English Translation

74 - 6 - the state, which delayed the development towards socialism in its view. That Germany itself proclaims a new socialism, they do not yet believe. Likewise stubbornly the rural population of Pilsner holds on to its agricultural attitude. It sees again in Germany the state which has come to rob the Czech peasant the land for its own purposes. Both political directions, together with the other currents, have now united into a fatherland activism, much more strengthened chauvinism, while in the leadership the former opposites are still alive. Although Pilsen and to a large extent also the conversion of so-called "socialist" parties was dominated, the conditions in the first and second republics were extremely unsocial. Pilsen was full of Marxist institutions, which are generally regarded as social, but in fact served to enrich some parties personally and to strengthen the party itself financially. Thus, the cooperative system is very strong and reached with its threads far into West Bohemia. In particular, the West Bohemian Consumer Cooperative (ZKD), the Volksbau- und Wohnungsgenossenschaft, whose tenancy barracks were praised to the worker as socialist achievements, the Western Bohemian Fleischer- und Selchergenogenschaft (ZřuD) etc. All these cooperatives were social democratic, hired only socially democratic organized workers and employees. damaged the small merchant and harmed the traders and told the "consumer" that he could not exist without these cooperatives. The district health insurance, the number of members after the second largest in the former Czech Republic, was also under social democratic leadership, as was the so-called "Heller fond", a worker support institution at the Skoda plants with numerous sanatoriums, baths, holiday camps and children's homes. The same applies to the district youth welfare, the childcare association "Jesle" etc. Everywhere the Jewish Social Democratic Mayor P i k was an honorary member