CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SKODA FACTORY AT UNICOV

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006700300005-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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,z1JRIFCT construct lo of 1..ew Sit-oda Factory at Unicov
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Al.oue the niddle of November 1948, construction of a Skoda factory at Unicov
?ens -,tarted by the Proste,lov branch of the Czechoslovak Building Association.
Che factory 4as to cover an area of about one square kilometer and was to con-
sst of einht ferroconcrete halls of various sizes, one administrative build-
ing, and one building which was to serve as a personnel office. All the halls
were to have normal ferroconcrete foundations. Hall No. 2 was completed in nay
L950. and only the ferroconcrete foundations for halls No. 3,4,506,7, and 8 had
leen laid by that time. Nasonry work on ball 7To. 1, the administrative building
xnd the personnel buildine had been conrleted in 1949. The Vitkovice Iron -Forks
fIrn shed the steel re leired in the construction, but the steel from a dismantled
retrsry in l'otava was used for hall No. 1.
2, In charm oc the construction was an architect named Pavlik from Prostejov, and
ehout 2,000 construction eorkers from Prostelov were employed,
3. A railroad connectin7 the plant with the double-track railroad from nlomouc to
Unicev was also built. The entire plant was surrounded, by a brick wall 4 m
nigh- Electric eurrent was eurpliel by the 'rest 71oravian Power Plant,
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Peol,ction in hall No. 1 was started in December 1949 under the nanaeenent of
-lenb c and under the direction o2 the Skoda Uorks In Pilsen. It consisted of
iekill caterpillar tractors and monnting then with Diesel en7ines eh:ch were
:Jen comin7 from Tcoda-lilsen. In nay 1950 about 10 complete tractors ecre
-Tod ced weekly. n.achinery in hall Tlo. 1 included a large number of universal
Lvim n7 maehines, cutting rachines, nrindine machines and borers, A large
!'ec.ric crane was located in the riddle of the hall.
tn nny. 1950 about 1,500 persons in three shifts were employed in hall No. 1.;
c'his number did not include en7ineers, foremen and office workers. 73ar1y all
tY en were transferred to this factory from Skoda-Pilsen. Only a very small
perc-nta7e of local eor'e.ers mre errloyed, an,', they had to underrfo six months'
ta.lin7 at 'Im0a-Pilsen. Th-2e whc were transferred fr-,m Pilsen were hovqed in
n fe-eer honnital at Unicov etrich had been rerchaeod by lkoan for that rurneee,
kboui 30 nercent of all the en-levees were men.
TTora'ne of the workers was maintained by force, and absenteeism was runished
by sentence to a forced iahor carr.
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7, Thc,:, folloinr rersonnel wore known.:
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? Prantisek Prochaza, bead of the personnel department and a fanatical
Communist Party member.
31aha, head of the technical department; he joined the Cornunist
Party after February 1948,
Tesek, chairman of the workeral council,
ulDicks and Valenta, cadre trustees; both are fanatic:al functionaries
of the Conmunist Party,
ns, factory as guarded by four nembem of the plant rdard Who wore civilian
iio1MnincludInr! a. black cap with a small slpare badrre. They. ware armed
mItl rintolnand mere controlled by the MB, especially at niht Com-
1r6or of VA.s rnlard vas Banes, son or the comnander of the r:7:B station at
'17Arti. to the rlant was remitted only upon presentation of an iqentity
an with rbotoRTaph Which was insued by the personnel department of the factorj,
Zecuritr officer vas Hrdlicka, a Czech and a fanatical Communist.
Atr.,chrtent; .raetch showIng location of Skoda buildincT under construction at
Unicov.
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