CHILEAN COPPER STRIKE REPORTED NEAR SETTLEMENT
The union representatives of the striking mine workers at the. big El Teniente copper mine, were reported to have agreed to new wage proposals made by the Braden Copper. Co., a subsidiary of the Kennecott Copper. Corporation, The strike began ‘January 3. os
Their acceptance was. ‘conditional, however. “They insist that proceedings: be dropped. against their comrades in the mines at Potrerillos and El Salvador who have been charged with injuring the. security of the state. by staging sympathy denonstrations. in behalf of the El Teniente strikers.
President Frei, who has done his utmost to break the determination of the strikers, even going so far as to utilize police violence against sympathy: walkouts, stated that he would not agree to dropping the charges. He added that acceptance of the wage offer of the Braden management rendered further pursuit of the strike at El Teniente ainless. Presumably this was a move to declaring it illegal to continue strike action to help the El Salvador and Potrerillos victims.
Meanwhile Fidel Castro again stated his ‘opinion about the reactionary nature of Frei's government. Castro's first attack ‘on , March 13 caused a sensation in Chile, being pictured as "intervention" in the internal affairs of the country. Castro later denied that he had any intention to intervene in Chilean affairs.
Again returning © to ‘the. subject, Castro was quoted by Agence . France Press March 23 as declaring: "For the Latin-American revolutionists, the Chilean experience will serve to justify still more: their decision to follow the Cuban road." Castro added that "Mr. Frei is president of Chile thanks to his unmeasured demagogy, the abundant aid of Yankee and German capital, and also, as he puts it, by the grace of God." oe
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