PCC ATTITUDE TOWARD LABOR SITUATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100130008-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT FCC :Ittitudo Toward Labor Situate
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1. The Central Committee of the Partido Comunista de Colombia (PCC) net on
26 January 1951 to consider the position of the FCC in relation to the In-
dependent Confederacion do Trabajadores de Colombia (CTC) and the Liberal CTC,
The meeting was held immediately following the funeral of a Communist labor
leader, :'anuel ?-.arulanda Velez, v~rho died as a result of treatment he had
received from the police after 1-.being arrested last December.*
2fl The Central Committee resolved to study methods for gaining control of the
leadership of the Independent CTC, bearing in mind that control of the group
must not he openly Communist if government recognition is to be ohtaineeh
committee of three was designated to report on the Liberal CT" meeting; to
be hold 3-5 February 1951, rrozich they believed would be openly anti-Communist?
Gilberto Vieira ;;h:ite, 'Secretary General of the DCC, urged that every effort be
made to learn the principal points of the meeting's agenda in. advance so Aiat
a leaflet could be prepared for distribution to delegates before the meeting
opened. The Communists believed that one point which was certain to be included
on the agenda wa^ the matter of making a good si:owing in. the national census
of unions to be taken by the ;._inistry of Labor.,
4. On 6 February? after the meeting of the CTC had been hold, Viaira t;lmite made
the follocring comments about it at a Communist meeting:
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aw The slight importance of the CTC in the labor picture was demonstrated by
the fact that scarcely fifty delegates attended this congress, whereas
former CTC congresses mere attended by as many as 200 delegates.
by The return of Victor Julio Silva to the presidency of the CTC signifies
that the CTC will continue to be directed by Eduardo bantos, Liberal Party
leader,
ca The conclusions of the conference have little practical value for the orkers,
and some may be prejudicial because they attack the national government,
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Uieira i.hite said such an attitude will fortify the UTC, for 'Labor unions
grill seek to affiliate with the federation which can provide the most bene..
.fits. in Colombia that- means the federation which enjoys government protectioi
This do 't:r; :~;,t is he-A5y regraded to
CCdance with the
letter from the
Direc~c. ,-,..^ : genno to the
Archwik: i.L States.
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