TESTS ON THE MAIN MACHINES OF THE SHIP TEREK COMPLETED/CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH YOUTHS ENLISTED FOR WORK ON PGRS WORK/MUCH LAND STILL LIES FALLOW AROUND SZCZECIN/SHORTAGE OF MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS/SHORTAGE OF TEXTILES IN SZCZECIN

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• Document Release Date: December 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Tests on the Main Machines of the Ship Terek Completed/
Conditions Under Which Youths Enlisted for Work on PGRs
Work/Much Land, Still Lies Fallow Around Szczecin/Shortage
f Medical Instruments/shortage of Textiles in
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1. "The following news w3.9 t! ? . ~~is 1 ! IA th,, Kur ier Szc 0, i, , ,r,l. ~~ . I
dated 5 S ~4 a i a' rl , ~.,r ,f _ xlnt-14>" I7C r e-Y anx't g IY a I xw T i-io ~,:-aft
out by a sailor ?
2. "'T'his morning the tests of the in machines of the ship Torok wwr'e comap.let-
eda This ship was built entirely by young shipyard workersB In the morning
the ship went to the Bornholm Depths to test the anchor and the rudder.
Engineer Mogilev (fnu), chairman of the Soviet Reception Cominieeion said:
"The T'eree fourth ship to by built by the Szczecin shipyard for the
USSR. Each ship was better than the foregoing oneA This is the result of
the continuous improvement of qualifications of the young workers at the
shipyard." Engineer (fnu) M=iak, chairman of the Delivery Commission, eaida,f
"The shipyard has learned something from the faults made on the former ships
The f:r,ults, which have now been discovered, will help us to improve the work
on the ships to be built in the future." Captain (tnu) Gawor stated: "This
ship in extraordinarily ste' ^ , And the machines work we=. I should like
always to be on such a ahi ?1r
3. "The paper also gives the conditions under which the youths enlisted for work
on PGRs have to work: free housing, food, uniforms and a salary from 300-
900 zi. during the period of 7 Sep 54 to 31 Sep 54. Shock workers were to
receive premix: cultural and sporting entertainment have been organized.
Girls have been sent to the gardens of Pyrzyce, and the boys have been sent
to the PGRs in the Szczecin province. The address of the enlistment office
was given as follows: Komenda Wojewod.zka Po Sluzbz Polece at Ulica
Wawrzyniaka No. 8, Szczecin.
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"List autumn L193.11 and this past spring L195V , 7,800 hectares of fa tow
land, have been cultivated in the province of zczecin. The paper com;Flains
t'hI `much of the land still lies fallow and that the national councils have
now shown sufficient interest in the work. Two thousand, one hundred hec-
tares of fallow land which was suitable to be taken under cultivation this
autumn L195J was not ploughed and nearly two thousand hectares of pastures
also remained unused. Particularly backward concerning work on fallow "lands
are the following districts: Szczecin, Chojna, and Gtryfice.
5. "Poland is so short of medical Instruments that doctors and nurses have beer,
asked through advertisements In the newspapers to send injection resdles to
be sharpened.
6. "The address of the provincial. management of the Lea us of Soldiers Friends
is in Bzca ecin at Ulica Ow. Wojoiecha 12, II p. Lsi /.
7. "Szciecin is short of the following textiles s no clothes for boys under six,
?boyGr,"Ovsrgpats exist only for 15 year aids, uniforms and aprons for girls
exs't 'an~,y in sizes seven and eight. There. e a complete shortage of rain-
proof pe,lerines, a complete lack of poplin o ercoats for men, and the women
are complaining about the incomplete and small selections Lor clothe e/. The
number of uuits, coats, wooleaA dresses, ani woolen overcoats must be increas-
ed. Men have no poplin shirts. The shops do not have enough satchels for
school children on sale. "
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