English Translation

Copy! Address of the Deputy Reich Protector to the representatives of the workers on 24 October 1941. I have asked you to go to the castle because I am used to being the leader's commissioner and National Socialist - when the hardship measures of reality and the executive are reasonably complete, to look into the areas of life to see where there are any mistakes and needs. I have been praying to you here because I know that you have spoken in the factories in the last few days, in the final days, which were moved for all of us and which were also for you, especially since it is something new in the Czech workforce that the man of the trade union spoke to you during the work. That is why I asked you to come here because I believe that you will tell me on this occasion what I have certainly heard in part, what is pressing the worker and where he is in need. I would like to thank you for holding this appeal within the framework of the union headquarters, because I think it was not so easy to do so. I have heard from your spokesman your wishes, I have listened to what is needed, and I do not think I am telling you anything new that I have been informed of any of these needs, because these things are being talked about and they are being written about - they are the subject of reports from foreign channels and articles by the press. As the leader's representative in this area of Bohemia and Moravia, I would like to keep it as the