English Translation

- 7 - 52 breaks are observed in the fewest farms. Workers eat their bread in most cases during work. Treglesten. The weight of the worker in the farms is usually between 30 and 60 kg: maternity protection. The worker stays at home 6 weeks before and 6 weeks after delivery due to the provisions of the health insurance fund. This time is observed in most cases. Change of job during pregnancy takes place in the rarest cases and then only to whom the worker cannot afford the work as a result of illness and does not seek transfer. The change of job, as it is usually associated with loss of earnings and thus lowers the sickness allowance during pregnancy, is not demanded by the worker. In the case of the Vest Bohemian kaolin works in the district of Filsen, the worker from the Hellerfond receives a one-time help from K loO.--. Alleged social abuses are reported to us by the brick workers in the district of Prossnitz. Here the whole family works including the children from early to late. The housing conditions here are extremely bad and it is not uncommon for a family of 7 to sleep in a caterpillar, which is still wet. A large number of female workers earn only Kloc.- net without deductions per week in the Mehrische Stchlwerken in Olmütz, while they earn Kl50.- to l60.- per month for the production /Zinmer and kitchen/. The female workers of the West Bohemian Chamott- and Eaolinwerke in Oberbirken receive wages of K 27.- daily for piecework.