CONFEDERACION GENERAL DE TRABAJADORES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002200110008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 29, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Chile
SUBJECT Confederaeion General de Trabeja
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF INFO
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. The Confederation General de Trabajadoreg (COT), which has its headquarters
at Calls, San Francisco 864, Santiago, Chile, is of a deoidedly anarchistic
tendency and opposes the Communist as well as all other political parties
Though adopting a more lenient attitude toward the present than toward
previous governments, there is reason to believe that this has been due to
COT approval of the repressive-measures taken against the Communist Party
of Chile. There is also evidence that the COT leaders believe that the
breaking of Cozaaunist control of mazy labor unions will eventually rebound
to the benefit of the COT.
2. The COT, which is active only in the Santiago and Valparaiso districts, is
calculated to have a membership of 5,800 laborers. The membership break-
down is approximately as follows:
Federation del Cuero y Calzado (Federation of
Federation de la Construccion (Federation of Con-.
struction Workers) . . . . . . ? . ? ? ? . o ? . ?
Leather and Shoe Workers) . . . . . . ? . ? ? ? 0 4,200
Federacion de.Obreros Oraficos (Federation of Print
Shop Workers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 200
The National Council of the COT is as follows:
Secretary General
Sub-Secretary
Recording Secretary
Treasurer
Secretary of Sports and Culture
Technical Adviser
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Alberto Lspinosa S.
Luis Vasquez Ordenes
Ernesto Miranda Rivas
Abraham Dias T.
Hernan Cubillos Cubilloe;
Santiago Jeldres
Luis Heredia Menaces
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Although provision is made in the by-laws of the COT for the formation of
councils on the provincial and city level, it is reported that the only
other actively functioning; CGT council is that of :antiaoo Province.
This council is composed df the followings.
ecretary General
Fecordiny Secretary
Treasurer
becretary of Correspdndence
Press Secretary
Public relations secretary
#.ecretary of Farr ,:orker Or4anization
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(fnu) Vasquez Ordeno
Antonio Valdes
Juan Tupper
Carlos Lopez
Luciano ',Torgada' fassaez
Hernan Castro Olivares
Jose Chaves :laureira;
anuel A?uilera A uilera
Outstandinc, :'ACT labor as;iti tors are:
Podro 'olasco i rratia Urrutia, a printini, shop laborer
Pedro Huiquinir
}edro Ortuzar
Julio Zamorano
6. The majority of the inembers of the Federation of Leather and Shoe workers
and of the Federation of "rint ,hop '"orkers have reportedly joined these
COT affiliates becau.e they work for firms employing less laborers than
the twenty-five required to form a le;#lly recoGnized union. However,
some of the members of these COT affiliates are known to be employed by'
larLe firms in which unions affiliated to the Confederation de Trobajadores
de Chile (Confederation of Laborers of Chile CTCH) are active.
7. Thouih c;GT influence in the field of organized. Chilean labor is small be-
cause of its comparatively low membership, which it; mainly`concdntrated in
non-vital industries,"nevertheless, it is significant that the unusually
good discipline of CGT members has reportedly enabled this organization to
win every strike which it has undertaken, Although violently opposed to
Communism per se and criticizing as inept and insufficient the labor
activities of both the Communist and Socialist CTCH factions, the CGT has
frequently cooperated r?ith the CTCH on purely labor matters.
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