English Translation

Since the Textibindustrie business group entered an application to the Supreme Prize Authority for general regulation of the prices for chemical cleaning on Feb. 9, the request addressed to the Brno State Office was withdrawn, as far as the prices of chemical cleaning were concerned. The requests for the regulation of the prices for washing, ironing and chemical dyeing of clothes and fabrics have been left in force and the same news, according to us these days, will be dealt with cheaply in the near future. A meeting of the stone industry companies, which are members of the Steinindustrie section and have their headquarters in Moravia, took place in our office. In this meeting, the speaker gave a presentation on a submission of the section to the Supreme Prize Authority, the aim of which is to obtain a price regulation in the stone industry, in such a way that the previous prizes, which with the decision of the Supreme Award Authority, are awarded by the I. Mr Holec then spoke about the progress of the work connected with the preparations for the sales office of the Steihidustrie. the speaker attended the meeting of the producers of terazzo splinters, which took place in the meeting room of the Lime Industry Section in Prague. The subject of the meeting was whether a cartel covering the whole protectorate should be established, as the Moravian producers proposed. In principle, it was decided that the cartel of producers of terazzo splinters would be established, and that it would be technically admistratively linked to the cartel between the producers of limestone flour, which is currently being prepared. On 3 March the speaker took part in a further meeting of the Steinindustrie Evidence Office in Brno, attended by a number of comments on the proposed articles of association and the rules of procedure of the future sales office of the stone industry.