INDUSTRIAL COMBINE IN ZENION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005100260006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 26, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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MFORMATiON REPORT CO No.
C0UN'TRY Tugosla 'ie
` U JECT Industrial Combine in Zenicai
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DATE DISTR. 26 JUN 50
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l Combine in Zenicas one of the largest o
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and operationally comes under the Jurisd3ct w- o
Industry in Belgrade,, Engineer Ulade n aged thesehforty-five e8percent are
the combine. Of the 16,000 workers el+l y a
women who have been trained to operate the machinery. :cork is conducted
in three eight-hour shifts. corkers are reportedly dissatisfied with poor
working conditions, despite messes and stores where they may by at reduced
rates a Several strikes occurred in December 1949, .when workers demanded
better working conditions., better pay, and less wank. The instigator
of the strike were arrested by the UDB an't'e several of them wore shot.
The present production of the combine is estimated to be three times that
of the pre war scale? Recently, the output has been largely confined to
steep. end railroad tracks. Prior to the break with the Cominform,
but
sizeable quantities of materials were exported to satellite countries., s
now the output is channeled entirely into the home markets
; pqrtant products of the combine is steel. which enters the domestic indus-
trial, market The production of iron, another important product, covers
49 percent of the domestic demand. The iron produced here goes into the
mane 'acture of various traverses, that is, traverse plates, squares and
sami.circ es, various types of spikes (nails), and other. industrial
materials,
its kind in esgosl.avlap p y
Yugoslav heavy industry 0 From 1945 to 1949 reconstruction of the old
factory buildings and construction of new inatsl,latior~s ware undertaken.
The work, has not yet been fully completedm -
2 The tndustkia~. Combine in Zenics is a federal combine which administratively
`~ .9 f the 191 nistrv for Heavy
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Before `+"orld er IT the In
I -Aa v cry important role in the development of
4. The raw materials used in the combine are obtained from the Ljubov:Lja lied
and Vases mines and are transported by rail0 The necessary fuel pP
by coal extracted from a mine located the indea.strise=s,
combine a Other necessary equipment
and only a few unspecified items have to be imported.
25X1 A Gom~ ; A plan of the lay out, with accosnpaar n ; legend, Is
avail Lai a upon request.
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This document is hereby regrade4o.
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Af edfF ~P i 1/11/26:.
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