English Translation

RASIG DEA TANDESBENORDE IN BRUSSELS b 6z 3001/421910v.6/742 4088 MSLC nommo totadog TeWS DO Brno, 23 June 1942. mang doat An den esndt Mr. State Secretary 405 edotl SS group leader K.H.Frank, reb Lurioamu in Prague. Me peAeeu Mp use Beun Someg CONAUEOA ratasd 830 beetiedra reb done Baeb AergeM Betr.: Arbeitsirsatz ir der Landwirtschaft. Au bas Melmeyam 9 AG3 a My reports on the lack of labour input in agriculture were based on two more or less separate facts. I may repeat them again, in order to prevent a misunderstood view. 1./ The employment situation in agriculture is extremely worrying; there is a lack of both permanent personnel and a large number of workers who are temporarily employed as seasonal workers. Their replacement from the labour force, which is finally used in agriculture, is impossible, especially due to the failure of a significant proportion of seasonal workers in Slovakia. 2./ A large number of workers are covered by all employment offices and, in particular, by the Labour Office Olmütz, which is supposed to be in the leading position in this respect after the retirement of the worker. Until recently, the service supervisor was responsible for industrial production and, here, mainly for work outside the district and the Protectorate. As a result of the situation described below, I have expressed the fear that a supplement to the agricultural labour force in the present and, above all, in the future will be completely excluded if all the remaining free or expendable labour force is used exclusively for industrial production, without taking account of the most urgent needs of agriculture. I have therefore suggested that, on the occasion of industrial concentration, the cessation of work, the elimination of all construction activities, etc., workers who become free may not be transferred exclusively to industry in a short time, but rather to other industries.