INSIDE REPORT: SUBVERTING LABOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000402350001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 17, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000402350001-3
MAR 1 7 1965
i? ? SIDE EPORT, i ..Subvetting Labor
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. ,.. By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak , fated "Body for the Promotion of Sukarnbism" ' (the ,
. . ' . ? ? JAKARTA. . ? ? Spontaneous national movement by dozens of anti-Corn.,
? i i The largest Communist labor federation in the world .. munist organizations whose purpose was to reduce the
.outside ? fle , Communist bloc' operates 'with increasing ;influence of the Communist party on Sukarno).
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boldness and assurance here in Indonesia. ?_... , ? ' . The 'Communist party convinced Sukarno that the
L ! One by one, non-Communist labor unions are being ?*real purpose /of the movement was not to support but
! undermined by harassment end subterfuge. The obvious ',..to o'Verthrow Stikarno. As' a result, almost every organi- .
? intent of D. N. Aidit, the head of the Communist party, ...zation that was' part of the movement is now under off i? '
t? is to force every independent union into the Conirriunist ??.'cial government disapproval, including the postal union.!
:labor federatioti (SOBSI) or into extinction; and thereby. , , This means that the Communist-run labor federation,
gain a stranglehold on the nation's economy. ? ? which claims 1.5 million members, is bound to gain even
7. The case history of one independent union illustrates ';more political influence and the one million organized
the point; The PBKA is the nbn-Cqmmunist railroad. ?
union. It is still the largest Union of railroad workers . workers .outside it are bound to lose influence?But be-.
in the 'Ountry, with a membership of 80,000 (as corn- : yond that, the growth of SOBSI means the growth of '
.. pared to 43,000 In the rival Communist run rail union). : . Chinese Communist power Within Indonesia because.
' U. S, labor experts helped the PBKA set up a Welfare .,...S. SI is Peking-oriented, root, trunk and branch.
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Last spring, when a Soviet labor delegation came
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TO finance the plan, the union .acquired several small..;,? to Jakarta for official talks' with the Indonesian govern-
1 'tnent, SOBSI boycotted the talks, In November, SOBSI,
:revenue-producing concerns, ? Including three rice mills ;i',.
and. a shoe factory. The heed of the union, a Socialist i:,. recalled its man in Prague (the headquarters of the Mos-'?
? named Dr. Kusua (Indonesians seldom use a first name) ,1. gow-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions) and
?was a brilliant organizer with political roots deep in the 1 sent hiin to Peking., It is clear then that Indonesia and. '
? .? Indonesian Socialist party. His union became an ,'out- ,l' organization' to battle the Moscow-dominated labor fedi.
?.'k 11.16? Chinese are nowplanning an Afro-Asian workers ,
rgrowth of the Socialist party, in the same way that ?spBsi . - '
1 is an outgrowth of the Communist party. ,... eration for the control of labor. in every country ot Asia: ?
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. k. Then three things happened: the .Socialist party. ..::\/-41/,,,-di:Afr1?,,ca..r..,J1,:?::'itriii.. .:',1...;:'4,0. oflli-ei,od' .' .iriburts. ine.' 1,...!.
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V- iris ..dirsolved by Presidential 'decree iri-1960.;. 'the Cor;',' '''''''.'"'''?"'""'"'""--- ''---- '''''''''
il munist party and *SOBSI Went after Dr. Kusua, forcing::
.,' him to resign in February, 1964; arid finally late last'.
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year, the union was ordered to join the National Front?;
an all-enveloping creation of President Sukarno that;
..,.. brings under central control virtually every group, orgamq
hization .and enterprise in the country. This ? National ??
t Front is unquestionably dominated by the Communist}
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L ?- When the PBKA dutifully tried to obey the. order
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F; that it join the front, it discovered its path blocked by an ;
'1': interesting "technicality."' It could not join because it.,:.
!E;. had no affiliation with a political party. The reason iti
t: had no affiliation was that the Socialist party had been t
1-:: dissolved by Sukarno in 1960. 1
',i? ? , . Thus, the non-Communist PBKA rail union is notr.s
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t. in, a cruel dilemma. Either it affiliates with a, legaf politi- ?
'. cal party that has. no tradition of socialism; and, hence' ?
no appeal for its own members, or it goes out of existence
c' To avoid this.choice, the union has petitioned Presi-''
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I dent Sukarno for special dispensation: the right to join;' ?
. the National Front without affiliating with an alien,
.. political ? party. ? .
I What is happening. to the rail union Is happening
! to other 'non-Communist unions in different ways. A',:
; year ago, for example; the non-Communist.union of Postal..,%'
I:and telegraph workOrg outnumbered tlic competing Com-',`.1
L musat.woori, goigo, ta. 4,04. .44t,f411,-.1tjoined the 111!:4
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