THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1452, sig. 109-4/1206

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2le Granting from state funds would require a considerable expansion of the administration, which is hardly feasible in wars. It is also unlikely that the Minister of Finance will agree to such a regulation. However, if the private economy is to be obliged to obtain the allowance, then the whole question will gain considerable importance for wage policy. In addition, there is a risk that, in the event of an inestimable economic constellation, companies could see themselves favoring the cheaper labour force of technics. The greater the number of Germans, the greater the risk (especially among Czech employers) will become. 3.) Impacts on general wage policy are inevitable if the number of recipients of protectorate allowances is increased. The experiences of the last 'ahre teach that the granting of allowances to Germans causes a staggering of the entire Czech working class, when the grant does not have its justification in performance, but in ethnicity. This applies strongly where the value of the work is easily measurable and has an effect directly in the height of the merit, see e.g. in the piece work. Diegtadustrie is therefore close to unanimous against the preservation of of other supplements (protekborate or cultural zuiagen), although their sum is usually not significantly burdened by them. She fears that the workers will react with an annoyance about an "unjust" treatment and that she will do less with an objection that her work of equal value will be rewarded with a correspondingly lower reward. For the same reasons, the material equality of foreign-German workers in the field of wage policy has also been ascribed to the German workers and has been very strongly demanded by the General for the employment of new workers. The establishment of a difference between Germans and Czechs within the Protectorate will probably not be able to remain without retroactive effect on wage policy in the practiced Reich area. Insbeşondere in the neighbouring