STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 519, sig. 109-4/265

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09 Incorporation The labour force of the employees - the production of the workers asks for classification in the scope= of the mother-of-pearl production in the area of the declaration of wages No. 428/6.V.1942 on the wages and working conditions of the workshop workers employed in the production No. 428/6. V.42. Processing of carvings /other than wood= and mother- of-pears/. Wages for blanketsBie main subject group IIl could find out that industrial and commercial enterprises in which quilts are produced and which almost exclusively have their seat in the big cities of the Protectorate, provide their employees with wages according to different,at least no wage conditions at all. According to the announcement of the Supreme Prize Authority of 22 April 1942, these enterprises have to pay product prices according to the wage groups of the Declaration No. 936 of 21 April 1940 on wages of leather and their substitutes = industrial and commercial enterprises. Surveys have shown that the above statements do not grasp the sub-work compartment of the ceiling step= perine and that their wages are far= from lower than those of the skilled workers and other categories of work. In general, skilled workers are asked to continue their previous pay for at least 14 days, because of a lack of appropriate skilled work.