NOTES ON BULGARIAN CIVIL TRANSPORT: UNIFORMS/ABOLITION OF TRANSPORT COURTS/MTS STATION AT BOLYAROVO /PROJECTS OF THE MARITIME CONSTRUCTION BRANCH, BURGAS

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
:
Uniforms/Abolition
Notes on Bulgarian Civil Transport
of Transport Courts MTS Station a' Bolyarrovc'Projects
of the Maritime Construction Branch; Burgas
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Abolition of Transport Courts
2. "At the same time the existing Transport Courts were abolished. All cases
connected with nationalized transport were transferred to the jurisdiction
of the military courts. The Transport Courts in Bulgaria had been under
the control of the Ministry of Transport. They tried the cases of railway
employees, motor transport employees, sailors and civilair pilots. The
Transport Court it Burgas neisted of a president who was a lawyer, one
railway employee, one driver, one sailor and one employee of the Civil Air
Transport. Usually the sentences' rendered by these courts were worse t2+aa
the sentenc63 of the military coasts. For example:
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Uniforms for C'-v'_1 Transport Workers
1. "In November 1952 ar: Order of t :e Bulgt._ ld Co :ncil of Ministers introduced
uniforms for all officials and employees of the Railway; Sea, Air and Motor
Transport organizations. The uniforms have badges and stars indicating
seniority.
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"The machine-tractor station (MTS) i BolyarovO, county Ellehotto,.*es,.os~h3la2sad
in fall 1951. In summer 1952 there were at the station:
-15 heavy caterpillar tracccrs (five Stalinec, five D T and
five Kadie - all of Soviet production, Tractor Kharkov "lent
and Stalinec)
-32 light tractors (four US Fordson, 10 German. Fordeon, 12 Welles,
two Czech Stayer and four other old ones).
-35 threshing machines (e5 Dimitrovki of Bulgarian production from
the factory in Ruse - aaaller than the Dimitrovki, three old
German Gasheich)
-11 combines ( 5 automotive and 6 for trailers - all Staline make)
-one ZIS 105 truck
- seven or eight old harvest machines in the villages.
a. In January 1952 the Transport Court in Burgas tried the case of
NqApv, a bus conductor, native of NV lko TprnOVO,4 In
4es" a ticket to a passenger he had written leO lev instead
o_ 1,080 lev, but he bad written the proper amount in words and
his_sums were correct. For this error the court sentenced him
to have 25% deducted from his basic: salary for the year. He
worked on the bus line Burgas El bvo.
b. In February 1952 on the Burgas Posorie railway line near the
airfield of Berafovo a train coming from Burgas in the
direction of Pomorie struck a bus coming from Burgas towards
Stalin (formerly Varna). Two h::e-passengers were killed,
several wounded. There was no doubt that the bus driver,
Zelazko Tcholakov of Varna, was guilty. Because he was a
prominent CP 'activist' the Transport Court declared him
'not guilty'. The train engineer was sentenced to 10 years
in jail and a fine representing the cost of the bus repair.
4. "221'8 personnel:
a. Station Director was Toncho Geor is ev, about 40, native of Sitovo,
county Elkhovo. High school grad?:.ate, no technical knowledge. A
Communist. Before he became Station Director he wan member of the
caunL~, 6:cAwc ittce i.i: Elywva.
b. Technical Director was Dimiter Mishlenkov, about 50, of El von
Trained machinist. Employed 197-M37 in Germany. Good specialist.
c. Politichoski otgovornik (fnu) Velikov, about 35, of Malomirovo,
county l o Highschool education. Active Communist.
d. Bookkeeper Teodor Yanev, about 45, of Bolyarovo, county E"imov.,
a Coimnuniat.
e. About seven other officials, eight workers in the repair workshops
and about SO tractor drivers and their aides were permanently
employed. Forty more tractor drivers were hired for the harvest
season. Twenty-.wo drivers and their aides were employed
permanently. Five wori:ero art one official were attached to
each threshing machine.
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5. "The driver of a threshing machine received 1.16 lev plus one kilogram 300
grams
Plus wheat from every ton of threshed wheat. An aide received 0,92 lev
900 grams wheat. A worker received 0.98 lev plus 1 kilogram wheat.
AAfsecretary received 0.72 lev plus 400 grams wheat.) There was a deduction
12% for income tax from the :hole pay. When threshing barley a kilogram
of barley was accounted for as a kilogram of wheat, but the base was the
barley's price translated intc wheat price so that the workers received for
threshing barley about 70 kilograms of wheat instead of 100 kg as .or the
threshing of wheat. The 'norm' for a threshing machine in one season was
350 tons; I have done. 520 tons. For threshing above' the 'norm' the pay was
a little higher. Food was provided by the collective farm with which we were
working. At the end the collective deduc-ed 180 lev'from our pay for food
for three monthe. when we started to work we were
Inlthe middle of the season they s rid lev hdlad ancein advance.
were settled at the season's end.(threemonths). The a belance was paid;
the wheat was not distributed until the end of November. The rkerss in the
wor chop were paid from 300 to 660 lev a month: 300!lev to a worker, 660 to
a foreman-engineer. The combine drivers were very well paid. Some earned
8,000 lev and 5,000 kilogr of wheat per season.
6. "Fol every 100 kilogr. of threshed wheat the collective and the
paid 7 kilogr. 710 grams of wheat. For the combines the private earns
harvest. Y paid 11% of the
7. "The Morska Stroitelna Sekcia (Maritime Constr-action Branch) in B'gaa does
construction wor for c v 1 t `ansport in the District'! of Burg". in the fall
of 1;952 it was engaged or, the ollow'rg projecte:
a. Works connected with the cons ruction of the railway line Burgas
Stalin (Varna) within the seder Dolno Ezerovo-Kam znar, county
Pomorie. The bark was already finished, and workers were employed
on the constriction of :.ire lire. They worked on a piece-work
basis: 11 lev for digging out one cubic meter of earth and
transferring it to the bank. The workers pa:d for their food and
lived in damp barracks. The food was scant, housing conditions
bad and the pay very bad. Mazy workers were absent from work
(Telcachestvo - absenteeism'. l
b. On the civil airfield of Sarafcv. near Bi gae,a station building
was under onstr:.c~_LCn,
the builciir bF ~ r , I , area x 50m in the front of
-g was r ^aved w: "r. concrete. Passenger planes
nad to land and take of: from .nis area. There were no concrete
runways at th's airfield. P.bo?.;t 60 construction workers were
working there: skilled workers, bricklayers and concrete workers.
They earned more pay and had fetter consitions than those on the
railway project.
North of the village of Atn.nasevo, construction of a radio station for the
civil airfield in Sarafovo. About 25 men were' employed.
d. Near the railway cctatio= .. Burgas' 7apad (West) construction of two
apartment buildings for roLlvay wocn._?rs. About 100 workers were
employed.
8.
"Uride' the Plan for 1953 the Burgaa - nctruc.log: praach was
on the to start construction
Dolno Ezerovo Grudovo (formerly Srede.) railway line, which is to form
a local branch of the Bizzgas.,Scfia cte.
9? "The workers employed in the transpor1at.ior ,ildirg'materiuls were paid for
every transported ton. For loading, trar_sporti: and unloading at destination
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cne ton they received 4,70 lev. The workers paid for their own food. They
were working from -six a.m. to 11-121r.. They transported sand, gravel,
cement, etc."
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