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

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-2- 168 so that the People's German could also feel as a lord's people, He welcomed a proposal by the Reich head of the German Labour Front Dr. Ley to the deputy of the leader, who called for an Reichsschutzvergabe of the Czechs of 2% of the Loh nes to compensate for the conscription of the Peoples' German for the party, DAF and party divisions. Mansfeld explained that Dr. Ley's proposal had been written down to all ministries and that the ministries welcomed the proposal. He will bring it up in the next few days in the General Council. I replied to Dr. Köllner's words that the mood of the people's Germans was by no means as bad as Dr. Köllner argues that the people's Germans are being helped in the economy,where it is only at stake that the mood among the peoples' Germans is being served by the Czech state, especially with the teachers of the people of Germany, but this is not at the Reichsprotector, but at the fact that the Ministry of Finance rejects the proposals of the Reich's protector. I suggested paying the teachers of the people of Germany and the teachers still needed from the Reich from Berlin according to the Reichssets and the proportion which would correspond to the welfare of the Czech teacherry to demand back from the Czech State.The representatives of the Ministry of Finance agreed to present this plan to their minister again. The representatives of the Ministry of Labour, the Interior Ministry and the Prize Commissioner immediately agreed with the plan. I further stated that I could not recognise the list of the local group Karolinental, the wages of the lowest assistant worker in Prague amount to RM o.45 the hour, so that even if the l02 party members were all auxiliary workers, no one could earn a month under loo RM. I was also of the opinion that the adjustment of wages could not take place without a certain wage gap. Dr. Ley's defeat had not yet been received by the Reichsprotector, so that I could not comment. I consider, however, the amount of the Reichsschutzgabe as a political impossibility that the worker, now doing his duty, would be made an enemy without exception, so that with greater sabotage,