ON THE 'DAY OF THE MINER' 1955

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R002000390002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 20, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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20 June 1955
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On the "Day of the Hiner" 1955
How the "white gold of the earth" is obtained
Kaolin, a clay-bearing mixture of #eldspar and quartz, is called the
"white gold of the earth." Kaolin is an indispensable raw xm material
without which porcelain, rubber, paper, ,And many other chemical products
Would be impossible. In both open-pit and underground workings, 850 miners
in the Kemmlitz kaolin works (Kreis Oschatz) are extracting the "white
gold" from the earth. Three times already this out-of-the-way enterprise,
previously unknown to most people, has been the national winner in the com-
petition and has received the award flag and a cash bonus. The Kemmlitz
miners decided at their first economic conference to produce this year 5,000
tons of kaolin in excess of the plan and to return to the state treasury
100,000 DM of state subsidy funds.
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3 - 4 weeks,
the economic
shows: Formerly, the general overhaul of an
excavator took
which meant a considerable loss of production.
Encouraged by
conference, the fitters in Plant 3 pledged themselves to carry
out rapid repairs. By mxxxx making precise work studies, drawing up a detailed
work plan, and holding thorough preliminary conferences, they were able to set
the time for overhaul at 13 days. Then the workers reduced the time
and then to six days. Herbert Frensel (right), leader of a fitters'
and fitters Wolfgang Jung and Gottfried Sproessig are shown in front
to eight
brigade,
of an
excavator at the "Karl Marx" open-pit mine; the excavator is to be repaired
by the rapid-repair method.
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The Resounding Workshop in itterarkx, Eisenberg
keyboard
Manufacture of historical kexmi instruments by the privately-owned Ammer
enterprise in Eisenberg, Thueringen
Closely connected with the XElliK music of the old masters are the in-
struments of their time. Only with these instruments can a living sound
picture be completely achieved. Today, the Ammer firm in Eisenberg,ie the
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Le.414)- of baroque music. Serving as models for these iistorical instruments are
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the most beautiful of the available master instruments, such as Auckers,
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C-ItI\ Silbermann, and the Berlin Bachfluege3015ach piang.
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Because of their fine quality, the cembalos, clavichords, and spinets
ef. LL.2..flsr having delivered one instrument to Czechoslovakia
et:I are known far beyond the borders of our republic. Just a short time ago-if--
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the plant received an order to deliver an additional ten cembalos,
31 218/1 N Picture shows: The cembalos and spinets are being made of
veneered wood. For the subsurface woods, poplar or linden is
used for the covers and pine or spruce for the sides. High-
grade woods -- nut woods, cherry, and others -- are used as
veneer. Konrad Merkel has removed the cover for a spinet
from the veneer press and is tmmilimilmidem examining the surface.
31 218/2 N Picture shows: Himmelreich, who makes =mix sounding boards,
is working on a cembalo, Bach model. In the picture one can
?,Lthe sounding board glued to the stops;
see\ morkkeximflupWombcsmendowimani4illiesreitimeii the side pieces
staa..41 ba-avet,
are glued. Max Himmelreich is marking the points for the
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31 218/3 N Picture shows: "The instrument puts its dress on." For a
cembalo, Bach model, with two keyboards, the part surrounding
the stops is glued. Instrument maker Fred Kuettner is cleaning
the form for the stool framework.
31 218/4 N Picture shows: One of the most important parts of all quill
instruments is the cover, because on it is the leather quill
which plucks the string and thus produces the sound. Preparing
the cover for installation requires great finger dexterity and
precise work. Before Else Boehm, who has had ten years of ex-
perience at this work, lets a completed cover out of her hands,
,xfpt she checks over her work one more time.
31 218/6 h Picture shows: Tuning is the last job done in the manufacture
of an instrument. Hugo Eichhorn is tuning a spinet which is
to go to the People's Music School in Cottbus.
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31 221/7 N Picture shows: The rosettes, hand carved by a carver in the
iijrzgebirge, carry the trade mark of the manufacturing plant.
31 218/8 N Bauer, owner of the plant, tries out a Silbermann-model spinet
destined for the Baerenreiter Press in Kassel, together with
two members of the Eisenberg Chamber Music Circle, in a trio
with violin and flute. From left to right: Plant owner Willy
Bauer at the spinet, music teacher Fritz Winkler, and plant
bookkeeper Erich Oettel.
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