PENDING STRIKE OF THE UNION DE TRABAJADORES FERROCARRILEROS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002100150001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 26, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY El Salvador
SUBJECT Pending Strike of the Union de Trabajadores
Ferrocarrileros
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DATE DISTR. 26 November 1948
NO. OF PAGES 1
NO. OF ENCLS.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. Benoamin Mejia Martinez, President of the Union de Trabajadores Ferrocarrileros
(UTF) met with Dr. Salvador Guandique, Sub-Secretary of Culture and Chairman
of the Labor Code Commission, on 11 November, and stated to Guandique that
members of the UTF were exerting strong pressure upon him to call a general
session of the union to consider their new contract demands. Mejia added that
he could. not hold out much longer, and that if a general session were called,
the Board of Directors of the Union would be forced to set a strike.
According to Mejia, it will be difficult to avoid a strike because union members
are strongly incensed by propaganda and agitation based on the company's refusal
to consider their new contract demands. Mejia asserted that the Board of
Directors was even in danger of being thrown out.
3. President Castaneda of El Salvador had earlier stated to Guandique that he
would be glad to confer personally with the UTF Directorsy and would soon name
a date for the meeting. According to Guandique, this indicated that Castaneda
intended to forget all about it.
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