Stranica 4 [4]
- page four =<
the corresponding shafts are surrounded by barbed wire and heavily
guardede
; While the supervision of tie barracks is in the hands of
Czech police, the highest direction of the pits, the laboratories and
the planning and statistical offides are exclusively in Russian handse
In vier of the strategic importance of the uranium production, no
satellites ean be mtrusted with its exclust&¥e control.
Youth camps.
Youthful labor forces are recruited on "voluntary" basis,
mostly smong studentse a recent order has passed to all schools from
the Ministry of Education. Responsibility is places on sthool directions
and teachers to bring 10.000 boys, between 14 and 18 years of age, to
‘volunteer enthusiastically" for work camps, before vacations starte
These youngsters are employed in agriculture and mines; whereever labor
force is magt needed.
a ¬
Women's camps.
A report receifed from Slovakia speaks of the Liquidation of
all rem&iining convents. Up to now, nuns had still been left in hospital
work, as there vas difficulty to replace tiem. simultaneously however
e great propaganda was made among girls to enlist in emergency nurses?
training courses. The number of graduates is now judged sufficient
so that Sisters are released from hospital duties. voctors and patients
complain of the poor care given by the new, inexperienced nurses; but
their comp aints are not being considered. ‘ithe Sisters are taken first
into group confinenment .ma from there placed into forced labor units.
in the sane way as ali teaching, euucating and contemplative
huns xinewxk9a9; heve be n forced to so since 1950, the groups released
from hospital service have nw also to work in agriculture and
ingustrye they are detained in special nuns’ comps or more often in
general women's camps and from there go in groups for the day into the
fields or near-by factoriese Im certain instances of stricter confinam
the factory is located inside the camp and the work is exclusively done
by inmates. This is frequently the case in textile productions