RECENT COMMUNIST CAINS IN THE UTF

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600560006-8
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1., A division in the ranks of the Union de Trabajadores Ferrocarrileros (UT,F)
brought about by a split along political lines, is providing the Cornunist
Party of 1Z Calvador with an opportunity to increase its influence within
this potent labor organization,, Tiro factions,, one allied with the Partido
Accion P.enovadora (PAR) and led by Communists Carlos Alex Gomez, Jose
ARrar.cisco Sanchez, and L oises Lopez, and the other group tied to the i'artido
Revolucionario do UnifLcacion (DRUB) and led by moderates Benjamin ?"ejia
Lartinez, Juan J3rigido Cardona, Vidal Tomasino, and Andres Sandoval, are
contending for leadership and control of the railroad workers,
In order to capitalize on the fact that the UTF lacks united leadership the
Communists have recently embarked on the following program:
(a) Japture tho direction of the UT periodical Treneso
(b) reorganize and dominate the "strike committee" that was disbanded
follwing the P3ovenber 1949 railroad strikes
(c) Formation of a "cultural committee" made up exclusively of members
sympathetic to Communism,
The Communists have already met with considerable success in their efforts to
take over Treneso They have placed Vicente Urrutia Letona in the position
of Director, Jose Oscar Rica as .Editor,, and Antonio Amaya Barillas as
Administrator. 1:ith respect to the future editorial policy of this publication,
the Communists will seek to have Trenes advocate the following
(a) Unity of the z:alvadoran working class,
(b) 1astablishment of a single workers union,
(c) ?~:nactment of new labor lays based on extreme leftist standards.
(d) Guarantees by the government that labor will be respected and be
given freedom to organizes,
(e) Fight against imperialism,
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4, The Communist faction in the UTF remains inferior nurically to the
noderafio groupp bat under the existing circumstances they arro wielding
power far beyond their accustomed strength and are in an excellent
position to gain control of the union* As in the past the Communists in
the UTI? are working under the guise of the CI M (Comite de RLeorgnnizacion
01rera) and their immediate objective is to bring the UTF into that
C m unist-dominated organization;
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