INTER-AGENCY VIEWS ON NIE-62: THE PRESENT POLITICAL SITUATION IN GUATEMALA AND POSSIBLE DEVELOPEMENTS DURING 1952

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00904A000100030084-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: March 5, 1952
• Content Type: MF

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GUATEMALANS SEEK
UNITED FRUIT DEAL
Sale of Company Properties
Postponed for Week in Hope
of Ending Labor Dispute
Special to TIE New Yom TIME!.
GUATEMALA, March 5 - The
sale of the United Fruit Com-
pany's Tiquisate plantations at
public auction was postponed to-
day for a week-at the request of
the lawyer representing the farm
workers' union, which had put In
a legal claim against the property
for $650,000 in wages that it con-
tended was due the workers.
The court set the sale for next
Wednesday. Meanwhile, the union
representative indicated that an
effort would be made to reach an
understanding with the company
regarding this claim and, for re-
sumption of work at the' planta-
tions, which were devastated by
storm and fires. About 3,500 farm
workers are involved lt the dis-
pute.
Postponement of the sale was
not unexpected. It had been indi-
cated by the General Confedera-
tion of Labor's request that the
union withdraw its claim against
company properties and seek other
means to settle the case.
President Spoke of Issue
Also, when Congress opened last
Saturday, President Jacobo Arbenz
Guzman referred in his message to
the fruit company conflict and ad-
vised the reconsideration of recent
measures to seek greater harmony.
Arcadio Chevez, the union's law=
yer, revealed today that a basis
for further talks was arranged
yesterday with the company, and
States interests, 800 employes of
the International Railways of Cen-
tral America ousted their leaders
on the charge that they were con-
trolled by the Guateamal General
Labor Confederation, which the
employes had repudiated. The rail-
road is United States-owned.
The move was interpreted as a
blow against Communist labor lea-
dership.
that the court had been requested
to postpone action on the sale fore
one week. He explained that this
was-considered sufficient time to
obtain from the company's Boston
headquarters approval of condi-
tions that might result in a defi-
nite agreement.
Dispute Caused by Dismissals
GUATEMALA, March 5 (UP)-
The union's claim arose from the
dismissal of 4,000 workers after a I
hurricane last September devas- i
tated the Tiquisate plantations. t
The company was ordered by the I
court either to rehire the men or
pay their wages from September 1
onward.
The company said it would re- t
hire the workers only if it received
adequate Government guarantees
for capital investment needed to
rehabilitate the plantations. No I
such guarantee was obtained. I
When the company refused to com-
ply with the court's order, its Ti- f
quisate properties were attached. r
United Fruit appealed to the I
Guatemalan Supreme Court, which I
disclaimed jurisdiction over the s:
case. Forced sale of the properties f
then was ordered to satisfy the I
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