THREATENED RAILROAD STRIKE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400480008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 1999/09/09: CIJwWQ&A On457R002400480008-9
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
I F I; IO REPORT
COUNTRY El Salvador
39B EAT Threatened Railroad Strike
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1, A full scale railroad strike is scheduled to be called in El Salvador
effective 2 Id'.arch if some agreement has not been reached at that time by
the Union de Ferrocarrileros (UT?) and the International Railway of Central
American (IRC1). The climax in the long-standing struggle between the
union and the INCA was reached when IRCA manager J. H. Wilson refused to
recognize the right of UTF to represent the workers. The UTF has requested
that Wilson be removed by the IRCk president,
2~ The UTF carried out a three-hour work stoppage on 21 February and scheduled
a second stoppage for 2.6 February,
3, On 25 February, Labor Minister Enrique Porras, UTF President Benjamin Mejia
and UTF Assessor Carlos Alex Gomez conferred and agreed that the UTF would
accept the mediation of the Labor Minister who proposed the following terms:
a) The UTF shell draw up its minimum demands and present them to
Wilson through Minister Porras.
b) If Wilson accepts the terms, an agreement will be entered into
by a legal formula described as estipulacion a un tercero, which
will carry legal force in the absence of labor laws.
The UTF also stipulated that the minimum demands must be approved by a general
session of the unions
Field Comment, The government seems to be applying pressure on Wilson, since
the arrangement appears to favor the railroad workers.
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