1. WUJEK COAL MINE IN STALINOGROD 2. TEXTILE FACTORIES IN LODZ AND TUREK

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 5, 1957
• 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. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
SUBJECT 1. Wujek Coal Mine in Stalinogrod
2. Textile Factories in Lodz and
Turek ENCLOSURE ATTACHED
PLEASE FWUTE
DATE OF
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DATE DISTR. 5 February 1957
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A report made up of a sketch with legend describing the
surface installations of the Wujek coal mine and coke
factory in Stalinogrod (Katowice).
(2) A report describing the textile factory in Turek including a
sketch with legend.
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Plant.
A report containing information, including a sketch with legend,` 11
on a textile plant in Lodz called the North Lodz Silk Industry i
Distribution of Attachment(text, 13 pages; 3 sketches):
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-- Coal mine and coke plant called Kopalnia Wujek in Stalinegred
(Katowice)
Location and Characteristics: About four kilometers southeast of Stalinogrod
in the locality called Bryn.w I. The surface
installations and the coke plant lie on an
area of approximately 500'.x 1000 meters.
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Le ead:
1) - Pence wall about two me re
2) - Gate:
Structure apprcximatsly five-by-five meters in dimension; gabled,
tile roof.
3) - Structure about 5 x 10 meters in dimension, gabled, tile roof, con-
tains the time clocks.
$) - Structure about 10 x 60 meters in dimension, gabled, tile roof,
contains bathrooms, dressing rooms, and the personal equipment of
the miners for operations in the mines.
5) - Building about 12 x 40 meters in dimension, four floors, gabled
roof, containing the administration and offices.
6) - Area where several small buildings and barracks used as various
offices and warehouses are situated.
7) - Open-air coal pile.
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purities are bated; tile roof eloping gently almost to the ground.
8) - Three vooden water tanks on towers set in reinforced concrete.
9) - Area where the coke plant is located; existence of four or five
chimneys recalled.
10) - Structure about 40 x 20 meters in dimension, 'where the machines
for the sifting of the coal to rid it of stones and other in-
11) - Shafts
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12) - Railroad siding
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serrated tile and glass roof.
It was built between 1950 and 1951.
On the ground floor are the following :
warehouse for yarn and textile supplies
aschine shop
Wage
fire-fighting equipment room
on the second floor:
administration and offices
about 150 loons, probably of Czech manufacture, used for the
weaving of rayon pieces.
2) - One-story, tile-roofed structure approximately 30 x 30 meters
in dimension containing the following:
Department A
11 w.r" machines for the winding of thread, including four
or five of the old type',and six new ones from East Germany.
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ArAnrT
ication
S4bwrce nstalled a Sizing each on o
Name of factory
Polnocno?Lodakie Zaklady PrzaWslu Jedwabniczego [North Lodz Silk
Iaituitry Plant.
Location
Located at 18 Wierzbowa St., which c }sses Pierkowski St., where the
Orbis Hotel and the Cathedral are located (see following diagram).
Orbis Hotel
Dimensions of the area
Occupies an sixes, of approxiaetely 100 x 80 meters including, however,
part of an unidentified telephone factory. The buildings intended for
manufacturing are all. old with the exception of an adjoining toner (No. 2
,of the diagram).
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14,sh rayon and damask fabrics,
Rats of pr is
Not foxed. It bald bb noted that there is an abundance of technical
personnel and that one worker watches over on7,y six automatic loose
Destination of product
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To a central textile products office located in the sass city.
Do!gWion of factor
See diagram above
1) 010 I4tC y etr ct s, serrated roof, apprcai. ats]y 80 x 50 meters in
dimension, flanked by a taller,` modern quadrangular-shaped toner. The interior
contains the.folloring: 25X1
a) sizing machine capable (in theory) of sizing (bind-
ing) about 20 set*" per miteate.
b) Two sizing machines.
c) Supor room fm shntt]as
d) Person el office
e) Cashierts office and production control
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Warping machines, and loom, department which contains the tol-
four new iarping machines from East Oermaiq and three or four
old-type o i
350 loom, including:
48 antomatloid mash loons some old
Iakard loos for printed cloth, and viva" (probably low-
carp looms) looms for umbrella fabric. They are arranged in
two rows.
machines far attles
2) - Tower, apprmdmate2,7,15, maters high, housing the administration and
the headquarters of the factory party oeU*
boiler room (thy 'two.f boilers)
3) - one-story structure apporadmately 30 x 20 maters in dimension, con-
taining the following:
carpenter's shop
machine shop 25X1
Higher than thorn received by' workers at the Tm-ek plant.
Surreil.Lnos
Entrusted to indn trial mL2If$aman.
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Turkowskie Zaklady Prseayslu Jedwalniczego [Turek Bilk Industry plant 1,
or T.Z.P.J., which is roughly translated as Turek Textile Factory [sic].
Losation
Located not sore than 400 meters outside the village, on the left-hand
i at 69 Kaliska St. opposite a
side of the road to Kal1 4a-$4&30'
Dimensions of the area
The area of the factory, which contains two structures, straddling
a central courtyard, measures 170 x 80 meters in all.
Subordination
pissiski
production
Rayon fabric for export. It should be noted, however, tiat the
production cycle is coepleted elsewhere, for the still unfinished
fabrics are sent to mother plant for "finishing."
Rate of production
Not forced.
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System of production
Origin of raw materials
-- reels of rayon:
from Hungary
the "defile" system,, _ _ .
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Description of factory
See numerals and letters corresponding to the following diagram:
a- 400 #0
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3) - One-story tile-roof led structure about 30 x 25 meters in dimension,
containing two coal-fueled steam boilers, each with heating
area of.700 (units not indicated) which are used to dry the yarns
and to hest `,thee offices and workshops.
k) L-shaped stractvire completed in 1955, whose longer sides measure
80 and 60 meteri.
serrated roof .
It comprises the following
a) shop for the ising machine which nos installed
and which is used to bind or size approximately
TWo- old Sucher rising machines which can process an average of
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$ach wing machine can triad 700-800, kilograms of thread per day.
Storehouse for fire fighting "lies and automatic pomp.
20 meters per minute.
shop for the siring machine
c) shop for "incorsatriae" (peddles) used to thread the combs
It his a capacity
modern.
or reeds (pettini ). 't'here are four.
d) supply room for shuttles [or spools].
e) shop with installed and operating looms.
There on about 300.
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f) anew loon departas-t. It is in preparation, because the 25X1
installation of Polish-uanufacturee looms, (non-automatic
and hot mesh type) still ~"Underwaye
production control department.
5) - Brick shed about 20 x 10-meters in dimension (which may be demolished)
containing an old reserve stism hosting plant.
Power used
His a voltage of 220 and 380.
Improvement Plans
It is planned to equip the new loom department (Letter "f" above) com-
pletely.
Wages
spett 40 of this for food.
in Lodz a seal cost 40 zloty.
zloty per day, and
in a first class hotel
A Po1E*,7sorher, a skilled master waver who ful-
filled 110 percent of the noes, received 2,700 zloty a month. The average
wage of this elarsification, however, fluctuated around 1,800 slaty.
White-collar workers received 700 slaty per month and an -engineer, 1,200.
Ordinary workers are dissatisfied with their pay, inasmuch as a suit
costs from 1,200 to 2,000 zloty and shoes from 500 to 800.
Medical care on the Job
Very good.
Surveillance
The factory- is guarded any industrial. militiamen who wear a blue uniform
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and are armed with rifles
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