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# Glavarkhiv meeting discusses loans for archive staff as salaries fail to match prices
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/noiabr-1919-goda/
- Published: 2018-10-23T12:24:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:59:39.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Observations, Society, Humour

​​November 1919.

Exceptionally hard conditions of life for employees.  
Salaries out of all proportion to the price of food, clothing and fuel.  
`Institutions grant their workers loans to tide them over several months.`  
At a meeting convened by the head of the Chief Archive Administration (Glavarkhiv) the opinion is voiced that *the issuing of a loan* to archive employees *may have an adverse effect* (!!!) *on the purchasing power of staff once it has been paid out.*

Wake me in a hundred years…