STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1951, sig. 109-6/43

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21 - 4 - Sudetenland there are no corresponding factories. If the frontier workers migrate to the old kingdom because of lack of employment in the local language border area, they are lost here as an outpost of Germanism. Finally, their labour force - mostly skilled workers - also benefits the protectorate companies. In this context, it is noteworthy that the Schwadowitzer Bergwerk A.G., mentioned in the situation report of July 2nd, page 2, has been approved of the export quota it seeks for the old world. In this way, the society pays its members the higher wages in force in the Sudetenland, while the workers living in the Protectorate receive the local wages. There is a difference between the planned setting up of the compensation allowance and the fact that the higher wages are paid directly on the part of the plant, while a third position is involved in the compensation supplement, which does not make the final result so clear. Regardless of the questions raised in the border country, compliance with the price top-up regulation must be maintained in the Protectorate if wages and prices are not to be placed in another or a new mismatch. The consequences of this have already been pointed out in the management report of the l5.7.d.J. Since price monitoring is difficult only by German officials, it would have to be attempted to involve the people's Germans, who are also directly interested in keeping the prices. Because it could be that the Czech authorities here do not act with the sufficient emphasis to be able to point out to their own people the price increase that has occurred. The Národni Sourpčenství, in the district of Kolin, has managed to bring workers from the industry to farm harvesters.