UNITED STEEL WORKS, NATIONAL CORPORATION, AT KLADNO

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006100260013-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2001
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Czechoslova cia
REHO REPORT
CON FI ENTIAL
SUBJECT United Steel :`Yorks, National
Corporation., at Kladno
CD NOW
DATE DISTR.
27 OCT 50
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NO. OF ENCI_S.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. The production of the United Steel '7orks* consists mostly of semi-finished
steel goods which are sent for further processing to the ironworks at Vitkovice
(P50/058) or to the Skoda "forks in Pilsen. Such products include: rails
(mostly for the USSR); round steel stock in various sizes; special steel (sic);
hexagonal iron bars; armor plate of various sizes and thicknesses (GO x 60 x
2 cm., 120 x 120 x 2 cm., is id others up to 4 cm thick); structural steel ("P.oksor" )
of different lengths and widths., mostly for delivery to the USSR, ":Ioksor"
is a specially hard steel. Gun barrels made from a sin;,le piece of steel and
connecting rods for aircraft en,-nines are also produced? Armor plate for tanks
has been ordered by CI) in Prague and probably also by Skoda in Pilsen.
2. The works are composed of the following departments:
a. Blast furnaces, coke furnaces., Martin furnaces., Dolomite furnaces.,
a3cium
3. The automatic rolling mill., which has just recently been put into operation.,
produces round steel 1.2 to 2u mm in diameter., hexagonal rods 12 to 28 mm in
diameter., and special "Roksor" steel 12 to 26 I IL thick. Construction of this
mill was originally planned by the Germans trho brought in all the required
e o Forges Ie II and 171 v iero hammered goods (vykovky) are produced.
f. Crank shop (ktikarn.a) o
g. Laboratory.
b. Mechanical workshop.
c. lrmor shop for rolling of armor plate.
d, Tool shop.
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materials. Tla~ever, during 1145 these plans wore completely destroyed. One
of the rrorlccr;, Josef Vanek, built the mill without plans and is now working
on additional eq'ai_Irnent0 :ihon completed, the mill will have an estimated
capacity sufficient to fill 25 to 30 railroad cars per shift. As a reward
for his work., V ane,c has been made head of the department. Pi. room for testing
the physical properties of sheet steel has been added to this department.
4. The manager of the plant is IIlavacek. Trio committees have been established
in the plant: the Technical Committed, the chair,7.ian of Trni.ch is Ing. dolman.,
and the Jorkors a Committee., composed mostly of reliable Communists and 3tak-
hadzovite workers. The Technical Committee supervises the technical phase of
productions The /orkers ? Committee is divided into several groups of two or
three members each who are on the lookout for sabotage and stoppages.
5. No permanent military liaison officer has been assigned to the plant., but the
plant is under the supervision of the "inistry of National Defense as well as
the 4'inistny of Industry.
6. There are about 13,000 persons employed in the workshops and offices of the
plant., including voluntary brigades. About 15 percent of the employees are
reliable Communists; CO percent became members of the party after February
1940. The rate of office workers to manual workers is about one to twenty-
five. The chiefs of the various departments are changed frequently
7. The security of the plant is handled by the Security Officer together with
members of the ".7rkers ? I4ilitia. In addition$ the factory and the entrances
are guarded by members of the Factory Guard who wear Idlaki uniforms and are
armed with pistols. After finishing work, members of the ' orkers e 1'.~litia
take turns at guarding the central porter and transformer station for eight
.lours at 11it;!i~0 then on such detail,, they vicar civilian clothing and carry
a pistol. All employees have an identity card with a photograph which en'I:?itles
diem to enter the plant. Temporary employees are given a card Tri.t'hout a photo-
graph. No other security precautions, such as air-raid drills, are follovied.
3. Near Gate II a new department which will probably be a phosphate furnace is
under construction.-18,, Allegedly, the raw materials for this plant will come
from Switzerland, Sweden., Llortiray (ore)., Poland and the USSR.
Comment: According to previous reports., there works were formerly
~trlown as e Poldi Steel *.Jorks.
rr; . Comment: See No0 24 of attachment.
Attachment: Sketch of United Steel ,'Jorlcs, National Corporation., at Klac'.no.
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