COAL SHORTAGE AND PRODUCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010100070010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 2, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Under the auspices of the Polish-),)R coil boration apreenent., 2,000 G6rrien rrork:ers.
were brought to ? he co .1 mines and steal p1rxnts of the Katowice region in June
1952. for Polish ?..ztili.zation n these i.mi 1 tries.*
r*iilitary units are :.iso being increasingly used ice- :::oa1 mines
which until recently have been closed dowAni since before Sly-II.** The adoption of
the potiay of ut;"r_I_iZa ; on of rai.'6.i'`ary units to incr?ea.se coal nroductt n has been
forced won the -overnrient in. ord r to in et T 3i?" d o ,,stir rcquirenents and the
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2. Due Oar a 009.1 shorta(e, production In the Tara Foundry in Piotrkow was brought
to s. stand-still on 15 September 1951. To dat - only 850
tons of the al3o:,ted 2,900 tons of coral have been received by the fo50X1-HUMse
coal, supr1y is nos coripletely depleted :orcinxr suspended operations. 50X1-HUM
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* ommente The Gerin-,n workers were given better living conditions than
the Po. es causin; considerable resent wnt among the Polish miners and workmen.
this u1;tion we:.s taken for. I'propagan,ia. reasons", 50X1-HUM
t't.e @ or n of m Hers Is acute, whic x condition vas accented
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foil ew4.ng ':W-fl by the repatriation of former German 7110s;. When the attempt to
util: zej the Sluzl-a Poisce (Seriricey to Poiind) youths failed in the steer of 1950,
Poll :eh authorities inaugurtated the policy of emnloyin member. s of organized military
units who 1-icked previous mi_litar service. Polish soldiers
were employed In all five of the :aabrze (50 91 ,].' 67' coal fi1i.r2esa 50X1-HUM
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