J. STALIN IRON AND STEEL WORKS IN LABEDY (LABAND)

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2003
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 28, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO
Poland
J. Stalin Iron and Steel Works
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ATMS Or ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT SY AR UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
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DATE DISTR. 48 August 1953
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1. The "Huta i Zakiady Mschaniczne in. Stalina" (Stalin Iron and Steel Works, ;FIOR811
and Machine Building Factory, Rolling Mills) was located about 1 km north
of Laband (Q 51/I 38)G
2 These works were the former Hermann Goering Verke which were dismantled
by the Soviets in 1945 and 1946 and were rebuilt since 1949.
3. In the fall of 1950, five blas furnaces were operating, after the first
four blast furnaces had been rebuilt in the sunrer of 1949 and the fifth
had been put into operation in the summer of 1950.1 The output of each
furaee was 70 to 75 tons. The rolling mill, which was located
about 2.5 km f'rom the iron and steel works, was also under reconstruction
and was partly operating in the fall of 1950. Only persons employed in
the rolling nil were allowed to enter. The entire plant was supplied with
current by the Hindenburg (Zabrze) Power Station.
4. In early May 1952, in Gleiwitz
(Gliwice) that the production of tanks started in early 1952 and that
only Soviet type tanks of over 30 tons were manufactured.
5. The Iron and Steel Works and Rolling Mill in Laband smelted scrap and no
ores. The scrap came from the entire region under Polish administration.
Immense quantities stored along the canal near the harbor of Gleiwitz
were constantly increased by new shipments arriving by water.
6. In June 1951, the plant was reorganized in view of the planned production
nf tanks. The Iron and Steel Works and Rolling Mill were subordinate to
the Central Association for Metallurgy in Katowice and the Ninist-y for
Heavy Industry while the Machine Building Factory was subordinate directly
to the Yinistry for National Defense. Soviet officers were employed as
technicians in the Iron and Steel Works and in the Machine Building
Factory, First manager of the Iron and Steel Works was Karwat (fnu), a
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Bole, who was transferred to Sosnowiec in early 1951. The name of his
successor was not known. Production nanager in the Machine Building
Factory was Engineer Lutoplawski (Thu), former director of the H.
0egielski Firm, Engineer Vaibrodzki (fnu) was in charge of the machinery.
In 1951, the labor force was 3,000 and worked in three shifts. Wages of
specialists were high, a lathe operator receiving up to 1,500 21:per
month and the technical personnel 1,000 to 1,800 21.
7. The works were guarded by industrial police in charge of control at the
entrance and by YMW (Security Bence) in charge of control inside the
works. The plant area was surrounded by a reinforced concrete wall, two
meters high, in the west, north and east. All employees had to show their
works identity card with photograph before entering the works area and
were allowed to enter only working places indicated on the identity card.
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blEmentt The original report mentioned blast furnaces which,
1-owever, were open hearth furnaceo.
Layout of the S Stalin Iron and Steel Works with Legend t3 Pages:
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j,ceend for Enclogure:
A low wroden building 7 x 4 meters, for industrial police and gate
keeper
Three-story building, 20x15 meters, centaining the laboratory foe'
T.ren and. Steel Works
Traneformer building, 20x10 meters, with water-cooled transformers
A low menden building f 15x5 meters, hou3ing the secretariat of
the party group and tic office for social care
Gast side and extension of building ro ,', with the guard room of th(
gate keeper and the industrial police
A low wooden building, 15x10 meters, housing the mess hall
A one-story brick building housing garages
7% ten-story reinforced concrete buildine, 10x10 meters, horsing
the management, the administration and the technical direction
A low wooden building, 7x10 meters, housing the wages bookkeeping
department
Brick shed, 120x40 meters, serving as storage for building materials
Two-story annex, 85x10 meters, housing a dispensary and medical
laboratory on the east side and quarters for KEW and guard detail
ef 60 men on the west side
12 Asserbly hall for steel conerections,, 70740 meters, with travelling
eranes and welding shop
13 Destroyed steel annealing plant erected under German edednistration
i0x4C, meters, not yet operating
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11. Extension of a one-story building (see Ito 15) about 40x5 meters
lousing the office of the adeinistration
One-story building, 2Cx5 meters, housing the forge
16 Former ware house, 20x15 meters, which was not yet used in the fall ef 1950
17 Concrete loading ramp, 180 meters long
Assembly hall for steel constructions, r:0x40 meters, with travelling
cranes and welding shop
19 Annex to building 18 with the engineering office
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20 Brick hall, 120x50 meters, with 13 lathes including 6 Skoda? 6
Pereba-Starachowice type and 4 American type lathes; 2 Italian-made
planers; 4 vertical shapers; 9 shapers; 2 American-made extension
turning and boring mills; 5 cutters; 8 radial drilling machines
delivered by the Zaklady im. Stalina Fin! in Ibsen; 9 drilling
lathes of the Poreba-Starachomice type; 10 grinding machines; 3
Franch-made drilling lathes; 1 big Italian Conti-type drilling machine.
21 Two-story annex, 85x10 meters with engineering offices for hail
20 and 23
22 Storage yard for finished parts on the east side of hall 20
23 New steel construction shop, about 120x40 meters, built in 1949/1950 ane
in early 1951 equipped with 1 Gerran-made planer with a planing bench
25 meters long; 2 German-rade planers with planing benches, 15 meters
long; 3 American-made extension turning and boring mills; 4 Italian-
made drilling lathes; 5 radial drilling machines; and 2 traveling
cranes each With a capacity of 30 to 70 tons
24 One-story building 50x25 meters, serving as storage for spare parts
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25. Mechanical shops, 70x25 meters
26 One-story annex, 70x25 meters,
the mechanical shops
27 Scrap yard
housing the engineering office of
28 Shop, 150x75 meters with 5 open hearth furnaces and scrap storage
29 One-story annex, 100x10 meters, housing the management, the
administration and engineering offices.
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