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OURSAY THEY DECIDED TOTRIKE BUT IN THE PROCESS STRONGLY CRITICIZED JUAN LECH IN OQUENOO. THE WORKERS SAID THAT THEY COULD NOTHILEAN CITIZEN, AND THAT WHENgmiMnj ItlU WAS VICE-PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA HE WENT TO ITALY TO VISIT, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THERE WERE MANY PROBLEMS AMONG THE WORKERS. COMMENT: LECH IN WAS ALSO AMBASSADOR TO ITALY WHILE THE WORKERS ALSO SAID THAT THEY DID NOT WANT LECHIN TO RETURN TO BOLIVIA BECAUSE THE MINERS FEDERATION HAS BEEN CONVERTEO
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ERITABLE POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL LEFTIST 1BI REVOLUTIONARY PARTY (PRIN) AND THAT, MOREOVER* WHILE LECHIN WAS VICE-PRESIDENT HE HAS NEVER REALLY HELPED THE WORKERS. THESE AND OTHER STRONG CRITICISMS WERE MADE BY THE WORKERS AT MOROCACALA. THE WORKERS FINALLY SAID THAT THEY WOULD GO ON STRIKE IN DEFENSE OF THE WORKERS' RIGHTS BUT NOT IN SUPPORT OF LECHIN.
2. IN SANTA FE AND JAPO THE WORKERS IN GENERAL WEREM FAVORENERAL STRIKE. THIS SENTIMENT IS BELIEVE TO EXIST IN ALL THE MINES. ABOUTERCENT OF THE WORKERS DO NOT WAN! TO CONTINUE THE STRIKE. ONLY THE LEFTIST EXTREMISTS LEADERSCONTINUING TO BE ACTIVE. THEY TRAVEL TO VARIOUS PLACES^FORONEETING OF THE MINERS FEDERATION WAS HELD IN
t'.tiC THfe EXTREMISTS LEADERS FROM THE VARIOUS MININGKm THE MCETING.
"i. IT IS THE JUDGEMENTUMBER OF NON- ,'NION LEADERS THAT THE STRIKE WILL SOON END, FOR THE WORKERS ARC ANXIOUS TO RETURN TO THEIR JOBS.
.4. IN SOME OF tTHERE CENTERS THE TECHNICIANS ArtE ABSENT, AND IN OTHERS THE TECHNICIANS WHO HAVE REMAINED ARE BEING WELL-TREATED. SOME OF THEHHAVE EVEN TAKEN PART IN MEETING OF THE STRIKE COMMITTEES AND HAVE GIVEN THEIR ADVICCSUCH AS IN THE JAPO MINING CENTER.
% EMONSTRATION WAS HELD IN ORURO BUT IT WAS VERY POORLY ATTENDED. THERE WERE NO REPRESENTATIVES FROM HUANUNI, JAPO,
MOROCACALA, SANTA FE, OR CATAVl. THE ONLY ONES WHO PARTICIPATED CAME
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6. WHILE STRIKE SENTIMENT IS MINIMAL,HEAVY HANDED ARBITRARY ACTS AGAINST REAL LABOR LEADERS EVEN OF LEFTIST PERSUASION MAY CONDITION THE STRIKE ATTITUDES OF THE HdISSSM: CINCSO.
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