REICHSBAHN BULLETINS (39 PP; (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R009700110006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 12, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
German Democratic Republic
25X1A
REICHSBAHM BULLETINS (39 pp;
The document consists of No 12 vol II of the Mitt eilungsblatt der Deutschen Reichsbahn
p25X1A(Reichsbahn Bulletin), and Appendix ndix B to No 11 vol II of the same
publication. The anpe:iaut i.s undated. It was issued during the latter half of August 1951.
The greater part of each issue is, as usual, taken up by the publication of official
decrees and announcements by the Directorate General and the various directorates of the
Reichsbahn. These announcements are subheaded as follows: operations, passenger traffic,
freight traffic, railroad repair yards, construction, safety and communications, material
procurement, finance and economy, labor and wages, law and administration, social benefits,
tank car operations, personnel, and miscellaneous.
The following items are of particular interest:
New job evaluations for personnel of automobile maintenance plants and of track
engineering groups within~Reichsbahn divisions.
Regulations granting higher tax exemptions to certain executives, entertainers, and
handicapped workers,
Discontinuance of shoe rental service which enabled workers owning only one pair of
shoes to rent another pair while theires was being repaired. Decreasing need for such service
is given as the reason for discontinuing it,
Encouragement of worker correspondents to continue contributions to the newspapers
on technical, political, or economic subjects, based on their experience in the shops,
Expansion,of training of skilled railroad workers.
List of 21 technical improvements developed, or in process of development, at the
Central Equipment Designing Office during July 1951.
Table of various types of compensation paid to Reichsbahn workers, showing tax and
social e~ ^a security obligations for such payments.
Notice of beginning of operations on the new Southern Outer Belt around Berlin as of
10 July 1951, and the administrative organization of this project,
Regulations governing tank car traffic, including a stern warning against the practice
of building fires under tank cars in order to dislodge viscous contents.
.Announcement that the Tank Car Operations Office has taken over the administration of
all for eign-.owned tank cars/ as of 1 January 1951.
Explanation of latest regulations concerning medical care for railroad woekrs,
Description of uniforms to be worn by paid officials of the Railroad Workers' Union.
jForeign language document or a microfilm of t is available from CIA Library 5X1A
2X1 A
25X1A
12 December 1951
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