PCCH REACTION TO JUNECH LABOR POLICIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004300290009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGE A NOY REPORT NO.
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PCCh Reaction to JJN'ECh Labor Policies NO. OF PAGES 2
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1. The Political Co=ission of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) has been
disturbed by the strength shown by the Junta National de Empleados do
Chile (JMMCh). Apart from the fact that the JUrIECh is composed largely of
Radical members and has shown little interest in Communist collaboration,
its growth has revealed a trend in the Chilean labor movement which is a
cause of great concern to the PCCh. The Party has noted signs of syndical
unity which transcends party lines, and is disturbed by that development.
The JtNECh has shown no inclination to follow the dictates of the Radical
Party, its majority political component, but in some cases had made the
executive committee (the CEO[) of the Radical Party follow the syndical line.
2. A similar situation where syndical unity has become stronger than party
loyalty is also becoming apparent among the ordinary labor unions and is
noted with dismay by the PCCh. The Political Commission fears that a
continuation of this trend may result in the eventual formation of a cor-
porate state in which the labor organizations, rather than the political
parties, will become the dominating force.
3. The Political Commission of the PCCh also recognizes, to its chagrin, that
the Party policy of forming "relations" or "coordinating committees", in
which the Communists played down their political ideology while stressing
the necessity of labor unity, has done much to encourage this tendency,
but has not produced. the desired result of reuniting the various labor
organizations into a powerful, Communist-controlled labor central similar
to the Corfederacion de Trabajaadoros de Chile (CTCh) of former days,,*
The Political Commission concedes that the outlawed PCCh is in no position
at present to seize control of the renascent labor movement but believes
that the as= is true of the Socialist, Falanje Nacional, Social Christian
Conservative and Radical Parties.
4. The greatest fear of the Political Commission of the PCGh is that General
Carlos Ibanez del Campo, who has managed to crystallize popular disoontont
against the government and to become the outstanding leader of the oppo-
sition, rA-y be able to lead the growing labor movement toward a type of
"fascism" strongly opposed to Communism.
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5. The Political Commission of the PCCh considers the present situation to
be so grave that lower-ranking Party members, with long experience in the
labor field, are being consulted as to the best means to combat this po-
tential danger to the Party,.
So It is noted that although 1dgardo Maass Jensen, Oscar Waiss Panda, and
Clotario Blest R1ffo, the most important JU'NECh leaders, constantly attack
the Communist Party, the anti-government propaganda leaflets distributed
by the JUNRCh are almost identical to those put out by the Communists in
formats composition, and illustration. The JU1 Ch, like the Cemrni eta,
is advocating a sliding wage scale adjusted every three months in accordance
with the rise in the cost of livings
Comment. There is reason to believe that the Communists, through
their policy of establishing "relations" or "coordinating" committees,
have managed to infiltrate Party members into strategic positions In the
JU EE Ch and other organizations of white collar workers.
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