KLIMONTOW COAL MINE AT KLIMONTOW NEAR SOSNOWIEC

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2005
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY
Klimontow Coal Mine at Klimontow
near Sosnowiec
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
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.
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15 June 1954
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1. The Klimontow mine is located approximately four kilometers south of Dabrowa-
Gornicza and approximately six kilometers east of Sos owiac along the freight
railroad line Zagorze,Myslowice. The director of the mine
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2. The administration of the mine is located in the building marked # 10 on the
enclosed sketch and consists of the below listed departments and sections:
a. Located on the ground floors
M Administration of the worker1s.quarters
Accounts
(3 Wages control
(4 Labor office
(5 Training section
(6) Cashier
b. Located on the second floors
W Bookkeeping
Head bookkeeper
(3) Administrative director
(4 Secretariate
(5) Head director
(6) Planning manager
c. Located on the third floors
(1) Accounting of the mine's expenses
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(2) Production planning
(3) Financial planning
(4) Forwarding department
(5) Organizational inspector
(6) Personnel section
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25X1 3. the mine was flooded and not exploited before the last
war. During the war it was drained and exploitation began,
4. The planned output amounts to 2,000 tons per day but this quota is. achieved only
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"fulfillment" of the quota is only a ruse which is expected to influence the
workers in a positive sense and keep them at, their place of work because the
migration of the workers is a great problem for mazy work establishments.
5. The entire underground part of the mine is electrified. The coal is transported
by so-called shaking gutters and rubber conveyor belts to electric trains and by
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6. There are two excavating shafts operated with steam engines,
excavating machine of Soviet make was about to be installed
A new electric
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he installation was supervised by a Soviet
7. The mine is supplied with electric power by the Malobladz power plant at Bedzin.
It has its own Zakel-type transformer station.
8. The output of the mine is shipped by trains on the railroad siding, to the freight
junction Zagorze Dabrowskie and from there in the direction emieszyce or
Dabrowa Gornieza, F__ I 25X1
9. The whole mine is partly surrounded by a brick wall and partly by a fence. The
entrances and installations are guarded by 30 men. of the Industrial Guard armed
with rifles. A prisoners' camp, nearby, is guarded by the prison guards.
10. There are three kinds of passes, entitling a person to enter the mine area: passes
for visitors, valid only for the day of issues, temporary passes for newly hired
workers, valid until the proper pass is issued, and the regular passes for per-
manent workers (with pictures), issued only once a year but extended every three
months. These passes are issued by the personnel.. section and signed by the com-
manding officer of the Industrial Guard.
11. The mine employs a total of 2,100 workers, 200 of whom are administrative and other
white-collar personnel and 1,900, including 200 prisoners, are manual laborers.
The production workers work in three shifts i?e,;, from 0600 hrs, to 1400 hrs.,
from 1400 hrs. to 2200 hrs, and from 2200 hrs, to 0600 hrs. The wages of white-
collar personnel range from 400 zl, to 2,000 zl, depending on the position held
and the individual pay group. Technical employees dealing directly with produc-
tion earn from i100 zl. to 4,000 zl. monthly, depending on the output of their
sector., Other technical employees, employed only indirectly on production get
from 800 zl. to 2000zl, monthly and their wages depend on the total output of
the entire mine. The basic pay of a miner ranges from 16 z1. to 35 zl, per day
(8 hours work), depending on work security (sic) and work conditions.
12. Considering the basic pay the following bonuses were calculated:
a. A premium of 15-30% of their basic pay was given to skilled miners, according
to their qualifications,
b. A premium of 10-30% of their basic pay was given to all miners working under
especially heavy conditions, according to circumstances.
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c. Premiums were given to individual workers exceeding their work quota over
160% (sic).
d. Overtime was paid at the rate of time and one half for the first two hours,
and double time for every additional hour.
13. The miners worked six days a week and on every second Sunday, for'irhich they
we're paid double time.
Legend:
1. Road from Myslowice via Zagorze to Dabrowa Gornicza.
2. 'Road to Kazimierz.
3. Road to Zagorze.
4. Road to Dandowka.
5. Road to Rabka.
6. Streetcar line Sosnowiec-Dandowka-Klimontow, constructed in 1953.
7. Railroad for transportation of coal from Myslowice via the Zagorze;,junction
point.
8. Railroad siding.
9. Narrow-gauge railroad removing earth to earth piles (chaldy).
10. Administration of the mine, three-story building, 6 by 10 meters. Approxi-
mately 18 rooms; erected in 1950-1951. In the cellar there was a kitchen,
a workers mess, kitchen store, paper stand and the boiler room of the central
heating system.
11. Workers'supply center. Barrack approximately 4 by 12 meters, built in 1952.
12. Inflammable materials store (gasoline, oil, petroleum),approximately 4 by 6
meters.
13. Main entrance to the mine. Tokens issue point (sic).
14. Baths, barrack approximately 12 by 5 meters, built after the last war.
15. Dispensary and cloakroom.
16. PZPR office. A building, 8 by 6 meters.
17. Clerk's office for operating the weigh-bridge, (sic).
18. Weight-bridge.
19. Small building, approximately 6 by 4 meters, occupied by the Work's Council,
20. Industrial Guard office. Small building, 6 by 4 meters.
21. Technical office. Small building, 6 by 4 meters.
22. Mechanical workshops, approximately 12 by 6 meters.
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23, Reading room (swietlica). Barracks,,approximately 12 by 5 meters.
24. Office of pitman. Barracks, approximately 13 by 4 meters.
25. Engine-?:oom, brick building, approximately 12 by 7 meters.
26. Construction bureau, brick building, approximately 7 by 5 meters.
27. A building for sorting and loading the coal on railroad cars, approximately
15 by 20 meters.
28. Excavation tower,'iron construction.
29. Excavation tower, iron construction.
30. Excavating machine with steam drive. Reinforced concrete building, approxi-
mately 10 by 10 meters.
31. Same as 30.
32. Excavating machine, Soviet make, electric drive, installed in 1952. Rein-
forced concrete building, approximately 20 by 14 meters and approximately
12 meters high.
33. Timber storage area.
34. Main warehouse of the mine. Wooden building, approximately 16 by 6 meters.
35. Camp for prisoners working at the mine.
36. Barbed wire fence surrounding the prisoners' camp. Two rows, three meters
high. Between these rows the guards patrolled.
37. Watch towers, wooden, approximately 6 meters high, for the prison guards.
38. Not on the sketch.
39. Wooden barracks for prisoners. Approximately 12 by 5 meters.
40, Administration of the prisoners' camp and kitchen. Barracks, approximately
12 by 5 meters.
41. Exit gate.
42. Wooden fence,approximately 2 meters high.
43. Brick wall,. approximately 2 meters high.
44. Transformers. Reinforced concrete building, approximately 20 by 20 meters
and 12 meters high. Receives current from Malobladz' power station at
Bedzin and supplies the mine.
45. Earth, stone and sand piles.
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Sketch of the Klimontoww Mine
at Klmontow
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