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Newsmen End Americas Parley;
Alerted to Red Infiltration Effort
SAN JUAN, P.R., July 7-
More than thirty newsmen from
the Western Hemisphere have
concluded a series of seminars
organized by the Inter-Amer-
ican Federation of Working
Newspapermen's Organizations.
The main purpose was to "warn
against Communist penetration
of the Latin American Press."
Journalists from British Gui-
ana, Bolivia, Colombia, Jamaica,
Peru, Venezuela Barbados, Ca-
nada and the United States as
well as exiled newsmen from
Haiti, Paraguay and Cuba
heard talks on freedom of the
press, the history of newspaper
unions and objectives of collec-
tive bargaining.
Among the speakers were
Boleslaw Wierzbianski, presi-
dent of the International Feder-
ation of Free Journalists. Mr.
Wierzbianski stressed the im-
portance of Latin American
participation in international
democratic press associations.
He urged all in Latin American
unions to join the International
Federation of Free Journalists.
Mr. Wierzbianski also discussed
Communist penetration of Latin;
A
merican newsmen's organiza-
tions.
Great Benefits Derived
ticipants "derived great bene-
fits from all discussions."
Others who conducted semi-
nar sessions were N. Pente-
cheff, treasurer of the Interna-
tional Federation of Free Jour-
nalists, who spoke on freedom
of the press and the labor
movement; Frank Cremonesi of
the International Typographers
Union; Ellis T. Baker of the
American Newspaper Guild, and
A
ti
r
ro Jauregui of the Inter-
American Regional Workers
Organization.
Host organization was the
Sociedad de Periodistas y Es-
critores Puertorriquenos, whose
president is Senator Ernesto
Juan Fonfrias. None of this
group's membemg is a working
newsman, Top Puerto Rican or-
ganizations, like .the active
press association
whose mem-
,
bers work for newspapers,
magazines and radio stations
here, did not send represents-
tives to the seminars although
they were invited. A spokesman
for the Active Press Associa-
tion, explained that their group
is a that is r not sinterested organization
for he
time being in union activities.
During their stay, seminar
members had an opportunity to
According to Rafael Alberto,Marinland Mayor F 1 sa Rincon
Borja Ortega, managing editor de Gautier of San Juan.
of El Universo of Quito, Ecua-I Mr. Pentcheff said the feder-
dor, and Guillermo Cortes ation plans to hold seminars
Munoz, editorial writer of Ul-I every six months in various
tima Hra in Lima, Peru, par- points hemisphere.
ARGENTINA FACING
WIDER TRADE GAP
United States policy of exporting
surplus wheat to under - devel-
oped countries.
In pushing her industrialization
program, Argentina has impnrt-