English Translation

In contrast to this, it must be noted that hourly wages of up to 56 Rpf are paid in the construction industry, for example, and a further increase of 58 Rpf is certainly to be expected. If workers are assigned to the metal industry for the purpose of training - and that there is use for it in the metal industries - then the question of the wage of the auxiliary workers should be dealt with once and for all. It is considered expedient that the wages of the metal industry should be adjusted at least annually to those of the old kingdom, otherwise the emigration efforts of skilled workers as well as unskilled workers into the old empire will not diminish despite all regulations. Only by the fact that a corresponding wage increase would take place can these aspirations of the Sudeten German workers be stopped. From the circles of the textile industry it is known in a number of cases that a certain lack of discipline prevails among the workers. It is complained before everyone that part of the labour force is unregulated (partially without debt) to work, and that the work is kept away. Thus, the Firna Rudolf Weber's heirs, Schwulfenau, report that the 47o follow-up member is employed in this enterprise, and in January, altogether 1,558 hours of work have been sucked away, i.e. About 2% of the total number of hours worked. Most of the hours worked were acidified by the fact that the number of working hours left off the workplace on Mondays and Saturdays. Only a very small proportion of the acidic hours worked is due to illness. Gursing