PROGRESS AT NOWA HUTA CREATES LABOR PROBLEMS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2011
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• Publication Date: June 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION c.oNFIDEPTIAL CONFIDENTIAL
' CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUBJECT Ecor.om a ?? Metallurgy, manpower, unions
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PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
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Daily newspaper.; monthly periodicals
B?;eno, Aire Wareaa
20 Aug 19'%O - 8 Mar 1951
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INFORMATION 1950 - 1951
DATE DIST. 5 Jun 1951
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"S EEL C1'fl'" I.$ R.T.C T PROJr~`CT OF 6-TEAR PLAN -- Buenoo A.irer-, ArgentiuischeB
Tagebl,att, 8 Mar !il
The first factories at Nova Huta are to be put in ope.rt+r.?ion at the 'end of
May 1951. lawn R.ut%, the new steel city located on a gigantic site in a
thinly settled, purely agricultural region near Krakow, is ';he biggest project
of Poland''a :Si:r-Tear. Plan, Eight blast furnaces, ten Martin f amaces, and nu-
merous factory installations are to be erected ?here.
Under the Six-Year Plan, ]Poland's coal production is to reach 100 million
tons in 1955. Iron ore output is to be raised to 3 million tons and electric
power output to 19,3 billion kilowatt-hours. One of the most important, goals
is a steel output of 4,6 million tons, Which would represent a doubling of
1949, and a tripling of 1938 production.
This goal is to be attained by the founding of Nova Huta Plans for the
road network and for the extension of railroad lines were begun last spring,
to accumulate the materials, all of which are to be shipped from the USASR, The
USSR is furnishing all construction machines, from dredges to trucks. Like-
wise it is providing all machinery and equipment for blast furnaces and facto-
ries. The supervision of construction and personnel is in the hands of Soviet
en gingers and architects. Polish specialists work under them, I
By the,end.of this year, 5,000 one-room apartments in the workers, city
are to be ready for occupancy. The plan of the city and th.e.-style, of the
homes, schools, cultural institutions, and cinemas correspond completely to
the new Soviet industrial. cities in Siberia. When finished, Nova Ruts will
look just like Magnitogorsk, Kuznetsk; and Komsoniol'ek-na Amure,
To get the personnel needed to carryout the Six-Year Plan, more and more
women are being introduced into the labor force, The Central Committee of the.,
Communist Party decided in'aummef to employ 900,000 women in the socialized
economy. Today, the number of vomen'workers totals 1,230,0000 Women are em-
Iployed in all branche?of industry, and even in heavy Industry and mining must
perform the awe work as men. According to officis,l Polish declarations,
22,624 women are prey tly employed in mines,
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EQUTPMEaT FOP, NOWP ROTA REINS BUILT IN TJSSR -- Warcav, FrzyJazn, 20 Aug 50
Tinder the long-term agreement signed between Poland sand the USSR, the USSR
j.s tar, upp'+.y Poland with machines and equipment for Nowa Huta. The equipment is
already being hu:..1t in USSR plants. The task iB to be handled by Sipromez, one
of the largest: builders of metal.lurgicoal equipment in the USSR with the greatest
experience " the beet; experts in this field. Many of the planners and build-
ere of No Hut a. gained their experience in Magnit.ogorek, the largest me-tallurg-
ical p1 ar. ? n the world.
Pc_'es0 alvays used ,:mall. bl.a~t f,.i.rnaoee.e The modern. meial.1.Urgical
plant_ :,al, in '.he USSR :Ian the poaLrevo'utionary period are umiing 1 ,000 ?cubi.c-
meter rnor4 t i-' 1'ur ec. This type hla~t furnace will be ur ' n. Nova
Huta. Tt vhi.ch ore. greatly superior to the :>rY11 :oe , be-
cau+e tu= of workece, No propar.a.tn,,~ ,a--e made to
handle factory ;uuncll to :ach a way than the c-rear.i-.,n of the
counc.11 wouli r_or be merely a mechanical performance of legal requtreme.ntso Yet,
the crea1 Lou }f the ' 'ory coixnc..l could not be treated as a pert tm-*story admin-
istrative action at apl.a!e where people did not know one another and where 80
percent of the worker:: did not he.tong to labor unions. There were soon e'ri-
dences of a.i undesirable situation. In the Ori Cooperative Building Enterprise,
only 30 perce.a.t of the labor force belonged to the trade- i:nion, and of thecae only
50 percent paid dues. In the Mogila Cooperative Build.ing.Entterpri.aP, only 50
percent of the workers belonged to the union, and of t;hesd only 80 percent paid
dues. In fact, the trusted representative of the union did not belong to the
union.
The first year of the construction of Nova Huta proves what an important
role the trade union organization playa. As a result of the inactivity and in-
eptness of the factory cou oils, numerous commissions had to come to investigate
conditions at Nose Buta. Conditions ahoired a deplorable lack of participation
on the part of union members, leaving all the work to the chairman, who, accord-
ing to reguia'ions, is relieved of other dutie_. But the chairman was not able
to cope with the hourly complaints about ehortagee :tn pay, lack of waterproof
clothing, requests for transfer of possessions from the western territories, re-
quests for family allowances, requests for wage differentials for former port
workers, etc. Voluntary activities on the part of members often take place dur-
ing the work. hours, drawing skilled workers from their work, with no public-
spirited contribution on their part.
Complaints are heard that it is difficult to obtain good attendance at
meetings because the workers all have to catch their trains. On the other hand,
when it was announced that an engineer would demonstrate the operation of vari-
ous machinery, i0 percent of the workers stayed after hours and none left the
meeting even after the second train left.. This proves that an interesting sub-
ject must provide the incentive for attending meetings.
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a t:ipt.e mont?Y:ly prof `am. tmdertaken by one of the fac-
1.,;'r;y ^17.:~=: 1+ :' r '?eorgan.-,?at.ion of its Work,
1''o- the month of July the trued repr.r-Aent:at"ve_ were assigned to per-
ua xa bona' S pe cent of the worker= tn? 1oin the union and increase the
propel' '.,r. .t ?u rsy+:rz member t" '? percent they were to di;,ru3e the ter of ,,1 t c` .R !r proaF irr:r the e o e of t,% P, who b oke the labor
d'fuciplir. '-:-: 'heYvere to ini*iate work r..ompe'Itjnn bet-.e-ten grroups to obtain
the hie';- -,..Y Wet' S;z%l.r, to prr??r:n- t:he. m tier of long-range
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