STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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- 49 - only concern the interests of the empire, and has no influence on the 'distribution of goods, for it has nothing to distribute. There can be no increase in the number of cooperatives; the activity of the production cooperatives is made completely impossible in the first place, partly because of the general scarcity, partly due to the fact that the German authorities themselves decide on the allocation of the existing raw material.The activity of agricultural cooperatives has been illusory, because the representatives of the Reich decide about the cultivation flats and requisitions of cereals as soon as the harvest has ended.The cooperative movement in the Rotektorat was effectively killed, similar to the union and political encroachment. It is clear that the working class was affected more than the rest by the price increase in the protectorate. This allegiance arose from the artificially high conversion rate of the Beichsmark, which was imposed on the protectorate and which exceeds the real calculation rate by more than 1 50 g. The Reichsprotector has ordered a wage increase on various occasions and each time this acceptance became a proof of the social increase of the only fora self year Verteue a euuoT