MAKYTA GARMENT FACTORY IN PUCHOV

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 12, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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Makyta Garment Factory in Puchov
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The Makyta Garment Factory (0devne zavody) in Puchov (N 149-08, E 18-20)
is a nationalized enterprise for the manufacture of uniforms. It was
set up in 1950 in the buildings of an establishment which formerly pro- 25X1
ceased wood pulp for the textile industry. The buildings were oompletely
remodeled and machinery was replaced by machine tools of Czech and
German manufacture, The manufacturing process is automatic. In 1953,
six Soviet steam pressing irons were installed.
2. The factory is located on the northwest edge of Puchov, north of the highway
to Horni Lidec (N 149-11, E 18-014). It consists of a four-story structure
measuring 100 x 60 meters, with warehouses for finished products and raw
materials on the ground floor., and workrooms of various dimensions on the
floors above. The management is in a detached building behind the main
factory structure.
3. The factory employs 30 to 35 employees in administration., approximately 140
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technicians and cutters., and 250 women workers. In March 19514, the working
hours were increased from 10 to 19 ugh "voluntary" acceptance.
The director is Viktor Ulicn3y the former chief tailor; the 25X1
vice director is Maria Wchterle (sic , a Communist; the ei ioyee in charge of
political cadres is Eng. Milos Vanek.
Monthly production of the factory is as follows:
short trousers 1,500 units
fatigue suits 29000 units
dungarees 1,500 units
military blouses, open-necked 1,500 units
aviation jackets 500 units
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These products are packaged in bales of 25 each. There is no permanent
military commission in the factory; approximately once a month a military
board from Trencin (N 48-53, E 18-03) accepts the products, and they
are shipped by rail. Shipments occur twice a month. Generally speaking,
the uniforms are sent to the quartermaster depots in Bratislava, Trencin,
Mistek (N 49-40, E 18-20),and the aviation quartermaster depot in Bratislava-
Ivanka.
5. Cloth and accessory materials reach the factory by rail. Two or three
trains arrive weekly at Puchov station with supplies for the factory.
Sixty percent of the textiles for uniforms, chiefly coarse cloth, are
supplied by textile mills in Zilina. Mills in Trencin and Kysucke Novo
Mesto (N 49-18, E 18-47) also supply cloth.
6. In October 19539 production was suspended, and from that month until the
beginning of 1954 the factory worked only for the Soviet armed forces.
During that period, with two shifts daily, 25,000 blouses were manufactured
for Soviet aviators; the cloth was supplied by the USSR. During this
special period of manufacture, the work was watched by two Soviet officers
who were placed in the factory.
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