9,276 CO-OPS NOW OPERATING IN POLAND

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• Publication Date: December 20, 1949
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x?276 CO-OPS NOY OP~R{1TING IN POLAND
In the peat year, the cooperatives have been strengthened, their structure
revitalized, and their operations greatly ozpaadod.
Ae of 1 October 1949, 9,267 cooperatives were operating 31,5 retail out-
lets (6,000 more than in January), about 600 whaleaale outlets, and about 8,000
factories.
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lunch rooms will be taken over. e e ,
which Epolem ought to devote some attention.
fiural cooperatives offer the moat direct and effective means of uniting
Tha Spolem Conoumers? Cooperative has about 14,000 urban outlets, of which
11,000 handle food, -~
The SRS (Chief Council of Cooperatives) t~,e stressed the need of further
ezi.aneiaas and of a planned distribution network. Spolem will, no doubt, ezpand
its orgeaisaticnal activities, The network in the workers' areas should be in-
creased sad the outlets supplied with commcditiee needed in the area. "'here ie
still a shortage of outlets on the outskirts of cities and too often the mor,t
necessary articles ere not supplied, even when no shortage exists,
This year, Spolem took a livelier intr,reet in food service. According to
the 1949 plea, 1,000 cooperative lunch rooms x111 be opened, and 366 factory
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the millions of rural groups with the socialized econo~gy. The reorganization
of the cooperative movement in the peat year had its etrongeet impact on the
development of rural cooperatives. In 1946 the total salsa of rural consumers'
cooperatives and cooperatives eell_ing farm products amounted to 27,211,000,000
zlotys. Ln 1947, they were 74,705,e00,000 and in 19li8, ealee of :amopo>*oc
Chlopeks cooperatives were 147,568,000,000 zlotys,
oc Chlopeks needs to function better in its purchase activities,
in thS~ribution of factory products to the rural population, and Lz the
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training of peraonnol~ Tha NRS meetlrig criticized the cooperative adminletrntion
Pox lazity 'ire maintaining schedules on r,-ntrar,t deliveries. A c~aaer asaociatlrn
between Samopomoc Chlopska awed producers rill improve this situation.
6torkars' coaperatlvea serve to fill the demand f~,i? minor products not hand-
led in the mesa production o3 state industries. tnase cooperatives also produra
caanoditios which require a greet deal of expert hand rock. titorkera? coaperatives
are thus a vanguard to aetionalisea industry, a place heidivu~tor~.;s by private
industry. To avoid a shortage of certain types of commaditlee, there must tae
grester activity Sn the organization of uer cooperations to tako the place of
private anterpriaes as they eJ?,s liyutdstad,
Workers' cooperatives should increase their activities in organizing handi-
crnftd. Of the 140,000 small artisan shops, about 90,000 are opera';ed xithout
ar~Y hired help, which Sndicates that the time Ss rips to take the artisan ra k-
shopa into the cooperatioes.
liorkers' cooperatives of the handicapped should be treated separately and
cantrnlized since they beadle the training and the organization of the rorY of
the hmdionpped.
Zha aim of the NRS io to increase the membership of coaperatives in the
course of the 6 years fram the present 5 million to 8 million, with er~ecinl
emphasis oa lncraaaiag the membership of rural cooperatives until they exceed
ell others.
TOBACCO ItiDUISTRY NEBTS 3-YEAR PLAN -- RzeczpospoJ.ita, No 291, 22 Oct 49
The tobaoco industry met the Three-Year Plen on 4 Cctober, 88 days ahead of
schedule. Total war materiel used is the production amounted to 5,969,990 kilo-
greme. The value of the proruct rae 242,648,000 zlotys in 1937 prioee. The
production of tobacco products in the third quarter of 1949 increased 37 percent
over the corresponding period last year.
FAT PRODUCTION INCREAS&S -- Rzeczpoepolita, No 301, 1 Nov 49
Total value of products manufactured by the Fat Processing Plante in the
third quarter of 1949 emo+nzted to 77,254,5W zlotys in 1937 Prices, an increase
of 22,958,5 Prevar zlotys or 42.3 percent over the production of the third
quarter of 1948. .
About 21,071 teas of oleaginous seeds were processed. Refined oils and
solids e][oeeded the prodnotioa for the coaparnble period of 1948 by 1,881 tans,
and production of margarine mounted to 5,032 tone, or m increase of 36.4 per-
cent over the third quarter of 1948.
RAYON FACTORY COMF'LET1~ PLAN -- Trybune Ludu, No 297, 28 Oct 49
The State Rayon F'nctory is Tomnesor Mazoriecki achieved the Three-xear "rim
in mid-October rich the production of over ~ mil7.,ion kilograms Sn the filament
yarn division, 3,500,000 kilogr'eme Sn the CS 3 division, sad 5 million kilogreme
in the staple fiber division.
FLOORING PLANT RECONDITIORED -- Trybuna Ludu, No 291, 22 Oct 49
The parquet manufacturing comb?ne in Orzechor, Poznan YoJevodztro, suffered
only minor damages during th9 war, but, under private ownership, remained largely
unused acd gradually deteriorated. The factory rae exielized in 1948, and since
then, anachiaee have been overhauled and noderh methods introduced.
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iCax kuaxn as the Masm~y i~terpriaes .of the hoods 7Producta Iudnatry ~Bo 1, the
combine 1s ono of the largest of its klxsd Sn koland. It fills the requirements
o~ the entire Cegiolski plant for laminated Bakelite, delitere ?eneere to ell the.
furatiture factories in the oountry, and furnishes oak and beschxood floors to
5C(~'b .T.. OF' RS2AII. 6TOAES ?- Trybuna Ludu, ~0 291, 22 Oct 49
It As frequently noticed that nex housing pro~ecta era not proQidad xith
adequate shopping facilities, especially Sn eubusban areas. Iu the canter of
Gdansk, for exampl?, there is one retail store per 650 residents, xhila Sn the
suburban districts there is one outlet per 5,470 ressidente. Rt the nex housi-ag
p:;aa~~t in the Mokotox suburb of Yersax, 2,070 tenants have to shop at a tiny
ahact teaporerily erected is the midst of the structures. Ttie dlrectise of the
Beonoaic Comaittee of the Cowacil of Ministers stating that housing pro~ecta
cannot bo approeed xithout pa~oper ehopging and service facilities seems to haxa
been disregarded.
a tendency for retail outlets ender the ,uriediction of a specific industry to
carry only goods produced by that iadtu3try, instead of carrying yell balageed
stores of related coaeeoditiee.
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