English Translation

04-12 - Public services are not at all opposed to increases in salaries and pensions, although these salaries are exceptionally low. Wage increases have so far been made, for example, in the following areas: Construction ..........8 - l0 % Agriculture ..................20 + 15 % Textiles .....lo + 5 % Iron and metals .. . . . 5 % brickyards Food and beverage industry.........lo % clay and kaolin works....lo %. Appropriate measures are being prepared for the rest of the trade. Thus, the previous price increases in the economy in various areas are offset by wage increases. The further increase in the cost of living associated with the abolition of the customs border cannot be predicted in numerical terms. As mentioned above, the war economy allows temporarily lower prices to be kept in the protectorate, but on the other hand requires certain price increases. Wage policy must adapt to the gradual alignment of the cost of living of the Protectorate with that of the Reich. However, if the real income of the worker is not to be reduced, wage increases will be required in the following months, even if the wages of the old kingdom are not immediately opened up. It is particularly important to consider how, in the war economy of the Protectorate, the