WORKERS AT WAR
RUSSO-GERMAN ALLIANCE
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION
One excuse put forward for the conclusion of the Russo-German partnership is the statement that both ideologies favour the workers. Here are some facts about the position of the workers under the Nazis based on statements in the German press. Working hours enormously increased, dockers transferred to the Western fortifications working 80 hours a week with contracts to work 12 hours daily indefinitely. Wages already low, lowered further in September, 1939, despite increased hours Miners' shifts lengthened and retiring age raised to f>,">. Number of accidents increased: for example, in the sugar industry, from to ">{).">s in one year. In four weeks before the war the Munich Medical Journal stated:— "The increase in nervous complaints assumes ever greater proportions. In the two years 193(5-38 every fourth sick German worker was suffering from nervous exhaustion." The German rations at the beginning of this war are about the same as at the end of the last. The Ger-' man worker is allowed one egg a week and one ounce of soap per month.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 94, 29 November 1939, Page 3
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178WORKERS AT WAR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 94, 29 November 1939, Page 3
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