ECONOMIC - HEAVY INDUSTRY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 239
• Publication Date: April 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
Economic Rea
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PUBLISHED Prague
DATE
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PUBLISHED Feb-Mar
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Czechosle7ak newspapers as indicated. (Information requested.)
COAL Alm IRON PROWCTION IN FEBRUARY -- Rude Pravo, No 52, 3 Mar 49
The Fobrrary plan for iron production in Czechoslovak foundries was ful-
filled 100.1 percent, and for steel 104.5 percent. The largest foundry enter-
prises fulfilled their plans as follows (in percent):
Enterprise Iron Steel
Vitkovice Ironworks 105.2 105.7
Banska a Hutni (Mining and Metallurgy) 102.1 99.7
Spojaao Ooelarny (United Steel lions) 85 109.7
These figures reflect the special efforts made in connection with the con-
test and pledge9 in honor of the Ninth Congrers of the Cce wrist Party 25-29 May.
The mines fulfilled their February plan as a whole by 99.9 percent, for
black coal by 99.4 percent, and for brown coal by 100.8 percent. Slovakia ful-
filled its plan by 77.7 percent. Individual fialds fulfilled their plane as
follows: for black coal, Ostrava 99.2 percent, Kladno 100, Pilsen 107.2, Trut-
nov 91.1, and Roaice 101; and for brown coal, Most 99.8 percent, Sokolov 102.1,
Southern Bohemia 159.1, and Southern Moravia 112.6.
lagged?behind, and production in the Slovensko (Slovakia) field fell below 80
percent in February.
The plan for coke production was fulfilled 106.5 percent at Ost ava, 114.3
percent at Kosice, and 106.b percent as a whole.
The In reason for the failure of the coal production plan vas that the
Doubrava nine, which ordinarily produces about 6 percent of tL3 total daily
production of the Oetrava-Yervin coal field, was not producing as a result of
a disaster. Otherwise, the production of this field was satisfactory. The
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CONSTI JCTION PROJECT
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At a Ministry of .Ynfrrmat.icn prese conterenoe on 17 February, 0. Stibor,
head of the construction department of the State Planning Office, discussed the
execution of the constru;t ion plan. HE, said that the government had already ap-
proved the basic plan for const?racticn amcunting to 8,7 billion crowns and the
second part of the plan railing for 21,7 billion crowns. About a third of the
to sal would be spent for Industrial building and a quarter for housing.
Too many buildings started before February are now unfinished and must be
carried over into the Five-Year Plan. The new production quotas of the Five-
Year. Plan make it necessary to assign priorities to such building projects and
to postpone leas important construction which was not finished during the two-
year plan until the 1949 plan has been fulfilled. Restrictions on starting
further construction will. continue through 1949 because too many building pro-
jects have been previously authar`.zed (10,000 in the Czech Provinces and at
least 5,000 In Slovakia).
The construction li.dustry will need more man power to complete its 1949
`Ian. The man power shortag. is w;rse now than at the beginning of the year.
f LTTER PIEDGES INCREASED PRODUCTION ??- Rude Pravo, No 51, 2 Mar 49
The smelting plant, at Celakonioc has pledged to increase prodv.^tlon of re-
fined popper for c meuni ce i- c'r. and wire from 250,000 pieces per day i?i February
to a million pieces per day by the time o.^ the Ninth Congress of the Coyvtvnist
Party 25-29 May.
New shearing machinery will be put in operation. Old. and Inefficient mola,
for casting ingots will be romoved and replaced with new ones, up to 50 percent
more efficient. The Installation of two new stools and the erection of a crane
for heavy trnneport in the rolling mill will reduce lose of time. The installa-
tion of two new induction furnaces will increase production in the foundry by
5,000 kilograms of furnace product and 3,000 kilograms of finished product per
day.
MINERS PLEDGE INCREASED PRODUCTION -- Rude Pravo, No 51, 2 Mar 49
The miners of the Stalin icoa7 mine in the Ostrava-Hrusova field have pledged
to increase their p coductior. by 69 tons per day to complete their 6-month plan
1v nays ahead of schedule. During those 10 days they will produce 8,460 tore
above plan.
The workers' collective plecges to cut production costs by 4.70 crowns per
ton, which will mean a saving of 1,152,440 crowns for a year's production of
215,000 tone. Instead of the 2,66 cubic meters of wood per hundred tone allowed
under the plan, 2.40 eubi-, meters will be used, providing a further saving of
433,500 crowns.
PORCEIAIS FACTORY EXCEEDS PLAN -- RrAe Pravo, No 51, 2 Mar 49
The February plan in the factory for industrial porcelain at Stara Role was
fulfilled 117.5 percent. The March plan Is 5 tons greater than the February plan.
CHE[4ICAL WORMS PLEDGE INCREASE -- Rude Pravo, No 51, 2 Mar 49
The pledgas cf the workers of the Bohumin factory of the Spolek pro Chemickou
a Eutni Vyrobu (Association for Che aical and Metallurgical Production), In honor
of the Finth Congress of the Communist Party, include an 11-percent increase in
the production of zinc white lead and a 5.000-kilogram Increase in the production
of corrosive sublimate by the time of the Ninth Congress, 25-29 May.
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