POOR WORK ORGANIZATION IN USSR COAL MINES

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• Publication Date: December 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORII
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL
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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD No.
COUNTRY USSR DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Economic - Coal
HOW
PUBLISHED Bimonthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED' Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED Jul - Aug 1950
LANGUAGE Russian
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING TAD NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE SEAMING OF ESPIONAGE ACT ED
U. S. C.. SI AND SE. AS AMENDED. ITS TNANSMISSION OR THE SET0LATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANT MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORISED PER 00 IS PRO-
HIMITEO MT LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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POOR WORK ORGANIZATION IN USSR COAL MINES
A number of USSR coal mines have been slow in reaching their planned ca-
pacity. Among them is one of the large mines of the Kuzbass, the Yagunovskaya
Mine of the Kemerovugol' Combine. This mine was put into operation at the end
of 1947 and after almost 2- years has attained only 53 percent of its planned
capacity. One of the chief reasons for this was that only 20 percent of the
mine's construction work was finished when the mine started operations. This
included social and public buildings 65 percent, living quarters more than 25
percent, industrial buildings almost 20 percent. Since the building for the
compressor was not constructed, the mine was not assured of the compressed air
necessary to operate the pneumatic drills. The water supply system was unfin-
ished.and no roads from the settlement to the mine and to the nearby city of
Kemerovo had been constructed.
According to the plan, Yagunovskaya Mine should and could achieve its
full productive capacity operating on an interrupted week schedule, that is,
with 307 working days per year. Although the equipment of the mine complies
with the plan, the average daily output is only 53 percent of the planned ca-
pacity and the mine is actually operating on an uninterrupted week schedule
which requires a considerable number of extra workers, complicates organiza-
tion of production, and makes it difficult to increase labor productivity and
to lower production costs of coal.
The same situation prevails in some of the Donbass mines. For example'
the plan for restoring Mine No 5 of the Nesvetayantratsit Trust of the Rosto-
vugol' Combine to complete capacity provided for a 307-day work year, which is
the interrupted week. Nevertheless, in spite of the fact that hoisting, under-
ground transport, surface installations, and other technical elements conform
to the plan, the average daily coal output only amounts to 75 percent of the
plan and the mine is actually operating on the uninterrupted week schedule.
This again requires a considerable number of workers above-the plan, lowers
the labor productivity and raises the production cost of a. ton of coal above
the plan.
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At present, a number of mines in the Donbass are successfully introducing
the cycle work system at mine faces and are creating conditions to assure the
completion of a cycle per 24 hours. For example, at the Mine imeni Petrovskiy
of the Rostovugol' Combine the number of mine faces working on a schedule to
assure the completion of oue cycle per 24 hours increased from two in the first
quarter of 1950 to eight in June 1950. The average number of cycles for the
mines faces of this mine rose from 14.6 cycles per month to 28.7 cycles and
the average daily output from a mine face increased 35 percent. In the mine
imeni OOPU, ten mine faces were working on a schedule calling for one cycle per
24 hours in June 1950 and the average number of cycles at faces in this mine in-
creased from 13,7 per month in the first quarter of 1950 to 24.8 in June 1950.
The average coal output from a face increased also 77 percent.
The new coal- and rock-loading machines have considerably accelerated de-
velopment work. In Mine No 8 of the Bokovoantratsit Trust in the Donbass,
where a cross section was cut with the help of the UMP-1 machine, a speed of
280 linear meters per month was achieved. In Mine No 3 of the Skuratovugul'
Trust in the Moscow Basin a drift was cut at the speed of 500 lines' meters
per month and in Mine No 8 of the same trust a drift was cut at the speed of
328 linear meters per month. Drift cutting in the Zapadnaya-Kapital'naya Mine
of the Neevetayantratsic Trust achieved a speed of 273 linear meters per month.
In Mine No 40 of the Krasnoarmeyskugol' Trust, an inclined passage for moving
rock from higher to lower levels was cut at the rate of 24) maters per month.
A haulage drift was cut in Mine No 3 of the Kaganovichugol' Trust of the Kuz-
bass at the speed of 312 linear meters per month.
Flaws in work organization and in particular the failure of a number of
mines to introduce the cycle schedule of work has hampered them in attaining
the planned level of labor productivity and has resulted in above-plan produc-
tion costs per ton of coal. For example, in Mine No 5 of the Nesvetayantrat-
sit Trust of the Rostovugol' Combine, the number of workers was 11.2 percent
higher in 1949 than provided for by the plan, average monthly labor produc-
tivity per worker was lower than the planned level, and the production cost of
a ton of coal was above the plan. However, as a result of the introduction of
the cycle schedule of work in the first half of 1950, the number of cycles at
the mine faces increased 60 percent in June 1950 over the first quarter; con-
sequently, the coal output at the face also increased, thus closely approaching
the attainment of its planned capacity and its technical and economic indexes.
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HOW
DATE
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WHERE
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Warsaw
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REPORT NO.
THIN DOCUMENT COITA1? AroilATlOM AFFECTING TEE NATIONAL uphill
Or TNl UNITED STATES 1ITNI1 TEE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT tO
Y. E. C., fl ANDTa?. Al AMENDED. ITS TOANar1 ES1OM OR THE NEGEIAnOU
01 ITa CONTU IN ANT $ANNEN TO AN UNAUTNONIZED PERSON IS PRO.
NINITE1 By LAT. REPRODUCTION OF TNB FORM Ia FIIONIEITED.
Monitor Polski, 1950
POLAND SETS UP STATE CORPORATIONS FOR RUBBER AND SYNTHETIC PRODUCTS
By order of the Minister of Light Industry issued IF May 1950, the following
enterprises have-been established as state corporations-
Stomil Rubber Plant, producing automobile accessories, belts, conveyers,
rubber sheeting, hose) technical items, and reclaimed rubber; in Poznan.
Debica Rubber Plant, producing tires
cycles; in Debica.
and tubes for automobiles and motor-
Krakow Rubber Plants, producing bicycle accessories, hose, gaskets, tech-
nical items, fancy rubber goods, and reclaimed rubber; in Krakow.
Wolbrom Rubber Plants, producing belts, conveyers. hose, slabs, and tech-
n{cal items; in Wolbrom near 0lkusz.
Lodz Rubber Plants, producing rubber gaskets, slabs, rubber footwear, and
fancy rubber goods; in Lodz.
Wojciechowo Oil Cloth Factory, producing oilcloth; in Wojciechowo near
Radomsko.
Grudziadz Rubber Plants, producing traction accessories, conveyers, rubber
footwear, rubber soles, and hose; in Grudziadz.
Bydgoszcz Rubber Plants, producing hose, gaskets, slabs, rubber cord, and
technical items; in Bydgoszcz.
Warsaw Rubber Plants, producing rubber footwear, fancy rubber goods, and
rubber soles; in Warsaw.
Piastow-Rubber Plants, producing belts, conveyers, gaskets, hose rubber soles,
and technical articles; in Piastow near Warsaw.
Dolny Slask Factory of Rubber Goods, producing gaskets, technical items, rubber
cord,,ahd 3ubber:.pol.es;:ih Podg'orzyn:near Jelenia Gora.
STATE
ARMY
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