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

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44a limits that the capacities of the defence industry in the Protectorate are being greatly expanded at the present time. This will require a considerable increase in labour demand in the protectorate itself, which must be met primarily. In wage policy, a strict wage freeze is to be carried out at the wage level now determined by tariffs= regulations. This encounters difficulties, since the authority of the autonomous Ministry of Social Affairs and its substructure for the implementation of this very unpopular, but absolutely necessary measure against the German enterprises is not sufficient. It is therefore at the present time he = weighed how this state of affairs can be overcome. 93085