MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS BULLETIN

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NISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
W A R S A W
BULLETIN.
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
No March 23, 1949
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DECLARATION BY :POLISH D ELATES TO
T ~N ~J7 YORK C ONFj,;REkT C FOR PF ACE ?
On March 22, a Polish delegation left Warsaw by air,
on them way to the USA where they will attend the Cultural
and Scientific Conference for World Peace, beginning on
March 25. The Polish delegation is composed of Leon Krucz-
kowski, President of the Polish Writers' Union, Stanislaw
Ossowski, an outstanding Sociologist, Prof. of the Warsaw
University and Pawex Hoffman, chief editor of the weekly
"Kuni c a" ?
Directly before.their departure the delegation made
to the PAR the following declaration:
"The Polish delegation wishes to stress before the
Congress the undaunted will for Peace of the Nation which in
World War II was among those most grievously afflicted by its
cruelty and its devastating results. It will be also our task
to pay attention to the close connection existing to-day
between the plans of the warmongers and the tendencies to
rebuild German imperialism.
We are going to New York convinced that the stand of
the Soviet Union, :Poland and all People's democracies as a
factor of a consistent policy, tending to the defence and
stabilization bf Peace, will be understood and appreciated by
all those Americans who see in the peaceful cooperation of
nations the s ,y road for their own country and the whole
world.
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We know that in the United Nations the forces of the
camp which like ourselves and all men if good will, throughout
the world, will energetically oppose the criminal action
tending to push humanity into catastrophe, are increasing.
We know that the policy of aggression and subjugation of the
world does not suit the interests and tendencies of the Ame-
rican nation, similarly as it does not suit the interests
and tendencies of any nation great or small.
We are going to Nov-York in order to greet, in Poland's
name, the American Conference for Peace and to assure such
Americans who are fighting for peace of our full solidarity
in this heavy battle which is also ours. We are going to
America to tell them in the. name of our free country that
eur united forces, the united forces of the defenders of Peace
have a decided advantage over the forces of aggression".
Source: PIT
POLISH COOPERATIONISTS ON THE
CONGRESS FOR PEACE
The Presidium of the Supreme Cooperative Board,and
the Central Executive of the Cooperative Union addressed to
the Executive Committee of. the International Cooperative Union
in London a message in which they appeal in the. name of 5
million polish cooperationists to join in the initiative of
Calling a Universal Congress of Partisans of Peace..
The message recalls that the Cooperative Congress in
Prague passee, in Soptucmber 1948 a unanimous resolution binding
all decent cooperationists throughout the world, to fight for
universal peace, democracy and free development of the
progressive cooperative movement.
Source: PAP
,DECLARATION ON RESTITUTION
OF ARRASES
Prof-Dr-Jan D browski , $ekretary General of the Polish
Academy of Sciences, made the following declaration on the
restitution of the '.Vawel Arrases E-rhich are still in Canada:
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"I want to express my ardent vri.sh that the national
rolics of Wawel, dear to all Poles, return as soon as possible
to their age-old h,~ir - the Wawel Castle.
Four years after' the conclusion of the war which has
exiled our. national treasures, I see no reason why should
anybody hinder the restitution of the priceless monuments of
our history and culture such as the "Szczerbiec" Sword, the
Florian Psalmbook and the famous Wawel arrases.
All Polish historians and scientists conscious of the
historic values of these monuments in the lives of nations,
and particularly for our Nation, will undoubtedly add their
voices to mine.
Source: PAP
EXPORTS ]iND IMPORTS VIA
GDYNI~1- 0,TSK INCREASED
In February. 1949, the export of ,a number of commodities
via the ports of Gdynia-Gda-Ask considerably increased.. The
most substantial increase was noted in the export of sugar.
In January,. 10,29.8 tons of sugar. were exported through
Gdynia-Gdafisk, and in February - 27,2o3 tans. Poland also
exported more timber, furniture and eggs in February than in
January.
Our imports also increased in February. The import of
chemicals and pha rmac euti es totalled 22,770 tons in January,
and in February -37,58o tons. Poland imported 2,740 tons of
machinery and electrotechnical appliances in January, and in
February - 2,250 tons.
In the period between March 1 o.nd .March 15, 1949, trade
in Gdynia-Gdafisk ports came to about 495,ooo tons, while the
.export of cola amounted to about 416,000 tons.
Source: PAP
POLAND STARTS PRODUCTION
OF P, TICILLIN
The most important investments in the chemical industry,
in 1949 will be, the extension of soda works, nitrate works,
electrode factories and rubber goods factory"'Stomil", reagent
factory, plastic and--dyestuff factories. In 1947, Poland will
start. building varnish factories, nitrous compound factories-and.
plants producing chemical aparatuses.Of the 1949 investments
the most considerable is the building of the penicillin works
in fiarchomin and of the coke plant "Anna"?
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This year the chemical industry will se-~ in operction
production of 39 commodities, among other things: penicillin,
chemicals for the protection of plants, materials necessary
for the production of plastics etc-
Source: P~;P
DELEG:~TION OF POLISH EDUCLTIONISTS
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In the ryfternoon of March 21, the delegation of Polish
educationists, headed by Minister St-Skrzeszewski returned to
:Varsaw from the USSR.
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M 1 4! S T R Y O F F 0 R E I G N A F F A I R S
WARSAW
BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
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National Thrift Conference
The National Thrift Conference,. which has held its
debates for two days in Warsaw over the Government's reso-
lutions to save, in 1949, 115.000,000,000 zl., in the national
economy, was concluded, on March 21,
The resolution, accepted by the Conferenec, pointing to
many economic reserves which had not been exploited until now,
calls upon the whole country to battle for the realization
of the ThreelYear plan, ending in 1949, before the appointed
time and to realize the saving in this year.
The two-days debates of the Conference were concluded
by the speech of Minister Hilary Mine, Chairman of the Economic
Committee of the Council of Ministers..
Minister Mine, first of all, pointed out the stabiliza-
tion/prices and the retention of the circulation-of balk notes.
The shortcomings in certain departments of economy
such as the fluctuations in the meat and fat sectors may be,
to a great.extent, acecunted for by the favourable phenomenon
of the increase in consumption in the world of labour. Under
the capitalistic system, in a similar situation, prices would
rise and consumption would be lim ' ed to the narrow sphere of
the privileged ones.
A wide range system of aid and reduction of burdens with5
rcgr.~rd to hog breeders has been applied, which will-increase.
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the supply of meat and fats end remove the difficulties without..
limiting the consumption by the working masses.
Similar ptenemena appear as a result of the existing
fast economic development also in other departments of pro-
duction. For instance we are short of steel, although Poland
produces far more steel than before the war. It is sr, because
we are building factories, machinery., workers' houses, schools ete.
Source: PAP
The World of Labour supports the Government's
Stand to the Church
On Ma ch 21, in induttrial plants throughout Poland,
meetings of manual and mental worker were held in the course
of which the relation of the State to heChurch was dealt with.
In the resolutions passed by those meetings.the workers
underlined that they did not want the Church, a place of
religious worship, to be used -by. a part of the clergy as a
platfcr . for political agitation, spreading unrest among the
population.
Those present demanded that the Church, in accordance
with the Government's stand, enjoy full liberty but must not
use it to fight the People's Government and the Social System
of Polend.
Source: PAP
Films Produced in Poland
The recently rebuilt Photo-chemical Works I, in Warsaw,
have been set in operation.
The Works will produce about 12 kinds of films,'amateur
6 x 9 and 4 x 6,5 films, X-ray films, flat films-.for phetogra-'
phers and films for the polygraphic industry.
Source: Trybuna Ludu
Fxpcrt of Christmas Tree Ornaments
to America.
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In 1949, Polish industries will export to the USA 30.000
cases of Christmas tree ornaments. The first shipment, including
11500 cases, will leave Gdynia in the near future.
Source: PAP
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M I N I S T R Y O F FOREIGN A F F A I R S
W A R S A W
BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
1 63. March 21, 19494
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Bases for the Regulation of
11elationshi ppa between the
qtM2.and Ohurch.Declaration ' of the Polish Government.
On March 14, Bishop Zygmunt Choromaiiski, Secretary of the
Bpiscopate's Commission applied to W adysxaw Wolski., Minister
of Public Administration, in connection with the regulation
of relationships between the State and the Church.
In the course of the talks, Minister Wolski made the fol
lowing declex'ati~i on the Whole of the relationships between
the State and the Church-
1. It is noticeable that the activity hostile to the Gov.-
ernment and the People's State, on the part of certain spheres
of the clergy, has become more intense during the recent znontha.
A pert of the higher ecclesiastical hierarchy endeavours
through pastoral letters and confidential instructions to cause
a state of unrest and excitement on account of the alleged dax
ger to religion. without any essential grounds for it.
It is not by mare chance that in this anti-popular action
spreading unrest, those bishops come to the fore who under the
occupation had ingloriously distinguished themselves by their
not only conciliatory but frankly servile attitude to the hit--
lerite occupant, as esg. Bishop Kaczmarek and, Bishop Adamski.
Neither is it a mere chance that most of the ecclesiastic hier-
archy, regardless of the general opinion of the whole patriotic
Society, do net oppose the anti-Polish pronouncements of com -?
potent Q[7,-1V-icon circles supporting the chauvinistic claims of
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Germany with regard to the Regained Territories, but endeavour
to justify them..
2. Frequently, the clergy patronize or frankly co-operate
with various criminal anti-State groups which are an agency Of
Anglo-American imperialism.,
Thos o .facts have mot neither with condemnation nor adqu-o
rebuff on the part of the Church hierarchy or the Catholic
press controlled by it.
The Church authoritio3 do not oppose in practice the in
filtrr~tion into religious organizations and corporations, of
criminc-a underground elements which endeavour to use these
corporations as a base for their activities,
3. All this is obviously at variance with the harmonious
efforts of the immense majority of the Nation which is rebui3d?
ing the devastated country, wants order, peace and prosperity
opposes all attempts at disturbing the development of the
country on the ground of the achieved social victories.
Being the guardian of peace and public order, the Govern -
mont will not tol.crate any fire-brand action. That is why,
only a change In the existing attitude of the Church hierarchy
and the giving up of all hostile practices directed against the
People's St^ts may create a basis for the regulation of the ro-
lati ons with the Church.
4. The Government declares categorically that they do not
intend to restrict religious liberties.. The clergy in Poland
enjoys many rights, to a far greater extent, than in many West-
European countries. All rumours connected with the liquidation
of religious instruction in the schools are groundless,
The Government will, however, observe firmly the general
rule of the Constitution that "freedom of confession may not be
used in a way contrary to the law" - and they will not tolerate
the misuse of religion by some oateehists to sow unrest in the
minds of young people and incite them against the authority of
the State.
At the same time the Government will firmly oppose afl
antics and allios off endin j the religious feelings of boliov.
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ors and infringing the obligating laws.
..5o Educational institutions run by religious badi?es., oar
controlled by the secular clergy which comply with demands
provided for by the obligating rules and laws will enjoy the
rights duo to them.*
Also benevolent institutions run by religious bodies or
.controlled by the secular clergy" will be able to develop
their activities under proper control end supervision provid--
od for by the authorities of the Stet o.
6a The authorities of the State do not intend to inter-
fere with the problems of worship or with the administration
of the Church. They wills; however, claim that the legal
status of. the dioceses and their frontiers be regulated in.
accordance' with the now juridical order and the frontiers . of
the State.
All loyal representatives of the clergy and religious in-
stitutions enjoy full legal prot-octiont. as well: as the protec-
tfon of the authorities flowing,from the obligating.legisla..
tion.e
7a The concrete regulation of the relations between the..
State and the Church which will find an expression in the-new
constitution, in the department of the rights of the.church
hiorqrchy will shape itself on the ground of experience re -
sulting from the stand of the clergy and ecclesiastical hier-
archy to the People's Stat eo
8. The existing attitude of the Government t~ ? th ? ' pro : -
bloms of religion and Church shows the sincere intentions of
the Government to regulate the relations between the Stag
and the Church in the spirit of loyalty and true concern
about the good of the people.
All stops of the Church hierarchy tending to regulate the
relations on the above said principles may rely upon the sup
port of the. Government -- and the exchange of concrete motions p
made, in this spirit g will be encouraged and kept up?
Source: "Rzoczpospolita"U
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Groat Thrift Conf oronce*
On March 20, the National Thrift Conference began in
Warsaw with the participation of the members of the Council
of the State, representatives of the Seym and Trade-Union -
ists. Over 1,000 leaders of various departments of econo-.
into ,ife, representatives of political parties and workers
have arrived from the whole country to attend the Conf erenee.
.The Conference has as its task to work out methods for
the realization of the Governments resolution of February
19,4949, to save, in the c oure e of 1949: at least 115 tjl.1i exde
z.~ti ee
The debates are presided over by Mr.Ochab, Chairman .of the
Central Commission of the Trade.Unions.
The letter of Poland{s President, B.Bierut* to the mom
bers of the Conference was read at the outset. The letter
reads:
119064 Your debates will be of great importance for the
further development of our economic life, they will help to
make our State economic and self-government administration
more efficatious.
This Conference is an outcome of the wish.-penetrating
the working class, to speed up the realization of our. econo.?
into plans, whose aim is to convert Poland into a highly
industrialized and rich country and ensuring to the Polish
Nation the highest stand,xd of prosperity and cultures
By apesdg up, in 1949, the carrying out of the 3,.Year
Plan, the working masses, at the same time, guarantee to the
working masses a steady improvement in the standard of liv.
ing on the basis of a number of social achievements which the
working class may win and develop only under the conditions
of the People's rule, under the condition of People's demo
cra cys
How shall we avail ourselves of these possibilities how
shallwincrease the productiveness of our works multiply our
achievements, speed up the further increase of our producti-
veness and, by doing so, increase the general standard of liv-
ing among the working mosses? such is the program, such are
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the tasks which will become the subject of your debates.
We shall use the sums saved in this way In house build -
ing ?rbotter technical equipment, now factories, now public
welfare services, new settlements, now centres of cultural
life ......"
Premier J6zof Cyrankiewiez greeted the Conference in the
name of the Government. He said among other things:
"The Thrift Conference is to carry out an. extraordinarily
important work which will weigh, in a decisive way, on the
general fulfilment of the Three-Year Plan, which will bring a
new element into the realization of the Six-Year Tlan for the
Building of the Foundation of Socialism in Poland,
The battle for saving will not be a single act, it must be
a constant, ever plainer and ever more consistent factor in
the whole of our national economy.
The general mass battle for saving must be carried on..
without any exceptions in all cells of nati cMal economy. Only
in this way, the Government's resolution on the introduction
of a? planned system of saving will be carried into effect.
Only in this way we shall save this year 115 milliards zlsr.,
only through extended nmd more intense work competition we
shall carry out, before the appointed date, the economic plan
for 1949 end create realistic conditions for the carrying out
of the 6-year Plan, for the Building of the Foundation of So-
cialism.
To-day, we shall mobilize the wide masses of the Nation
for the realization of those tasks for the battle for the
further development of the Nation, the welfare and the dove -
lopment of culture. "'n1 order to realize these tasks we de
clere war on all profiteering, alien to the working class,
panic spreading and anti-popular elements. In this concrete
and realistic way we shall reinforce People's Poland, the
vitality and strength of our Motherland, an important link
in the group of States building a better future for themselves,
in the team of People's democracies, creating, under the
leadership of the Soviet Union, a strong, confident as to
their future, in the teeth of Anglo-Saxon and German imperial-
fists, camp of Peac and Progresso Source: PAP.
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Vico-.,Premier Zawadzki's Recover`.
Vice-premier Alexander Za%?r at: zki . he as recovered from his
illness and resumed Office at the .Prosidium of the Council 'of
Ministers.
Source: PAP.
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Polish A ;legation to the ..Congress
of .Intellectuals in New-York
A Polish delegation Will go to the Congress of Intelloetu-
ol.s in New York. The delegation is composed of: Stonislaw
Ossowski, Prof.of Sociology at the Warsaw University; Leon
Kruczkowski, Eresident of the Polish Writers Union and Z'awel
Hofm,-.n, editor of the literfry weekly "Kuznica".
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MI NISTR.Y OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
WARSAW
BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
March19 ,1949
On March 17, VMr.J.K.Wende, Polish Ambassador to Belgrade
handed to Mr.Kardel the Foreign Minister of the Federal People's
Republic of Yugoslavia the following note
"The Polish Embassy in Belgrade sends its compliments to
the Foreign Office of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia
and begs to communicate that, in connection with the closing of
the premises of the Polish Information Bureau, on March 15, the
Embassy has been empowered to hand in a most vehement protest
against this inimical act of the Government of the Federal
Yugoslav People's Republic with regard to People's Poland.
In order to throw some light upon the actual state of things
the Embassy states;
The Polish Government desirous of making closer the friendly
relations between the Polish Nation and the nations of the Federal
Yugoslav People's Republic opened in April 1946 the Polish In-
formation Bureau.
The Polish Information Bureau through the popularization of
the political, cultural and economic efforts and achievements of
the Polish Nation developed an activity tending to the intensificatiog
and cultivation of friendly relations between the Polish Nation
and the nations of the Federal Yugoslav People's Republic. This
activity of the Polish Information Bureau met with full under-
standing and sympathy on the part of the wide masses of the
Belgrade population, who thronged to visit the reading room and
the exhibitions organized on. the premises of the Polish Information
Bureau.
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 On March 2, Mr?Leo Matos , Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Federal Yugoslav People's Republic informed Mr-Jan Karol
Wende' Polish-Ambassador, of the decision of the Yugoslav Govern-
ment to liquidate the Polish Information Bureau in three days'
time. On the question of the Polish Ambassador, Vice-minister
Matos,explained that this decision referred only to the Polish
reading room, therefore, it did not concern other States'analogical
centres existing in Belgrade such as the USA, G.Britain and France.
Vice-minister Matos motivated the decision of the Yugoslav. Govern-
ment by the alleged refusal of the Polish Government to grant
permission for the opening of an analogical Yugoslav centre in
gars aw.
On the other hand, it is a fact that the Yugoslav Govern-
,went did not reveal, until the end of January 1949 their intention
of opening an analogical centre in Warsaw. Only on January 26, 1949,
by the Note No.28/49 the Yugoslav 1Embassy in Warsaw applied to the
balish 11'linistry of Foreign Affairs requesting the permission to
tpen a permanent informative exhibition and the assignment of
premises for this perpuse in the centre of Warsaw.
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Note No.DI
565(2)49 of January 31,1949, informed the Yugoslav Embassy in
'Warsaw that the above affair was being arranged. It is obvious that
the compliance with the Yugoslav Embassy's
request met with difficulties in view of the generally known de-
vastation .caused in 'W'llrarsaw by the hitlorite occupant.
In the light of these facts as well as against the back-
ground of the campaign which the Yugoslaw press has conducted for
some time against the Polish Information Bureau, it becomes clear
that the Yugoslav Government took the opening of the Yugoslav
Information Exhibition only as a p?ctence for the intended li-
quidation of the Polish Information Bureau.
Following consistently this line the Yugoslav Authorities
proceeded, on March 15, to close the Polish Information Bureau in
a manner which was exactly like a raid. On that day, before the
opening of the promises' patrols of policemen were posted in
the street, and a number of individuals broke into the Information
Bureau, who announced, in an evasive manner to the charwoman, who
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~~~ ran -thi premises , that they were representatives of the Mi-
.stry of Internal Trade and Food, and, after having demolished
the equipment of the show, closed and sealed the premises.
In view of the above said the Embassy states that the
inimical ultimate character of the Yugoslav Government's.dec,is1i
in regard of the closing of the Polish Information Bureau and
the rough methods used in this closing , are one more evidance
of the inimical attitude of the Yugoslav Government towards
People Democratic Poland.
Such being the state of things, the Polish Embassy de_
Glares that the responsibility for this inimical towards Poland
and undoubtedly inconsistent with the opinion of.-the Yugoslav
nations act of closing the Polish Information Bureau devolves
completely and exclusively upon the Yugoslav Government, in?view
of which the Polish Government will draw from those.-facts proper,
conclusions
The Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs answered the
Polish Note by a short note which points out to the alleged
misrepresentation of the facts in the Polish note and its in-
sulting tone.
Source: "Rzeczpospclita1
BOLES!,A'P RUMINSKI. APPOINTED MINISTER
OF AGRICULTURAL AND-.F OOD INDUSTRY
On the motion of the President of the Council of Ministers
the President of Poland apps nted Mr.Boleslaw Ruminski until now,
Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Industry end Trade,
Minister of 'Agricultural and Food Industry.
All problems connceted with the following industries are
within the scope of the new Minister's activity., sugar, fer-
mentation, fat, confection: substitutes of coffee and other foMc-
stuffs, potato, alcohol and tabacco.
Source: "Rzeczpospolitp"
FOUR YEARS OF POLAND 's ACTIVITIES
CONNECTED-)PITH THE SEA
On March 18, 1945, the detachments of -the Polish Army,
fighting together with the Soviet Forces, conquered Kolobrzeg
.and reached the Baltic.
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Twenty-five ships have called at the Polish
ports, 4o million tons of goods have been transloadod.
The Thipyards. Three powerful shipyard centres have been
set in operation in Szczecin,. Gdynia and Gd,--6sk. Production of
high-sea-going vessels has been started.
Hi h-sea shi in . Twelve regular lines have been sat in
operation; the tonnage of the Polish Navy has been increased by
70%; 3,5oo,ooo tons of goods and 70,000 passengers have .been
carried.
Coastal. Shipping. A regular service has been started in the
Gdansk Bay and in the Szczecin Bay, and 378,ooo passengers have
been carried.
Sea-Fishing. A fishing fleet of trawlers, cutters and
fishing boats has been created; 12o,ooo tons of fish were caught
valued at 4.7 milliard' zl.
Source: PAP
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BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
NO-51 . March 18 1949
GROWTH OF NATIONAL REVENUE IN P OL AND
On March 16 , at the session of the Economic Plan
Commission of the Seym parts of the Economic Plan for 1949' con-
cerning the national revenue, investments and financial plan
were discussed.
In 1949, the percentage of the national revenue, assigned
for investment and the increase of reserves, will exceed 26%.
The growth of sums invested by.. the State in t he .cours e
of the Three-Year Plan appears as. follows: in 1947 - 115 milliards
zl. , in 1949 - 313 milliards zx. '~If. we add to the above sums
those invested outside the Plan, in 1949, Poland will invest
2.5 more per capita than before the World War II. with a si-
multaneous increase in the standard of living off' the working
masses.
Of the total sum of investments in 1949, 4o.3% wi'1 be
allotted to industry, mining and handicrafts 12.6% - ta??agricul-
ture, forestry and fisheries; 21,8% .- to liaison and communicatie.n,;
21.8 % - to the turnover of goods - 4.7%; for special services -
8%; for house building - 8.4 for installations of public ad-..
,ministration - 2.4%; for public convenience installations - 1.8%.
By January 1, 1949y indebtment in agriculture came to
over loo milliards zl. Under these conditions the Government's
policy, tending to the development of. industry and thus checking
the growth of over-population in rural districts and its gradual
liquidation, to the development of industry and o3actrification of
the country, to the egiiipment of rural areas with modern means of
production, to the gradiial socialization of the farming economy .
and to raising the sta.dard of general and vocational education
in the villages is a j,st policy, although it is not calculated fvr
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In the'-distributzon of the national revenue, in 1949,
65..9% will be' assigned to the socialized, economy, 34. T% - to.the
small--production and capitalistic economies,' while, even in 1947,
56.1% fell to the socialized. economy and 43.9% - to the small
,goods and capitatiTistic economies.
The financial plan for 1949, on the income side, is com-
posed of the following items: T) moans accumulated in the budget
yield about 67% (taxes, payments by enterprises., included in the.
budget, payments by nationalized enterprises), income derived from
public administration, sales of post-German property etc). 2). means
accumulated outside the budget come to, about 17% (long-term bank
deposits, Housing Economy Fund, sums deposited with the P1O,
paying. off of -credits, gold) and 3) means accumulated by the
National Bank of Poland - 16%.
The expenditure side of the financial plan in 1948 con-
sistod of the following items:.1) budget expenses coming to about
57% (expenses connected with administration, interest-and in-
stalments of debts, payment of debts, grants of circulating
capital to nationalized industries., bank notes, other expenses)
2). expenditure on investments - to about 27 %, 3) expenses ' orz the
financing of the turnover and production - to about 16%.
The whole financial plan for 1949 is estimated at 80o milliards zl.
Source: PAP
113ETIN G OF PROTEST AGAINST THE BREACH OF THE' AGR I NT By THE FRENC ET GOT7EMIENT
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A meeting was held in ''doclaw by the workers of the largest
Wroclaw factories 'to protest, against the breaking of the repatriation
agreement by the French Government and the holding up of two
transports of Polish workers returning home.
In the resolution passed at the meeting the r'Vroc aw workers
demand that a repatriation agreement be immediately concluded
enabling Tao re-emigrants, whose return was hindered, to return
home and that all the pettyfogging ;with regard to the Polish
workers in France be stopped, The resolutionwas sent too the French
-Ambassador in 'Warsaw and to bir??Trygve Lie, Secretary.: General of
the United Nations.'
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Mx"*Z*Modze1c:wskis Minister of Foreign Affairs', received on
March 17, Mr-Waldemar John Gallman, the USA Ambassador to '+'arsaw.
000
Marskaal IIicha Lymierski received, on March 17, Mr. G,?? 7ton
.Jaccard, Swiss Bnvoy- to Warsaw:'
Source; "Rzeczpospolita"
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M I N I S T R Y O F F O R E I G N A F F A I R S
W A R S A W
BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
No.60 March 17,19422
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LETTER OF 96BRI C AN WOMEN
T4 POLISH WOMEN
The American 'Women Association sent a letter to-the Executive
of the Women League in Poland, in which it voices its undaunted will
to fight for Peace.
The letter reads:
"On March 81 the Congress of American Women joins you and the
remaining powerful 81-million army of women of the World Democratic
Women Federation in the fight for peace. We are proud that Irzbr-
national Women Day was initiated in the USA, and, to-day, we appeal
to the women of America to take part in it again.
We demand that the immense sums of money, spent by our
Government on preparations for another World War, be used on raisin]
the standard of public health, the standard of education of our
children and the general standard of living of the population.
The 33 - person delegation of American women brought home
from the Second Congress of the WDWF much rich experience. Availing
ourselves of this experience we shall work with still greater
optimism, and mobilize the women of America for weighty tasks. In
accordance with the decision of the Congress we shall celebrate
March 8 under the slogan of peace.
We deepl:v feel our responsibility not only to the women of
America but also to those of China and Greece, who are at war, and
to the oppressed colonial countries, to Spain and to all those: who
have lived through World War II.
We shall organize meetingsthroughout the country and we shat
avail ourselves of every opportunity to popularize the struggle
for peace through the press and Radio.
We are tending to bring about a ban on the use of the atomic
bomb.
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The women of America have magnificent traditions of battle
for the rights of women. To day, in the spirit of those traditions,
we shall fight for the most sacred of all rights -- the right to
live."
Source: TAP
SENATES OF INSTITUTIONS OF HI GHrR
LEARNING ON THE PEACE CONGRESS
The Sonetes of the institutions of higher learning in Poland
responded to the appeal by the International Committee of In-
tellectuals' Unity regarding the Congress for the defence of Pea,Q.
The Senate of the Jagiellon University, at the extraordinary
session held on March 13, unanimously passed the resolution to
.oin in the initiative of the International Committee of Intello
octuals' Unity.
Also the senate of the Polytechnic Institute of 7arsaw, at
an extraordinary session hold on March 15, in the name of the
staffs of scientific institutions joined in the appeal of the In-
ternational Committee of Intellectuals' Unity.
The Executive of the Polish Academic Youth Association
addressed to the International Committee of Intellectuals' Unity
a message Which voices the, conviction that the union of all
progressive forces which will find their expression in the In-
ternational Congress of Peace, will frustrate the plans of war-
mongers and ensure an enduring Peace throughout the world.
Source: PAP
ABOLITION OF THE N iTION& D$FTNCE FUND
On March 16, a session of the Military Commission of the
Seym was hold, in the course of which the Government's bill on-tho
abolition of the National Defence Fund was passed.
The National Defence Fund, created by the April 9,1936
Decree of the Polish President was destined to reinforce the moans
for the defence of the State*
As all expenses connected with the defence of the State are
financed from the budgetary and investment grants, there is no need
at present to retain a special National Defence Fund, in
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particular as the dministr^tion of such a fund would involve
the organization of A special apparatus which would cause un-
necessoxy expenses for the Treasury: The Bill has as its aim
the liquidation of the National Defence Fund, and its handing over
to the revenue of the Ministry of Finance.
Source, PAP
BIPIONATIC CHRONICLE
Mr. Z.Mod zolewski i Minister of Foreign kff airs' recoived,
on March fib, Mr?V?Zebedev, the USSR ',mbossa der to /^xsaw:
Source: P12
SENTMTCES ON T':?O HITEERITES
The District Court in Pozn i announced the senteneo$ in
the trial of Rolf Hoeppner and Herbert Strickner who; during the
.occupations wore German officials in Pozneai+
Rolf Hooppnor was sentenced to imprisonment for iifo and
Herbert Strickner to death.
In the argumentation of the sentences it was stated that
the two hitlorites trespassed on the rights accorded. by In-
ternationa.,l Law to occupational authorities, by playing an
active part in the individual and colloctivo arrests of persons
belonging to the civilian population, in torturing and per-
secution of the Polish and Jewish citizens.
Moreover, defendant Strickner contributed to the in-
prisonment of .,dolf Bnixjski, the Poznaa'i voievod, who was
eventuelly murdered in Ponnaax'i:
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BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
Noy 59 March 16
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NOTE ON S AF!T Y OF WORK WITH RE GARD
TO POLISH MINERS IN FRANCE
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs addressed the following Note
to the French Embassy:
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends its compliments to the
French Embassy and begs to communicate the following:
News of an alarming increase in the number of mishaps.in
Fr h mines, whose victims, unfortunately, are only too often Polis1%
ci' attracted particular attention on the part of the
Polish ? rn.ent .
In departments only: Nord and Pas -de-Calais, in the
period between ,1.741948 and 250-1949 ,about 22o mishaps oz curred,
whose victims were Polish citizens. These accidents resulted in death
or heavy disability.
The Mi~,.istry can .cite, as an example, several names of Polish
miners who met their deaths in French mines on the two. above men-
tioned departments' territory.
I. Antoni MIKObAJCZYK, Jan KWIECIEN (Groupe. Valenciennes).
2. Mi chal WI RCIOK, Ra jmund LIPOWIC Z (Grooupe Aniche)
3. I&nacy KSIALKIEWICZ (Groupe Escarpelles)
4. Jan OBAROWSKI (Groupe Ostricourt )
5. Floria SZYMANSKIEWICZ, Helena ,OBODA (Groupe Courri&.res)
.6. Waclaw SOWINSKI (Groupe tens;
7. Jan ''ARUCH (Groupe Bruay)
'8. Stefan WOJCIESZEK (Groupe Billy-Grenay)
9. Ludwik RYB.ARCZYK (Groupe Neoux--les-Mines)
To. Leon DOMINICZAK, Franciszek MORGIEL '(Groupe .t,i6vin)
11. J6zef . BARAN (Puits Auchel).
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At the same .time, the Ministry can cite the names of'
Polish miners who were victims of mishaps in the same region in
.
the - pours a of one month only.
1. Jozef BARAN, killed while at, work in the Auchel..mine-..
Father -of. two children.
2. Mari an WASIAK, father of 4 children
3. JANOWSKI, killed in the Prais-Marais mine near Donai.
4. Ignacy PAREK, killed in Marles- les Mines p father of
two children.
As 'far.. ,w the eastern region of Fran .oe is concerned, the
Ministry can cite the following mishaps
1. Jan. KA1uULNY,killed in an -accident in-May 1948 in the
Anna mine, in .Wittenheim.
2'0 Alfred SZYMBLD, killed at work in the "Simon" mine in
Stixiing Mendel in January 1949. During World .jar Ii hs fought in
the* Polish Army in France. -
3. Jdzef KeZAIC, aged 52, resident-in Boliwiller, on May "19,.
1948, met with, an accident which resulted in the fracture-of the
spine.
4? Andrzej TUCH.AN, aged 49, resident in'Bollwiller, as a
result of an accident 'which took place on January 1,1.949, suffered
severe. injury to the head. Father of.3children.
5. Pawol .KJ3PRZYK, injured in the Annaing mine.
6? BUDYNIARSKI, killed in the Lodou_x--Vieux-Conde mine.
7. Francis zek FINDKA,. injured in the Onnaing mine.
The Troll-sh miners arrived in France under the immigration
Immigration Convention concludod in ,Soptember, 1919, which provides
for proteoti.on over. Polish workers.
It appears, however, from the above cited accidents that
.no protection is extended to these miners, and safety of work which
-is obligatory for every State =,vith relation to the worker is not
ensured for those miners.
This state of things is aggravated by the fact that the
French Government, . by breaking the Convention of September 3,
1919? at. the same. time, make it impossible for those miners .to
return to Poland.
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The Ministry requests the Embassy to inform it on the
means which the French Government will take in order to ensure
adequate safety for the Polish miners in France.
Source: PAP
. DE CLt2AT I ON OF THE IECT OR OF 11 SAW
17OLYTEGHNIC INST ITUTF, ON THE PLEIS
C ON GRE S
Prof. E.';7archalowski, Rector of the Warsaw Polytechnic
Institute sent to the. Polish Press Agency the following
declaration;
The Wroclaw International Congress of Intellectuals was,
without exception or discussion, unanimous as to the most im.?
portent issue, .and it irrevocably condemned the war as a means
of solving difficulties of co-operation arising among nations.
possessed by the lust of power over nations, small.groups. of
capitalists and their ,closest servants, see in war an excellent
direct business - growing rich by manufacturing.instruments of
murder and extermination, and an indirect one, in the shape of
the oventual extension of the range of their power: and domination
over the over greator numbers of nations..
Mankind has already paid for this folly with many millions
of human lives,. with the tremendous loss. of the effort' of the
whole humanity and the misery of many millions of hard` working
people.
But after every war .the consciousness. of the c seantiaj,,
causes and off cots of war has groAn deeper.
That is why ovary froedom-.loving man, desiring justico
and tending to improve himself, fights stubbornly aid everywhere
for peaee# because he knows that Peace means progress, the
raising of the standard of living, attainments . in the field of
intoll,ectual development, and the fulness of. life .for everyone,
The real sense of the coming Paris Congress is the battle
for such ideals and therefore it is close to the.hearts of
millions' of working people.
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OF THE PRESS.AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT,
No ap Mnhch
A.SSUMPTI ON9 OF THE AGRICULTURAL
PL,AX FOR 1940,
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The plan of agricultural production, for 1949,. has been.
.worked out on the basis of more: precise coefficients -then, in the
preceding years.
While in the plans for the two first years of economic
reconstruction imports were absolutely necessary .to supplement
home production, our own production in, 1949 should satisE'y, to a
considerable extent, the needs of the population. in the food.
line.
This forecast is based on the comparison. of several basic
g aments of the Plan with the attainments in 1947? The first of
them is the increase in the cultivated area from 12.9 to 14.8.
..million ha, the decrease. in the area of fellows from 10701000
to.7oo,oao ha, and, particularly, .the decrease in the area 'lef t
outside the crop rotation from 2,498,000 to 970,ooo .ha..
A Lso another element of the Plan, i.e. the' way in which
the crop producing area is to be husbanded, shows that our fore-'.
cast concerning the satisfaction of 'our food needs will come true.
This is best illustrated by the parts played by particular groups
of plants expressed in the percentage of crops.
'Total.'axea of cro-psin'th.ousdads_ofha
other crops and plants uses as
cereals and sugar beet
potatoes
fodder plants
industrial plants
1947
53.9 % .
53.2 %
17+8 %
16.9 %
22.5 % .
23.4 %
.1.2 9
1.6
12,911 141800 ha
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The above table shows clearly that we begin to ihercase
the area of fodder crops and thus raise the production of animal
Prot, in. As against 1947, the area of industrial plants is also
to be increased* The remaining crops are to maintain the fertility
of the soil.
The harvest is the result of the increased area of the
percentage system of crops and the size of the yeld? Here also,
in order to define to what extent agriculture is to fulfil, in
1949, its basic tasks, we should compare the tonnage of individual
groups of crops with their total tonnage. The ratio of the tonnage
of crops appears as follows:
1947, 1949,
Cereals and sugar beet 17.6 % 10.2 %
vegetables and fruit 4.2 % 4.2 %
potatoes 54.7 % 46.4 %
oil and fibrous plants, tabacco o.2 0,43 %
fodder 23.3 28.9 %
Total. tonnage in thousands of tons 56,3o3 64!182.
The tendency to_increase the amount of fodder and thus
produce more animal protein is still more clearly shown hero.
The. contemplated production of these commodities, in absolute
figures' in. comparison with 1947,looks as followe e
'beef in thousands of tons
pork in thousands of tons
milk in millions of litres-
eggs in millions
apart from the above, wool in tons
1947
1949,
9000
120..7
372-?.2
488.'5
4,000
5,100
2,2oo
2,9oo
1,5oo.
2,08a
Phi1e the production of corrals - potatoes and sugar, in
1949, will nearly reach solf-sufficiency, as far as consumption
is concerned, the production of protoinous foodstuffs will not
attain this aim as yet,
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FRIENDSHIP
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On March 14 , the -eve of the Hungarian. National Holiday,
a solemn celebration was hold in .7ars'aw,. - attended by.Ministers:
Modzelewski' Rapacki and. Dybowski. Tho Doe of the, Diplomatic
Corps, Mr.;V,Lebedev, the USSR ambassador, was also presents
Minister Rapacki 'delivered a'spopch, suited to the
oocation, in which he presented the successes of the- iungarian
People's. Republic in the post-war rocoristruetion and the de-
Volopment of industrya The speaker stated that the Polish Nation
weloomod these successes with the greatest joy.
"Ivory attainment of 'the Hungarian Nation is also our,
succo.ss, - gs it ?incrcas'es the forces of Poac.o The development of
our industries .has as its aim to ensure wolf arc to the wide
masses, net to make our neighbours dependent on us.. In this .kind
of co-operation every, .thousand tons of goods, produced by us, is
an equal success for the two..coontrios , it is a . ge a of progress.,
~ourco: ycie Warszawy
TURNOVBB IN THE GDYNI.A c ANSK PORTS
IN FEBWMy 2A?9..
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The turnover of goods in the Gdynia-GdaAsk ports, ix
. February 1949, considerably exceeded the -plan, above all in the
tr.ansloading ?.of bulk goods. Quite 825,ooa tons of coal were
? trslosdod which is 131./ of-the Plan, 19,ooo tons of timber.
? 3-17%)' and 4.rooo tons. of fertiliz-or? (17o%)
Source: PAR
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Porcign Minzsto-V Z.M?odzole-wski received,, on March.' 14,
Mr.Trajano l odai.ros . do taco, .Brazilian Envoy to Warsaw.
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BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
Np-57
Z.roh T~4~
X! TICIPATION OF POLISH ORG TIZATIONS
TO THE '.WORLD CONGRESS FOR TH$ DEFMCE
OF PE11CE .
In connection with the apprc chins World Congress for the
Defence cf Poaco the .sseciotion of Polish Writers accepted a.
resolution applying for the participation of Polish writers in
the Congress.
"To-day we ccnsidor active battling for the preservation
of Peace - runs the resolution - to be one of the main tasks of
all people whoe social function is to rouse the consciousness
and ^rigilant penetration and to show to Society rho essence of
contemporary evil, the essence of the relentless conflict
between the desires and tendencies of the nations and the brutal
selfishness of capitalistic parasites which does not shrink from
any crime.
Being fully conscious of the common responsibility resting
with all the creators and workers cf' culture for the stand of
communiti os in the battle against the forces of evil and crime,
the Central Executive of the Polish ''lriters' Union applies for
participation of all Polish miters in the World Congress of the
Defence of Peace in Paris and declares its readiness to cooperate
in the realization cf its tasks and aims.
The Central Executive of the Union of Former 'Var-prisoners
of Hitlorite Prisons and Concentration Camps passed V. resolution
expressing solidarity with all peace--loving =nations and the
intention to join in the initiative of calling a World Congrross
for the Defence of Peace.
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vvIr.Zygmunt 11'Io.dzolewski, Ivlinistcr of Foreign " fairs,
t 'ars aw.
Please, accept, Mr.Tuinister, my thanks for your cordial
congratulation and wishes on the occasion of my being called
to the new office.
(-) ~~.Vishinski
Source.. PLP
PRODUCTION. JVTDEXPORT OF COLL IN P0L!1TD
The extraction of coal in Poland reached, in 1948, its
pre-war level (70,2 million tons) which makes up about . 13.5 p
of European production, planned for 1948, as against 12.3;-f
in
1938 for the same territory.
. The export of pit coal and coke. from Poland, in 1948,
re?achod.about 26 million tons as compared to 19.3 million in
1947 and 13.8 million tons exported jointly from Poland and the
former German Silesia in 1918.
The contribution of the lands composing the territory of
the present Polish State in the total European import of pit
coal and-coke, in 1938, came to about 16%, on' the other hand,
in 1947, the .export from Poland participated 28j in the do-
liveries of c-oal to European countries. In 1947, 32.8% of the
total Polish-extraction of coal was extracted from the Regained
Territories coalmines (plan for. 1948. -- 39.6%) and 38.1% of the
total Polish coal export was exported from them.
Next to pit coal., Poland has, considerable deposits of
brown coal, whose extraction reached 4,774,000 tons in 1947. In
1947P 4,156,600 tons of coke were produced by 17 coke plants.
Polish coal is very hard and has a very high calorific
value. The' fact that the deposits of coal are lying at a . small
dc2th. and the relative easiness of exploitation make the sums
k+cested in the increase of extraction smaller than in other
European. eval basins, it the same time, in order to make good
the losses caused by the occupant's policy, these investments
are increasinf, every yc4x. Despite this-, as. appears from the
equipment planned for 1948-1951 the consumption of props per.ton
of coal is the towest on the European Continent, coming only to
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22.5 dem3 (the Ruhr -- 34.0 dem3, France 54.0 dcm3)~ likewise
the consumption of stool in mining oquipmont necessary for the
realization of the production plans, for 1948-1951, is lowest
in the Polish coal industry and comes only to 2.27 kg per ton..
(the Ruhr 4.28kg; France 11.51 kg).. The investments in the Polish
coal industry have been computed at o?6 dollar per ton of ex-
tracted coal, while in west--European countries, they are com-
puted at 1.5 up to 2 dollars per ton.
The above examples show clearly that the investments in
the polish coal industry are very profitable.
The fact that the devastating poliey of the occupant
extracted about Soo million tons of coal from thick aid con-
venient for reconstruction strata makes it absolutely necessary
to rebuild the thinner and deep-lying deposits whose exploitation
calls for better equipment with machiner: and costly extension
of shafts.
. ,another important investment problem in the Polish coal
industry is the improvement of the value of the extracted coal.
In connection with this, and as a result of the constantly in-
creasing extraction, it becomes necessary to build a greater
number of modern manipulating plants such as sorting and rinsing
plants and the replacing of obsolete equipment in the mines and
above ground by modern machinery making it-possible to increase
the productiveness of work.
In connection with the needs of the mining industry a new
branch of industry arose in Poland which, in the near future,
will entirely cover the demand for less complicated tools ana
mining machines.
The productiveness of the Polish minor has been always one
of the greatest in Europe (in 1937) 1,718 kg per man -day). At
present the Polish minor still occupies a leading position
extracting in July 1948, on 'the average 1,349 kg of ceal. Our
miners' lower productivity in comparison with the pro-war times
may be accounted for the conditions-which Poland found after the
period of the occupant's management and the nocissity of under-
taking activities not directly connected with current extraction
and also by the fact that the miners have grown old. On the
average the age of a manual. worker increased from 29.4 in 1931
to 38.2 years in 1947?
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Ono of the most important problems in the coal industry
is to add some young elements to. the present. manpower. In.order
to ensure for the now manpower `adequate living conditions, the
ooal 'industry is building many permanent and provisional. houses.,
Unlike the defective pro-war structure of the market,
consisting in the limited absorbing capacity of the local inarketl,
the post-war supply of local needs has ben considerably extended.
as a result of the incorporation of the Regained Territories and
the evolution of the Polish economic structure resulting from the
policy of intense industrialization of the country, .as well as.
the structural assumptions which bring to the fore the problem of
supplying the?..needs of the local consumer, The consumption of
eoa7. per. capita has increased from 736 in 1936,, to 1,774 kg in
,1948.. Of the total amount of 39,2ao,ooo tons of coal assigned in
1948, for local consumption, 6,5oo,ooo wore . consumed by the coal
industry -and 15,600,000 tons by other Indus
transportation and 1o,3oc,ooo tons as fuel,
.part from. the above mentioned amounts t the coke plan..ts
will handle 5,754,000 tons of coal.
Despite the. increased 'capacity of the--home market and the
exceptional importance of coal as 'a power producing raw material,
constituting 95% of power. sourcds in Poland, the export of coal
occupies a leading pd~ace in the Polish economic policy. The,
value of coal exported abroad makes up'-5o% of our whole export.
The post-war .changes in the political and economic si-
tuation in Europe influonco the shaping of foreign markets..for
Polish coal. In the first half of. the inter-war period; Central.
Europe was the main market for Polish coal.. Since 193o, Polish
coal, expulsed from its natural market in Central Europe by. the
political and economic expansion of hitlerite Germany, gained
the northern market partly lost by G.-Britain and was forced to
look for less profitable markets in Western Europe and more
distant countries. ..
As a result of World 7ar.II the eastern market became
opened to polish coal to a more substantial extent than before
the war and, at the sari-,o _; Mme t'n.c Central and South-east European
markets: were regained by Polish coal. The chcnge in the direction
of the export resulted in the fact that, while, before the War,
83% of the. coal export was,. carried on by sea, the post-wear land
and sea transports are about the same.
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At the present phase, about 1/3 of pur coal is ,exported
to the eastern and south-eastern markets, 1/3 to the.north one,
And 1/1 to the remaining markets 'which is confirmed by the
chart below;
Export of cool and coke between 1947 %nd 1948
according t om rket s_^^ --------
- --_-------------. ---_- -------?-
_w ww._w wr w- rr_- w_wMwwrM wrl~lwr _wr
M P r k o t
1 9 4 7 1 9 4 8
Thousands % ?of^total Thousands of oftotal.
^ r - ~
of tons
oc:starn
south-0 st.
Contr._Fur.
northern
wostIEurop.
others
bunker coal
?28.8
2,8.
16.4
.32.1
16.5
8,795 45.6 ) ,500
479 2,5 721
2,177 11,3 4,289
4,858 25.2 8,371
2,5o7 13.o 4,3o1
9 0.1 200
443 2.3 67o
.
.
w~ rw r- _w-- --------_-- --r_------ -----A _ -r
19,268 100,0 26,o52 100,0
it is a well known fact that in the-first phase of the
post-wax. coal crises in .rope, when the demand for coal was
particularly groat and the productive possibilities of the
Europerl.n countries were small, r'olnnd, by restricting the con-
sumption of ooal at home,, was trying t o ,supply as. much as
possible coal to European countries. In the prosetit. phase of the
post-war coal situation in Europe, when the shortage of some
kinds of coal is still felt, +specialiy of cake-producing coal,
Poland, although she exports immense quantities of blazing coal,
m+.ny also contribute to the most rational consumption of the
kinds of coryl which are in demand.
D~PLi~txCQNCEE
Foreign Minister Z.Modzelewrrski-.. reeoived on Much 12,
Mr.V.Lebedev, USSR Lmbassdor to 17arsaw. -
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Foreign Minister ?Z.Modzelowski received on March 12,
Mr.zsrael. Ra rzilay, IsraJJ. Envoy to 'larsaw.
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WARSAW
BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
No. ti March 121 ?1942
REFORM OF THE B.ANIZtNG SYSTEM TN POLAND
In the afternoon of March 9, a session of the Legislative
Diet was held.
Deputy 1?szcz63:kowski reported to the Financial -
Budgetary Commission on the Government's decrees of October 25,
1948#
on the principles and procedure of the liquidation of
some banking enterprises..,
on the principles and procedure of the liquidation of
some institutions of long-term credit,
on the banking reform.
Dep:1szcz6 kowski. underlined in his report that the decrees
under consideration had as their aim the creation of a now banking
Sys t'om.
Under the new system, the.. National Bank of Poland will
finance the nationalized industries and trade, the consumer co-
operative organizations in the cities and it will have the right
to issue notes. The Agrari.a . Bank will finance agriculture* and
suporviso the financial policy of agriculture. The Communal Bank
will finance the associations of local governments and supervise
the financial policy of self-governments, as for the Bank of Crafts
and Trade, it would finance the crafts, small industries and trade
and supervise their financial policy.
The investment department will be financed by the Investment.
Bank, and the savings department .. by the General Savings Bank (PKO),
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All the existing banking institutions will be liquidated.
In the discussion which ensued, deputy Jedrychowski stated that,
unlike the oapitalistic system where the banking system serves
only the interests of Capital, the nationalized banks in the
.People's democracies constitute a moans serving to support and
supervise the essential disposition centres of national economy
and to cooperate in controlling the process of the, building of r
Socialist system.
The decrees under consideration were unanimously accepted.
Source: 0Zyci.e Warszawy"
BUDGBT OF Ti, MINISTRY OF FINANCE
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On March .1e, the Finenciel.-Budgetary and. Economic Planning
Commission of the Seym debated the' preliminary budget of the
Ministry of Finance for 1949?
In 1949s, over 2o% of the National Revenue will be used on
Investments, i.o about 28o milliards of zxoties.
The sums from public contributions will total, in 1949,
349.7 milliard 'zl.
The' proceeds of sums invested by the Government will total
61.7 milliards.
Mr.Dgbrowski, Minister of Fin=.-cot dealing with the tasks
of the Ministry of Finence, stated that the Ministry will. devote,
In the future, over more attention to financial planning.
In enswor to the question whether the reorganization of the,
supreme State authorities would entail new expenses: the Minister
declared that the formation of new technical ministries would
mike the control of the problems of industry and trade more
efficient and effective which would result in considerable economies
in the. belance shoot and make the whole procedure quicker arid,
simpler.
The Government does not approach the problem of thrift as
an emergency action, but as a permanent system which is to be
called into being as early as 1949?
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The Legislative Diet expresses a warm oppreei^tion to the
Minister of Finance for his policy of appropri at o care for the
budgetary equilibrium end his thrifty economy in the whole of the
National expenditure.
Source; "Lycie Warszawy"
NATIONAT, INDUSTRY IN FBBRUABY 1949
The oil industry carried out its plop of production for
February 1949 by attaining 1o5% of extraction of crude, oil, in tbe
production of crude gazolone - 113%, of petroleum r.'177%, of gas
oil _. i36%* The plan of the. processing of crude oil was carried
out 115%?.
The ina hine-tool industry carried out its plan 101.,4 % in
the .production of ordinary lathes , 1oo% in. revolving and 'railway
lathes - 100%, in drilling machines 121,2%, in grinding and
planing. machines - loo%, and in machine tools for wood working
.1,3067%- In. addition to all this,. adequate '.mounts of presses,
milling machines and other machine tools for metal working, were
produced.
The ,total. monthly plan was carried out, in the machine tool
industry, 106..1%.
The plan of production in the chemical industry was carried
out o in February 1949) 103.4%. As for as individual assortments
are concerned, the plon.was carried out as follows; .calcined soda..
4o3..i, ea,tic soda - 1'69.6%, Glaubor's salt - 1o9.8%, coaa
electrodes - 114.4%,oarbido - 1o5,7 0, cyanam.idiv of lime 107.8 I,
ultramarine .. 116%.
The paper industry considerably exceeded its plan for
February. In the production of cellulose the pl^n was carried out
io3%, of paper - 106.1% of 'cardboard ., .118.1%. The production of
emery paper roach d 101.2% of the Plan..
-Source; "Rzeczpcspolita"
P01MR PRODUCTION CAPRJ7,0 OUT TIE PLAT 100.2%
The establishments under the Central Electric Power Board
carried cut their production plan for February 100.2 %.'
The daily output _of our power statio-is in Februaxy exceeded
the output in February 1948 by 3%. Source:" Rzeczpcspolita"
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WARSAW-
BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
Iwo.
S.._ _.--____-March] f1 19142.
ALLTA TCEBETWEEN POLAND AND C ZECHOSLOVAICIA
Declaration of Premier Cyrankiewicza
On the Occasion ofthe~signing of the Pact of Friendship
between Poland and Czechoslovakia, Premier Cyrankiewicz made the
following declaration to a correspondent- of the Czechoslovakian
Press Agency:
In the pre=war period there was a deep chasm in the
relations between Poland and Czechoslovakia.
German imperialism broke into this chasm, created by a
criminal and suicidal policy, and shattered the two States: first
Czechoslovakia, next Poland.
However, the bloody teachings of history were not wasted,
for in the two countries the People's masses came into
power owing
.to the fact that our nations were liberated from under Hitlerite
occupation by the heroic efforts of the Soviet Union, owing to th%
fact that the People's masses of our two countries found support
and assistance in the Soviet Union, in their struggle against the
camp Of retrogression, .in their fight against the interference of
the reactionary and imperialistic, circles with the affairs of our
Nations.
. Asserting still more,omphatically the popular character of
our States' the People's masses of the two countries came closer
to each other and their mutual friendship became more cordial.
The two nations were deeply conscious of the need to make
this friendship more intense and to establish an over closer
cooperation,
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Driving a wedge between our two countries has bean
since long ago a favourite method of the wa rmongcrs..
Knocking this trumpoard out of the hands of wt rmongors is a
groat victory for the front of Poaco , not only in this part
of Europe.
Common social assumptions and common aims towards which
our Nations are striving reinforce still more our mutual
cooperation and open wide vistas for th future.
I am deeply convinod that the coming years of the
realization of our Fact will bring us further successes and
further extension of our cooperation which will, in turn,
reinforce the camp of democracy and- peace and, by doing so,
contribute to the stabilization of univors^1 peace and the
cooperation of all froodcm-.loving; nations.
Source: "2ycio 1'arszawy"
ACTION FOR THE DEFENCE OF PEACE
Resolution of the Prosidum of the Central Commission
of the Trado Unions.
On March 10' a session of th?. Presidium of the Central
Commission of the Trade Unions was held in the course of which
the attitude of the Polish Trade movement to the World Peace
Congress, to be hold about April 15, in Paris, was dealt with.
The Presidium unanimously passed P. resolution which
roads-,
The KCZZ gladly welcomes the initiative of the Inter-
national Committee of Intellcc-tna.als Unity J.'. defence of
Poaco. In the name of the 3.5 millions of organized workers,
office omplocos and mental workers, the KCZZ applies for
access to the World Peace Congress.
Applying for participation in the World Poaco Congress,
the KCZZ trusts that this Congress will reinforce still more
the world camp of peace and democracy, consolidate the forces
against which, undoubtedly, the aggressive plans of the dollar
potentates will be shattered.
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Poland which was the first victim of the imperialistic
egression of fascist forces and which sustained tremendous
losses during the war takes the greatest interest in the stabi-
lization of peace,and of the freedom and independence of-nationse.
People's Poland consistently supports the peace policy of-the
USSR and all democratic and anti-ivar forces throughout the
world.
The FKQZZ calls upon the whole working class and the
People's masses of Poland to take an 'active part in the. campaign
preparatory for the 'gold Peace Congrons't.
Resolution of the Womens League
At the session of the Presidium of the Executive of the
'r7'omen's League, held on March lo) a resolution was unanimously
accepted to apply for participation in the Congress, and t1
following message was sent to the Congress Committee.
"The Central Executive of the Women's League, in the
name of the million Polish women assembled in this organization,
which considers it to be its main task to: fight for peace and
progress joins whole-hoartedly in your magnificent initiative.
Y?e' Polish women, the women of the country which was the first
victim of Hitlo rite aggression, are roally.morally entitled to
protest against the criminal, aggressive plans of American
millionnaires and their agents, and we are duty bound to stand
in the first ranks of those fighting for the stabilization of
Paacc.
Source: rci o 71'rsz awy
POLZvH MIl'1ERS PROTEST AGAINST
HM'ERIN G RE IO RI AT T ON Or, P o2 s
The Presidium of the Contral Executive of the Miners'
Union, in 'the name of 28o,oo0 Polish miners passed a vehement
protest against the measures of the French Government making
impossible the repatriation of Polish.workers.
The protest demands that the workers who, between l7orld
`far I and ','World '7,14X' II, wore forced by the endetsia - Sanatia
governments - the governments of famine and unemployment -
to seek work abroad, ber enabled to return home. The
protest expresses the conviction that the French working masses
will support these just claims of the Poles in France as well
as those of_. the working masses of Poland.
Source: Rzeczpospolita
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W A R S A W
BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
No - 5 ~.._,............._... ~.w.._._,.....__ _--~ _.._._.....w.,.._ .,~ March 9 - 1949
PCLAHD's FOREIGN TRADE
The total value of Poland's foreign trade, in .1948, ex-
ceeded 1 milliard dollar s: ,Our' exports came to 5.28 dollars,
our imports 509,511,000 dollars. Polish exports increased by
over 100% as against 1947.
The structure of Poland's foreign trade, as far as goods
are connerned, is steadily changing: Poland imports more investment
goods. and equipment for her industry and agriculture, while the_
list of her exports is steadily increasing.
In addition to coal we export mainly: farm produce.; textiles,
iron, steel, pig iron, metal goods, zinc, zinc in sheets; glassware.
Coal continues being our most'important export. The. value
of the exported coal and coke, in 1948, is ten times greater than
in 1945?
Although the quantity of the exported coal is steadily in
creasing, owing to th simultaneous development of other exports
the percentage of.._^ in our general export is decreasing. This is
a favourable phenomerm-4howing the intensification-of the export
of the.. prad.ucts...of Poland's 'Xilglat. industry.
In .1948, Polish foreign trade 1swcJ,ud ed 33 States (with 23 of
which Poland has concluded bilateral trade agreements) the most im-
portant of them being: the Soviet Union, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and
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The Soviet Union and the People's democracies participated
46% in Poland's trade balance sheet - while the Soviet Union
stands to the fore.
It should be underlined that this percentage in Poland's
total turnover is steadily increasing, e.g., compared to ?947,
it shows an increase of 80. In 1938, the participation of the
USSR and to-day's People's democracies was hardly 7% of
Poland's total trade.
On the other hand, one may observe the fact that the
trade with the USA is decreasing. The_paot of the USA in Po-
land's trade, which in 1947 totalled 1a o, now comes. only to 3%,
Source: "2 y c i e 'M'ars a awy"
PEACE BUDGET OF THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL
DE.E'3l`TCIr
On March 8, the Treasury_Budgetary and Economip Plan
Commission of the Seym debated the preliminary budget of the
Ministry of National Defence for 1949.
Marshal 7-ymierski, Ministry of National Def, =e, atte&diet
the session.
Deputy Grubecki underlined in his report that, d.e.te
the instigations of the Anglo-;axon imperialists, the army
budget in People's Poland keeps 4~on4tantly at a peace level.
The ratio between the budget of the Ministry of Nati-ona.1..
Defence and the budget of.the State was, in 1934/35, 35.6%
and, in 1949, it will be 12.2%,
Military training, provided for in 1949, is to be con-
ducted in accordance with perfected programs and methods
based on the rich experience of the Soviet Army and that
gained by Poland's own Armed Forces.
In military schools 47% of students undergoing training
come from working class, 35% are sons of smallholders and
artisans and 18% belong to the working intelligentsia.'
Sums, assigned for education, are 147% higher than those
in 1948.
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Marshal Lymierski cnswerod questions by tho momb.ors of
the Commission, emphasizing, at the very outset, that the
ratio between the army budget and that of the State shows this
pacific policy of the Government.
In 1949, expenditure on the Army will make up 8;. of
the-whole budget, including the investment plan. In the SSA.,
in 1949, every citizen will be taxed 75 dollars a year in
connection with the army budget, while in Poland the same
taxation comes to 4 . dollars 41 cents.
These figures show the pacific character of our budget..
Together with other People's democracies we are
standing dauntlessly by the Soviet Union in her battle for
paacq? Oux Country responds to the war provocation of the
American, imperialists by working with greater intensity at, the
rebuilding of the country. The Polish Army will not disappoint
the expaotations of the whole Nation, concluded Marshal
%ymierski his pronounceiaents.
The deputies accepted a motion expressing appreciation
for the achievements of the Ministry of National Defence.
Source; "Zycie 1arazavr.-i"
)M.TADEUSZ 0D. APPOINT D
I4INISTBR OF PCRRI GN TR.A;:)E
The President of Poland has appointed Mr?Tadeusz Gods,
up to the present time Director of the ftdit Department at. the
Ministry of Industry and Trade, Minister of Foreign Trade.
Source; "Rzeczpospolita"
CMrn7 ;RCIAL D; I GA I err of
LZMAIM IN WARSAW
r. wM1. w.Mrww1lw+rww~wrfrwwwwH.w rw/wwa nsOn Liarch 7, a commercial delegation of Israel arrived in
Warsaw to carry on negotiations having as their aim the con..
elusian of an economic agreement with 7'oland.
Dr.ileron Gershon, Director of the 1lconoiaic Dopartmont
at the Israeli Foreign Office, is chairman of the Israeli deg..
logation.
The Polish delegation will be presided over by Mre!intonj
Roman, the treaty a.-part.
Sources *Rzoczpospolita"
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MINISTERS IATKO'"JSI I
IN PRAGUE
Mr.Ilenryk Swi'gtkowski, Minister of Justice left for
Prague on March 8.
The object of his visit is to take part in the
debates of the mixed, civil Polish-Czecho.slovakion Legal
Commission, working out the analogous ideological principles..
for the Polish and Czechoslovakian f omily and marriage
legislati.on., as well as the exchange of ratification
documents of the Polish-Czechoslovaian Convention on legal
assistance.
Source: ''Rzeczpospolita"
DI111MI.ATIC CHRONICLE
VIr? Zygmunt Modzolewski, Minister of I'oxoign .ffairs,
received', on March 8, Mr.Lamberto H.Obregon-Serrano, Mexican
Cherg6 d*' Affaires in Tars aw.
Source: "Trybuna I,udun
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WARSAW
BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS, AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
Na.52 March 8, 1949
POLISH -X MCH05LOVAKIAN FRIENDSHIP WEEK
.Polish-Czechoslovakian ^riendshiP Week was inaugurated
on March 7, in Warsaw, by the solemn opening of the .xh?bition
of Czechoslovakian Folk Art at the National Museum and the
opening of the exhibition of the Czechoslovakian Book on the
premises of the .publishing firm "Ksi4tka &'77iodza". (Book and
Knowledge).
Those attending the opening of the Czochoslovakian Folk
.Art Exhibition were- Mr.Niacko, member of the Stdte Council,
.Ministers: Dybowski, S.wi4tkowski, Szymanowski and othor members
of the Government, ropresoritativcs of the Diplomatic Corps with
their dean, the. USSR Ambassador V. Lebodov and Dr. Piezek, Cze-
chdslovakien. Ambassador, at the heady representatives of the
Czechoslovakian Ministry of Information, members of the Pro--
disium of the Polish-Czechoslovakian Friendship. Soeioty and
numerous representatives of social organizations and the cul-
tural and artistic spheres of 7.arsaw.
Before the opening of the Exhibition Dr.Fr.Piszek, Cze
ohoslove,kian Ambassador, delivered a speech. The present Exhi-
bition -- said the .Ambassador - is a living testimony of the
"act that wo are reinforcing Polish-Czechoslovakian friendship
on the foundation of mutuwl interests of the Polish and Czecho-
slovakian nations
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Czeehoslovr;kia, which like Poland lays the foundations
for' the. building of Socialism,. opens ? ;,ride possibilities for the
development of folk art. In socialized society this act becomes
an indivisible part of all cultural attainments whose creator
and,.. at the same time, consumer is the working class.
Mrs J. G-rosiecki, Vice--minister of Culture and Art, said
among other things in his speech:
The opening of the Czechoslovakian Folk Art Tixhibjtion
at the National Museum in "Warsaw begins a long list of ventl.res
and celebrations announced in the whole country, in the frame-
work of Folish-Czechoslovakian Friendship `"leek.
In the course of this week, which is also very solemnly
celebrated in Czechoslovakia, the consciousness of the absolute
need to stabilize good neighbourly relations and develop mutual
cooperation in the political, economic and cultural fields will
become. deeper in the ,-vide masses of the two nations.
In view of the recent developments in the international
arena and mutual efforts to preserve peace, the Polish-Ozecho
Slovakian rapprochement becomes particularly eloquent. rory-
Polel Czech or.Slovak .understands this very well indeed..
Sources "Trybuna Ludu'"
JK ISH ITODOIN ST!ND BY T
PORC-S OF P'ROGRSS,ND P,l1Ci,
Mw--FA----raw-Aeww wTw AND ww 41CE
On March 7, a solemn celebration was held at the: 7arsaw,
Polytechnic Institute dedicated to International Woman Day The
celebration was attended by representatives Of the -government,
political partics, Trade Unions, social organizations, youth
..organi.za:t3:ons, numerous women, ropresontativos of the. Diplomatic
Corps and delegations of Czechoslovakian women.
Vice--minister Bugenia Pragiero,tra, vivo-chairm en of the
World Federation of women end Vice-chairmen of the League of
Woman, said in her speech:
"it is not. by more chance that the first Sooialist State
in the world, the Soviat Union, was, at the- acme time, the first
State in which women obtained unlimited possibilities of de-
velopment"* 1?ext, Mrs.Dugonia Pragierowo dealt with the Status
of women in Poople's Poland, stating that the people by over-
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throwing the rule of ocpltelists end landormers, at the same
time, abolished all legal limitations of Woman.
The speaker underlined, next, the groat contribution of
women to the rebuilding and development of the country, to the
stabilization of the independence end strength of the State.
In turn, representatives of delegations from the province-
reported on the fulfilment and exceeding of commitments taken
up by all the women throughout Poland to celebrate the 8th Marcl
During the celebration a resolution was passed under
which women decide to incro.se the ranks of lenders of work and
to support the battle for peace fought by all world progressive
forces with the Soviet Union at the head..
The women, gathered at the celebration, decided to send
a message to the President of Poland, to Prof.Dugenie Cotton,
chairmen of the 7orld Federation of '.'omen, and to Mme Nina
Popowa, Chairman of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet ;omen.
Source: "Trybuna Ludu"
DIPLOMATIC CHRONICLE
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Mr' Z.Modzelewski , Minister of Foreign Affairs, received,
on March 7, Mr.77aldemar John Gallman the U^al, Ambassador to 7ars`.
Source: "Trybuna Ludu"
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MI NISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
W A R S A W
BULLETIN
OF THE PRESS AND INFORMATION DEPARTMENT
No.51 March * n (~
POLISHNATION PROT ;STS AGAINST
OBSTRUCTION OF POLSIH WORIIRS,
EPATRI .TIONBY TH FRRNCH GOVERNMENT
Over 3 , ooo workers of the VPaf awag" (State Railway Car
Works) in Wroclaw gathered at a meeting to protest against the
obstruction, by reactionary groups in France, of the repatriation
of the Poles.
Sienko, one of the working class leaders in the -"Pafa%vag",
after having dealt with the immense participation of thousands
of Poles in the Resistance Movement in France, censured the
breack of the 1919 agreement on the repatriation of the Poles
still living abroad' The speaker recalled the indelible tles"
binding the Polish working class to the wo, krs in France since
the days of the Faris Commune' on whose barr14s the best sons
of the Polish proletariat fought and fell. The Poli..sh workers are
all the more outraged at the refusal of the French government
to conclude a new repatriation agreement which is actually
tending to make impossible the return of the Polish emigrants to
their homeland.
"The working class of Poland - stated Sienke, ansidst
general applause' comes out to defend the Poles in France' There
is plenty of room for them in our factories and our manes' We
join our French comrades, concluded Sienko, in their heroic
struggle against French react_i.;.nv
Those gathered passed a resoiuLion -~ .J ch ri nds:
"On the one handy it. is plain that the return of the
Polish emigrants is made impossible, on the other hand, reaetiony
elements terrorize them and make them second class citizens,
deprived of all rights and exposed to the wilfulness of the
police.
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Between February 3 and 6 a conference of the Pblieh and
Czechoslovakian film technicians was held in Niebor6w.
The Conference hed as its aim to review the technical
problems in the two countries, in the Field of film production,
and. the establishing of cooperation in the field of film
Three commissions hold debates in the framework of the
Conforenoa. They dealt with the fixing of the Czechoslovakian and
.Polish technicians' opinions on the coordination of programmes in
film production- Also problems connected with the training of
future cadres of film employees and with technical studies were
dealt with.
Poland needs Soo more skilled film operators. Czechoslo
vakia has at present 27oo cinemas, but she provides for inareaein
this number up to 4000. Poland has boo cinemas and intends
building, 4,000 more in the framework of the 6-year Plan.
In Niebor6w 14 Czechoslovakian experts on film production
and 16 Polish film specialists took part in the debates,
The next conf erenc.e will be held in May, 1949, in Czecho-
slovakia.
Source: PAP
Delegation of Polish Professors in Czechoslovakia.
.A delegation of Polish professors, lecturing in the Polish
vocational schools, is staying at present in Czechoslovakia.
The professors visited some Czechoslovakian scientific- institution:-;.
They will go to Marienbad and attend some lectures given for
workers and farmers who want to begin higher studios.
Sources "Rzeospospolita"
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