REALIGNMENT OF CHILEAN WHITE-COLLAR WORKER FEDERATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400430001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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'leans with contacts in labor circles report that dissatisfaction with
ear-o-government :iendership of the Junta I acional de Emple, doe de Chile
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federations, The Chilean Educators' Federation (.F11)'ACh) is expected to
collaborate closely with the Government ianployees' P.ssociatiozn (1AnF)" while
t.h4~ Lkanrc rs1ployeesfl Feder~.+tion and the Federation of 1 .eetrical:e Telephone., r w C,a s i ployees will also work closely ' to ;ether in opposition to the present
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".d ,rdo Maass Jensen, leftist ~urnion: le,-,der, is directing the opposition of the
t:aa.c enployees and the electrical workers from prison, where he is serving a
for his TAart in the recent, Maass-Soto affair.* Maass w~!s also a
ure in the Februry- 1950 strike which led to the lo~~s of power
by the "?Lational Concentration" coailt.i:.sn goverrrrnent, and he still appears
tO zn,-~iritain scree of his past influence. ,lccordirr to source., the Conununists
s r fir?,ly entrenched in the Maass-led federations, although they do not
} o:(d any directive positions,.
A is reported th? t the M.an ss'-led federations i.ill derns)nd repeal of the Defense
t ;f Ler:..ocracy I..awr and may calla year=mend general. strike to further this program-,
-- is believed that the dissension within JUTv1:.Ch will strip the group of much
of its pr 'arms ewer even though'the member federations may not withdraw from it,,
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Comment, It is not known how strong Maass' influence is at present in
the federations of of which he was the leader,, as some reports have indicated that
he was thorou,--hly discredited in. the eyes of the bankin
g federation because of
his c rLiciratio.n in the faked kidr a ing plot through which it was hoped to
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