STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1781, sig. 109-5/9

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If this assumption is confirmed, it is possible that difficulties may arise this winter because of the tense situation in the field of food and coal supplies. II. It should be reported from the administrative sector that the organisation of the Office for the purpose of streamlining has been given a number of additions, and that the number of higher education offices has also been reduced ( now 15 ), taking into account the need to save staff in the general interest, including the need for volume-related administrative and virtual policy. The unification of the northern half of the Iglauer Sprachinsel, so far belonging to Bohemia, with the German administrative burden for this language island is particularly important in terms of ethnic policy. The northern half was assigned to the Oberlandratsamt Iglau with spatially related parts outside the language island. In the industry, the abolition of the customs border was the focus of the Office's work. The adjustment to the price and wage levels of the adjacent areas, due to the removal of the tariff border, caused difficulties as far as the wage level is concerned. The wage level can only be raised at the expense of the economy and its financial power without any retroactive effect on the price level, which has already reached the level of the Reichsversucht. This creates an unsatisfactory social situation for the employees and workers, that under the pressure of the anti-German influences in connection with 92955