STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2047, sig. 109-7/54

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English Translation

A7 Gri nd e : The "Avial Verke in Prague-Letnian are an armaments company working for the German Wehmacht. In the "Avia" Ferken, blugs are produced, which are delivered to the German air-weapon. Bas Werk has two departments, the cell construction and the motor construction. The cell construction takes place in a large hall, in which the compartments to the locksmith's, plumbing, etc. are accommodated. In all the workplaces there are lies in which it is pointed out that the "Avia" works are an armaments company and in this enterprise strike and sabotage are forbidden and put under punishment. Säntliche defendants are protectorate members. Chech. Hitality. All defendants have been working for several years in the Avia works of a locksmith, plumber or mechanic. The workers of the "Avia" works were divided into certain loin groups. The decisive factor for the grouping should be the work performance. For some time now, some of the workers have been dissatisfied with his assignment to a wage group, since he is more concerned with the fact that they were of the Neksufg, and the classification of workers in wage groups does not follow the performance, duration of the consideration of membership in a trade union organization. Those workers who already in Tsehchoslovakia prefer to belong to a socially oriented Ketallarbeiterverband. Above that there was a general unrest among the workers of the "Avia" lerke, because their life satandard was covered by the fact that their wages did not keep with the general gradual price increase in the Frotektorat Sehritt. Around August 8, 1940, the unrest in the working class of the "Avia" works was increased by the rumour that the working group of "Aero" works, as well as the armaments company, had achieved a rise in wages through a strike. At the coronation of 9 August l940, at 61 o'clock in the abortriums of the hall, cell construction of the "Avia" Verke workers' groups were formed, in which an upcoming strike was discussed. At about 7 o' clock, the foreman Wenzel kaxičerný learned from a nift-minded plumber that from lp Bhr there would be a strike at the factory. Černý 8A