MORE CONSUMERS' GOODS AVAILABLE

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• Sequence Number: 691
• Publication Date: November 9, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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In 1949, cooperatives were included within the framework of the Economic
Plan and their activities coordinated with the requircments of the financial
program a proved by the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers. it has
been a crunial year for Polish cooperatives, a year of development and organi-
zstiorinl consolidation. Their membership has increased by 800,000 in the first
8 months of the current year to the present status of about 5 million. In view
of the fact that trade-union members, small farmholders, artisans, and (armbands
are potezltial members of cooperatives, the above figure might well reach the
7.5- 8-million mark.
During the same period, a network of cooperative retail stores developed
in towns and villages, with 2,918 stores added in towns and 3,584 villages, making
a total of 31,526 retail stores by the end of September. There also -fare 598
wholesale outlets and 7,929 manufacturing unite.
The entire network is supervised by 9,267 cooperatives which, in turn, are
directed by nine central cooperative offices and three top state-controlled
cooperatives.
The major handicap of the rural cooperative system is a lack of specialized,
socially-minded personnel and of adequate facilities: too few warehouses, scales,
rolling stock, etc.
One of the most pressing tasks of the Central Organization of Farm Coopera-
tives "Peasant' Self-Help" will be professional and special training of personnel
and improvement of purchasing and supply activities.
This applies also to the Central Organization of Consumers' Food Cooperatives,
known as "Spolem" comprising 14,000 retail stores of which 11,000 come strictly
under the category of consu:-aers' food cooperatives.
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The 970 stores of Central Dairy Cooperatives supplying the urban population
with dairy products worth 7 billion zlotys also belong to the category of con-.
sumers' cooperatives.
were 110,526,000,000 zlotys, or 108 percent of the plan.
Finally, the most recent outfit is the Central Organization of Truck Farm
Cooperatives which supplies city workers with vegetables and fruit. The lack
of experienced personnel is to be blamed for the unsatisfactory functioning of
these cooperatives in the last months. 1?:oreover, the cooperatives do not bare
sufficient warehouse space to absorb this year's bumper crop of vegetallea and
fruits.
The food -0ndustry'e production for September was above plan. The fermentation
industry produced 21'f,u00 b.ectoliters of beer, 179 percent of plan; 3,940 hecto-
liters of wine, 153 percent; and 14,524 hectoliters of fruit mast, 116 percent.
The candy industry produced 2,2.O tone of various kinds of candies, 119 percent
of plan, and 148.5 tone of chocolate, 1-1 percent of plan. The coffee and food
substitute industry produced 227 tone of puddings and baking power, 249 percent
of plan; 2,324 tons of coffee substitutes, 1COtercent; and 1,790 tons of dried
chicory, 168 percent.
VINEGAR FACTORY COMPLEPES PLAN -- Rzeczpospolita, No 276, 7 Oct 49
The CC3 Spolem Vinegar and Mustard factory in Walbrzych completed its yearly
plan on 4 October. By the end of 1949, the factory will produce 2y0,000 liters
of vinegar above plan.
MORE DAIRY PRODUCTS -- Rzeczpospolita, No 276, 7 Oct 49
In 1948, the Dairy Cooperatives supplied the nation with approximately
18,000 tons of butter, 216 million liters of mill:, and 215 million eggs, while
for the first 8 months in 1349, the Dairy Cooperatives supplied 13,867 tons of
butter, 186 -million .liters of milk, and 247,000,000 eggs.
DEMAND FOR MARGARINE INCREASES -- Rzeczpospolita, No 276, 7 Oct 4o
It is anticipated that be the end of 1949, approximately 17,100 tons of
margarine will be produced .bile the planned production was 15,000 tons. Pro-
duction during 1948 was 13,900 tons. Approximately 1,800 tons of margarine will
be produced during October even thou,sh the total demand by the state and co-
operative wholesale outlets is 2,850 tons.
The demand for refined oil is also great and for this reason the fats in-
dustry increased its orginal production plan for October in order to place 1,460
tons of refined oil on the market this mouth. The pruduetiOu plan for "Ceres"
margarine was increased from 225 to 270 tons.
PLEDGE 700,000 TONS OF SUGAR -- Zycie Warazawy, No 262, 23 Sep 49
This year's bumper sugar-beet crop will provide for increased sugar pro-
duction, The plan to produce 620,000 tons of sugar will be exceeded, as sugar-
mill workers have pledged to produce 700,000 tons of sugar this year.
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WAR'.-3W CW Uli( FACTORY TO EXPAND -- Zycie Werezavy, No 261., 22 Sep 49
The clothing factory at Number 4 Topolska Street in the Groahow suburb of
Warsaw, is not y:t completed, but already employs 800 people. About 3,500
will be employed before June 1950, mostly women. The work is entirely mechanised
and organized for assembly line production. About 15,000 pieces of clothing
were prsduced from 22 July to the present time. It is expected that in 1950
the factory will handle 25,000 myter- sf material daily.