English Translation

h(s) to be sent. This situation changed when, in connection with the abolition of customs frontiers (1 October 194o), the question of the broad alignment and stabilisation of wages became acute.In order to comply with the legal situation and to use the apparatus of the autonomous administration usefully, a German head of the Wage Policy Department was appointed in September 194° in the Ministry of Social and Health Administration. Since that time, the general wage-earners have been advised and worked out in the ministry and then submitted to the Reichsprotektor for approval. That the party liaison office communicates its position to the Reichsptotektor.The monitoring of the wage declarations and the approval of company wage regulations is carried out by the Ministry and the Czech employment inspectorates under its authority.The steering of wage policy by the autonomous administration is of great difficulty. The Czech civil servants are very often unable to make operational considerations that are loosed from legal formalism. Various suspicions of lack of will and passive resistance are also justified. What is crucial is that the autonomous administration does not have the auto-rity and impact needed to carry out its tasks. The NSDAP has political concerns about the effective operation of the autonomous administration in the area of wage policy.It does not want it to move to the advice of German entrepreneurs, who take over important (especially earlier Jewish) enterprises to an increasing extent.