LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2006
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• Publication Date: June 4, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY Hungary
25XSUBJECT Living and Working Condition?
0. OF ENCLS.
and the secretary o
,eight hours, starting at 7 a.m. Actually, no worker can leave the factory
after he has worked. his.eight hours, as he has to attend the following
activities each week-
JO LW I REPORT NO.
R.a.If, an hour's reading of the newspaper "Szabad. Ilep" (Free People);
Production Conference (one to two hours);
"Free Party Day" (sic., one to two hours);
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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Fach industrial enterprise is controlled by a manager, a party secretary,
f the i r rk council. Officially, each shift works
d. Party Day for Party Members (sic.., one to two hours);
Political Seminary (one and.. one-half to two hours, twice a week.)
The Nozarowa Movement requires that every worker keep his machine in good
condition, to clean At and to repair it, if necessary. However, as the
second shift begins work immediately after the previous shift has finished,,
cleaning and repair work can only be done in the morning hours before work
begins. Every worker has an exployment book in which his output and his
conduct are recorded. Workers can only change or leave their working place
if the change Ls approved by the Works Council. Workers who leave without
permission are brought back forcibly or sent to a labor camp. Workers who
are late by even one minute are fined. For a third offense, they are
shed by the cancelling of leave-
-Weekly wages of workers employed. by the heavy industry are as follows:
Lathe or milling machine operators
Horizontal. lathe operators
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c. Laborers
Prices of foodstuffs in December 1951 were
150 forint.
Brown bread., per kg. - 260 fort-at
b . :Fat (rationed), per kg. 30 to 35 f print .
Fat ra:tio:nmm being insufficient, their 0 fo:ri.nt
price on blrys black market, per kg. 9
? r e:~d made - Boo to 1,000 form
Man's ..,u it t. y )
e. Shoes ( awork.ers _ 250 i:o:rint.
The exprop:r?ia?.ior:. of private houses and apartments was enforced
per-sons whose February
1952 and the time, set for appeal was 6 to 8 March.. All p'~' eh rent
have been expr. op.r?i aced, will have to pay rent from .1 January 1953.
is to be .fixed by local commissions. The following persons were exempted
from exp:s: opr ta.t, inn
a.. Wage earners who lived. In their own houses.
b. State officials or persons in receipt of state pensions.
Peasants ,(those who had received five or six acres and. belonged to a
kolkhoz. Peasants possessing more than 12 acres were regarded a s
kulaks and. had.. their houses expropriated.)
The Beta (hemiee l Works are situated. on the shore of the Zagyva River on
.a side road. .i.eadi.ng off the jasZber4ny -NagykAta road] some three km west of
Jsszber(n.Y The buildings are erected on an area consisting .of about
ten hecta e s and. are .linked, with the J .szberdny station. 'by a railroad
siding. The factory began work in 1951 and employs more than 5,000 workers
the Ganz Factory in Budapest) on a so-called "exchange
of expe:r.?:i.enr:e - visit. On the day of his visit a very luxrarious Jendrashik
train was to be delivered to the Russians. The Jendrashik.trains have
diesel engines and. modern equipment. As the result of sabotage, the whole
train, both engine and. cars, was severely damaged. The blue morocco
leather upholstery was hanging in tatters and the mahogany panelling was
completely r u:i nF:d.
A power station. Is under construction on the shore of the river Tisza at
Tie alt k. ' he prisoners employed on this project live in an underground
concentration ca:snpj some two km. from Ti.aZalt k. They are guarded. by AVii
men, who arrest everyone approaching the camp, which covers about 100
hectares. Groups of 15 prisoners are guarded by one AVH man, who is armed
with an .au.toma:t. is rifle and who is accompanied by a bloodhound. There are
1,200 prisoners in the camp (most of them are opponents of the regime who
tried to escape from Hungary), includiisg 8 miners who have been found
guilty of sabotage.,
The Budapest : rrn and Machinery. Factory (Budapesti Fegyve:r es Oepgyrr),
located in Hudd.apest. SoroksEfri Ut , manufactures automatic small arms
patterned .aftec Soviet models,
1?orsrnen:t., o he technical side of the power project at Ti.sZaJJ k
was :recently treated
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