ECONOMIC - CONSUMERS' GOODS, FOOD, COOPERATIVES, RATIONING

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 288
• Publication Date: June 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION
cooperatives,
DATE DIST. /4 Jun 1952
NO. OF PAGES 5
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The "Mardesic" Sardine Factory is located 1,500 meters south of Zadar,
about 100 meters west of the highway to Bibinje. About 300 workers, most of
whom are vome. are employed at the factory, which is equipped with old ma-
ehiuery of uala Dtirled type. !Root of 116 prudU LLUII 113 exported to Great
Britain in exchange for unidentified commodities.
The factory has a Fiat truck, an unidentified truck, and a car for the
director's use.
The factory to guarded by two guards at night, who are armed with Italian
rifles. One of the guards is a d cabled veteran formerly of the RST-.
The factory is composed of the following buildings, as shown on the ap-
pended map:
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
Economic - Consumers' goods, food,
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No 1 is a structure with s. ground floor and basement 25 x 10 x 15 meters
in dimension. It is roofed with corrugated asbestos-cement. The structure is
used for offices.
No 2 is a masonry structure in the form of an B, the base of which is
150 x 15 meters in size; the other sides i90,x 15, 10C x 15, and 40 s 15 A
meters in size. The structure which forms the base of the E in roofed with
slabs of corrugated asbestos-cement, while the other three struct?.erea are roofed
with saw.-tooth roofs with skylights. The structure which forma the base of the
E contains the sardine drying roost, the workshop, and the storehouse. One 10C x
15-meter structure is the varehousa for bottled sardines, the other contains the
~chlnier for the m-nnfactu~r11 of boxes and the 1&0 x 15 structure contains the
kettles and the olive oil warehoube.
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No 3 is a masonry fuel depot, 7 x 4 x 3 meters in dimension, with a gabled
tile roof.
No 5 In a masonry smokestack 46 meters high located in the structures desig-
nated under No 2.
No 4 is an electric transformer station, 2 x 2 x 7 meters in dimension,
which. recei?'es elentric. -rover from the Sibenik Electric Power Plant.
No 6 is a wall on the left of the factory, This wall is 1.5 meters high,
40 centimeters wile. and 240 meters long,. Broken glass is scattered along its
located in 7cdsr at?aat 250 raters from the :eraria asal.i crossroads on the left
of the hlghwav to -:eraria. About +?00 people, mostly women; are employed here.
The factory operates in three sh,.tts from 0600 to 1400 hours, 1400 to 2200
hours, and from 2200 to 0600 hours. It produ?_ee nets, net thread, and rope of
The Fish Carton and Ce; Factory IT'?'ornica Ribarskog Korica i Krona) is
The fa.- ,,o-.7 has a ^-a p?er.try a repair shop? and
slating of old type machines, Eight of which work on nets
There is one Fiat truck for the transport of nets.
A to3cc:o fa-tort' is _o:ated on uli_ a Toeip Gerdia in Zadar. About 300-400
people. mostly women; are employed here The factory operate _a two shifts:
from :600 to 1400 h.rirs and from 11-00 to 2200 hours. It produces Neretva, Kosara,
Sutieska and IVrmitor garettes. Tobacco ie procured from Herzegovina
and Y.acedoo.ta. The facto-y has a Lodge t.r ck.. No gaards, armed with Italian
rifles. are o_ co_ty at night,
The Fish ii: nt.: Soap Factor r r or a RtC_ails 1,11Ja I Sapa*_a; is located
on the per_r'hery of Zeder t.hr he hwa-7 from Bar`agno to Puntamina- and borders
on the feel depot . A out. =C, me-z, arol wove: are employed here The factory pro-
ducee fish oil' ani reap, Two guards- armed with :talian rifles, are on duty at
night..
is illzmitated at _night.
2 meters high. Gro..nI glass is scattered along the tot of the wall; also, barbed
a machine unit can-
and three on thread.
Two g,:arde. armed with 'ftalia. e: yinee are on duty at night.. The factory
is enclosed on all four s:.des by a wall abor_r 2 kIlome'ters im circumference and
The 'Ax-ssr.a i;`.r Fc~: :.y i';c.r ?'_ce Ma: a Fa ie to:a?.eci Au Barragno.
Stan`o .-lariy, who ac.oTt. 42 yea. 5 o1l le the airector. The factory employs
200-250 men and women and prciL:es Maraerh1.ao, Kr'oakoa-ac, Me:_ta, Fellinkovac,
Anisette, ..:...L Marmn.o c. :_yi: urs. The factory has a Dodge truck, Three Lpsards,
armed with Ita1_.an r:f_.es are on .in y at night,
The :.~-e Factory ~Ivcrr.ica Leda, -F located in 9aldeghisi radon, ulica
Mclotuva iz 1.Iar, Kato Gerula 1s the director= About 30 people are
emploved her?. The factory produces ice for the sardine factory, for fishermen,
for various miiltary messes, and for the population of Zadar.. The factory has
a motor va?, of vn.i leotif:ed type. A guars armed with an Ita? ian rifle is on
duty at night.
The Mutcipal Slaughterhouse ie located about 140 meters from the Ceraria-
Casali crossroads on the highway to reraria.. Juro Grain 3.s tha director. Nine
workers are employed here, Benito; the brother of the source was among those em-
ploved. The R.Ar.ai Frio ee suopliee. meat (beef; .Lamb; veal, and pork) to the
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troops stationed iri Zadar, the state restaurante, atul a small amount to butchers
for sale to the civilian population.. Most of the livestock is procured from
Sfbenik, but some is procured from farms near Zadar,.
concrete en-
barrarks. The dir ?nrate and labor units are located in a large
closure aboc`. 3 `.A: a high; 100 meters long, and 60 meters wide. The directo-
rate is located in a two-story 's,.ailding_ The director is Georgio Gracini; the
assista.=t Cs re :tnr to Gboea.--. si :`a.sic. The head of the butchering unit is Nicola
Gracin. There are eight employees.
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lireetoci, inteet'aes Gashed art t _ed casirugs are salted and shipped mostly to
Zagret^ , : ipe e or_s' gr ed to ' %t.y shops
Meat. E ars'._rr ,,I VI
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which rt~
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does tained not A wit. ratio:. :-ari..-
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First gbe. rt_,gf pe on the hoop;: As a butcher,
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third grade t?e?'fa h~t?
the Boa:-..e re_e'_?td 1:O d'-,ar_ net per day: Forty 3_ners monthly was kept back
for the ~.abor
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befo.e. t`.e yar . !:'^.e rro er y .,t' ow Agar:=? to M oo a .i Setestiani The pant
occupier: a t o Lt"'-- mso r str.u 2? re. s:t..t+led _7, an area of about 300 square
meters it front. of o?h.- railrosJi etat.:o:o The str'u=t?are is divided into a slaugh-
tering se_tion aid se:t_one far. pro.eEeirg :mat, .be stables, located in a large
000 ovule an, 200.300 head of cattle.
courtyard, ':an meld a reserve of IO,QOG - 'c,
Slaughter -o?8 to lore 'ny a modern m+.hod. fo'rr head of cattle being slaughtered at
a tine. Same :es.,aed for export are ^ut. is half and the hair removed. Those
destines for inten,a.- ~:onsumption or for workers are made into sausage, This
plant e:.aightArs the most live.eto: ; -,.s, Yutgosia?la. From March to G_toher, 500-
600 cove are ela:ghtered daily. 1`0-20O are slaughtercd in other mo:oths. Thirty
to 40 ratt:e. are slaughtered a day
Of ' h~ e.* _ _- h`rr -d le:) a-e made into svssage and smoked for vror kern;
the otbere are exported to Western. Germeay t.nd Austria. The ecrs, fee., and
viscera are destb ed for internal one~tpttan. Atout half the beef is exported
to Milan,, while the other half is destined for internal cansumpti.on.
From March to 0-tobero the factory provides its 350-400 workers with 35-40
quarts of sausage meat and. 30 quarts of smoked meat daily. Therefore, workers
regard this factory as excelling others in Yugoslavia.
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, 'eels and 30-50 sheep being butchered
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The, 'Garrilaric" Factory (Toearna "Gavriloric") in Petrinju butchers 150
swine and 30-50 cattle daily. It produces 12,000 (300-gram., 500-gram, and
1 - em), nats of soiled steer and of beef goulash.
The Smoked Meat Factory aahomesnata Trdvstriig in Sremaka Mitrooica pro-
cesses 50-60 swine daily ir:to smoked meat
r he "29 -.qo^emtar" 5alam,47 s"1.cry i Subotica is second only to the factory
in Si?_ i::. regard to s n;:ghterirg-
.'he Salami e d Smoked Feet Pleat 'Sahompanata Irdc,.atriea Salame) in Zenrua
processes a mob haller amount of :eat tha:s the above-.named factories. It in
located soz:th of the Belgrade. .7.ag: e". highway about 3 kilometers from Zeman.
The food' sits .ti.orf i:, Pi,jelca shrive a 1s k of x?tal foods. A mrath's supply
of rati.ore ,q a~,. -1.v ! uff:c eot. for 10 to 12 days- The black market is in high
repute In. srit" of 97< ix~x:-esai;tle p_tce Pork 3.s 550 600 dinars per kilo-
gram, fat, 500 dIn re, `00 .. ,Oc; dinars;, sugs.r, 400 dinars,; coffee, 2,000
dinars, and f13z. 166 diva: c. ".iirefined atgar has finally been distributed to
the pop.1at ioy,
The food s't t .c :,. lads: :a afrioa Vital foods are ra'io:.ed and in-
adequate., ,U th,oagh :here 4-E. mach 3_s-: orate; : among the people, they do not dare
to show the '.issatiafact lor. p2bl_r"ly for fear of the corsequer.ces
Q1 py1? ~~/`,~, ~: v;1~Ze?. m~1' ig~ Cl:t ?:! free. sele in the market of the Centr
Ration -.arle are valid for., 1' kilograms of flour ',wheat or :rye, per month
for the heed of the fan. ly and 5-6 kclogrumte per month for each member of the
family; 14 ail.ograns of :.ors meal for a family of five; i,2 kilograms of lard
for the head of the family and 5-6 silograms for a family of five to six; 200
grams of soap per month per laborer an' 1G0 grams per month for each member of
the family.
A factory for the spirr.irg a^:d weaving of jute for sacking is :Located in
MMladFvio:a The fa, o_y has 25,'? ~or:tMrs -rho vook ir: three shifts. The factory
consists of a tvoWeiary btiil'-nq, approximately 60 by 2.0 meters in size, which
conteina the spina sect3.on and a roild_ag of the acme size, whl.+;h contains
the veavLhg &.it and has 40 textile artisans.
The district Association of Farm Work Cooperati"es has its heedqumrters in
Sveti Petar :+ Goriziji, In 1948; this association hai its beadq..arters in A3dov-
se ir_a. It was then named the "Aaproza" iOooperative and was charged with procur-
ing and distribttirg fru:.t to mark'tt.
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a. Warehouse for bottled sardines
b. Shop for the manufacture of boxes
c. Kettles and olive oil warehouse
i`uel depot
Electric t:ansformer
Smokestack
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The association has a president, a vice-president named iris, a com-
mercial officer named Maras, and various offices, including administrative and
personnel offices. Offices and warehouses are located in the former olive re-
finery.
The P x utions of the asses:;eTirr? are to pro~d.e.for reseruee, supply farm
work cooperatives, negotiate contracts with landowners, and stimulate vegetable
production. The association has the right to negotiate with private farmers
for the farmers to furnish 6,000 dinars worth of vegetables during the season,
while the asaocietiou is to furnish the farmers 100-108 kilograms of grain per
year, J liter of oil per month, and ~ kilogram of sugar per month.
Vegetables are bought by the association at a very low price. Eight dinars
are paid for a kilogram of salad greens, which are sold in Rijeka or elsewhere
for 80-100 dinars per kilogram.
The association employs 15C employees fclerk:5, and 30 workers.
appended map follows]
Logend
I. Offices
2. Base of the E-shaped structure: sa'dine
workshop, and warehouse
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