ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01540R000400050004-4
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 2012
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Economic and Social Information
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Attached
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report containing the follovting informatiok,
on the province of Nova Gorica:
1. Prices of foods, !Niels and clothing;
2. Wages and salaries;
3. Medical conditions;
4. 'Cooperatives; ad..
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S. Unemployment aid.A4,14.1.414tee--to"-themp1oyed.
Enclosures: 5 pages as listed above.
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A) YUGOSLAV ECONOMIC INFORMATION
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refers to the area of the province of NEW GORIZIA.
a) Food
Sep 52 For about a year all types of food himetbeim found on the
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market. Grat ing cheese which was the only missing items
recently i made its appearance in the shops. This
was Italian
Prices have .continued upward in relation to the purchasing
power of wages and salaries even though some foods have
lowered th price.
PRICES
The following prices are effective nag.
-whole wheat bread
- white bread
-oil
- butter
- Italian paste
- rice
- sugar
- coffee
38 -46 dinars per kg'
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- table cheese 280 - 350
- grated cheese 148 n Dr,
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-Whole wheat flour 38 dinars per kg
-Dark wheat flour 33 " It It
-wine 100 III ft if
-milk 15- 20 It n It
-eggs 8 - 10 111 II II
- white bread _jail 60 dinars per kg is no longer produced
because it is too high-priced
b) Fuels
FJ:4e-Wood is an inexpensive commodity for the worker
In fact, workers purchase this item'eouponorsupplementary
to their pay, which ia13,000 dinars for each child'
depaRdetrb.
With these coupons ilr=tis bought at from 500 to
per cubic meter
600 dinars POUOMICOUMIIIMVE while it costs from
1800 to 2000 per cubic meter on the free market.
c) Clothing
A worker with his salary is hardly able to maks ends meet
for the most elementqry existencejand clothing prices
are too dear to satisfy his barest necessities.
- mants suits from 3000 to 5000 dinars
- men's shoes " 4000 to 4500 "
- sandals 2400 "
- towels 1000 - 1400 - 1600 dinars
apiece; these have made their appearance in the shops
only during the present year.
Sep 52 Ages and_salarles
ff?e-geittiftirrvi4i/
speem?iet gets 18 to 24 dinars per hour (150 dinars
per day, approx.), plus 3000 dinars iikcet;Olt and ati6s
for each dependent child.
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If the worker absents himself from work even for 2 days without
a justifiable motive, he loses the right of allowance for his
dependent children.
Therefore, hmaxamedda a specialized worker receives
about 4,000 dinars per month, plus family allowances.
Sep 52
e) Social conditions
Medical aid
Medical aid is the thorniest problem of the area.
Only 2 municipal doctors are located in the entire province,
and these reside in S. PISMO di GORIZIA and in SALCANO.
Furthermore,
consider that the area is mountwheous,
despite the dedication of these doctors to their work,
they are by far insufficient.
Last July,/lhe doctor at S. PIETRO was replaced because
he was struck by an extreme case of nervous exhaustion
resulting from his constant enervating work carried on
day and night.
The doctor can make a house visit only at= 2 or 3 days
after having received the call and most times only if the
is
request m repeated.
The sick of the area are hospitalized in the hospital of
VIPACCO by means of Red Cross ambulances from GORIZIA.
Medical and health aid, including medicinals are completely
free for MOM workers.
Only persons having an annual income above 50,000 dinars
have to pay for medical and health assistance.
Bloat ordinary medicinals are available in the pharmacies;
foreign ones are scarce and if sold are quite costly.
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Sept 52
f) Miscellaneous
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the insufficient results given by
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Lasam.tiiie agricultural and work
cooperatives, for more than 1 year the government authorized
the members of the cooperatives and enterprises to become
independent once again or to remain LAket
The major part abandoned the cooperatives and work
enterprises, in many cases going bankrupt.
Such is the case for example of ZIDGRAD bldg enterprise
which was active in the province of NOVA GORIZIA and of
the workshops for the repailling of motor vehicles and
agricultural tractors of RANZIANO and of VALVSLCIANA in
the province of GORIZIA.
The carpenters cooperative which ran a mechanized wood-
working shop, aprung-np-a-tir-the, nationalization of the
establishment and machinery of one ARCIANI Stanislav,
a VALVOLCIANA, was disolved because the former =4-took
back his workshop and machinery, working for himself.
More than half of the 20 workers were discharged.
The determination of the government to restore private
initiative on behalf of the small firms is also due to
the fact the nationalized cooperatives continued to
present an ever increasing deficit and the government
was no longer able to subsidize-t1S it did in the
early days of their establishment.
The failure of the major part of the cooperatives and
labor
mook enterprises is then due to the fact that the members
have the right to take back their property, saakilaw
machines and tools which were nationalized Isiraksf/?*
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The former p1.00-4,64=k,-.2--vot-e-k----?(-4'(--
tite-pariliksistii_law.fersavidesi that
work tools, etc., be resttatid to them in the condition they were
in at the moment of the nationalization.
The machines (for example, farm tractors, motor vehicles),
because of the carelessness or inexperience of the personnel
of the cooperative, were rendered almost useless, and the
courts, to whalah the law admits recourse for damages ,are
steeped in work to settle a great number of these controversies.
Sep 52 Unemployment and subsidies to the unemployed
The failure and dissolution of numerous farm cooperativest?nd
labor enterprises caused an increase in unemployment in the
area in question.
The private enterprise which replaced the cooperatives and
labor enterprises produce and work more with half the number
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of workers.
Subsidies are granted the unemployed amounting to 50 % of thei-099?
,h0.4r received fftufor a period of 3 months.
Before this period elapses, the unemplropid receives from the
Labor Office an invitation to transfer himself to the interior
of YUGOSLAVIA, for the most part into an ingweble area
such as BOSNIA and ERZEGOVINA, undetL; conditionsthat can-
not be accepted a worker who must provide for his maintenance
and that of his distant fpritly
/ with a small salary. Now he is no longer obliged to transfer tt:sKseic
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