prague and also in the community. The initial stumbling block soon turned into indignation and wil- ness, not only against the Germans, but also against the Czech government. During the past week and the current week, smaller and larger meetings of public bodies were held in various inns, in which the secre- taries of the trade union headquarters mentioned above were without exception intervening. -2