English Translation

16 15 For metal products there is a lack of special steel products, nails, screws, hooves, handles, forging and rod irons, rollers for agricultural machines, enamel dishes and kitchen machines. The lack of batteries for flashlights is general. In Jamar, the level of employment of the workers, masons and brickworkers, has deteriorated somewhat, as all the work had to be stopped on the roads, buildings, quarries and forests. The situation of the textile industry has deteriorated and a number of factories have been operating in limited quantities. According to the report of the district authority in Starkenbach, cotton stocks in spinning mills are available until March or April at the most. Flat yarn is still available enough, just as raw, previously unprocessed Stengrlflachs, so that the flax spinning millies are not directly threatened. However, since flax also has to be treated sparingly, flat spinning mills are also forced to restrict their production. Eduard Doctor, Nachor Maschinenweberei und Apretur in Nechod, has liquidated. At the end of March, the companies Jones Lewiths, successor Pick and Lewith, and Goldsmitht will liquidate in Nachod; in Gross- Porschitz, the 328 workers employed by Firna Piek, will be forced to stop production of the 39 working mechanical weaving mill Karl Reich, Bohemian Scales, due to raw material trades at the latest.