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Moseow, has to export important quantities to China and East Germany;
the ereation of a Meee oeantat factory in Cinkota, south of Budapest,
producing rockets for the army. It is reported also that the oil
refinery in Almasfuzito, previously owned by the Hungaro-American
Oil Industry is working at full capacity. Half of its supplies come
from the Hungarian Lispe fields; the other half from the outside,
mostly Zistersdorf in Austria, The unrefined oil is brought by tankers
on the Danube and, after refining, is taken by the same way to
Bratislava, from where it is shipped by railroad at a speed of 200
waggons a day, mostly to the Russian troops stationed in Eastern +
Germanys. The nationalized metal and tool factory of the Soroksar stree
in Budapest has been rebuilt for war production and entirely electrifie
on Russian orders, Placed under the administration of the Ministry
of Heavy Industry, it works now to full eapacity and under strictest
supervision and seerecys
Labor situations :
€ heavy pressure for ever-increasing military
production placed on the Hungarian economy by Soviet Russia, the
greatest need felt is for more industrial labor forees and for an
increasing output by each individual worker. Shortly before the war,
Hungarian industry employed approximately 600 thousand manuel workers
and employees, Their number in 1951 reached nearly one million; over
200 thousand more should be reervited during the current year, if the
25% inerease in indust#ial production, claimed for by Soviet authonitics
is to be reached, Usual means of recruiting and even propaganda
pressure have proven absolut&hy insufficient to fill the existing gape
The government therefore has to take emergeney measures. One of these
is a special registration of the entire population, including children
and old people, now deereed by the Ministry of the Interior. The datas
collected will be worked into an exact statistical and filing system,
showing the number and repartition of available labor forces, The
regime can thus take further manpower from agricuiiure and obtain a
twopronged purposes ruin the peasants who still oppose the kolchose
system and re-inforee the industrial proletariate. On the other hand,
on the basis of these same files, all sehool children and youth can be
mobilized for agricultural chores, for the foreed collection of "scrap
iron and metal" and for other ecampaings which they have to carry out
as “patriotie duties" during or after school hours and of course durinz
vacations.e
Another souree of inexpensive labor are the thousands of political
prisoners and deportees, rounded up, taken from their home and held in
forced labor camps. They are used in heavy industry and mines, in the
building of railroads and of other strategic constructions and in
agriculture and forestry from where the farmers and rural workers have
been drafted into the industry. Conditions for those deportees are
extremely hard: undernourished and receiving no medical attention, they
have to labor 12 hours a day and besides often several miles to walk
to and from their working places Such labor consequently is very
inexpensive for the government, but lasts a short time only, as losses
in lives are extremely highe Their rank in industry, mining and buildin
has therefore to be re=-inforced by the drafting of farmers, This
— threat creates deep restlessness in rural areas, where many
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