English Translation

No II 4 a - 5200/42 Prague, 1l April 1942 S fMT o G GLGCSTO 17.1014 neded About the Head of Division II to the Secretary of State in the Czerninpalais Subject: Situation report of the State Authority of Prague. Proceedings: Letter to the Under-Secretary of State of 15.1.1942 - St. S. V F - 1b/41. As regards the report by the Prague State Authority, I take the following position from the point of view of labour input: the need for agriculture for labour was partly quite considerable during the period of harvest, in particular to a large extent auxiliary workers were required; these forces could usually be provided by service obligations. According to the employment offices, the collection of the harvest has been delayed by the lack of labour in different places, although the employment services in districts where the procurement of agricultural workers made special difficulties had organized the "village assistance" (Community assistance to all villagers) in good time. The difficult situation of agriculture has its origin, especially in the delicate shortage of agricultural permanent labour. Despite intensive efforts by the labour offices, the failure of permanent workers from Slovakia and Karpatho-Ukraine has not yet been covered, even though in some employment offices there have already been major obligations for non-employed agricultural workers. Whereas the tendency of permanent agricultural workers to migrate to industry has remained unchanged; whereas, however, after the introduction of the Labour Code, any change in employment is only possible with the agreement of the Employment Office; whereas the Labour Offices therefore try to prevent migration from farming as far as possible; If the report of the National Authority of Prague speaks of a permanent departure of qualified agricultural workers, it is likely that these are only those forces which were transferred from other occupations by the employment offices during the harvest period to agriculture and then returned to their old occupation with the permission of the employment office.