SHORTCOMINGS OF SHAFT AT GEORGI DIMITROV COAL MINE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700080124-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 124
• Publication Date: August 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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'Phe "7 Septemvri" shaft ie one of the largest in the "Geor;di Dimitrov"
.mine at Dimitrovo. Plan fulfil'Lawgt for the entire mine depends to a sQeat
ozieaz upon,tns asecrozion of tnis ahaSt'a production plea: Thro,igh the eP-
forta,ot the party and the help. of the Saviet Union, the prcduction process
is the.ehaft bsa been al.moat completelj+ mechanised.' Powerful coal com3lnea
replace 95 ~?xceat of the manual labor. Thousande'of tone o_* coal are mined
and loaded every dgy with +heae machines. They have considerably lightened
th
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e work of the mins4?s:
Tlie miners' income has also increneed.
The 1952 plan for the aheft requires even better use of the full capac-
ity of. the a~chines, and gcod operational technique.
Since the beginnintt cf 7.952, however, not one o4'the autordatic coal ccm-
biaea has operated at full capacity.
Bach of them is idle for 2 to 3 hours da11,y. Machine Ho'4 is idle 6 hours
out of 2~s; machine Bo 20, with Todor AtanaAOV iu charge, ie idler b-5 hours every
deg and bas eztracted 50 percent less coal than in 1951.
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The machines are frequently and aialesa3.y moved from one wark area to an-
other. ldecent7y, machines Ifo 4 and 5 were coatinx~elly inteschangou, because of
technical reasons:" Tet every displacement of coal combine costa time. Paves
>:lore deplorable is the situatiaa of machine Ho 5, which has.beea is ca~iauoue
stcvaeaSrt:throughout the shaft mace last fall, Sdhep the combine operator ar n~v
sbmbar af. tlye shift is asked why the machine is idle, he answers: "Ke don c
Ynoer; go ask the superintendent." The technicians often peas by fhs machine,
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i(aiatenanae of .the machines is most unsatisfactory. Thbee in chakg~ of the
machiaea:do na: obearve the periods prescribed for cleaning ant lubrication.
D(OSt OS the shifts take Over toe mnr_.LinnA ptthnyt clonn!na ffia,. befor:~ ?>.'.Ip star: (.
 of operations, Hhat does the fact Lhnt Dnzi? Ivanov'a cGmbine ~s not becn
cleaned for a month, indicate, 1f not a bad, w~socialiotic attitude tovcrd
teehnology7
BSaximum explaltation of the machines depends largely on the condition of
the equipment fa the shad:.
There is hardly g day when the conveyer belle do not atop because of the
lack of-cars: Each shift l.osxs 7. hours in repairing be?ta or waiting for cars.
Stith the stopping cP Gab bait, production 1a halted in nu entire sector GS the
shafL?.~ There are ao Gb,~ective reasons for such a state of afi'aire. The main
calprits are senior teahni.ciane .Areov, Rangel l~rriatov, Engineer Pamukchiev,
and the superintendent of the shaft, Raginesr Koev, who do not adequately auper-
viae the placing oY conveyer belts and the operation of roll combines.
Conveyer b.lta are installed incorrectly, wiL?hout a level. Because of this,
the ball uuckiea so:a siip8 vii tae rollers. In striving to Increase production,
the technical staff have not paid enough attention to thea9 thin3o -?? not realiz-
in{s that hcsrein 11es one oY the main reuaona for nonfulfillment of the plan.
Y.ginteaance oY other equipment is not ca^ried out nqy better. The electric
motor of the sector to which machine Po k is attached does not function regularly.
The Oelte there transport oir7y hal,? of the coal they should normnlljr transport.
Because of all theoe irreguL.rities, thousands GY tons of coal are lest
every men*.h. Ths e~~nistrstive at^Yf seem to have overioaked thGSe fac4s, for
~~uo measnrea hale been taken IOr their elimination. .According to atatementa made
.try the superintendent, Bagineer Koev, sad Bngincer Pamukchiav, the idle periods
are legal and uaavofdable, because conditions impose them. This is, of cause,
tar i'rom being time. Had the engineering-technical personnel paid more attention
to'~the fnstallation of belt=_ and the procurement Gf care, had more regular suger-
vlsfaa beAn exercised over the medntonance and use of the equipment, the picture
vuald be quite different. However, among the supervisors, there 1s much com-
giacaaq.; they rent on the laurels Gf pas. successes.
Tha.pnrty leadership alsG bears grnst guilt is the rmtter, because of its
lack o~ ~tereat in producL?ioa sad failure to exercise its right of control.
Iialationa between the superintendent and the party secretary are tense. T'nis
a_v ref lerte badly on the gerersl work. The superintendent, kngiaeer Koev, does
not seek..tha anppart Gf the party arganizatloa end of the workers in solving
production problems There bane been cases when he mast shamefully threw out
vorkets yl:o had came to hint on official business.
Crfticiem 1e stifled. Rhea the worker Vlado Cuirov, eectioasl party secre-
tary, wrote to the press on the bad state of saintenanca of the abaft equipment,
he vas rep:trsanded Yor.not having as&ed the approval of his euperios.
Thn workers' eomplalnts and ay~sptoms oY unhapginess sre diaregardad. At
ell meetings and consultations the workers alone are bladed.
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