PLEDGE OF THE FACTORY ORGANIZATION OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK COMMUNIST PARTY WITHIN THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN TRADE IN HONOR OF THE NINTH PARTY CONGRESS

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!anization of the uzechoslovak Conununi9t
? inistr of For9i n Trade in Honor of ~,he Ninttl
Part ~~y1t&Ln the
part Con ress
A. Fulfillment of the Plan for Foreign Trade in 1949.
The fulfillment of the foreign trade plan is one of Ute chief
? he fulfillment of the national economic plan.
prerequisites for t
and realizing all the difficulties in the way
ealizing this fact,
of proper fulfillment of the foreign trade plan, we have set our
anteeing its fulfilinient in 1949: The ful-
selves the task of guar -
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flllment of this task is our pledge to the Ninth Party Cong+ _
After careful PreliminarY study of the whole subject among
come to the conclusion that, to assure the
our directors, we have
fulfillment of the plan for the Ministry of Foreign Trade for
1949, it is necessary:
1. To publicize the plan among the personnel of the licensed
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arid the Ministry of Foreign Trade, to arouse their in e
companies
Ler~ and to hold socialistic contests with this
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end in view.
2 To awaken export-consciousness among the
duction enterprises working for export,
interest in fulfilling the export plan;
and i-tL J .
it, and
pLLblir~'rr
SOCiallstl.C Cor~Le_ts with tt~e p~?Poje of
to hold
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quality of products for export and meeting delivery deadlines.
3. To emphasize to the supervisorY officials of the 1~1nistry
of the licensed companies their personal re-
of Foreign Trade and
the plan in f;~11 and in ~dzviduai seg-
sponsibility for .meeting
menu, and to m,odxfy r their effort toward the goal of fulfilling
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the plan both in quantity and in value.
to emphasize to the supervisory officials in
4. L~.kewiseJ
productlon that they are personally responsible for maintaining
the prescribed quality of goods for export, for meeting delivery
deadliness for proper packing, and especially for the proper fu1,
fillrnent of all terms in the contract.
viatArnr,also
5. To make other persons in the producing r_
responsible 1'or the proper fulfillment of the export requirements
and to grant them the necessary authority.
these responsible persons
6. To organize cooperation
and supervisory officials in production with delegates of the ~~OH
(Rev~lutionary Trade Union movement) and the factory organizations
of the Czech Communist Party in the factories, with the purpose
of fulfilling the export plan.
_~ ,.y ~ thA s~~nervisor._V officials in
7. To organize cooperaLlulj v the r
the licensed companies and in the Ministry of Foreign Trade with
the organizatlo.ns of the RCH and of the Czechoslovak Communist
?
and in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, with
Party in the companies
rartiy n ~.
the purpose of fulfilling the plan, just as in the case of pro
duction.
Ay.~Tar Ur, trade policy provisions for the fulfillment
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of the plan.
qa To build p a s moothlYt`functioning network of delegates
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esentatiVes to work abroad under the constant con
and trade rcpt
trol and supervision of commercial attaches.
10, To exercise constant and systematic observation of ?or~
uign markets, with special reference to setting prices, buying
,.,ling capacity, production of raw materials, local manners
and scs..~.1.~,~, capacity,
customs, and competition.
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11. To assure the .i~y--aadaptability both of the
licensed companies and of the producing enterprises to changes
originating in foreign markets.
12. To publicize our products for foreign countries by taking
part in fairs and in permanent and temporary expositions and
shows, and by suitable and effective insertions in the local
K ,\? urn' publications by#he zu'-e~ special in the
language concerned, by popular lectures, etc.
insure
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the r.onstant cooperation of our licensed
collipanies with the similar organizations of the other People's
Democracies of the word, with the particular purpose of per-
suading them to appear jointly with our companies in fairs in
capitalist countries.
14. To draw up contracts for the licensed companies and
for the producing enterprises, which would automatically com-
pel them to maintain the stipulated quality of products for eX-
port, delivery deadlines, and proper packing according to the
instructions of the licensed companies, and compel the licensed
companies to buy and sell the finished goods promptly.
15. To draw up transport claur~es for the fulfillment of the
plan.
16. To grant the licensed companies the necessary office
space, typewriters, calculating and addn,> machines, personnel,
and vehicles,
17. To set up a smoothly}functioning section to control
the licensed companies, as an independent auxiliary agency of the
central director and of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and to di-
i'ect its activity primarily toward fulfillment of the
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frig out its details, controlling prices, quality, observance of
delivery deadlines, proper packing, and prompt settlement of
problems, complaints, etc.
1$. To exercise control and keep records on the fulfillment
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of the plan ~t Of all
19. To coordinate cooperation between the trade policy
sections of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the National Bank
oY? Czechoslovakia.
20. To permit a more elastic shifting of the items of the
plan among the various foreign exchange areas in consideration of
trade policy requirements, to permit and facilitate the fulfill-
ment of the plan.
21. To investigate the most difficult and least adequately
fulfilled export claasesof the foreign trade plan.
and expedited selection of
22. To maintain
the supervisory personnel of the licensed companies and of their
r
23. To maintain a system of selecting workers from produc-
tion enterprises and admitting them to the appropriate licensed
companies and their accelerated training programs.
political and4'' training systems.
carrying xg$x~ out all ,l these provi~iono properly, ,.; ,.?~ we shall create
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the foundation for 100 percent fulfillment of the plan. carry
out these provisions, we have set ourselves the following
tasks:
1. To organize regular monthly meetings of the employees of
the licensed companies or their branches, qnd of the sections
of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, with a program of information
and discussion on the fulfillment of the plan.
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2: To hold a contest, according to the standard,y set by the
Minister of Foreign Trade, among the various companies and bran-
sO
ches, anderb~pa among the sect...ons and departments of the Min-
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Foreign Trade; .?.nv~sc fu;.fill the plan by a higher
percentage
a, as a whole
b. in separate areas
c. in value and in quantity
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3. the ROH; to organize popular
lectures at the main en-
terprises and factories producing for export, on the importance
of exports and foreign trade in general, on the necessity of fu1.-
filling the foreign trade plan in connection with the fulfillment
of the national production plan, and on the conditions which as-
sure its fulfillment, The licensed companies will carry out the
program with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and di-
rectors appointed by the kraj councils of the Czechoslovak Com-
munist Party These directors shall be given the necessary in-
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jL,ructJ_LuIL5 oy ~otnraue ~euivy
4. To request the citation of central administrations of
companies, of individual supervisors in departments and branches
and of
of t.h~ rSmmrani ~c har r c of rlar,ar+4mpr4-c, ~nrl c, rrf nne 4p, +>no
try of Fore gn Trade,
for their consciousness of their personal re-
sponsibility for the fulfillment of the foreign trade plan. The
central directors and the heads of departments in the ;Ministry of
Foreign Trade will cite another Ministg ;he other directors in
a company will cite the central director or, in the Ministry of
Foreign Trade, a department chief.
5. To come to an agreement with the Miiistries of Industry,
Agriculture, and Food, in order to make the supervisory officials
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of production enterprises working for export personally respons-
ible for the stipulated quality of export products, for meeting
delivery deadlines, and for proper packing of merchandise.
This is to be carried out%the Second Department of the Min-
i t.rv of Foreign Prade by 30 Aoril 1949.
6. To come to an agreement with the Ministries of Industry,
Agriculture, and Food, so that ~a certain persons
engaged in production, in individual enterprises, and in factories
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, ~esponsible for maintaining the stipulated quality, delivery
deadlines, and proper packing of goods for export.
This is to be carried out by the Second Department of the
Ministry of Foreign Trade by 30 April 1949?
7. To organize cooperation in the ROH and factory organiz-
ations of the Czechoslovak Cofiununis t Party between the persons
mentioned in the foregoing item and specially appointed represent-
atives of the ROH and the Czech Communist Party. The ZOS [not
identified and factory organizations of the Czechoslovak Com-
munist Party in the Ministry of Foreign Trade shall carry this
out by 15 May 1949?
3. To organize regular conferences of the directors of the
companies with representatives of all ZOS and factory organiza-
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The ZOS and ZO (Factory Organizations) of the Czechoslovak Com-
munist Party in the Ministry of Foreign Trade are to carry this
out by 20 March 1949?
9. The trade policy sections shall draw up provisions for
nesxotiatifg-_-
the fulfillment of the plan by new o r concluding
supplementary international trade agreements.
10. To organize a net of foreign representatives promptly.
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by the Second Department of th' ,~rlistry
This is to be carried out . _~.. ~~
~ ade in cooperation with the trade policy ~1Vita end
of Foreign Tr
the personnel department by 30 June 1949?
11. To s L the First Department of the Min dry of For-
,.n Trade, ~c in collaboration with the trade polio Sections, to
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orei n markets,/to begin WoT . immediately
furnish reports on f g
cv^~ tAvM
. at ~.~ i n+~ervals to the
toward issuing pertinent inf~ormatxor~
other departments of the Ministry of For-
licensed companies and
eign Trade.
the Czech~Chamber of Commerce to coordinate
12. To empower
ctivit and facilities of companies and comrner-
the propaganda a y
to exercise supervision over them. The Sec-
cial attaches, and t
of the Ministry of Foreign Trade shall carry this
and Department
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out by 15 March ~ ~I, 1a4,Q?
in agreement with the Ministries of Indus-
13. To work out, i ,~
Finance, and International Trade, ax
tryi Agriculture, Food, ? basic contracts between lioersed companies and
ied out by the Secor~.T Departmsent of the
producers. To be carr I
Ministry of Foreign Trade by 30 April 1
14. Department TX,Sectlon 9, in co~~peratioii with the trade
,
`.a ~~ for transport, al-
sections, shall set up a aetaii: d plan ,. o~ ~-
policy
_ ~,luc_~..~~;,,tUa;,ivr~5, a../ discuss the eliirf>nation of
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lU~~lil~ L or seasonal I
y
f Transportation b
try o
d.fi ?sties and shortages w~~ith the Minis
30 April 1949.
15. Throughthe factory tory organizations of the Czechoslovak Corn
s' with the producing enterprises ~c
monist party, to make arrangement;
ort sections for separate dis-
which have their own export and amp
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it Pproducts, to/insure that the office space, e
tribution of the ~
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used b those sections be turned over tot the
quip~rtent, and vehicles y
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liccrsed companies. To be carried out by the factory organiza-
tions of the Czechoslovak Communist Party in the rf1nistry of For
elgn Trade by 30 April 1949?
lb, The Sixth Department of the Ministry of Foreign TradeSixth u
in peration with the trade policy Sections, shall arrange
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more elastic shirting of items of the plan among foreign ex-
change areas, `
the personnel department the training of
17. To assign to
_ ~, , of the Licensed companies, the training of
supervisory p ei?soiu'12y ..
of other enterprises, and the selection of
white-roliar workers
the necessary labor personnel for foreign trade, by 30 July 1949.
li;. The Study Department will arrange:
I. That the experts of the planning Service (SUP), who
took part in drawing g, u the plan and who knew best about the
p
with the ~ tartnrv con-
cerned parts of the export plan, work out, wi ~l- y
or with the area or country for which the export was in-
tended, a study of those parts of the plan that are most vulner-
of their manner of expression or nomenclature,
able because
TI. That meetings be held to study export problems
(with the licensed companies and the area and commodity directors
concerned)
the same
a. to plan alternate exports, as fax as possibiC of
products, or of other products made from the same raw materials
which are more suitable for export,
oi to L ecomjr,end appropriate secondary proposals (prices,
' out the weakest items of our plan,
publicity, etc.) for carrying
by 30 June 1949.
19, To assign the companies to prepare charts at the begin-
ning of every month, showing the fulfillment of the plan for the
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entire company and for the various branches. One of these charts
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shall be displayed in the a ip r j sib that it is accessible to all
employees. The companies shall send the Ministry of Foreign Trade
five copies of each chart.
The First Department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade shall
plan the method of making; the charts by 31 March 1919.
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to draw up provisions for fulfilling an alternate plan for
Realizing that the fulfillment of the foreign trade plan
will not exhaust our export capacity, we have pledged ourselves
Past experience has shown that the export conditions on the
basis of which the normal plan was drawn up six months ago have
chand to auch an extent that an alternate plan calling for two
billion crowns' worth of additional exports can be fulfilled.
Tc: insure the fulf ilbent of the entire alternate plan, we
shall perform the following, in addition to the pledges in A:
1. By the end of 1arch 1949 the factory organizations of
the Czechoslovak Coi ununiSt
Party in th?v i i;a.1.i1 tr jy of FVJ. . ~~n Tr.,de
will enter into negotiations with the factory organizations
of the Czcchoslovak Communist Party in the National Reconstruc-
tion- and will arrange that materials (achinery, Persian
rugs, etc.) in the possession of the National Reconstruction
"` be~ ipro ptly sorted and utilized as far as possible for ex-
port. The export of Persian rugs will be assigned to Lerkuria.
The ~; n;+r of Foreign Trade (First Department) X1..11
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prepare the material already collected for the supplementary
t xport plan by the end of rlarch d:f ` this year.
3. The ritinistry of Foreign Trade (First Department) will
distribute this supplementary plan to the licensed companies,
together with an order for its fulfillment, by 7 April.
4. The Ministry of Foreign Trade (First and Second Depart-
rnents) will arrange for a detailed examination of the import plan
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and the possibility of lowering it, by the end of April.
5. The trade policy departments of the 1inistry of Foreign
Trade investigate neglected markets, especially Indonesia,
Siam, the Philippines, and South and Central America, by the end
of June.
will
b. The hinistry of Foreign Trade arrange that by 30
f:lr ?. r'l: r - C,c.. (. ":k;
Jane the N[1C sh~~1 make new calculations and set
new domestic prices (at least .for the most important kinds of
imported and exported goods), on the basis of which definite ne-
gotiation prices may be set by the licensed companies. Cn this
basis the licensed companies will revise their computation sx for
products which have been imported sparingly by some countries
because of price discrepancies.
The Ministry of Foreign Trade arrange that the monopolistic
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companies, in cooperation with the central administrations of pro-
duction, carry out a detailed analysis of all clauses by 30 June
1949, to reveal all items which were not covered by the export
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was drawn up or which could be exported in greater
B. The Ministry of Foreign Trade will see that proper records
of orders are kept in the licensed companies, so that correspond-
ence, especially with foreign countries, may be expedited as much
as possible.
9. The Ministry of Foreign Trade will take steps, through the
Ministry of Industry, to see that new computations of prices of
products are made.
10. The Ministry of Foreign Trade will see that central dis-
tribution points are established, which will keep records of raw
materials and of their proper distribution to production enter-
prises.