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EEE ee — XeAeSie July 526 - page three e 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 9 em = 12
