STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 387, sig. 109-4/132

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Worst it is ordered with the lack of fat supply. We therefore ask you, Excellency, to turn your attention above all to fat supply . Any improvement in this regard will be gratefully welcomed. This not only strengthens our ability to work, but also facilitates the fight against those who want to abuse or abuse this state of affairs in the context of the interests of the Kingdom and the interests in the Czech people. In many places, wishes have been expressed that a new regulation of the concept of heavy, night and long workers should be made, if necessary, a revision of the previous map allocation, which would evaluate fairly strenuous and difficult work. In the framework of the existing possibilities, we offer our cooperation through the mediation of the works committees and confidants, with full awareness of the responsibilities that we thereby assume. An extensive help would be the establishment of factory canteens and the delivery of soups at breakfasts. Taking into account the nature of the economic and social life in the protectorate, where the workers usually do not live in the place of the enterprise, and come from far, at great distances into work or gone, a sufficient supply of work footwear and bicycles, if necessary replacement components for bicycles, is of great importance. We ask, therefore, especially now in the autumn months, for the release of a larger contingent of work shoes. During the previous 20 years there was a great unemployment and inadequate earnings, so that the workers were not adequately cared for and urgently need special assignments on work shoes as well as work clothes. ./.