English Translation

54 - 10 - the possibility of a reduction in staff, has now been sent by the Staff Bureau a circular to all the boards of directors with the order to immediately indicate the number of officials and employees who would become redundant as soon as the eight-hour working time was introduced. We certainly do not want to content ourselves with the result of this round question, but only use it as a reference material for the specially performed control. Since the previous head of the municipal cultural office, Dr. Raišl, has been appointed as Chief Magistrate Dr. Zimmermann, the provisional head of German magistrate has been commissioned. An encouraging turn for the better results from an agreement between the Jewish emigration office and the party for the provision of Jewish dwellings to German applicants. For this purpose, the city has transferred its official Dr. Wuch to the municipal housing office, where he deals with all these questions in agreement with the party. Equally pleasing is the suggestion of the local Oberlandrat Office that the entire administration, which was now supervised by the Upper Land Council for the Old Reich Germans, should be transferred to the administration of the city, thereby taking into account the principle of the necessary unity of the administration. Finally, it should be noted that the city occasionally contributed to the swearing-in of a weapons Ss battalion on the Old Town Square to the cost of the grandstand building K 6000.-- lh. Prague, on 3l October l940.