ECONOMIC - COOPERATIVES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 5, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFI`_'!,N M T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OF RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT Economic - Cooperati-es
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED t2SB
LANGUAGE Russian
OP TAR 9NIT/0 ITATt[ VITNIN TNI 11*0111 O{ 1RPIONA{I ACT NO
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CF ITS CORTINTS IN ANY SANNAR TO Al YNANTNONI010 PINION II PRO-
mintO N! 4t. NIPIODDCTION OF TNII PORN II PNONIIITID.
Soviet newspapers as indicated.
DATE DIST.
Jul 1949
NO. OF PAGES
3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
EuT:iNIAN TRDt: TRIAL COOPERATIVE NETWORK EXP.A1?S -- Sovetskaya Estoniya, No 227,
2k Sep 148
Nearly 1,000 persons have become members of industrial cooperative artele
in Estonian SSR during the present year. Fourteen new artele have teen started
In Tallin and in Tartu, Vil'y ndi, and Ehar'yuskiy uyezds. Recently an artel-
combine began operations in Kokhtla-Yarve.
Reny artele are expanding their production. During the past 8 months 113
new shops were equipped and put into operation under the direction of art-.;_s.
LITHUANIAN LIGHT INDUBTBY FAILS TO 191DUCE PicC1uUC1. lOT ICLCrL3 -?- Sovetskaya Litva,
No 221, 17 Sep 48
The enterprises of the textile, sewing? ar,t trust&, and the leather
and shoe trust of the Minictry of Liklt Indus-cry ;!Sinister, Tereshin), Lithuanian
SSR. have suffers-2 loseee in the first half of 1948 amounting to 4.7 million rubles
above plan, and exceedei ihei.: payrril ?uida by 5,977,000 rubles.
The "Ieliya" Sewing Fectory 5a V'_llryua (director, Domain) exceeded the
allotted amount of wool fabric- in the fi=st 6 Loris of 1948. A similar
situation exists at the, "T_11,1 c" *?.:! Fabrics ie tort' in Kaunaa, vhcre in the
first quarter of 191L" 9%-oduw`ti _n c 3t1+ increased 4~ rccnt. At the ".Kauno
audinyay" TextiL;, Fe':'?cry, 't 1o;' ae 6.11 percanz simply as the result
of fines and Sxc P?1c:'.v,y
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L. Rodin, Chief of the Procurement Division in thq Industrial CooperatiTo Adminis-
tration, reported at the conference that there must be radical reorganization in
chief products and 59 artels did not fulfill the plan for aesort;cnt of goods
conference of industrial cooperative workers tbtt the 190 industrial cooperative
enterprisnn of the Moldavian SEEP, which produce construction materials and con-
sumer goods, are not fulfilling the plan and have serious deficiencies In their
work. Industrial cooperatives fulfilled the production plan of only 8 out of 30
A. P. Reznik, Deputy-Chairman of the Administration of Industrial Coopora-
140MAVTAN 000P1MATLV FAIL `G.i 1IG 7:Ci 0 -- ;;,~.c,,akaya Mnilda iya, Iio'18n, 16 Sep 48
MOX;DAVIAN'ABTEIS MEET PLANS -- Sovetskaya Moldaviya, No 194, 29 Sep 48
rubles' worth of commrditiee; or l:20 percent of the 1948 plan, and Artel imeni
Frunze 425,700 rubles' worth of commodities, or 103 percent of the 1948 plan.
The "Dnestr" Artel of the Soroky Interrayon Industrial Union and "Kustshveyprom"
(Domestic Sewing Industry) Artel of the Tiraspol' Interrayon Industrial Union
have also completed their year plans.
ARMENIAN INDtETRIAL COOPERATIVES CRITICIZED -- Kcmmunict, No 215, 10 Sep 48
At a meeting of the psrty organization in the Administration of Indtiutrial
Cooperatives under the Council of Ministers, Armenian SSR, the Administration
was severely criticized for failing to adjust itself successfully to the new
problems resulting from abolition of the rationing system. Only 95,9 percent
of the gross production plan of tho industrial coopera'.ives of the Republic for
the first 7 months of 1948 and 38.7 pe 'cen', of the plan for assortu nt of goods
were completed. A large amount of finished goods h-e piled up in she wa_ehousen
of Industrial rroperatives and cannot be disposed of because of its poor quality.
Labor productivity has decreased in the artels.
SAZA:H TRADE SYSTEM EXPANDS -- Kazakhetanekaya Latviya, No 19L, 26 Sep 48
Consumers'eooperatives in the Eazakh SSR have opened 427 stores and
stalls since the government decree on development of cooperative trade in
cities and workers' settlements. These st'.es trade in Alma-Ata, Karaganda,
Temir-Tau, Balkhash, Leninogcrsk, Semipalatinsk, and other industrial centers
of the Republic. Cooperative organizations have purchased from kolkhoz workers
197 million rubles of various agricultural products since the beginning of
1948, including 76,200 centners cf meat, 10,000 ceniners of fish, and 9,175
centne:s of suggar. Development of cooperative trade has aided in lowering prices
in the markets. The Kazakh Consumere' 'Union plans -.o 40 additional stores
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and stalls by the end of the year.
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IVANOVO TEXTILE INDUSTRY SNCW3 000D RESULTS - Pravda Vostoka, No 194, 29 Sep 48
tories undertook additional obligations to economize an extra 348 tons-of- cotton
Ivanovo 0hl9et tertiie Industry pledged to complete the 1943 plan early, to
turn out 27,976,0) r-etcrs of unbleached cloth and 21 million meters of finishod
fabrics, and to reduce production costa 80 million rubles. Textile workers of
_Tvan,vo Oblast have already 1moduc9d 3,900 tons of cotton yarn, 25,335,000
meters of unbleached cloth, and 21,431,000 meters of finished cotton fabrics.
Ivanovo Oblast textile industry conserved 1,117 tone of cotton and 285 tons of
yarn and lowered production costs 90 million rubles in 7 months. Textile fac-
o Mgrta, "Srasnvy Prof Intern,' the Suuysko-Tezinskiy Combine, the Frasnovolga
Combine, and the Teykovo Combine are the leading textile establishments of this
'Construction of a plant prnduclrng such consumer goods as kerosene stoves,
band mills, kitchen stoves, iron stoves,-and metal benches is planned in the
settlement ofSirza. he plant will turn out one million rubles' worth of com-
NEW CONSUM G001)6 PLANT PLANNED -- Sammunist, No 212, 7 Sep 48
operation in the second quarter 1949.
ACCE33QRY PLANT EXCEEDS PLAN FOR FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY -- Sovetskaya Iatviya No 225,
22 sep 48
The "Teentiba" Accessory Factory (director, Groblis) recently completed the
? 1948 plan and pledged to produce an additional 760,000 rubles' worth of goods
for the footwear industry by the end of 1948. In the past 8 months, production
costs dropped 37 percent over the 9 percent p"escribed by the plan, and savings
totaled 600,000 rubles, 100,000 rubles more than foreseen by the plan.
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