MANPOWER SHORTAGE AT BULGARIAN SODA PLANT; RETAIL PRICES OF CHEMICALS LISTED

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: January 13, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAi,
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Bulgaria
DATE OF
SUBJECT Economic - Industry, scda plant, prices of INFORMATION 1953
chemicals
HOW Soclological - Manpower shortage
PUBLISHED Daily, semiwaakly newspapers DATE DIST. /3 Jan 1954
WHERE
DATE
PUBLISHED 21 Apr - 1 Sep 1y53
LANGUAGE Bulgarian
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
MANPOWER SH0,2TAGE AT BULGARIAN SODA PLANT;
RETAIL PRICES GF CHEMICALS LISTED
MANPOWER SHORTAGE I1`i "I{pRL MARKR" pLpNp __ Stalin, Stalinsko Zname, 27 pug 53
The buildings of the "Karl Marks" State Soda plant in Reka Devnya, Stalin
Okoliya, are nearing completion. The Council of Ministers and the Central Com-
mittee of the Bulgarian Communist Party have decreed that the plant must begin
operations by the end of 1953? The responsibility for mee'.ing this deadline falls
on the specialists and foremen, scaffolders, masons and fitters whose work is not
progressing satisfactorily. .px?ovadiya Okoliya must secure 40 scaffolders, 90 reasons,
1 fitter, 50 cartwrights, and 150 other workers. The members of the Provadiya
Okoliya People's Soviet have tried to remedy the situation and the chief of the
planning section, D. Petrov, has gone through the okoliya several times to find
workers. Loral people's soviets have assisted him in procuring 2 scaffolders, 24
masons, 120 cartwrights, 1 fitter, and 47 other workers, or 1$4 of the 33G ~3~
workers needed. The majority of the xorkers at the plant come from the villages
of Karamanite, St Karadzha, Devnya, and Kaloyan. These workers have already con-
cluded and fulfilled their contracts, but more xorkers, especially foremen, must
be procured.
There are enough carpenters, masons, and other xorkers in the villages of
Provadiya Okoliya to supply this need but more explanatory work by party and youth
organizations must be done to obtain these workers.
Stalinsko Zname, 29 Aug 53
The "Fabrichno Zavodski Stroezhi" (Factory ana Plant Constructions) of DSO
(Durzhavno Stroitelno Obedinenie, State Construction Association) seeks scaffolders,
masons, and plasterers to report for work immediately at the "Karl Marks" State
Soda Plant.
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CABLEWAY INSTALLATION P.T "KARL MARKS" PLANT __ Ruse, Dunavaka Pravda, 13 Aug 53
The "Karl Marks" State Soda Plant has begun installing a cableway. A brigade
under the direction oP Dimitur Nedkov has begun assembling with an automatic crane,
seven bf the steel towers each weighing 1,780 kilograms.
CHIMH6y COMPLETED pT ?~{A,~, MARKS" PLANT -- Stalin, Sti_~nako Zname, 1 Sep 53
The 90-meter chimney at the "Karl Marks" State Soda Plant has been completed.
RETAIL PRICES OF IMPORTED CHEMICALS -- Sofia, Izvestiya, 21 Apr 53
According to an extract from Regulation (Razporezhdane) No 458 of the Council
of Ministers, uniform retail prices (in leva per kilogram) are established for
imported chemicals as follows: ammonium chloride, 20; ammonium bicarbonate, 16;
acetone, 40; powdered alum, 6; calcined soda, 4; crystallized sodium sulfite for
photographic purposes, 6; anhydrous sodium sulfite for photographic purposes, 20;
sodium benzoate, 50; glacial acetic acid, 80; tannin for viniculture, 45; shellac,
320; crystallized soda for the treatment of boards; 2.40; and crea;u of tartar, 40.
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