ATTEMPT OF THE CONFEDERATION GENERAL DE TRABAJADORES TO ORGANISE NEW LABOR GROUP

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 27, 2003
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• Publication Date: March 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Chile
SUBJECT Attempts of the Confederacion General de NO. OF PAGES 2
Trabajadores to Organise New Labor Group
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1. In view of the apparent disint gration of the Confederacion do Trabajadores
do Chile (CTCh), leaders of tta independent Confederation General do
Trabajadores (COT) are e:zdeaviring to form a new national labor organiza-
tion to be called Centritl Uni',a do Trabajadores de Chile.
2. On 23 December 1943, fifteen COT delegates traveled to Valparaiso to meet
with labor leaders of the region.. Among those with whom contact was estab-
lished were leaders o~ both Socialist and Cotrnmist labor unions belonging
to the CTCh.
3. The CGT delegates Plvanoed the theory, that the time was ripe for the forma.
tion of a labor or,anization which would confine itself strictly to the field
of labor and take no active part in politics. Although most of the labor
leaders consulted by the CGT delegates agreed that the CTCh is no longer an
effective labor organization, no agreement on this question of the legitimate
sphere of labor iotivities could be reached. There was no unity of opinion
among the CTCh '.eadern as to what constituted labor interests as against
political activities. The majority of the union leaders believed that only
through combin.ng union and political activities can any true progress be
obtained by organized Chilean labor,
4. Marty of _ VSCh leaders who were approached demanded special advantages for
their respective political parties within the framework of the proposed new
national la:or organization. The CGT representatives refused these demands
wherever May arose.
5. Because o' these difficulties'in reaching an agreement, the COT decided to
establish coordinating committees in Valparaiso and Santiago which would be
responsiile for reaching a working agreement with Communist and rocinl.ist
union rerresentatives.
6. It is roorted that the CGT has also decided to send out delegates to the
norther. mining zones to try to attract the powerful mit-_ing groups to the pro.
posed .maw labor organization. The identity of these representatives is not
yet k.own, but it is believed that Pedro Nolasco Arratia Urrutia and Pedro
Huigrmir will be included among the delegates.
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national labor organization has only small possibility of succeeding, The
CGT has long cooperated with both the Socialist and Communist factions of
the CTCII, but only on matters pertaining strictly to labor. The CGT has
never tried to hide its lack of sympathy for the purely political and per-
sonally ambitious maneuverings of Socialist and Communist leaders in the
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