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Show Stheir duties, many of them ingly hadn't learned much s"1" they haven't been able to Ketfar duction back to anything uj. Pf' pre-seizure level. e "e ' Meanwhile the workers se 1 like their jobs less and less 6JJ to have lost their insurance p0r ' their free lunches at the plant'0163, Christmas bonuses. However' T new managers hope that pro and threats of concentration r J, terms may speed up eventually. uctln jfl .. j Washington Snapshots flamei. Pierian Nationalized factories in Bulgaria Bul-garia are producing from 30 to 60 less than before the Reds took over, according to returning American Amer-ican newsmen who are familiar with the country. The plants were seized by gun-toting gun-toting militiamen who ousted the owners. A total of about 6,000 plants were seized about Christmas. Christ-mas. The owners were searched, relieved of cash, keys, and most of their private possessions. Then they were told to find jobs in other industries. Workers Not Pleased . . . Spokesmen for the new regime immediately assembled plant workers work-ers and told them they owned the plant, having been "liberated from capitalistic exploitation." In many factories the workers were not at all pleased. Some of them wept openly they had worked 20 years or more for the same emplpyer, and had no wish to change) However, specially trained "shock workers" took over the management, and in some cases the new "owners" were told to buckle down to their jobs "or else. ..." Conditions Not Improved ... Seizure of the factories naturally natural-ly disrupted production. Although the new managers had been going I to government schools to learn |
