TOWN OF TUCHOMYSL/CP ORGANIZATION/ORGANIZATION OF FARMERS' COOPERATIVE/GENERAL CONDITION/HOOF AND MOUTH DISEASE

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
COUNRY
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INFORMATION REPORT
Czechoslovakia
Town of Tuchowsl/CP Organization/Organization of
Farmers Cooperative/General Conditions/Hoof and
Mouth Disease,
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THIS 130904N1 CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
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The chairman of the local National Committee in Tuchomysl, District Usti - 50X1 -HUM
Nad Lepem, North B6hemial is Miroslav Hyspl,
As his regu-
lar occupation, he is in chi-ge of the administration of the pit Prokop
Holy. In this capacity he has great influence on the employment of work-
ers and their assignment to light or heavy work.
of long standing
(mu) Malinovsky.
The deputy chairman is Rudolf Bousa a Communist
The secretary of the Committee is
2. Eite agricultural referat of the Committee is headed by Rudolf Tomek, a
former Social Democrat Who joined the CP after February 1948.
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3. DRudolf Posusta was, up to January 1952, in charge of the supply referat.
When he got a job at the brick factory in Trmice, he resigned from his
position with the National Committee,
Josef Strnad, a CP member
is in charge of educational matters within the National Committee.
4. EIThe local CP organization in Tuchomysl has had a new chairman since April
1952 in the person of Rudolf Zemin. He is a fommunist of long standing
Acting secretary of the local CP is Josef Adamec? a painter
by profession.
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5. The Farmers' Cooperative in Tuchomysl was set up by (fnu) Alinc manager of
the local Distribution Cooperative (Konsum). Its chairman is Josef Soucek
but the actual management is in the hands of Frantisek Tomanek. The Coopera-
tive has about 70 cows, grossly underfed because they were given only cut
straw for many months. aithet;Autxmnittt.1951:thht) baetnontkvansainttdati~edleit-413. be-
cause the Cooperative was waiting for brigade workers who, however, never
arrived. The whole crop was left on the fields to rot. The same happened
to the garlic crop, which, incidentally, is in very short supply all over the
country.
6. Lin April th1950.= a serious hoof and mouth epidemic broke out in the village 50X1-HUM
of Trmice, together with a fast-spreading epidemic of pig disentery (cervenka).
At the same time, even the best fed cattle. were dying off from a third deadly
disease of unknown origin and name. The Communist authorities got panicky,
as they were unable to control the spreading of these epidemics; the village
was placed under a kind nf quarantine. Children who visited the school in
Trmice from neighboring villages were given a vacation, and the bus Which
comMunicates between surrounding localities was detoured to bypass the stricken
village.
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all housewives under 45 years of age who had no
children and were working only in the household, were no longer issued food
ration coupons. This new measure, which was introduced without any-previous
announcement in the press or radio, applied also to wives of heavy industrial
workers.
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The meat situation is particularly bad in Tuehomysl and its surrounding
areas. Endless queues can be seen in front of Ptacek's butcher shop in
Trmice whenever a supply of horsemeat is put on sale. On such days at
least some 100 people can be found lining up at 4 in the morning. It
often occurred that after hours of waiting, not even these early birds
could get any meat. Even before the official opening hour of the shop,
trucks from hospitals and factories drove up to the shop, bought up the
entire horsemeat supply, and left nothing for the civilian population.
As a rule, one-quarter of the meat ration coupon is used up for the pur-
chase of horsemeat.
9. r]In February 1952 when the food rations of surfaceAgorkers were cut (in-
stead of 3 kg of fats, they receive now only 1 k000 surface workers of
the Prokop Hely pit in Tuchomysl organized a protest strike. After one
hour of strike, the STB arrived from Usti Nad Ldbem, and arrested the
miner (fnu) Tuma froiu Viklice as the organizer of strike, ,At the
beginning of March, 29liefinalteatil*Tf5VAIEW40011011140itiMteitiitd-Ao
organize another strike, and passed a resolution demanding the immediate .
release of Tuma. Tuma was released and returned to the pit.
10. Preparations are underway to open up new shafts in the village of Tuchomysl.
Part of the village is threatened because some of the new shafts will be
blasted beneath the village. Already a new cemetery has been opened because
the old cemetery is located in the future mining area.
11. Ebro fight the dangerously spreading alcoholism, the authorities set up a
special ward in the Usti Nad Labem hospital where notorious alcoholists
are being treated, such special yards have been set up
also at other district hospitals. The cure, which consists mainly of some
kind of injections usuall lasts three months but is not too effe tiv
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