STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396 Page 57 · 57 of 75
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396
English Translation
55- knower "erson, socialist Birgermeister in cities and villages, representatives of the working class in circles and common deputies, union functionaries, as well as members of the works councils who have spent longer or shorter time in German prisons. With political freedom, trade union freedom also disappeared.It is true that Germany tolerates its "existence, in fact, it favored the unification of the union transition in the Frotekttorat in the hope that in a proper cranganisation the socialist excesses will perish under the timid superiority of the politically indifferent members, but these "ranganizations have the slightest influence on the state of political and social affairs in the Fotekttorat. On the contrary, the regime deprives the trade union organisations of their influence by all possible means, even in its narrowest sphere of work. A few days after the invasion of Preg, a general ban on strikes was imposed, which was strictly carried out - especially since the outbreak of the war - and it was not allowed to carry out the works council elections and to the works committees, insofar as they still exist in the opposite circumstances, it was prohibited to intervene, at best they could The trade unions in the Czechoslovak Republic had a great 'eighth, because through them the workers were granted the right to work iosen support.The German regime led the system of all-encompassing assistance to the unemployed and thus boasted of the Abroad, in which it presented as a great zocial "eform.