CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1957/08/14

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• Publication Date: August 14, 1957

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CURRENT
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BULLETIN
14 August 1957
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. STRIKES IN POLAND
(page 3).
h) 2. NINTH SHIPLOAD OF COMMUNIST ARMS ARRIVES IN
YEMEN (page 5).
463. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE OMAN SITUATION
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0 I4, BELGIUM REQUESTS UN CAMPAIGN ON NUCLEAR WAR-
FARE EFFECTS (page 7).
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1. STRIKES IN POLAND
Comment on:
The strike for higher wages of nearly
11,000 transport workers in Lodz, Poland's
second largest city is still in progress.
Police and workers' militia have estab-
lished a 24-hour patrol of the city, and,
according to the press, Polish army units
have been brought into the city. In at least
one. instance, police used tear gas to break
up a workers' demonstration, and five cas-
ulties were reported in clashes between po-
lice and strikers. The strike has reportedly
affected the interurban transport system sur-
rounding Lodz and may extend to other in-
dustries and localities unless quickly settled.
The regime has dispatched four high-level
representatives, including General Komar,
commander of the internal security forces, and Ignacy Loga-
Sowinski, a politburo member, to the scene,
the internal security forces
had been alerted. According to the press, military personnel at
the scene of the strike were instructed not to use firearms except
in an emergency.
Under intense heckling, the acting minister
of communal economy promised that the government would make
available 50 million zlotys ($12,500,000) annually for wage in-
creases for transport workers throughout Poland and offered to
negotiate the wage issue, As yet, however, no formal workers'
committee to negotiate the wage issue has come forward.
These disturbances followed a strike during
the first week of August by meat-processing workers in Lodz who
demanded a 100-percent wage increase. Although the Polish press
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stated no in7pA se 1A1 fr rnnte ri thp US embassy in Warsaw re-
ported that, , the workers' demands were
met. A factory-wide strike of chemical workers in Brzeg Dolny
was reported by the embassy on 8 August. In this case also the
government was forced to grant the strikers unspecified "conces-
sions" to obtain a resumption of production. Government con-
cessions to the transport workers would generate demands for
wage increases by other workers which would confront the re-
gime with the threat of either serious inflation or increasing dis-
orders.
Economic measures of the Gomulka re-
gime have benefited mainly the agricultural workers. The trans-
port workers are one of the lowest paid groups in Poland. The
Gomulka government has not outlawed strikes and in the past has
not prosecuted strikers.
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2� NINTH SHIPLOAD OF COMMUNIST ARMS
ARRIVES IN YEMEN
Comment on:
Two Soviet vessels delivered military
cargoes including heavy arms to the
Yemeni port of Salif on 29 July and 6
August
The first vessel's cargo included 20 self-propelled guns and
an unspecified quantity of trucks. The cargo of the second
ship included 10 field artillery pieces and an unspecified num-
ber of large crates believed to contain aircraft or trucks.
reconnaissance shows five aircraft
already assembled and nine in process of assembly at Salif
airport. These aircraft, previously iden-
tified as IL-10 piston ground attack aircraft, have now been
identified as YAK-11 piston trainers.
These shipments bring the number of Soviet
arms deliveries to Yemen during the past year to nine--includ-
ing one in October 1956, one delivered from Egypt by a Yemeni
ship during the closure of the Suez Canal, and seven, carrying
approximately 13,000 tons of military items, since May 1957.
Another ship in early May brought port equipment to assist un-
loading of the subsequent arms deliveries.
at least 50 Soviet bloc advisers and in-
structors are now in Yemen.
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3. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE OMAN SITUATION
Comment on:
The Middle East chief of the British
Foreign Office told the American embassy
in London on 12 August that although the
major phase of the Oman campaign would
end with the dispersal of the rebels into
the hills, no decision had yet been taken on
the Sultan of Muscat's requust to retain
British troops in Oman.
The US army attach�n London has gained
the impression that the British War Office
does not feel guerrilla operations will be
of such magnitude as to require the reten-
tion of British units and the Trucial Oman
Scouts in Oman. A War Office source told
the attach�n 12 August, the day Nizwa fell,
that these forces would be returned to their
prerebellion locations if the situation remained
as favorable to the Sultan as at present, and that the War Office
hoped the Sultan's forces could control the area. The ability of
the rebel leaders to retaliate from the hills on the Sultan's forces
however, that the Sultan's forces will be
inadequate to maintain order.
London hopes to avoid the Security Council
debate threatened by the Arab League decision on 12 August to
request an immediate council meeting. The British say they
fear that a public debate might spoil relations between King
Saud and his Western allies and Iraq. The majority of the
Security Council probably would oppose inscription of the Oman
item.
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4. BELGIUM REQUESTS UN CAMPAIGN ON NUCLEAR
WARFARE EFFECTS
Comment on:
Belgium on 12 August requested the General
Assembly to consider a plan to inform the
world of the destructive effects of the arma-
ments race and nuclear weapons. A discus-
sion of the plan at this fall's General Assembly
would provide the USSR with another opportunity to insist on a
ban on nuclear tests independent of other disarmament measures,
and 'night kasult in a General Assembly call for a ban on
nuclear tests.
The Belgian request was accompanied by
a draft resolution which asks the secretary general to submit
to the 13th General Assembly a plan for an effective and
continuing world-wide publicity campaign under UN auspices
concerning the destructive effects of nuclear weapons and
"disregarding all ideological or political considerations."
On 1 August, Belgian Foreign Minister
Larock told the American embassy that he believed the wide-
spread dissemination of an "impressive scientific report"
would increase pressure on the Soviet leaders to reach a
disarmament agreement by bringing home to the Soviet people
the results of atomic explosions and Western superiority in
the field.
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