THE BUTOIUL (BARREL) FACTORY IN RUMANIA

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL- INTELLIGENCE AGEN`cY REPORT NO.
j*jEL1.0'fA 1; INFORMATION -REPORT Ca.NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT The Butoiul (Barrel)
Factory in Rumania
DATE DISTR. 5 November 1951
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1. General.... The Butoiul (Barrel) Factory, located at Strada Viilor No. 52
Bucharest, near the Filaret Railroad Station, covers an area of approxi-
mately 2,000 square meters and employs 600 - 700 workers. It does not have
a power-station of its own. It was formerly a part of the Rasaritul Rosu
factory, which is still in existence and produces furniture?
2a Organization, The factory works in three shifts; each shift has a fore-
man responsible for the quality of the output, protection of machinery,
proper use of materials, and fulfillment of "norms," Source states that
the Technical Manager actuallyauns the factory, though there is a General
Manager above him, and that the Chief Accountant (a certain Dumitrescu is
not a Party member) is also of more importance than his position indicatesh
Other members of the st.f are the Production Manager (a certain Chiru.-
lescu whom source says was "removed from the Party"), the Supply Manager
(Manfred Kirmeier, whom source says was "removed from the Party"), the Admin-
istrative Manager (Will Brumwasser, a Party member), a Personnel Manager
and a Security Manager,,
Moldavia, which employs 10,000 workers. The Butoiul factory receives
approximately 100 tons of boards daily; it keeps in its own yard a stock
of 500 - 600 tons of oak boards. The boards, before being processed, are
put for two or three days into a drying chamber equipped With wood heating
furnaces. After the boards are dried they are passed to the cutting
department, equipped with ten machines of unknown make.. After cutting,
they are transferred to' another department where they are bent with the
help of steam. Cut and bent, they are then carted to a third department
and put together into barrels.. In this third department the barrel hoops
are also produced. In a fourth department the barrels are painted and
then taken apart to facilitate shipment. The machinery used in all these
processes is described by source as "old and;used.0
brought from various factories, but especially from the Gugesti factory in
Production Details. Oak boards needed for the production of barrels are
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4. ir+V t~ of Ba 1a Until 1950 barrels for wine, jam, preserves, beer,
etc.! w produced in the Butoiul factory and distributed exclusively to
local markets. Since 1950, however, the factory has beam restricted to the
manufacture of bear barrels, all of which are exported to the USSR as part
of what source describes as Ri] nia'a war coinpeneaticn. The factory's
daily output is 500 barrels, capacity 50 liters each. Each day's produc-
tion is shipped by rail to the Soviet border where it is received and
examined by Soviet "experts." When defeats are found, as they are,
according to source, Frequently, the whole consigzument is returned.
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50 'f ano1 1 Matters. All work at the factory is done-on a piecework dos
An expert earns about 40,000 Lei for a working day of 12-14 hours.
needed to meet the factory payroll are received from the State Bank only
when a detailed statement of the "fulfillment of the plea" is presented.
This statement, signed'by the General Manager,, the Technical Manager and
the Chief Accountant, is checked by a bank employee who makes In investi-
gation on the spots" Only after the investigation has been completed In
the money for the payroll produced. Furthermore, the factory is not per.
mitted to- keep any amount of money an hand; even the small sums it
receives from the was of wants must be transferred immediately to the
Bank. Source adds that the factory works constantly at a loss.
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