KOREAN CONTRACT LUMBERMEN IN THE SIMONOVKA AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008000750013-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 27, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

COUNTRY T.M.OR (-~arit,'Vio Kral)
Launbe r ra in the
SUWECT Korean Con traot
S3.raonovka Area
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PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO..
a? The company will k iv e 50 '?,llo, rar.is of ri we, 22 a 000 .on, a ; u x.t of
cotton clothes, and one ?air of working shoes to the laborer-
b. Wages v ,l-1 be paid accordimC to the Soviet law?
co ;'hen the laborer is aide, he -drill be cared for free of ohorge and.
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his wage will continue to be paid.
After two years, the period r> the contract, the laborer will be
returned to Chongjin #re.oo of charge,,
The laborer will receive- the same f rou.nt of food as the lov .et
laborers o
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also took away their naan'e cards, 1,ter these name cards were used, to
call roll in the lumber cuip,. rr 5.~ ~stoif was partially, frozen over,
and there were fifty 8,000-ton ships and 20 warships in the port rt
One hundred and sixteen Koreans werra sent by train from
(131.54, 13-47) to Simonovka (about ]32-00, 44-10) and then to the aunties
camp at Zilanza, about .10 miles from.:xa.nonovka., The others who were on
the ship were divided between linen (133-45, 5 `5) ant . habarovsk
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(13r,-06., 8-30)R Befcre 1936 them fro ':iiavv Koreans r?u42 rr rice near
ovk?. but they were sent to the mountains to cut wood or to fi; hing sta-
tions along the coast.
documents and paper, and F;iven a contract to sign. The provisions o
con tract were as follow+s ; -
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13 ; ovember. At Chongjin thq~ were given =a. nwio care, Jolu yo des MI.-4
jin, where they stayed in a contract iabo rers 4co m p un ta, t_ t.ie y If .y one
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a ,cone Some of the Koreans who were hired chat rnoritn were tw~.on to of
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daily wage of from. 70 to 80 Won and that three meals a day would only gj'tr
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
Tt f1S ! UN EVALUATED INFORMATION
in North Korpa
s.. 2 r visited
"L various
1. In Ju1,dr x,.9117, Soviet ??.' s
2. The ship, carrying 2,500 Korean laborers, arr, ved at Vladivostok on 20
November.. Doctors and nurses cane aboard and checked the men. `hen a
Soviet official took away any paper or food that the Koreans had, and
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Korean Labo ? Party,, who were the real. Ca-m nists,, had no need t o .,oDr.tc in
the vfL)FS., A(' wail, the grni p was made of poor farmers who cou] not
:,rosper under Co:s::ll.nismo Lyon in he USER the Koreazs found it hard to
het alon,-. In spite of the soviet ,recruitcrl s -)ronise ;, the Koreans v ere
only ?)aid 15 won a dawn. The meals F.ere alw?ray black bread and potato
soula o `" he Koreans were not accustom`:', to the extreities of heat and cold,
, d mainy of them got malaria. For various reasons only 3ja out the
original 116 returned to ?'orth Korea J'rt3:.. i.,il a~.nza,'.or e,zrs in the cane at ,ilanza ere Co' ;,ct?. rig
The Koreans and the govi ets did not along together t