President Relander, an Agrarian, believed that the Finnish civil servants should get a pay raise, after a long period of frozen salaries, that had caused them to lose a significant amount of purchasing power. Most of his fellow Agrarians opposed him and the Progressive minority government of Prime Minister Mantere on this issue, arguing that the civil servants, on average, were still clearly better paid than the agricultural workers.
President Relander, an Agrarian, wanted to raise the salaries of Finnish civil servants who had been suffering from years of frozen wages, which had reduced their purchasing power. However, most of his fellow Agrarians and the Progressive minority government led by Prime Minister Mantere disagreed with him, arguing that civil servants were still better paid than agricultural workers overall.