PROGRAM TO INCREASE COAL PRODUCTION IN GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000300040001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 1, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT: Program to Increase Coal Froduction in Gerrby
DATE OF INFO: Oct 1951 to May 1952
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/Available on loan from the CIA Library is a microfilm of the draft
report mentioned above. It is entitled, "The Program to Increase
Coal Production in Western Germany." Dated October 1951 to May 1952,
the report is 119 pages long and includes charts and graphs. As far
as the source of knows, there is no copy of the report
available in MSA in Washington, D. C.7
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Foreword 1
I.
Coal and the General Problem of Productivity
in-West German Industry .............................
3
II_.
The Need for More Coal Production ...................
?3
III.
A Summary of Obstacles to Higher Production .........
11
A. Reasons for Lower Productivity ..................
11
B. Factors Limiting Further Increases in the
Number of Manshifts ;corked ......................
16
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Concentration in the Mines ......................
19
IV.
Previous Efforts to Meet the Coal Shortage ..........
21
V.
The Committee to Increase Coal Production ...........
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B.
Formation of the committee ........................
28
C.
Organization and Functions of the Committee ......
30
D.
The Role of Labor in the Coal Production
Committee ........................................
33
VI.
The Sub-Committee on "Social-Political" Questions
36
A.
Objectives of the Sub-Committee ..............
36
B.
The "Participation-Lin-Results'' Agreement .....
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C.
Union/Management Production Committees .......
44
VII.
The Sub-Committee on Rationalization and
Investments ......................................
45
A.
Mechanization ................................
46
B.
Concentration and Other Rationalization
Measures .....................................
53
C.
Technical Assistance .........................
55
D.
Investment Programs
57
E.
Substitute Fuels ............................
65 m
F.
Price Increases ..............................
66
VIII.
The Sub-Committee on Housing for Miners
67
A.
The Program to Construct 92,000
Miner's Dwellings ............................
68
B.
The MSA Miners' Housing Program for 1952 .....
76
IX.
The Sub-Committee on PUblic Information ..........
89
X.
The Sub-Committee on Fuel Efficiency .............
92
A.
Recent Trends in Fuel Efficiency .............
92
B.
Proposals of the Rationalization Council
for the German Economy (RKW) .................
94
XI.
Evaluating the Success of the Coal Production
Drive ............................................
97
A.
Summary of Production Trends Prior to the
Current Drive ................................
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B. Developments Since Formation of the
Coal Production Committee ................... 102
C. First Results of the New Premium Pay Plan ... 111
D. Recruitment and Turnover Developments ....... 114
XII. German Participation in OEEC Efforts to
Raise Coal Production .......................... 115
XIII. Conclusion and Prospects ........................ 119
No 1 Text of Tariff Agreement Providing for "Participation-
in-Results" System
No 2 Articles on the Miners' Housing Program Translated
from "Bergbau and Wirtschaft", the Magazine of the
Mine Workers Union
No 3 Regulations for the NSA Special Miners' Housing
Program for 1952
No 4 NSA Miners' Housing Program - List of Projects and
Mines Served
No 5 Proposed Coal Publicity Projects for MSA Financing
No 6 RKW Conservation Campaign - Proposed Costs for 1952
No 7 Selected References
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1 Output per man-hour in selected industries
(Western Germany: June 1948 - October 1951).... 6
2 Postwar productivity compared to prewar
(major Western European hard coal mining areas). 7
3 Age structure of workers in the Ruhr hard coal
mines--prewar and postwar ...................... 13
Postwar turnover rates
(Western German hard coal mines) ............... 13
Employment in the West German hard coal mines-
prewar and postwar ............................. 17
6 Absenteeism by cause
(Western German hard coal mines)--prewar and post
war ............................................ 18
coal mines) .................................... 59
12 Estimated available capital .................... 60
Overtime shifts and shifts lost--prewar and
post war (Western German hard coal mines) ......
Concentration of production--allean coal per face
in the Ruhr district--prewar and postwar ....... 20
Modern faces compared to old-type faces--flat
seams in the Ruhr hard coal mines--June 1951 ... 47
10 Fully and partially mechanized faces (Western
German hard coal mines; Jan 1951 - Mar 1952) ...
11 Estimated capital requirements--(Western German
13 Ruhr miners' postwar housing construction
activity ....................................... 69
14 M3A miners' housing projects for 1952--location
and distribution of funds ...................... 87
15 Efficiency of fuel and power utilization by
industry (Western Germany: 4th Q 1949 -
4th Q 1951) .................................... 92
16 Changes in efficiency of fuel and power
consumption--selected industries (Western
Germany: 4th Q 1949 - 4th Q 1951) ............. 93
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17 Improvement of Specific Coal Consumption in
Public Utility Power Stations (Western Germany
1948 - 1951) ..................................... 93a
18 Coal Consumption by Steam Locomotives (German
Federal Railways; 1948 - 1951) ................... 93b
SUMMARY TABLE--Hard coal production, employment
productivity, absenteeism, and overtime trends
(Western Germany; prewar and postwar) ............ 98
20 Hard coal production, employment, and productivity-
September - March gains for past 4 years (Western
Germany) .......................................... 103
21 Average daily hard coal production--first five months
of year compared with previous fall peak - 1949, 1950,
1951, and 1952 (Western Germany ) ................ 105
22 Average daily hard coal production by month -
percentage increase over corresponding month in
previous year (Western Germany - Jan - May; 1950,
1951, 1952) ...................................... 107
23 Changes in output per manshift underground compared
to basic agreed efficiency under the new premium
pay plan--January to April 1952 .................. 111
24 Output per manshift underground (Western German hard
coal mines: Jan - May, 1949 - 1952) ............. 113
25 Turnover developments (Western German hard coal
mines; Oct - April 1948/49 - 1951/52)
1 Coal productivity program--organization chart ....
2 Hard coal production gains and losses per year by
cause (Western Germany; 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950
and 1951) ........................................ 99 and 99a
3 Western German hard coal production--prewar and
postwar--total tonnage, tonnage from normal shifts
and from overtime shifts, and tonnage lost due to
shifts not worked ................................ 100
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4 Average daily hard coal production gains or
losses -- first five months of year compared
to previous fall peak (Western Germany; 1949,
1950, 1951, and 1952) ......................... lo6
5 Average daily hard coal production by month -
percentage increase over corresponding month
in previous year. (Western Germany: Jan-May 1950,
1951, and 1952) ............................... 108
Western German hard coal production gains and
losses by cause -- highest week in 1952 compared
with fall peak in 1951 and with first quarter
1951 .......................................... 110
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