V.M.MOLOTOV IRONWORKS TRINEC: RENEWAL OF CZECH-POLISH COOPERATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 2009
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• Publication Date: May 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
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SUBJECT V,1,Molotov Ironworks,Trinec s DATP DIsi*, 21 May 1953
Renewal of Czech-Polish Cooperatign
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1, At the V,M.MOlotov Iroiworks,National Corporation, at Trinec, the Cieslarova
Platform, organization has been f lr reinstated as of 24 March 1953, and the
direction of the concern has been intrusted to Oldrich Wrobel, who had been arrested
in connection with the Slansky affair and only recently released. Josef Cieslar
has been designated chairman of the words covncil (zavodni rada) and given full
authority to recruit manpower for the concern,
2. These arrangements have been introduced by agreement with the Central Committee
of the Czech Communist Party, The decision to reinstate Cieslarova Platforma
was taken in agreement with the Polish. Government, wh3.oh is now granting permissions
for the mass employment of Polish workers at the Trinec plant, In return,
Czechoslovak technicie.ne will be allowe=d to work 6n the extension of the Polish
coal and iron mining operations at Katowice.
3, These changes indicate that the Soviet Government is'now backing complete
economic collaboration between Poland and Czechoslovakia. It is likely that
Czechoslovak Deputy Fierier.Jaromir Dolansky will now revive other plans of
Lu6r?ik Frejka, who was responsible for Cieslarova Platforma in the first place
and who was executed as a defendant in the Slansky trial, Dolansky is being
supported by Vaclav Nosek, Czechoslovak Minister of the Interior,
4, The negotiations for the employment of Polish labor and Czechoslovak technicians
were completed on 24 March 1953, On 8 .April 1953 a more general agreement for
economic collaboration was signed in Warsaw.
5. The Soviet authorities (sic) have fixed 23 December 1953 as the date for the
Molotov Ironworks combine to reach full production on the level designated by Frejka
in 1948 as part of the Five Year Plan, With a view to achieving this the Czechoslovak
Government has agreed to put production at Trinec under the control of a Soviet
expert, Malyshev (fnu), now head of an industrial mission,
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9, Productiop at the Molotov Ironworks is now 41 percent (sic). It is doub t:ed!.-
by Czechoslovak economists whether the planned goal of 108 percent by 23
December 1953 can be reached, in spite of the reinstatmeait:"of Cieslarova
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