STRIKE IN THE REPAIR SHIPYARD IN GDYNIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003900530009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 2, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
INFORMATION REPORT amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form Is prohibited.
SECRET/CONTROL-U.S,OFFICIALS ONLY
le At the beginning of February 1954, a strike took place among the office workers
employed at the Gdynia Repair Shipyard (Gdynska Stocznia Remontowa). The strike
took the form of a refusal to work overtime, in an attempt to obtain the payment
of the overtime premium due to the men for January 1954.
2. The matter was referred to the Ministry of Shipping, which issued instructions
that the premium should not be paid, but at the same time prohibited compulsory
overtime employment of clerical workers in the future.
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Comment: In light of recent reports there appears to be widespread 25X1
discontentment among the workers of the Gdynia Repair Shipyard. The revised
rates of pay were put into force on 1 August 1953 and were openly criticized by
the workers since, simultaneously, higher production norms were imposed. The
workers boycotted a mass meeting and refused to obey orders to work three hours
extra per day; relations between workers. 25X1
and leaders were very strained and the workers openly boycotted many regulations.
In August 1953, office staffs were cut to a minimum and clerks were overburdened
with work, were forced to work overtime without eomnonaati on ant rnnni iron A tr 7 25X1
the clerical workers refused to accept their salaries until their premiums 25X1
were paid. the workers threatened to resign. The Ministry 25X1
of Shipping reportedly ordered the premiums to be paid and the shipyard complied.
The above report indicates that conditions are worsening and it is possible that
the government has ste ed in for the u o of piweliting the dissatisfaction
from spreading, sine production plans for the past years 25X1;
SECRET/CONTROL-U.S,OFFICIAIS ONLY
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2' April 1954.
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Strike in the Repair Shipyard
in Gdynia
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