Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1946 — Page 6

Plants in Soviet Zone Are Back on 8-Hour Day, but Most of Output Is Taken Over as_Reparations.

: °“ By EMIL REYNOLDS . . NEA Staff Writer el BERLIN, May 2.—Products for peace-time living are coming off the assembly lines again in the Germany that Russia controls. Many fa in the Soviet-occupied zone are working eight hours 8 day, six days a week. Employees answer not to a Nazi party but to a party group of their choice—under the Russian workers’ committee

"But what comes off those assem- | were the war-time product. Like bly lines is mot for the comfort orthe B. M. W. auto factory, this $ of ‘a conquered people. [company _ reverted to its peacetime Most of the products are going to!job last August and now is fin- . Russia for reparations or to officials | ishing 2300 typéwriters. a month, of the German government who are| Working dn eight-hour day, six administering affairs of the zone'days a week, the employees have under Soviet supervision. | sppoint 8 a Soisumiskee, i 3 as nd | their leaders—five Socia emovhs 81 Sound crats, four’ Communists, three LibTell. the story of this. industrial re- eral Democrats, and two Christian habilitation. : Democrats, key Moét striking, perhaps, is the Some Nazis ‘Working ".B. M. W. automobile plant in Eis-| Many members of the Nazi party _enach, 50 per cent of which WAS ,...in in their jobs at the Olympia

Jevelen » ore: factory, according to the plant dk Sy a high of 45 cars a day. rector, himself a one-time resident During the war its product was | Of 8 Nazi concentration camp. But aviation engine housings and parts. these erstwhile Nazis will soon be Reconverted and back in opera-|Feplaced by more politically secure tion since last August, B. M. W. is| persons, he said. . making eight sedans a day, the only| Wages here run froni-pn- average passenger Cars besides the Volks- of 70 pfennigs an hoyr for unwagon now being produced in Ger- skilled workers to 1.20 Prehnigs an : . many. : hour. The typewriters—many of Ne Workers 0 ized them with Russian’ keyboards—are |

sold to government offices and cost | The materials that go into those 351 marks for a standard model or cars come mostly from Russian|225 marks for a portable. sources, although a sizable stock| In the busy little city of Gera,| -pile hidden during the war is being | sometimes called the Paris of Thur-| utilized, too. “If you could buy one|ingia province, ‘the. Schulenberg of the cars, it ‘would cost you 7400 and ' Bessler Textile Co. is going marks (at 10 cents a mark), the full blast making artificial woolens price set by the Russ state control and silk, as well as processing some | non-profit system. . real silk. During the war it made That “if” is a big one, however,| fabric for supply chutes. because the output goes to Russian New Private Enterprise military government for distribu-| one ating now as a. private ention to Soviet officials and the Ger-| yr with no interference from man officials who are working for| (ne Russian military government, them. Purchases are in the form|y. goo workers get just about the of credits Sains, TepEptions. The 2200 auto workers of the B. (sen, per cent of the output goes M. W. plant are organized, in the (, reparations, the rest for domescustomary workers’ committee. | i» aonsumption. Sixty per cent belong to the Sagial| gyi the biggest order right now Democrat party, 30 per cent to the | is yom the Russian general of the Communist party; the rest belong; province—for - 200 full-length por-| to the smaller party groups or are yyaits or Stalin woven in silk. without affiliation. “Whie I was in Weimar, capital Average pay for a skilled worker|of "mringia® province, there was is 95 pfennigs an hour. The plantian exWpit-of industrial output of | directof said the employees have ine proknce. The German offi-| : the right to strike—but they won't,!eials an

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