POLISH WORKERS INITIATE IMPROVEMENTS IN INDUSTRIAL METHODS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000500650003-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 4, 1953
• Content Type: PREL

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*POLISH ElVigASSY 2640.16th 'aLreet, 11.
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March 4, 1953 For immediate release
No. 12
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IMPROVEMENT? ig INDUSTUAI tuum
The movement to raise the quantitative and qualitative 1ixe1 of indus..
trial production in the Polish Peoples Republic and a consistent campaign to
lower costs make use of both group competition and individual initiative. During
the past month, gla ,Pra07, daily newspaper organ of the Polish labor unions, as
well as other newspapers and trade journals, have been running accounts of prize?
winning production units with outstanding records in national competitions held
in the fourth quarter of 1952.
Other stories dealt with the growth of the voluntary rationalization
movement in Polish industry during the past year. For example, the Polish maohine
tool and machine building industry announced that it had received from workers,
foremen and engineers last year 38,262 proposals for improvements in production
processes and safety and health measures, including a number of entirely new in
ventions. Of that number, approximately 14,500 were found to have some practical
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at 108,000,000 zlotys ($27,000,000).
Another instance of national recognition extended to individuals and
groups in honor of their creative enterprise is an exhibition which recently
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the replacement of expensive non-ferrous metals by less expensive substit_ metals.
These were worked out by an engineer, Alfred Rath, and also by a beigoaci oC ratior-
alizers headed by Jozef Korba.
In the field of industrial ,-ompetiions, it was announced recently that
:.ie workers of the Dubois Cotton Mills in Lodz had won a money award for the plantf-
social fund and the prize banner of the Textile Workers Union as the outstanding
production unit in the Polish cotton industry for the last three-month perio6
1952. This is the fund into which a percentage of the factory14 preitv 77e-
turned and part of which is used to provide the workers and families of that plant
with special facilities such as additional vacation camps for childt,on, extra decor-
ations for the factory clubrooms, etc. Second to the Dubois factory in the compe-
tition was the Dzierzynski Mill, also of Lodz.
For the second time in a row, the Odra Linen Mill in Lower Silesia
captured the top award in the bast fibre industry. In southern Poland, workers of
the Cieszyn Knitwear Factory received first prize in the knitwear industry. They
not only exceeded their production target for the last quarter of 1952 but also
cut production costs and raised the quality of output.
Following a recent address by Premier Boleslaw Bierut on the key impor-
tance of coal in the industrialization of Poland and the growth of its fcreicu
trade, a special--miner-sponsored drive for increased production got under way, with
the workers of the Eminencja Mine taking first place in recent weeks. Other crews
which have won public praise for outsteading records are those operating the Piast,,
Lagiewniki, Silesia and Concordia minus.
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Newspapers in Warsaw--biggest construction site in a nation where con-
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structiowie a huge industry ?annouuned thlt a team of building workers at an
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apartment house project in the Grochow community of the capital wore the winners
of the competition for the best building brigade in the nation during the quarter
ending December 31 last. The pipers also carried reports that increased mechanize*
tion of work, as well as the introduction of new methods of teamwork, had resulted
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in an inCreased volume Of building construction in 1952? This had special meaning
in view Of the fact that the press of industrial and housing construction elso...
where had made it necessary to reduce the construction force assigned to jobs In
the capital by approximately 20 percent. The 1952 record continued in the first
months of this year, adeording to recent announcements. Itlthough January was a
month of exceptionally bad building weather, construction crews completed almost
12 percent more dwelling units than were foreseen by the Six Year Plan.
Winners in competitions held in the field of industrial building mater?
ials during the last quarter of 1952 included the workers of the Zywlec Brick and
Tile Works in the Krakow District, who met their annual target by December 16 last
despite a- serious labor shortage. This was done, it was reported, by enlisting
every worker in the plant as a participant in a labor competition. The Zywiec
plant won a,mengy bonus, as well as the challenge pennant of the Building Workers
Union. In the cement industry first place for the last quarter of 1952 went to
the Grodziec Works. Other winners in their respective fielda were the workers of
the Oogolin Lime Works and of the Krakow Quarries.
Labor competition in Poland, however, is not limited to industry or
Agriculture but extends into many cultural fields.
Newspapers recently announced completion of the first .stage of a great
? national 'competition for the titles of beStreCreatIon eenters best club, best
library and best district and voivodship house of culture. The competition was
-organized by the Central Council of Trade Unions in conjunction withthe Farmers
Mutual Aid Association, the Polish Youth Union and the Ministry of Art and Culture.
The extent of the competition may be seen by the fact that participants included
7,992 trade union cultural centers (of which 1,507 were in areas predominantly
rural), 2,006 libraries, 138 social clubs and 72 houses of culture.
The competition resulted in an intensification of cultural activities by
those groups, it was reported. During the period of the competition 66,150 leo
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tures and 14,505 formal meetings were organized, as well 40 53,85 concerts and
other artistio.events_and,5491$ exhibitions. Soho 2,000 new meeting groups were
set pp for joint Study Under the auspices of the POligh faaibis University-of-
the-Air.
Several bk the Outstanding prizes in the cultural competition were taken
by groups in the Poznan area of weatern Poland. Title of the best recreation cen-
ter in the country went to the center dperated by the Railwalyments Union of Leszno
wiliher of ihe banner ht.:sided the iaCat trade union library was the library at the
Gniezno Sugar RefinerY. A third first place ga bh by the House of Culture in
the district of Rawicz. It was cited fiir itb driVe to assist in the functioning
of 45 recreation centers on nearby State Farms, all in the Poznan Voivodship.
The title of best union central library was given the institution run
by the Wroclaw Building Workers Union, which now has 100 branches and which put
on a special campaign for readers of technical works of interest to construction
workers. The social club at the Kosciuszko Iron and Steel Works in Czestochowa
was named the best union olub as a result of activities involving 1,200 of the
workers at that plant. Title OT the best Voivodship House of Culture was awarded
during the competition to the cultural center in Krakow.
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