English Translation

160 actually unknown directives, whose reach and depth have completely changed naturally evolving relations and standards, and in the final stage have led to relentless liquidation of the free market. In particular, it was the determination of binding prices and the control of compliance with them, the deployment of labour forces through labour offices, the management of industrial production and the circulation of goods, the compulsory organisation of entrepreneurs, the regulation of production and a system of compulsory supplies in agriculture, the allocation system in supply or control of foreign trade and payment services. The pressure that was exerted in connection with the use of forced labour was gradually reflected in the extension of working hours, which in October 1940 increased initially to 10 hours a day, and in August 1942 even to 12 hours a night. The introduction of workbooks, by which employees demonstrated their belonging to a particular enterprise, took place in June 1941. Unemployment, which increased in 1938 in connection with the arrival of Czechs from border borders, was almost eradicated not only by the departure of Czech workers to the empire, but mainly because of the work mobilisation from spring 1942. In 1939 © 1944, the number of workers in the Protectorate increased by a full 369 000. 13/1942 Coll. on the stability of wages and salaries and work ethic from December 10, 1941. (430) This fact was mainly influenced by the extension of working time and the extra costs for overtime work. In the context of the ever worsening maintenance situation, there was a reduction in allocation quotas and the definitive withdrawal of specific goods from the market or its one-off allocation. Although the empire presented itself as a social state, during its reign in the Czech Moravian space the social conditions of the population deteriorated radically. on the introduction of sampling tickets for food from 29 September (431) concerned meat and meat products, lard and bacon, butter and edible fats, sugar, flour, bread and pastry, milk, tea, coffee and coffee substitutes. Own tickets, issued by municipal or district authorities, were valid only with the so-called tribal leaf. Reichs citizens living in the territory of the Protectorate were issued tickets by the top country councils.