CONDITIONS IN THE MORAVSKA OSTRAVA COAL MINING REGION: DULKA PIT/FEMALE APPRENTICES/IMPACT ON CURRENCY REFORM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500170154-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 154
• Publication Date: August 25, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
PLACE ACQUIRE
(fir SOURCE)
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Conditions in the Moravska Ostrava Coal Mining Region.
Dulka i'it/Female Apprentices/Impact of Currency Reform
DATE ACQUIRED
11w SOURCE)
iklka 11it, Dolni.ucha
2. "About 2,300 miners work in the Dulka pit at Uolr- ucha. They work three shifts
a d.y? Thin number includes 40.:civilian miners and 400 unskilled brigade workers.
The remainder are soldiers of the PTP military l..bur unite. The director is Karel
l:udrnn, a former miner who lacks the education and skill for hi: technic..) r~ t.
Four mining en2inrnr.- n,..a -r,-.,.ti~a
Revler 635
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2
--
Foreman
(fnu)
:cko
Revier 11
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22
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Foreman
(fnu)
,avik
Revier 6351
V
1
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Foreman
(i'nu)
raimsa
:he president of the miner::' council is fnu) riubicjek, who lead;; the C.' unit in the
ui:ln (:edivodca pit. '.'he worker:;' ;r.ilitia cocci: tr, of 12 per:;onc armed with army
Site rer::onnel chief (kncirovy referent) is a Pole, (i'nu) rukr.la.
3. pit to have no :.:odern ecui)znent. :oat of the e ;ulpn;ent wLS broujht ir,
curing the occupation. he r.inchinery marked ' ,talin' from the U... iR I:: made of
hrd r,_ateri,tl which omen breaks. pare part;; are not avrz:lable. ?or blue;tang the
a:ir.er:l u:;e a new explosive m' rked .:ardor. This is produced at the ynthesia factory
tit tcltin
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4. "The miners at the DuJka pit are an undisciplined group. They use every chance to
slacken off and often sleep during the night shift. They do their grumbling under-
ground, however, not on the surface.
"A workers' camp near the pit is directed by (fnu) Tichy, a Cosmluniat, with (fnu)
Dolecek as security officer.
Female Miners
6. "About 500 young women are working as mining apprentices in various coal pits in the
Moravska Ostrava region. They live in the Internat Stalingrad.
" small reaction in the area to the deaths of Stalin and
Gottwald. Gottwald'a name was not mentiioned during the May Day parade at the Dukln Pit.
I'tpact of the Currency Reform
"Prior to the currency reform 30 May 53 7 - net wage of about 7500 iCc per
month. For food and 103 i 9j0 Kc per month. Immediately after the currency
reform 260 Kc for half a month, paying five Kc per day for food
and lodging. Actually on t June 53 1800 Kc in the old currency and 120 Kc
'on the band'. Some prices after the re orm?
10 cigarettes marked l'artyzan
- 1.80 Kc
1 kg butter
- 36
Kc
1 kg smoked uausdge
- 4o
Kc
1 kg sugar
- 14
Kc
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9. "Between the first and third of June 1953 there were strikes in the Zapotocky and
Zofinka pits in the Moravaka Ostrava coal dining region... The SNB killed two workers
dtr:ing the riots at the Zapotocky pit. The Communists then Bent in military units in
field uniforms with heavy machine guns. They occupied the Zapotocky pit and vicinity
? and put- *p posters which stated that the area was closed to civilians because of
'military' exercises'.
10. the Drevoindustria factories near Liptovaky Svaty
'*t)312as and other factories at Tuaac and Liptovaky Svaty Martin in northern Slovakia
endured strikes after the currency reform."
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