MISCELLANEOUS ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INFORMATION IN THE DDR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300520006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 20, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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The factory political instructor of the WM Gelenkwellenwerk? Stadtilm? -
Thuringia,an: SED official Steinbeick (Thu), spoke to the employees and
announced that the women of the plant would no longer be allowed time off
for household work, and that free transportation would no longer be available
to the employees. In a very lively discussion, those present asked the
weaker which really exploited the workers more, the so-called capitalist
or the state. Steinbrfick preferred not to give an answer. One hundred
zovont7 contribution cards (Spendenkarten) for the "National Front" were
'promptly handed back. The plant employs about 1,000 -cernensat, the present
time,
The Uaogonfebrik in Gotha,* Thuringia ,had to discharge about 400 p3roensat
the end of 1:;-Iroh 1951, because the overload springs for railroad cars, wilioh
orevionsly had been obtained from West Germany, were no longer available and
lel' material was not being delivered.
Tho firms Gebr. Richter** and Gebr. Steinert,*** today both VED/s,in Chemnitz-
,:forthau, had to discharge a great many employees because of lock of materials,
ince the steel previously obtained from 4est Germany was no longer available.
The Thuringian Trade and, Procoveiment Ministry must make deliveries of grain for
-bread to Czechoslovakia at the present time. As a result, it is estimatod among
'Thuringian government circles that food rationing cards will be reintroduced
Ln Czechoslovakia very shortb.
lcoAeuItz,a ection of Rtitha, Kreis Borna, Thuringia ?is severely threatened by
the continual working of the surface coal mine. The excavations are elreadgy
;00 meters from the houses or Gestolritn. The large conveyor bridge (F5roerbrticke
tun barely 1"9 turned, soccordino to expero. About 100 houses in Gesteunz with
00 inhabitanos are threatened by these coerntions. It was attempted to erect
tew houses to those threatened ooever, it Is now reveled that no money is
tvoilab]s for a resettlement.
6 The construction of the R6tha Cultural Palace, which was planned on a grand
leale, and -which was also meant for the use of the B8hlon plant, was suddenly
otopped. The reason given for the stoppace was that no more material war.
ovailable for the completion of the building.
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