English Translation

The first months of the current year were marked by the increasing shift of the most important arms exports to the Protectorate. The implementation of these programmes means the extreme tension in the overall economy of the protectorate and will result in a considerable structural change in individual sectors of the economy. The creation of the labour force necessary for the programmes forces more and more decommissioning and rationalisation measures, which are not limited to the so-called civil sector, but go into armaments production. In order to clarify the issues linked to these large shifts, various committees have been set up to explain the necessary measures from the point of view of production and labour input. In addition, an extended order management system for arms orders provides a stronger control over the order status and the occupancy of individual firms. a) Metals. A special quota has been created for the procurement of mechanical engineering products by an arrangement of the supervising body.The establishment of this new machinery procurement system was the result of the need to restrict the disposal of iron for the purchase of machinery in order to be able to meet a weakening of the armor by unnecessary investment demands from the iron side. The order for sheet metal, which is proportional to the protectorate, has either not been known at all to a large extent by the quota bearers of the empire or only to very small fractions. The Reichsstelle Eisen und Metalle in Berlin has therefore ordered a blocking of the accounts of those contingent carriers which did not comply with their obligation to transfer within two weeks. The cases of unlawful possession of iron rights, such as theft, of iron stamps or the withdrawal of iron marks by uncovered transfer certificates or the embezzlement of iron trademarks, have led to a number of prosecutions by both the police and the police. The director of the Prague Chamber of Commerce and Commerce, Vymetal, who had suppressed 8.O00 t of iron marks and had put 2,00 t in circulation, was sentenced to death by the Special Court and is already being judged. he situation of the textile industry in the first quarter of the year was unchanged from that in the last quarter of 1983.