STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1775, sig. 109-5/3

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26 54 Prestektorat dedicated to veiden, The German entourage member has increased expenditures by his contributions to pertei, divisions and associations, which leave him a net gain less than the Czech, A subsidiary remuneration between German and Czech workers by collective measures is however only conditional and only then possible where it is about closed German settlement areas. Some of these areas have been classified into higher classes, while the Stschechian workforce is increasingly trusting the German wage regulation measures because it sees them as more effective protection against the big industry than the competent protectorate bodies, which are often themselves closely interlinked with industry, could grant it. In particular, the wage and salary increase of 50 halves per hour ordered by the Reichsprotektor has worked very favourably with the working class, it is precisely in this that the beginning for an effective alignment of wages to the constantly increasing cost of living in the Protectorate, In an agreement with the industry could be achieved z,T, that these were achieved by the However, the increase in wage costs, which is due to the rise in wages, is not passed on to the consumer, considerable resistance is being given to this increase in wages by agriculture, and it is rising to the point that, in the case of the considerable shortage of workers, wages must already be paid above the tariffs and by the 50 Heller surcharge. Economically unsustainable rise. The trade union secretaries have proved to be a troublemaker in wage matters. Most of them, as former Czech Marxists, are trying to incite the workers by artificial arousal of discontent, also in political terms.