STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2531, sig. 109-12/178 (damaged)

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54 - 2 - in the individual sectors, wages are offset by an ac tial increase in wages and salaries, which was made on the basis of the orders of the same Ministry, in principle price differences arising on the raw product markets were compensated. The new arrangement of the Reichsprotektor on the wage increase is advanced in this compensation. From all these measures, it is clear that the managers responsible will not allow social shifts to be affected more than others, and with all determination to prevent wage labour becoming an object for strengthening the economic position of the business circles. This is the new social and economic policy which corresponds to the new view on the functions of the working and people's community in terms of wages and salaries. Pest prices and just wages are the pillars on which the internal politics of the empire is based, which not only does not leave this policy, but also expands it at a time when all forces are tensed to a victorious and soon ending of the war imposed upon the empire. On the ground of this social and morally most just policy, the population of the Protectorate has also been present for the past few years. It is important to be aware of this fact and to act accordingly. Everyone is entitled to what μ is due to him: sufficient profit to the enterprise, the protectorate and other employees an improvement, after which earlier years were called in vain. The workers and the private employees brought them an improvement of the conditions, moreover it protects them from price and wage pressure.