COMMUNIST PARTY SUPPORT OF GUAYAQUIL MUNICIPAL WORKERS STRIKE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500160002-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 16, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Ecuador
25X1A2
DATE DISTR. 16 -.er 1949
SUBJECT Communist Party Support of Guayaquil ! unie pal NO. OF PAGES 1
WWorlcers Strike
PLACE 25X1A6a
ACQUIRED
DATE OF IN
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BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO,
to The Co r^unlst Part, iii Cnayaquil has riven full support to the strike of the
Gua,i,raguil city en loyees. Party members, during the week of 9-16 February
were aakorl to make special contributions to a strike fund. Certain members
were obligated to paint and post Qigns in the workers' district urging all
workers to support the strike. Desnito the Co muniats' efforts it was
exnocted that the strike would be terminated by 17 February 1949, since the
strikers have no accumulated funds, and the Covi'tmist Party at this time
has no allowance to aii the work atoapape.
2. Although Corruniat mo' }aers, headed by ;'anuel ,Arenas, a city council-man, and
till^ente Iturralde, ha;i been agitating anong the rmnicipal workers since the
middle of January 1949, it was not decieed definitely by Party leaders until
11 Fobrua. nr 1949 that the strike should be carried out. Certain leaders had
not favored the strike since President Galo Plaza Lasso had pronised unofficially
to allou the Communist Party freedom as lonr- as it refrains from organizing
crippling strikes.
3. Ambitious Communist leaders had honed to oust Rafael Guerrero, the present
r. yor, by r:eans of a prolonged strike, and then place Alberto Ordenanza, a
Communist couneiirian, in his position. The Communists consider Guerrero the
only strong candidate in the next city elections and they had hoped to eliminate
him as a contender by moans of the strike.
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