"MINISTRY OF LIGHT INDUSTRY, BUCHAREST"

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013700150005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FEB 1952
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Ministry of Light Industry, Bucharest
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. TNF, REPRODUCTION OF T H I S FORM I PROHIBITED.
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25X1 1. The Ministry of Light Industry is part of the former Ministry of Trade
and Industry and was created to control the production of textiles,
leather and rubber goods, glassware and the like. It is located in
Calea, Bursei, Bucharest.
2. The light industries' workers are 60 percent women. The majority of the
workers in spinning, weaving and knitting mills are women, the tendency
being to replace as many workers as possible with women. In 1951 the
whole light industry employed 160,000 persons. Fourteen percent were
clerical employees and ten percent of the technical workers were foremen
and mechanics.
3. Working norms are so high that most workers rarely reach them. Wages
are reduced proportionately and the workers tend to move from one factory
to another in search of better conditions. To prevent this, a law
similar to the Soviet law of 1938 was published in January 1952, which
imposes severe punishment on workers who migrate in this way. Every
effort is made to keep workers at the same factory and even at the same
machine for a period of years. Workers who are late are fined up to
25 percent of their pay.
The Industrial Plants Branch of the Ministry controls 30 stations, most
of which are in the Danube area such as Calafat and Turnu-Severin. At
these stations cotton, hemp and.flax are cultivated and processed. The
work of this branch has been a failure because the plans were not sub-
mitted to the Planning. Commission in time and therefore no funds were
made available. Only small fields were cultivated whose output was 10
to 15 percent of the planned harvest. As wages were paid according to
output, workers left the fields and many were arrested and charged with
sabotage.
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5, At the Gheorghiu-Dej Ready-Made-Clothing Factory in Bucharest-Cotroceni,
5,000 workers are employed to produce Army uniforms in mass production
by the conveyor belt method. As workers are underpaid, they stay away
from the factory and on some. days the entire machinery comes to a stand-
still.
6. Nearly all the light industry plans are below the planned amount except
the one for toys and production goods, which was exceeded by 25 to 30
percent. This is due to the fact that the goods were produced from
iron, tin, textile and leather scraps and remnants from other factories.
7. Following is a partial list. of officers of the Ministry of Light In-
dustry:
a. Horatiu Atanasiu, Deputy Mini
sterol
b. Acatie Deputy Director
c. Manoliu, Head of the Costing Section
d, Roze Alfred, Head of the Labor and Wages Dep
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