PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT AT MATTHIAS RAKOSI COMBINE

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2003
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• Publication Date: February 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM NO. 51-AAA
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COUNTRY TRaxngary
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
SUBJECT Frcdur:tion and MamW ent at Matthias Ra kosi
cambine
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ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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1. The Matthias R osi Combine (formerly Manfred Weisz Works) conducted research
?es eri? its wit.' the, so-called UOred mud?B, a byproduct of.,aluminum processing,
in view of uti,1iZing it as a basic material for iron production. This red mud
piled up i.n.. later years in many 100,000 tons lots in FeJ?r and Koma4from counties,
near the aln,di; mines. In 1952 alone 200,000 tons Qf red mud. was left over
after the abn i.u. processing. The research studies, led by Mrs. Tasnrfdy, nife
Palma Sz'r, a chemical engineer, winner of the Kossuth Prize., shoved that red
mml, If . ;ed with a certain quantity of iron oro and chalk, can be processe(?5X1
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CLASS IFICAT ION
Recently a partial reorganisation took place. The following sections have been
merged into one unite Iron ferry I and II, Steel Foundry and Temper Foundry.
This new block also get, a separate CQmanun?$t Party organization.. Its head is
The wachi rxe shy ee Ian. This was considerably enlarged, 5, 500 cubic meters of
earth was mural. A new tra sformer building, office building and dressing hall
for the worker is _ alrealdy finished., a huge work shop is still under construction.
This will he a war materiel plant.
5. The a _ bins is floodd with orders and directives, all concerning the "lifting
of pro iuet 4on ievel?~, "improvement of quality80, "'increasing economy in-materials",
?Dreducing the rber of circulating tools, "reducing refuseQO, etc. A new forced
drive on the workers has been introduced, -called "competitio4 to prevent refuse
form.ation?B. It Is characteristic of the great efforts the Communist Party exacts,
that in addition to the production prescribed in the five year plan, in 1952 the
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R osi Combine mast attain a plus production to the value of 1.5 million forints
owing to improvement of quality, 705 million forints owing to the increase in quantity.
At the same time, economy in materials must be increased by 5 million forints. In
the third, quarter of 1952 the Rcosi Combine had to reduce its material stock by,
24 million forints. In consequence, It can work only on a day-to-day basis.
6. The prescribed quantity for the steel works for the third quarter of 1952 was 1,,200
tons of quality steel. The steel production should attain the quality of electro-
steel. Scrap here must be reduced by 25 percent. In the same period the scrap in
the rolling mills must be reduced by 5 percent. The yearly general overhaul in the
rough rolling mills, which until now took 12 days, must be reduced to 6 days. The
plate waste must be utilized again,
These carry out important war materials production. Automobile
oasts, semi-finished products for gun manufacturing, iron and aluminum wires are being
produced here. In the third quarter of the year about 1,600 complete automobile
castings, about 300 tons of semi-fini.shed gun castings, 240 tons of iron wire and 80
tons of aluminum. wire were produced. Tae. value of the prescribed plus-production in
this quarter was 2 million forints. The stocks had to be reduced by 4 million forints,
and the reduction of scrap should havq yielded another 600,000 forints. The motors
of the Sexo-rollers are being transformed, so that the speed of the cylinders._can be
constantly increased.
8. The tube plant. This produces mainly for export, the work-tempo is constantly being
increased. At present they work on cold-drawn tubes, other tube products, and tubes
made by electrical welding. Supervision during production on hot cylinder-lines has
been introduced. Scrap had to be reduced here by 8 percent. Experiments with a new
kind of rolling are under way. Economy in materials should yield 1.00,000 forints in
the third quarter. According to_prescriptions, the production on the new cylinder-
lines must be increased with 25 percent.
9. The machine tool plant. This produces mainly radial drilling machines, milling machines,
and to a lesser extent other types of machine tools for the Soviet Union. The
Communist Party accused this section of lagging behind plans_by about 3 million forints.
Shortage in bronze materials is very acute here. The quantity of bronze to be
utilized monthly has been reduced by 15 tons. .Stocks in the third quarter had to be
reduced by 1.6 million forints.
10. The tool factory. This was compelled to introduce a "new" Soviet Russian method: to
renew old, broken-down tools by welding. This is done by-so-called "covering weld".in
order to save high-.speed steel. Fifteen homed kilograms of high-speedsteel tool
had to be made from waste in the third quarter by way of "fine casting'., Great numbers
of new skilled workers are being trained here. The so-called "twomacliines system"
has been introduced, by which half of the machines produce 550-hours monthly. The,
workers hate this system, for it is one of the best methods for driving the workers to
a tempo which completely exhausts them.
11. The foundry has to attain in the third quarter 300,000 forints in economy. of materials.
This shrsn works in clone collaboration with the machine plant of Egyed. It produces
maim, Parts .
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The bicycle factov This has been in difficulties,, for it must fulfill, in the third
quarter, a,800,,000 for:nts export surplus Because of the. acute shortage in copper, a
new soldering method has been. introduced. In the third quarter the.bicycle. factory got
4.5 tons less copper g them- needed. But this.does not deter Moscow from. onstantly
increasing its demands. Moscow-9s economic policy is to furnish less raw materials to the
countries occupied by her' _ ass .and, to. exact .ever increasing production in return. In
the bicycle factory 15-processing machines had to be removed from work on orders of tbe
Coam .uarist. Ply, the 'workers do not know the reason for this measure.
13. The. iron a? d steel foundries . Scrap had to be reduced here by 35 percent; this
corresponds to a value of 0.5 milllion f'orints . The speed of cleaning and semi-finishing
of rough: and. fine castings was increased in order to facilitate quicker .delivery..
14. The electrode fact ~r _~ The px?oport-ion of second-rate-electrodes has been reduced by
almost half. The wire material of the scrap electrodes must be regained by .a new
technological system. They hope to save in this way more than 100,000 forints quarterly.
15. The motorbi ~ L 1 e Ie t. This struggles with a staggering shortage of colored. metals.
Reducing of stocks was :fired here to the value of one million forints.
16. The power station. It had to economize 600 carloads of coal from 1 August to 1 October
1952. The use of compressor-oil was reduced. The colored metal shortage is frightening
here. savings in?aw materials and ancillary materials in the third-quarter were
prescribed to the value of more than one million forints.
17. The industrial machine a . It had to save 850 carloads of coal. The Communist Party
ordered this loss to be made up by improving the heating value of the, generator gases,
only they could not, 'tell how this could be achieved.
18. The Procurement services o f t h e , R osi Combine. These had to. save 250,000 forints in the
third quarter. The so-call Naz ova Movemewhich consists of "careful, economical
driving of oars,. tractors, etc,,, without loss of-parts and without repairs" and is, in
reality, one of the many measures to exploit the worker to the utmost and therefore
intensely heated, could muster only 206 ` participants04 despite high pressure. From these,
30 car drivers were forced to participate in a "national competition" consisting of
economizing,, with their cars, 100,000 kilometers of transport jobs by guaranteeing to do
so without any engine trouble or general overhaul. It is characteristic of the situation
prevailing in the motor car fleet of the Rdkosi Combine that, in addition to the already
existing economimt-ag in parts which is destructive to motors, a new, 80,000 forints saving
in parts has been ordered..
19. The Machine Plant of E d. A great number of apprentices and workers in the "re-train-
In.g stage have been assig.ed, to places normally occupied by specialists, old hands at
special tasks. This plant also had to adopt the "two-machine system, by which they hope
to increase the exploitation of the existing machine equipment by 25-percent.
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