TRADE UNIONS BLAST FOOD ORGANIZATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 456
• Publication Date: May 7, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO E3ROADCAS i S CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Food oupply
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
DATE
PUBLISHED Aug 1949
LANGUAGE Russian
O... C.. OI AND 31. AS AMINOIO. ITS CSAIONIIIION ON TNI IOTILATIOII
01 '.19 LONIINTS IN ANT V-1. TO AN ONAOTNOII]IO .d .I0. 10 COO
111/1110 IT AN. IITIOOOLTOOI 01 THIS TONY II /NONISITOO.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Profess ioua1Tnyye soruzy, No 8, 1949.
Food and marketing enterprises do not give adequate consideration to the
consumers' demands and make only a feeble effort to raise the quality or to
increase the variety of food stuffs,
Tho trade-union councils can do a great deal to improve the work of food
enterpriser, dining rooms, and cafeterias ei)ce one of their duties is to
coordinate within their republic, b av, or Oblast the combined activities of
tra4e _ions related to the pe?glotion of the workers' material welfare.
The unioue must exercise mass-er.ale supervision over the work of food stores,
dining rocks, cafeterias, and marketing centers, as well as over the punctual
delivery and storage of vegetables at cities and villages.
In addition, individual gardening and cattle raising muet be developed
emcag workers and employeeR. In this, the trade unions must be given direot
assistance. f'iznlly, a proper distribution of stores, dining rooms, U. storms,
food and marketing enterprises must be organized.
After the abolition of the ration card system the trade unions rela.ied their
control, coneiaering it no longer necessary. In this, they were, of courge,
mistaken. It is precisely at this time, when Soviet trade has expanded,
consumers' demands have grown, and the possibilities of catisfying them have been
greatly augmented, that the trade unions must give increased attention to pubiio
supervision over and active participation in the planning of goods deliveride to
the cities, rayons, oblaste, krayo, and republics.
At the beginning of 1949, the Moscow, Corlkiy, Tatar, Molotov, Chelyabinsk,
and a comber of other trade-union councils organized a mass inspection of the
preservation of vegetables, and the state of public supervision over the vegetable
storage houses of ORS (Division of Workers' Supplies) and those of the Trade
Ministry's enterprises. The trade-union councils attached plant; factory, and
local oamaitteas to the storage points of food markets and trusts. In this manner,
tens of thousands of tone of vegetables were saved.
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Thanks to file direct intervention of the councils, more than 200,000 workers
from the unions, commercial enterprises, and health institutions were enlisted
this year for inspection work. As a result, 190,000 coraaercial and food enter-
prises were inspected and 11',000 new din.li:g x?ocmis, stores, booths, etc., were
opened. The Moscow Oblast council, alone, organized 8,000 persons into in-
-speetion oommisslona and brigades. More than 3,300 commercial enterprises were
subjected to overhauling, 2(O cafetc-?iae uerc cpei.ed for workers on night ehifte,
and L=11. uiuiu ..c:p ._ .a 11 Ith r efr tg rs11oe and a vidnr
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assortment of foods.
The Moscow city trade-union council, t1-rough plant and factory committees,
inspected almost nine tenths of all the Larketing enterprises in the city to
'
e business.
determine whether they were prepared for the amreer
Similar inspections were carried out by the Azcrbaydzhan trade-union
council; as a result, about half of the food-dispensing establishments werev
ov,erhauled.
To make the inspection successes perruanent, the Roctov, Sverdlovsk,
and other councils assigned factory and plant committees to
Voroshilovgrad
,
thousands of stores and dining rooms for daily inspection. Supplementary to this
measure, the trade unions of the Voroshilovgrad Oblast elected 1,715 public
inspectors; the Smolensk Oblast elected 61,0; and the Tatar ASSR, 600.
The thoroughgoing nature of the present inspection campaign is exempli-
fied by the following: The trade-union council of the Belorussian SSR, having
examined tee repart of the trade-union committee of the construction materials
indnntrv_ discovered that the latter had failed to implement the VTsSPS de-
cision regarding food inspection; therefore, its central committee adopted
measures to increase such activities among the union of the Be?orussian SSR. Not
content with this, the council addressed a recuer+t to the local ministers of
Forestry and of Construction Materials to examine the work of the ORS a. a
cabinet meeting, aith a view toward eliminating the shoeteoaloge.
The Uzbek SSR's trade-union aon:il, upon exemtnation of the work of the
ORS of several of the largest e: terms I e to Rbahkent, uncovered serious short-
comings which were due to the unsatisfactory leader'chip of high economic
agencies and the failure of th, Ministry of Trade to exercise proper control.
The Council reaueeted di.ecu+e.a"on cf the matter at r, cabinet meeting, and adopted
measures towards establishing a Aock of r:crc?.andie and Its proper distribution.
The Voronezh tra'.e-union council, following a complaint of the committee c'
the Lipotsk Tractor Plant that its ORS had xen 1.,.i rn unfair allotment of mer-
chandise, took, part. In the cxex0_r.,,'.ion of ihV: food -.lens of the C last Executive
Committee; as a result, additional amoumte of Ornate end ewcetmeate were inaued
to the ORS.
In the city of A,ehhhabad. last June, the taede ~La'ons discovered an absence
in the stores of canned goods, ;cast, vinegar, an-7 m'noral water, all of which
are to great demand; they had not been delivered in time to the Turkmen SSR.
The republic's trade-union council placed the catt.,.r 'efo're the VTsSPS and at
the lattcr'e re0u^st, the Ministry of made USSR look step-, to have these pro-
ducts furnished to the republic's m=rl:et'ng crganiaatiens.
Very often goods which era not. to In W. on the market are lying at rupply
bases. In April of thin- year, tiie marketing organ,zat.'one of the Tatar PSSR,
Sabardinian ASSR, ilovo^ibirok, and other oblants failed to put to an order for
laundry soa;3, although there was a 3-:mand. for is in the stoup; and in Vologda,
Stalingrpd'; Avtrn'.-`;nn'; and Groznyy ollaet.r,, Ftu'ynt-Mer:Lcl ASSR, Moldavian SSR,
and Tndzhil- SSR, m._rket'ng organizr:t',rr.e ';a(? fell n,--Ie' vegetable oil,
which wa in demand.
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is 1,_ sc., -3 .11 u 1]w-: c of lrei;; in rogarit to other
products during the second quarter of 110. For Instance, in the marketing
^ystem of Rostov, a lack of naurage products, ,alt, headgear and other goods
vac discovered, while they were available at the whole ale warehouses.
Unfortunately, such things also exist today. Lhile the legitimate demand
of the populatton hus remains unr-atisfied, the fulfillment of the planned
t,irnover of goods 1s therel: adversely affected. Practical experience shows
that intervention by the trade un ons in this matter Is Beneficial.
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