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

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English Translation

This means that in spite of this politically not unsettling and technically very difficult special measure, the German still receives only 70 g butter in 4 weeks. In the field of labor, in agreement with the Prague Armaments Inspection, everything is done to meet the growing demands of the Reich for the supply of labour.The mediation of workers, before all skilled workers, into the rest of the realm is set a limit by the fact that the capacities of the armaments industry in the Protectorate are being greatly expanded at present,This will require a considerable increase in labour requirements in the protectorate itself, which must be met first and foremost. In wage policy, a strict wage freeze is to be carried out at the wage level now defined by collective bargaining rules.This leads to great difficulties, since the authority of the autonomous Ministry of Social Affairs and its substructure is not sufficient to carry out this very unpolitical, but inevitably necessary, measure. It is therefore considered at the moment how to deal with this difficulty.