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Se for J CZECHO-SLOVAKIA: RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION AND LABOR CAMPS. Economy and labor. : ring the month of May, the Czech Fuel ana Power Minis try came out with a new regulation. Drastic and daily cuts were announce: reducing the elect&ic consumption in factories, working places, shops and homes. Blame for the existing shortage was officially put on those consumers who use power in an irresponsible way. At the sam time a re-enforced propaganda campaign continued assaulting the lack in working discipline shown in the mining areas, especially Kladno and Ostravae : A month later, in June, Prime-Minister Zapotocky presided @ great party meeting. He took advantage of that occasion to deliver a violent speech against those who mistake farttrrma factories for thorough farese He explained that official statistics had shown that 25% of the Republic's labor f ree, that is approximately one million men, have changed their working place in the current year. Special "fluctuation commissions" set up by governmental order to study the reasons for such detrimental labor instability, concluded, according to the Prime Minister to frequent "sabotage", especially from doctors who issue certificates not corresponding to existing needs. These two facts, taken at random from a series of similar reports, show the weaknesses of Czech production. “ince the expulsim of the whole German
