English Translation

93 Liberation has been decreed a 15% wage increase. It must be expected that the Bohemian-Marian economy will follow this example if it does not immediately receive other clear instructions from the civil governor. Experience from the Sudetenland teaches that an increase in wages of 15% in some cases has already led to the wage level of the old kingdom. A cautious economic and price policy is being implemented, even if wages of the old kingdom are immediately introduced in the area of the protectorate. The wage level is also of considerable importance for the national policy. If wages in the Protectorate are much lower, then this will mean that the Czechs who are foreign to the people will be able to use them more easily in the Old Kingdom, which these workers urgently need. A disintegration of the Bohemian-Moravian area of Czech workers is likely to also mean a relief for Germany from national politics. The level of wages in the Protectorate is not uniform. As far as it is possible to overlook, wages in Brno, Prague, Moravian Ostrava and Pressburg are already at the level of comparable cities and industries of the Old Kingdom in important sectors of industry, assuming a final conversion rate of 1 : l2 (sudet rate). The classification of wages according to local classes and wage areas must take account of the wage situation of neighbouring districts and cannot be decreed without careful examination. Big difficulties will arise especially in Moravia. The wage for auxiliary workers in the construction industry is generally 2.20 Kě, while the Reg.Bez.Troppau according to the new tariff regulations pay rates of 45, or 48 Rpf. Lundenburg, Nikolsburg is expected to be set at 5l Rpf. The general henchmen's wage in Mühren is supposed to be l.50 Kě. If a sudden wage increase were to be applied, then the products for agricultural products on the previous price range cannot be hailed. An increase in food costs must trigger a general movement of price and wage levels.