English Translation

26 that wages should have to be increased beforehand and that the necessary price increase should be postponed as long as possible. According to this, there is a fundamentally different situation: 1) If an increase in prices is made, wages will also be generally increased, otherwise the situation of the working population would be obscured. The previous finding that a general wage increase would not be carried out was based on the assumption that prices could be kept at the level of l.III. definitively. (8) Since, in the opinion of the Price Commission, the present price level can only be kept for a short time and since for political reasons, even a temporary deterioration of the living conditions of the working population must be avoided, the compensatory wage increase must be made very soon. 3) In the shortness of the time available and in the multiplicity of collective agreements often limited to the smallest districts, an individual wage increase which takes into account the particularities of the trade in question is not possible; rather, the wage increase can only be prescribed for all workers and employees at the same percentage level. The disadvantages of such a gross scheme must: