STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1566, sig. 109-4/1320

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English Translation

- 3 - to negotiate most provisions with the Ministry of Public Works before the draft is presented to the public. 2. Coal industry: We have reviewed the allocation of coal to individual industrial firms carried out by the coal industry at the end of September and requested the most necessary amendments from the coal sector, in October and November. At the request of the coal industry, on 2 November we convened a meeting of the Coal Officers of the various economic groups to negotiate with them the question of the co-ordination of brown coal and stone coal, and another meeting was held on 1 November. For the economic groups and also for the Central Association of Industry, the coal quota represents a considerable increase in the number of new jobs.