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dictatorship, or who were empowered to issue orders for payment during the proletarian dictatorship.

For this reason the heads of offices, institutes and factories are instructed to make a thorough investigation of the aforesaid circumstances, and if in their opinion the need to institute such proceedings exists, to submit to me a sufficiently reasoned proposal setting out the reasonable grounds without delay.

Of which the heads of all municipal offices, institutes and factories are hereby notified.

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Mayor

Fővárosi Közlöny [Municipal Gazette], August 15th 1919, No. 31. 96.115/1919-1.

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The “Christian National” economic programme

Excerpt from the minutes of the Municipal General Assembly

March 9th, 1921

The General Assembly resolves... to present a memorial to the National Assembly, and a representation to the government to inform the government on the one hand of the attitude adopted by the community of the capital for the development of commerce and industry on a basis of Christian morality, and, on the other, to state what, in the opinion of the community of the capital, is to be done to link Budapest with international trade in respect of commerce and industry.

In order to develop commerce and industry on a basis of Christian morality, the community of the capital has adopted the following new point:

1. The General Assembly considers that support by statutory law to industry and commerce organizing on a basis of Christian morality is absolutely necessary, and considers it to be a responsibility of the state. For this reason the intervention of the state is urged as follows:

a. an outlook based on Christian morality must be enforced in the entire field of public education, as well as in the press, and any activities contrary to this attitude must be prosecuted under laws far more severe than those at present in force;

b. all the economic bodies whose activities are directed to the enforcement of Christian morality in economic life must be morally and materially supported by the state;

c. when public contracts for materials or work are being awarded, it must be essential to consider not only the economic angle, but above all that the systematic development of commerce and industry should be based on Christian morality;

d. the state must support industry and commerce organized on a basis of Christian morality in every case where, the resources and means of production being in non-Christian hands, the ability to compete on the part of Christian commerce and industry would be endangered without support by the state.

2. The General Assembly is in principle in favour of freedom of trade, but in the present

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