THE GERMAN WORKER
LONG HOURS AND POOR PAY. INCREASE IN SICKNESS & ACCIDENTS. Ono 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 fortification 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 65. Number of accidents increased: for example, in the sugar industry, from 3,865 to 5,055 in one year. In four weeks before the war the Munich "Medical Journal" slated: — "The increase in nervous complaints assumes over greater proportions. In the two years 1936-38 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 German worker is allowed one egg a wook and one ounce of soap per month.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1939, Page 9
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183THE GERMAN WORKER Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1939, Page 9
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