THE CONGRESO DE UNIDAD SINDICAL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400010005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 21, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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:L The Congreso de Unidad Sindical, inaugurated on 12 October 1951 at the Teatro
America, and terminated on 14 October at the Palacio de los Deportes in Guate-
mala Cit -, has been riven ample coverage in th e press.
2? At 8 p.m. of 12 October workers and farmers began p? "ing into the auditorium
until it was completely filled by the representatives of the various "ederatio;is
and syndicates. The size of the audience is estimated to have be :.n between 1,:2O0
and 1,500 persons.
3:, The Honorary Committee was composed of the following ,ersons, who, wF.th the ex
ception of Vicente Lombardo Toledano and Jose ".`orera, were not presents Colonel
Jaco.bo Arbenz, President of the ~tepubl:ic, Dr. Juan Jose Arevalo, .forty r Presid .mt
of the hepublic, Giuseppi Vittorio, Tresiden.t of the ..orld Federation of Trade
Unions (t:FTU), Louis Saillant, Secretary General of the ti.FTU, General Laza.ro
Cardenas, former President of :.'exico, and Lazaro Pena, Secretary General of thM;
Confederacion de T'rabajad.ores de Cuba, who was ~{'enied a visa to come to Guate-
,h he was nominated by the Confederacion ae
mala by the Cuban Government, althour
Trabajadores de America Latina (CTRL) to accompany Lombardo Toledano.,
4. The Acting Committee was composed of Licenciado Luis Cardoza y Aragon, Victor
Manuel Gutierr? z, E anuel Pinto Usaga, Carlos Manuel Pellecer. Leonardo Castillo
Flores, Marco Antonio Vi.ll.amar, representing the Frente Popular Libertador (FP:r,),
Francisco Silva Falla, representing the Partido Socialista, Jaiane Diaz H xzzottcl,
representing the i?pnovacion Nacional, Roberto Alvarado Fuentes, representing the
Parti**- Accion Revolucionaria (PAR), Jose Luis Caceres, representing the Sindi ;
cato de Accion y 1ejoramiento Ferrocarrilero (SAMF), and Jose Alberto Cardoza,
Colonel of Engineers, and Carlos A0 Paz Tejada, represent:i.nr, the President of
the ;Republic.
5, Carlos Manuel Pellecer read congratulatory messages sent to the president of the
Congreso de Unidad Sindical, Profersor Victor Manuel. Gutierrez, from labor con.`ed.-
erations of Cuba, Chile, Venezuela., ' exico, the ,FTIU, the CTAL, Juan Jose Arevr.lr,,
and Colonel Jacobo Arbenz,,
As always, attacks on the United States were maele in their speeches by Victor Manuel
Gutierrez, Manuel Pinto Usaga, and. Vicente Lombardo Toledano, who took .part.icu.ar
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satisfaction in calling all the directors of the anti-Corunist co.-nittees
imbeciir ::., stating emphatically th t anti -Coo imiw.ism in Guatemala and everywher's
in La , n America originated in the Department of State in Vlashington, DoC,,
These reactionary movements, Lombardo asserted= are being fomented by the Stan:;
Department all over Latin sees the ruble circulating,
but the almighty dollar"0 there Is talk in Guatemala
of the Soviet Union and its Commureiso, "when in r eal.ity in the Soviet Union thf,y
have not yet attained Communism, but rather Bolshevism, just as it exsts in
the United States",, If any of these anti-Co unisto were asked to dcf,ne
communism,, Lombardo concluded, they would be unable to do so, because iey woul.d
not know the meaning of true Ccamaunism?
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