TRADE UNION ATTITUDE TOWARD INDONESIAN POLICE ACTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002300330009-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 7, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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la It has been ascertained that, with .the e~oiseption of the Caurauniat-e~trollad EViC?
(Unity Trades Union Central) and the OVB (Independent Confederation of Factory
~yorkers) of Cos~munist tendencies, the Dutch Trades Unions conai.der the T~etherlanda
governcaent police action in Indon?sia strictly a political mati.er and, a~s such,
not the basis far a gave of protest strikesP
24 Originally the OVB, a small rival of h'VC and influential. or>viy among the cock and
transport workers in Rotterdam, candeianed the police action and obtained support
fz~ar~ EVC in its intention to stage protest strikes, iirn~rever, vrhen b'VC issued a
call to Rotterdar;- harbor workers far a 24-~eour strike r~ithout prior native to
OVI1, the latter refused to participate and its ~renibera stayed at work, After this
experience Frith 1~'VC, OvB decided to align itself with, the NW (Iletherlanda Trade
Unions Association) L^~hich deplored the Indonesian action but refused to use it
as an excuse for strikesa
Although the EVC has strongly opposed governn~,at policy in Indonesia and eucx..oned
t1s~t working class to de.~end its interests, it has based its appeals for aetioa
pri~a.rilby on econvr~ic factors and not on the Indonesian incident, b'VC ~ a plena for
invoking strikes were formulated well before the renevred police wctioa in Indonesia
and were published ill De ~;taarheid on 17 JJec~ztioer 191+8, which wa-s prior to the
goverment ?s move, It is, therefore, apparent that the EVC f seta the Iadoneafaa
mi~~atioa in incidental to tf~e eueeesa oaf its prograao
~1hil.e there have been a fern isol.a.ted strikes since the butch Army moved in Indonesia,
these have been, for the most ps.rt, in the Aussterdam area and, thus far, reflect
EVC actfrr3.tl.es 3n the economic field rather than as attempt to exploit the
situation in T~ndonesia?
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