TRENDS IN FEDERAL REPUBLIC COAL SITUATION AT END OF YEAR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000100140047-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: January 1, 1959
• Content Type: AIRPOUCH

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ws . Out of the welter of eharrea and counterch argue,: the fold are
but offers reduction in accordance with the rules of a free ectric b
tion the le ,;oJ.i ty of the contracts and does near wnt to shift fUM
United States a these economic de i ions,,: and insietaxme an the : .-
fi; nt of the contracts would poror t e radii in the industrial centers
of the ' 'e ral pub:t ic, According to this s' tom, the Pjibr does not qu s-
tunr hopos that a conviction of mutual interests will bey . apparent in.
to insist an execution of d- upoen imports and Coss an to that the
believes this Bain would increase to a eetrl extent if U.S, + porters
At the and of the year, coal and coke stocks at -Athoads amounted to
tons convred with approximately M.000 tons at the beeinnin of
the year, In addition, consumer stocks at the and of the year amounted to
about 12;7 million torts--+a: theoretical ceiling imposed on them by the limita-
tion of storage facilities,
2, Production of hard coals. exclusive at the ~* during 1958 was
132.6 million tons or 532#000 tons below the previous .year.
Under the industry's rationalisation ms.,, but =% probably due
ese on new hiring, emp2gymsnt at m1W declined from 495.000 at the
since there am no indications of wi. MkOMPU79"to
21,x00 men, Many of these have undoubtatdly beenabs d
beg nnt* of 1958 to lsTh,OW at the end of 958,, rep sentine a rtplmyment of
It, On the other hands. the extension of ffte arWte at shorter work weeks
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,"rec. shits during the ; rear a to 2.7 million. and losses
in mite ern are estimated at over t 56
50 1,'xWretivity duri the gear in s as average coal production per
shift per nr ar md. M1nW increased fret 1 585 kilos in 1957 to l,6 kilos in
1958, This a aunts fear the relatively d dine in productiOU9, it has
been estimated estimated that if et a teat had been .i ,r tained productiort, would
have been 3.8 million two hi iere
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