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a ami - page two = lmown Professor Vinogradov of the Etonomic Faculty of Leningrad. In the economic field, the most important fuct hus been the rising "self criticism” in the Trade Uaions since Julye In each issue of the Trade Union Press, these orgenizations have beeh vo= cal in accusing themselves of lexity end of condoning to absenteeism and. lazyness on the part of the workers. This seems to be the ace compemying music to the shake up in the higher Trade Union Coun cils now carried out by its new Chairmen, Augustin Kliment. Mi~ ment was till the beginning of last month - August - Minister of Heavy Industry and resimmed that post ia order to become Chairman of the Zyede Union Council. Kliment is one of the highest members of the party and considered closest to Moscow. He is a personal friend = something very rare indeed - of Soviet Marshal Koniev, and hence considered a man acceptable to bith the Party and the Red Arny# Under his leadership, which was very mithless end hard on the workers, the Heavy Industry made fine progresse Now he wisi have to 4eai with workers in general. Kliment is replaced by an obscure party hack, Julius Maurer in the position of Minister of Heavy Ia@ugtry. This appointment would have nothing in partheular to talk about, would it not be for tie fact that Maurer is a Jewg sonethiag quite extraordinary in the context of present anti—jewish policies of the Soviets In the field of heavy industry, whith is the field in which both the regime and the Soviets show the biggest interest, the progress is spectacu ar indeed, especially spectacular if con= pared with the legging in practically every other branche But wether this progress can be kept up is very doubtful inéeed, since a very grave bottleneck is developing : the lack of scrap-irone Imports are not very productive, since it is hard to szet scrap= iron anywhere at present. The domestic sources are drying up very rapidly, especially since in the last three years the country has been entirely combed oute To meet the targets of ‘the pian, the available scrap must be increased by one fou hn this year, whieh to our observers seems unfeaseable, unless the Soviet Union is ready to send scrap to Czecho-Slovakia. And this/is most unlikely. On the othe hand constructions progress rapidly/: in the Molotoxr= Works in Trinec near Tesin the sixth blast ie has just been started. This blast fumace is the largest one/of Central Buropes The new establishment near Mgravska Ostrava has now started its first blast furmace and also its first Siemens-Martin furnaces In a few weeks a second blast furnace and two/ more Siemens= Martin furnaces will enter operations. A new igsheet and tube work will also start operating before the end of the emma, thus considerably increasing the country's potential optpate By how much could as yet not be learned, especially since this is top secret. y f Pia? ae f | / 33
