PCCH PLANS FOR LABOR DISTRUBANCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005600500003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 31, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION RE-PORT CD NO.
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SUBJECT PCCh 1 l ans for tabor Disturbances
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1, The Cor:munist Party of Chile (?CCh) continues to work out its plans for action
if the conflict in i oroa develops into a third oorld ;Iar, and believes that
its host effective -jeans of corbatting the United States will be to perfect
~,ho "chain reaction" type of strikes in vital industries. The leaders of the
ro ional and local Corrraitteec are allegedly boin;-, prepared to initiate in-
dependent action without receiving; instructions from the Central Committee
should war break out. In case of a world war, or should the Chilean Covernrsent
endeavor to iripose special war measures in the country , the Corrunist reaction
is planned to be the i t iediate and automatic developnont of chain reaction
strikes n
2, The PCCh is repor ~.odly not, in favor of atteripting to declare a general strip
Chile is considered a "colonial" country and not an appropriate place to attempt
a general strike which, the Corrunists believe, should be ordered only if its
eventual victory is assured. The chain nothod was used successfully during the
early days of Coniunlsm in the nitrate and copper industries of north Chile.
Under this sys tort, the railroad workers, for exariple, would strike, and they
would be followed by the Tort workeers, riiners, factory workers, etc,, in a series
of short, succossive strifes which mould be effective in tying up the country's
oconony? .she series of 2h--hour strikes which wore staged by white-collar
workers associated with the Junta iacional do 'mpleados de Chile (JUiZ;Ch) prior
to the fall of the {ational Concentration Tovorn::ent in February 1950 indicated
to the Corziunists the effectiveness of chain reaction strikes,
This document is hereby regraded to
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letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Inter:igence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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