STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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English Translation

- 56 - The entitlement to unemployment benefit is entirely dependent on the goodwill of the local employment offices, which are only in German threads. The trade union organisations - and this was the first objective of this reform - are excluded from the maintenance of unemployment support.The second objective was the expropriation of the large funds, which formed the "workshops for the cynical area of unemployment assistance from membership contributions and which made up several million for some union leaders.The Office of the Protector considers that, since they now do not pay out unemployment support, the unions are not entitled to these funds which are to be confiscated for the benefit of the insurance system introduced by the suckers. This is a robbery of the poorest classes of the nation. The cooperative movement var developed very well in Techechoslovakia, as strong as in Great Britain and in the Skendinevian countries, Although this movement had been organized according to political syopathies of its members or according to the so-called so-desired clans - ec gave, benefied, Workers' cooperatives , which tended to the socialist Fartei and rural cooperatives which tended towards the agrarian party - but in principle they proceeded in a common way and had a great influence on the distribution of goods , price fixing etc. Here too, shortly after the German invasion, Unification took place , but the united It has no influence on the old, because these are determined by the competent German authorities, which are responsible for