English Translation

Some of these cases have already been cleared by negotiation with the parties involved, others are still swollen. Sometimes attempts are made to disguise wage increases by classifying the employees into a higher group provided for in the collective agreement and thereby automatically receiving the higher wage to be paid in that group. In one case, however, this procedure was not entirely out of hand, since it was an enterprise with relatively low collective contract wages. While an actual increase in hourly wages would have caused unrune to the rest of the companies in the same sector (announcement to the associations in Prague), the matter could be settled locally by better grouping of the more skilled workers. This, albeit involuntarily, was also taken into account in the principle of performance wages. In the case of work-related differences between businessmen and employees, the latter often send anonymous letters to German authorities, mainly to the Gestapo, which they then pass on to the Oberlandrat in Königgrätz. Man cannot judge the sending of such anonymous screams in the Protectorate as would be done in the Old Reich. As stated in the last management report, in many cases workers do not dare to take action against their managers, otherwise they will have to fear being dismissed. The importance of the law of supply and demand on the "labour market" is shown here. In a local way, it is possible to get along with the local Czechs, even if individual incidents, such as: the distribution of leaflets of anti-German content in Jaroměr, show that work is being done against us. It must be recognized that e.g. the companies try to meet the German wishes for information, etc. and that in most cases even simpler people try to speak German. If the latter were not the case, so - 3 -