English Translation

71 4-o.c. 30 September 1943. St.M.78/30/43. \ 1.) To Mr. 1. X. 1943 Reichsminister und Chef der Reichskanzlei Dr.Lammers, Berlin W8, Voßstraße 6. Very venerated Mr. Reichs Minister ! For your letter of 21.9.ã.Js. - Sign Rk.l0482 C in matters of improvement of the autonomous pay relations I thank you bindingly. I have noted with interest that, while the Ministers of Finance and Home Affairs recognized in principle the need to improve the autonomous pay levels, they also expressed the view that the compensatory allowances directives generally did not set too low the comparative levels. As I have already stressed in the discussion with you and Mr Reichsleiter Bormann, and in my previous letters to you, I do not believe that the comparative system of compensation allowance cannot be a suitable measure of autonomous remuneration improvement. In adopting this comparison system, by the way, an effective and thus politically promising improvement of remuneration would be impossible. In view of the fact that you and Mr. Reichsleiter Bormann had reached agreement on this fundamental question at the time,