STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1101, sig. 109-4855

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The question is only whether this should be done in the form of a fundamental re-positioning of the salary regulations or a benefit supplement. At the meeting, the plan was set up to create a new salary system for the autonomous service with new systemisation of posts and then to reclassify Czech autonon staff according to political attitudes and performance. As far as possible, the higher administrative posts will be occupied only little with Czechs and, as a result, the classification will be lower than for corresponding officials of German nationality in the same area of effect, in order to encourage the Czechs to become Germans and to create better income and advancement opportunities by the worse classification and the result pay. The plan to improve the status of staff in the form of a benefit allowance was therefore dropped.The national political aspect of not putting Czech staff as well as German staff is undoubtedly correct. The only question is whether the planned path does not include the objective of making a substantial improvement in relation to the current levels of income, thus covering up and leaving the Czechs with only the disconcerting feeling of backwardness that they have officially been degraded by a new system of salaries, while reducing the increase in their income in value. If, on the other hand, there were no formal changes to the autonomous system of pay and the Czechs were the only ones to receive a benefit, this reduction would not appear in such a way, and in fact the Czech people would only see that they had more money in hand, which would undoubtedly have more impact on the mood than the planned measures. Apart from that, all with the new systemizations and 8:88 - 3 - Ql' @