COMMUNIST LABOR ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009900280003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 26, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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The FCB National Committee 1 drew up a plan for Party members to incite the
Vot'texs throughout trazil to demand a Christmas Bonus If this bonus were
4ed, the workers were to commit acts of' sabotage; if A is was not possible,
*hOF were to.cause slow-downs to decrease production.
1e apti .ties to the labor field? The regional labor office received
p4VV eolnn.aints that persons not belonging to the unions attended their
meetings in attempts to influence the workers to strike for higher wages..
During November Communists in the State of Sao Paulo concentrated on the
l=g cal, textile, rubber, and transportation industries to increase
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5. On 15 November 1-951 Roberto Morena 4, Communist Federal Deputy, left Brazil
to sitter the meeig of the General Council of the World Federation of Trade
U s (WFTU) held in Berlin from 15-20 November 1951.
On 4 November 1951 Rio Branco Paranhos 2, Herondina Arruda, Severino Jose
i'vjres,. and Porfirio' da Paz 3 attended a meeting of the Sindicato dos
I're'I. .had..4 ?'.e Pextei,s . (Textile Workers' Union) and attacked the government
Ia x po 1o : stronEly urging the.trorkers to go on a strike for a wage in-
~e unfon vo e Ti fi f5% avor or a wage increase, On 6 Nov`tuber 1951
the Sindi.cato dos'C_olstrutoree (Construction Workers' Union) met to discuss
,wage Increases. Milton Pereira Marcondes, president of the Bank Clerks'' a on
attended., but Porfirio des Paz was denied dmittance. Other groups-demanding
wage' increases were employees of the Estda de Ferro Santos-Jundiai (Santos-
undiai ilroad), Fabrica Pirelli in Santo Andre, and members of the Sindicato
doe TrabeabAdoree i Tndustria de Fiacao a Tecelagem de Sorocaba (Sorocaba
lgpinniing and Weaving Workers' Union).
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twizeu & Cia ? Tinturaria e Estamparia de Tecidos Fernandes S/A, and
fie o: Members of the Sindicato dos Graficos de Santos (Santos Union
c Cra o Artists) also went on strike.
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November strikes broke out in the Industries Textil Santa Mafalda, Companhia