EXTEND SOCIAL SECURITY COVERAGE; ORDER PRICE DECREASES

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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 354
• Publication Date: September 6, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL ~QHFl~E~~~AI
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT Sociological; Economic
LANGUAGE
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily, semiweekly newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Tirana
DATE
PUBLISHED 28 Feb - 4 Jul 1950
THIS DOCUNINT CONTAIN! INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UHITIJ STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT SO
U S. C..SIANO 32, AS ANCTDED. ITS TRANSMISSION On THE REVELATION
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HISITSO ST TLAW, I REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM OISI FROHISITID IS PRO'
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
DATE DIST. 4 Sep 1950
NO OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
EXTEND SOCIAL SECURITY COVERAGE;
ORDER PRICE DECREASES
WILL COVER ARTISANS -- Tirana Bashkimi, 28 Feb 50
Tirana (Albanian Telegraph Agency) -- The Albanian government has issued an
order extending social security to cover the members of artisans' cooperatives.
According to this order, members of artisans' cooperatives and their families
are assured medical assistance from the social security funds contributed by the
cooperative organization and the Social Care Administration.
Artisan:' cooperatives will be required to contribute 15 percent of the re-
muneration they 'eceive for their work for medical care and social assistance
for their members. On the basis of the funds accumulated from these contribu-
tions, a quota will be assigned in the national budget for the pensions granted
by the state to members of artisans' cooperatives and their families.
Members of artisans` cooperatives are regarded as insured as of 1 January
1950. Accordingly, contributions and the expenditures authorized in the state
budget are to begin as of that date.
PRICES LOWERED ON FREE, RATIONED MARSETS -- Tirana Bashkimi, 1 Apr 50
Tirana (Albania Telegraphic Agency) -- By a decision of 31 March 1950, the
Council of Ministers has irdered lower prices on the free and rationed markets.
The decision contains the following provisions:
In view of increased production of Albanian industry and further develop-
ment of agriculture and stock raising, the following price reductions shall take
effect 1 April 1950:
On the free market, the price oi' sugar shall be reduced 28.57 percent,
macaroni 20 percent, beans 34 percent, cigarette paper 20 percent, cotton goods
an average of 20 percent, silk goods an average of 28 percent, domestic liquors
10.2-0 percent, and other articles 30-4C percent.
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On the rationed market, the price of marmalade shall be reduced 20 per-
cent and that of eggs 20 percent.
The new prices will increase the buying power of the workers by about 300
million lek in 1950.
The Ministries of Commerce and Finance are responsible for the execution
of this de^ision. The Ministry of Finance shall see that the differences between
the old and new prices are made up from the budget. The district executive com-
mittees are responsible for organizing the equitable application of this decision.
NEW SCHEDULE OF RATION POINTS -- Tirana Bashkimi, 9 Mar 50
In Decision No 123 of 2 March 1950, the Council of Ministers issued a new
schedule of ration points for the purchase of industrial goods. Under this schedule,
holders of A cards will receive 528 points, B cards 416 points, C cards 347 points,
and D cards 192 points. Children up to 10 years old will receive 189 points.
Holders of ordinary cards will receive 13~1 points. Pregnant women will receive
224 points. Shock workers will receive La bonus of J 38 points. Foreigners of
Grades I and II are entitled to 968 points. Foreigners of Grades III and IV will
receive 623 points.
The Planning Commission is instructed to provide the stocks of goods for
distribution under the point system, and the Ministry of Commerce is responsible
for their equitable distribution.
This decision is effective as of the date of its publication in Bashkimi.
SCORES POOR QUALITY, WORKING CONDITIONS -- Tirana Puna, 4 Jul 50
Tirana -- At the third meeting of the second plenary session of the Profes-
sionalr'1'rad 7 Union, held 30 June, the president, Gogo Nushi, male the following
statementsg
"Quality of production is one of the most essential conditions for the de-
velopment of socialist competition. We cannot have competition with bad prod-
ucts; we cannot develop it with products such as those that come out of the rub-_
ber factory at Durres, the shoe factory at Tirana, and many other enterprises.
We do not want such products. They do not improve the lives of the people, but
waste materials and the Ir..bor of the workers for nothing.
"Winter is approaching, and measures ought to be taken to repair buildings
and furnish them with the necessary equipment. Let there be no repetition of last
year's conditions, when workers in many factories slept on atone floors covered
only with their coats. Workers should be furnished with mattresses, blankets,
and stoves.in their dwellings. Last year in the lumber mill in Puke, for instance,
stoves were not installed until March, when the hot weather begins."
HOSPITAL OPENED IN GJINOKASTER -- Tirana Bashkimi, 7 Jun 50
Gjino%aster (Albanian Telegraph Agency) -- During the last few days the
State Hospital in Gjinokast?r moved to its new building, which was completed at
the end of 1949, The new hospital has a capacity of 210 beds, but will be en-
larged in the future. The pediatric section consists of 1hh rooms, the pathology
section 15 rooms, the surgery section 26 rooms, and the contagious diseases section
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23 roo;as. The hospital also has two surgical wards,-two wards for radiotherapy,
and a large hall A number of rooms have been assigned to the pharmacy, per-
sonnel, etc -
The'new hospital is equipped with all modern hospital facilities, includ-
ing X-ray equipment.
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