PRODUCERS' COOPERATIVES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2010
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• Publication Date: December 26, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Sam. 793 and 795, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person Is prohibited by law.
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Producers' Cooperatives DATE DISTR. 26 December 1956
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1. Centralny Zwiazek Spoldzieini Pracy..(CZSP) is im.charge of Poland's 3,000 25X1
producers' cooperatives, which produce 12 percent of the national output iu
industry, trasisport, and services. Only two cooperatives operate outside the
CZSP administration: the Spoldzielnia Rolnicza, an agricultural cooperative
which is subordinate to Centrals Rolnicza Spoldzielnia; and Spoldzielllia
Mieszkaniowa, a housing cooperative which is subordinate to Centralny Zwiazek
Spoldsielay.
2. CZSP is subordinate to the .Council of Ministers, and its offices are located in
various places throughout Warsaw. The main offices are at No. )+ and No. 1+7
Zorawia Street. CZSP is headed by a president and about six deputies, and its
organizational structure corresponds to that of a ministry. One of the most
important administrative units is the technical division which includes eight
or nine departments, each of which is in charge of one of the following branches
of the cooperative sector:
output is destined for military purposes.
c. Textiles.
d. Wood products.
e. Plastics.
f. Paper products.
g. Leather products,
h. Toys.
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a. Metal products.
b. Chemical products. This is an important branch, since much of the cooperatives'
CZSP and its cooperatives employ 300,000 persons. Formerly there were abou
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the administrative staff was cut. The greater part of the cut in manpower applied
to hired workers,.who constitute about 20 percent of the employees in the production
sector.
5OO 000 persons employed but several cooperatives were merged or abolished an
1+. The central research and planning office (Centralise Biuro Studjow i Projektow),
which is directly dubordinate to the CZSP president, is one of the CZSP institutions.
It was establiphed in 1954 for the planning and construction of new cooperatives
and for the improvement of those in existence. The office is located at
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No. 45 Gornoslaska Street in Warsaw and maintains branch offices in Lublin, Kielce, Krakow,
Stalinogrod, Gliwice (Gleiwitz), Szczecin (Stettin), Poznan, Lodz, Bialystok. Gdynia,
and other towns. The offices employ a staff of nearly 300 persons, of whom about 100
are engineers. Recently, the building projects have been limited to small -houses which
do not require an outlay of more than two million zlotys.
Some producers' cooperatives are subordinate, to the CZSP through voivodship offices
(Wojewodskie Oddzialy S.F.), while other large and important enterprises are connected
to the cnetral institution through national organizations set up for this purpose:
a. National union of cooperatives for folk handicraft and art objects (Centrals
Przemyslu Ludowego i Artystycznego - CPLiA), located at No. 7 or 9 Rudkowskiego Street
in Warsaw.
b. National union of cooperatives for clothing manufacturing (Krajowy Zwiazek Wlokienniczo
Odziezowy), located at No. 13 Elektoralna Street in Warsaw.
c. National union of transport cooperatives (Krajowy Zwiazek Transportowy).
d. National union of sea-fishing cooperatives (Krajowy Zwiasek Rybolostwa Morskiego),
located in Gdynia.
The following are producers' cooperatives:
a. Hydro-Chemja, chemical cooperative, located at the corner of Marchlewskiego and
Sienna Streets in Warsaw, The cooperative employs more than 200 workers, and the
major part of its produce is destined for the Ministry of Defense.
b. Spoldzielnia Bronz Dekoracyjny, handicraft cooperative, located at No. 55 Chorza
Street in Warsaw. The cooperative employs about 80 workers, and manufactures and
installs decorative metal work. It carried out the decorative work at the Palace
of Culture and Science in Warsaw, The House of Parliament, the Council of State, the
Council of Ministers, and the Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party,
c. Kalwarja Zebraydowska, furniture cooperative, is located in one of the suburbs of
Krakow and employs nearly 300 workers.
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a. Marek CzerWinski, engineer and formerly head of the
architectural department of the central research and
planning office of CZSP up to July 195
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b. Wiadyslaw Dujanowicz, engineer in the central con-
struction office of CZSP since May 1956 and formerly
chief engineer of the central research and planning
office of CZSP
Anselm Mankowski, personnel manager of the central
research and planning office of CZSP
Boleslaw Miszulowicz, head of the research division
of the central research and planning office of CZSP
since early 1956
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e. Boruch Moszakowicz, head of the central chemical
laboratory of CZSP and formerly president of the
central research and planning office of CZSP up
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