-11- The situation with regard to the employment of labor in agriculture was and remains most critically difficult. In order to harvest the grain crop of 1950, all labor reserves had to be utilized. In the eastern provinces, especially in East Prussia, it was possible only to get in the harvest through mustering prisoners, Poles, students end other workers. Further difficulties were encountered through the regulations concerning restraints upon change of Job and the employment of youthful workers. A sufficient number of workers for agriculture during 1941 is of supreme military importance. In conjunction with the district food-provision-office exact statistics of workers will be made and beginning in the spring of 1951 allotments carried through. The following measures will be carried through: unceasing efforts to exhaust every possibility of obtaining workers from the conquered areas of the East and from the General governement (Poland); the more intensive application of measures heretofore adopted to obtain additional workers; the further employ- ment of war prisoners; importing workers from friendly and neutral countries; a more intensive use of compulsory labor on the farms and a new regulation with regard to the employment of youth. 2. A Few |