THE RECENT THREATENED STRIKE AGAINST THE MANILA RAILROAD COMPANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003600380010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 17, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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I., The strike threatened by the Union do Yhquiniatas;, Fogoneros., Ayudantes
y Mutoruen against the Manila Railroad Company was to have started not
later than m :idr igh , on I October 1949. A .few days before I Oc-hober^
Ramon ,sp ritu,, an official of the Congress of Labor 'Jrgantzations (CLO)
and a pram: nei r. member of the Communist Para r, was seen in the vicinity
of4L' the aua24 ers of the ik-Lnija Railroad Company' employees at the corner
of Tayumian and Dagupan Street. On 29 September at 3.-30 pm,, Amado V.,
Hernar-dez< president of CLO was seen in conference with Maxi Li.anee,
president, of the union, and with its secretary and treasurer. At 4230 p--m,
on the same; day the union serk-, a delegation of five men to CIA) headquarters
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had beer predicted in acme quarters that the strike would fail because
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of the reluctance of many of the engineers and firemen to participate,.
Although a ;~empts were made to induce the conductors and fireman to go
cn sympa.t ,? strike, the conductors refused,.
Conw ent o The sari ke did not take place as scheduled on
i -October at the latest.. but rather on 14 October,. t was settled on
1.5 October,
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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