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• Publication Date: June 17, 1947
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1. Three principal foundries exist in the Vojvodina,
VojvodiaekaLivriica
located at
Labor It 160 workers
Management: Ing. Pcsnanovic
Production: Tractor spare parts, machine and motor engine
castings
b. Novosadska Livnica (formerly owned by Messrs. Rittner& Co.)
Labor : 116 workers
Management: /Ugoslav Army with Ing. Sokrat as production
manager
Production: Castings for military eqaipment No GE in Class,
ent No.
Sad:
c. Livnica Jovamovic
Labor : 90 markers
Production: 40 complete turning lathes monthly
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2. Foundries of lesser importance located in the Vojvodina are:
Ada exp-nStefan Torten,' foundry
Beokerek Radiator foundry
Velika Minds,- State foundry Bonn
The metal industry in the Vojvodina is centered in Kula around the fcilowing
factories:
a. "Stolz" Metal Fac - formerly belonged to a Voiksdeutscbsr, now
nati?I3Ied n/stran. EMploys about 300 workers. Tbo- factory
was modernised by the Germans during the yaBr and equipped with high
speed hydraulic (oil) presses. The factory is now engaged in producing
various metal products, including armatures and other items of irdustrial
equipment.
b. "Union" Metal Fact_sm- employs 160 workers, produces metal barrels mid
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o. nVulkarP Metal Facto - employs 40 workers, produces aluminum castings,
ZMnum cutlery, etc.
d. "Veselinovicn Metal Facto - produces brass and chromium plated metal
go es, taps, e c.
e. "Trion Metal Fact - employs 20 workers, produces exclusively steel drills
(spiral sizes.
h. With the exception of aluminum and copper, the above-mentioned metal factories
depend on nOTPADn for their raw materia) s. By December 1946 nOTPADn supplies
had reached such a low level that many of the factories may shortly be obliged
to suspend a considerable portion of their work. Factory managers are hoping
to receive raw materials from the USSR.
The modern chemical factory at Salsa (Serbia) is in the process of being enlarged.
Production includes copper sulphate, superphosphates and other artificial
manures and sulphuric acid. The factory is under military control, and a
number of Soviet Chemists are employed in the plant.
6. The Ministry of Industry in Ljubljana recently set up an Industrial Chemical
Research Institute in Ljubljana; it is divided into the following departments:
Chemistry (inorganic and organic) Department
Textile Industry Department (with laboratory in Kranz)
Metal Industry Department
Electrical Industry Department
Building Industry Department
7. The following hydro-electric stations are reported to be under construction:
a. Zirovnica (Upper Carniola) - construction began in early 1946 and is
due to be completed by the end of 1947.
b. Mednode (Upper Carniola) - work on preparing the site for a new power
station is in progress; actual construction was due to begin in April
1947.
javornik (Upper Carniola) - this thermo-cum-hydro electric station was
out of commission for a considerable period; the Polten turbine hak3
been repaired, and the station is now functioning normally again.
d. Maribor - a station under construction on Maribor Island is due for
completion in 1948.
e. Bogatici, Bosnia (7) - work began in July 1945; in 1946 work on the
construction of a concrete dam 2,300 feet long, as well as a water
conduit pipe, was completed. In February 1947 two turbines and generators
were installed. This station is scheduled to be completed by May 1947.
Construction work was undertaken by Zemaljsko gradievinsko Preduzece as
izgradnju Hydrocentralna Sarajevo.
f. Omar Banja, near Cacak on the Morava River - this station, now under
construction, is designed to provide the whole of West Serbia with
electricity, through a well-developed grid system. Work on a water
reservoir at Ovcar Banja is completed. The actual construction of this
station is in the hands of nRydrogradnjan, Belgra4e (Director: Ing.
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Selinger Zoltan). The work is conducted under the technical supervision
and control of "Elektroistok" (Director: Ing. Predrag Gjorgjevic). This
station is scheduled for completion by the end of 1947.
g. Vircje - the hydro-electric station near Vucje about 15 kns, south of
Leskovac in Serbia is in the process of being modernized and improved.
In this connection a high tension cable 40 kms. in length, linking Belo
Polje with Leskovac will be built.
The following information is dated February 1947.
8. There are six:principal textile factories in the Vojvodina:
Novi Sad - em.mMicie and Kamler" Textile mill
ex-"Raletic" Textile mill
ex-"Ristic" Textile mill
Kula - ex4
andecker" Textile mill
am- to" Textile mill
Apatin - exmotApatiner" Textile factory.
All the above have now been nationalized.
9. These textile factories are principally engaged in producing two main
qualities of cloth:
Quality No. 1 - for Yugoslav Army and export to USSR, contains 100% pure wool
(60% UNRRA =Ica, 40% Yugoslav)
Quality No 2 - for civilian home market, contains a mixture of 60% UNRRA wool,
20% processed cotton rag and 20% processed wool rag.
10. The "Brandecker" factory also produces krmy blankets (40% Yugoslav wool and
60% processed cotton rag).
U. Production is now seriously threatened by the rapid exhaustion of existing
UNRRA woa stocks and decreasing returns of cotton and wool rag.
The following information is dated March 1947.
12. The hepp industry of Yugoslavia is also centered in the Vojvodina where 152
factories are engaged in processing raw hemp. Two or three small factories
also exist in the Leskovac area in Serbia. The present annual production for
the wintry is 30-35,000 tons. The three raain qualities of hemp are Vitana
Kudelja (pure hemp) at 34 Dinar 1 kg., Trescena Kudelja (median: quality) at
28 Dinars 1 kg. and Kucina Kudelja (industrial quality) at 9 Dinars 1 kg.
13. "KOTEX" (State distributive agency for leather and textile goods) is responsible
for collection of raw hemp supplies, allocation of raw he to factories and
the distribution and export of processed hemp. From 1945 to 31 December 1946
"KOTEX" exported 30,000 tons of hemp to the USSR via Backe Palanka on the
Danube. A Soviet Mission is responsible for supervising all hemp exports to the
USSR and is located at Backe Palanka. The hemp for export is packed in 50 kg.
bales.
14. Hemp weaving takes place in the following factories:
a. "Sonja Marinkovic" weaving vt11 at NOVi Sad (formerly known as the "Novi
Sad Textile Factory Ltd.") which is engaged in weaving cottons, hemp and
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woolen textiles. The factory employs 200 workers; the director is a
very energetic female member of the CP, Drage Popov, and the technical
director is Ranko Pavlovic. Cotton is imported from the USSR (and
formerly ale? from UNRRA), hemp from Vojvodina and wool is imported
by nOTEX" from Sweden through the agency of the Czechoslovak Government.
The technical director claims to have made two very important discoveries:
(1) Through a special cottonization process he has succeeded in spinning
hemp into an artificial type of cotton thread, and (2) Four inorganic
dyes formerly used for dyeing woolen fabrics, can now, through a special
chemical process, be used also for dyeing cotton materials. Drying rate
of these dyes is so fast that 1,400 meters of cotton fabric can be
printed in 8 hours, as compared with the normal figure of 800 meters
per 8 hours.
b.wfuzlion Weaving Mill at Novi Vrbas, formerly the property of Ivan
Tuzlic, now nationalized. The factory is working principally on behalf
of the Army and is now engaged in weaving hemp linen and manufacturing
bandages. The factory employs 100 workers on a 52-hour week. The hemp
is brought from Vojvodina, and the cotton from UNRRA supplies are now
reaching a very low level.
0. Odzaci - a large factory engaged solely in manufacturing hemp products
which include: sacking, string, horse blankets, ropes of all types,
tarpaulins, machine straps, horse harnesses and hemp linen. Four
hundred workers, mostly Vblksdeutsche, are employed here. From 15 May
1945 to 31 January 1947 the factory produced over 4,000 tons of manufacture
hemp products, 60% of which were exported to the USSR, 25% for the home
market and 15% margin reserve retained until 1947 seasons' production.
The following information is dated January 1947.
15. A factory located at Indija on the main Novi Sad-Belgrade railroad is
producing manufactured leather goods, manufactured fleece linings and
parachutes. Before the war this factory was owned and managed by a certain
Knobs]., a Voiksdeutscher, who is now in exile. The factory is now managed bra
former Partisan Major named Laza Aiskovic. About 200 workers are employed
on a 52-hour week. Production is as follows:
a. Leather goods - at present the factory is engaged in producing leather
jerkins and coats for the Yugoslav Air Force and Railroads.
b. Fleece linings - these are manufactured from Yugoslav wool clippings
and are used to line leather coats and jerkins.
c. Parachutes - these were already being manufactured by this factory for
the Royal Yugoslav Air Force before the war. Material used now is
principally silk imported from France through the agency of the Czechoslovak
Government. Completed parachutes are sent directly to the Parachute
School in Belgrade.
16. The following is reported on canned goods factories:
a. nulpin" Canned Food Factory, Novi Sad - formerly owned by Georg
Djundjerski, now nationalized. The factory employs 340 workers and
produces 100-200 tons monthly of canned meat, 500 tons annually of
canned vegetables and 350 tons yearly of canned and bottled fruits, jam,
etc. All produce is allocated to the Army, with the exception of canned
and bottled fruits and jam.
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be The "Drzavna Fabrika Konserva Backe", Subotica. - employs 260 workers
on a 10-hour day. The production consists of canned meat and vegetables,
seleeis and preserved sausages; production goes exclusively to the Army.
c. Canned Foods Factory at Pancevo - built in 1943 by Messrs. Schmidgen of
Belgrade. Now produces canned fruit and vegetables, fruit juices and
fruit pulp (Pectin). A branch has been established at Beekerek.
17. An electric bulb factory named "Tesla". is located in Pancevo. Before the mar
it belonged to the "Tungsram" group; it has now been nationalized. During
the war the Germans modernized the factory and provided it with special
electrode equipment. Among other things 60-watt lames are being produced.
Monthly production is estimated at 15,00; lamps. The glass bulbs are
manufactured by the Pancevo glass plate factory.
18. An electric bulb factory named "DISH (Drzavna Fabrika Zarulja) is located
in Zagreb.. It formerly belonged to Ing. Schmidek but is now nationalized.
The pre-war capacity was 100,000 bulbs a month. Before the war the factory
imported its electrode and glass bulbs requirements from Vienna and
Czechoslovakia; the electrodes are now supplied by "Tesla" and glass bulbs
by the Pancevo glass factory.
Note: There is a great Shortage of electric light bulbs
in. Yugoslavia. During the winter of 1946 Soviet
electric bulbs of very inferior quality appeared
on the Yugoslav market.
19. The glass industry in Yugoslavia is centered around factories in Pancevo,
Paracin, RogaSka Slatina, Hrasnik and Rogatec. All of theft, with the
exception of the Pancevo factory, were formerly controlled by Czechoslovak
banking interests. The Pancevo factory used to be owned by Franco-
Czechoslovak capital interests. All 'are now nationalized.
20. The Pancevo glass factory, built in 1930, is one of the largest plate
glass factories in Central Europe. It is now principally engaged in
producing plate glass, window glass glass for medical use, glass for electrical
requirements and polished glass. The factory has its own power station,
railroad sidings, machine-equipped joinery, etc. At present only 300
workers are employed, because of a very serious shortage of raw materials.
Since May 1945 the factory's raw material requirements have been derived
mainly from "OTPAD" scrap glass supplies. Quartz deposits in Yugoslavia
have not so far been exploited by the glass industry.
21. The Hrasnik glass factory employs a technician named Anton Podlusek who
claims to have discovered a new method of grinding magnifying lenses.
22. Over 12,000,000 tons of surface quartz deposits exist in the Donje Sonje area
(about 18 kms. southeast of Skoplje). These were examined by Vienna
University mineralogists before the war and pronounced to be of superior
quality to existing quartz deposits in Germany, Belgium and Czechoslovakia.
These deposits were not exploited before the war for the following reasons:
a. Foreign vested interests demanded the import of quartz from abroad and,
more particularly, in the case of Pancevo, from Belgium.
b. Transportation difficulties. Donje Sonje is located in an inaccessible
mountain area. Full exploitation of the deposita would have required the
construction of an overhead cable railroad 7i kms, in length linking
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Donje Sonja with the nearest railroad station, General Jankovic
(about Il kms. south of Skoplje on the Skoplje4eles railroad). For
all that, a Yugoslav firm of contractors was prepared in 1939 to use
motor transport to exploit the surface deposits and deliver quartz to
Pancevo at 2,000 Dinars per 10 tons, as compared with 2,800 Dinars for
the same amount from Belgium.
23. Yugoslavia is experiencing considerable difficulty in importing quartz train
Czechoslovakia. This is caused principally by the fact that the Danube is
not navigable at Budapest, Baja and Apatin? as a result of sunken shipping
and destroyed bridges. The bridge over the Danube at Bogojevo has been repaired,
and this section of the Danube is now open to river traffic.
24. At Kula there is a leather factory, formerly the property of a Volksdeutscher
and not nationalized. The present manager is a certain Zagorac. The factory
employs 300 workers. Raw materials are obtained through "KOTEX" and include
cow, calf, pig, horse and goat hides. Production consists of leather shoe
soles, machine belts, army boots, etc. Salvage is disposed of as follows:
a. All cattle horns and cattle hair are distributed by KOTEX to other
industries.
b. All leather scrap material is collected and distributed to chemical
factories in Zeman (ex,-"Munk" Brothers) and Ljubljana for processing
into artificial manures and glue.
25. Factories similar to the one at Kula are located at Becker& (Drzavna
Fabrika Kowa), Zemun, St. Becej (?) and Pancevo.
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