THE GENERAL WORKERS PROFESSIONAL UNION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015500230008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SXRET
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY B lgark.a
SUBJECT The General Workers Professional Union
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DATE DISTR. 18 December 1952
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The ORPS (O ;shtt Rabctnicheski Profesionalen Surazl General Workers Professional
13 1 . is the gove sent, sp cnsc red lab- r orga; , atio A of Bulga ..a. It has the
tw-~~,fold duty of pre testi=ng the rights of the workers and inducing them to increase
pr odsa. ?, mnp bib in reality concentrates more on increasing production than on
prccctecting the interests of the workers.
2. A-',tb-`a;g , not. a Ca unist Party organization, the ORPS is so completely dominated
by the Party through the fanctionaries who are nearly al, members of the
Conenu list Pare y,, that there is little to distinguish it from a completely
Communist org&ni7,a't,:.on0 There are no prerequisites to joining the union other
tb
am that one Tt be employed by an establishment which has a union.
The unions h,') Id. meetings once a month. The topic at all meetings is eithei the
ways and means of increasing production, or the achievement of Soviet labor and
wa of the Soviet example in the field of production.
Ai2 a ion tu tiers are entifaed to spend up to 20 days each year at rest centers
wM.ch are operated at lt-M cost for members of the ORPS. Because of the low rates,
the rest centers are very popular with the workers. The ORPS also has a policy
of partial sistan ;e to all members in case 'of illness the fund benefits the
member4 s fa a r as well. as the worker himselfa
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The ORPS publishes a daily newspaper}, True (labor), to which every union member
must subscribe. The newspaper pursues a policy of praising Soviet labor and
urging the Bulgarian workers to increase both the quality and quantity. of
production by following the Soviet example.
The KllIment Voroshilov Electrical. Equipment Factory in Sofia has a chapter of
the Electrical Workerts Union, an affiliate of the ORPS;. members are issued an
(BPS membership card. The chapter has nearly 3.9500. members,. slightly less than
the total personnel of the factory; membership is "voluntary." The factory is
subdivided, into 16 departments and each department has its own branch of the
union. The smallest units of the union are brigades (brigada), each of Mich
have a brigadier in charge. Each two brigades have a treasurer whosemain duty
is to collect the union dues. The'brigade treasurers give the dues to the branch
treasurer who gives the money to' the union treasurer for forwarding to the (B PS.
union dries vary from one to two percent of the-members' monthly salary, depending
upon the actual salary of the workers, that is, dues increase with salary.
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