CHILE -

“What we have now in Chile is another
Sept. 11, 1973,” an exiled Chilean trade
Union leader told unionists in Vancouver
last week in appealing for a stepped-up
‘ampaign of solidarity to aid the Chilean
Tesistance,

Cesar Guisado, a representative of the

ilean trade union movement-in-exile
CUT, told the Vancouver and District

: bor Council Nov. 20 that the state of
Siege imposed by General Augusto Pinochet
Was a desperate response by the fascist junta
to the massive wave of opposition that has
Pounded the regime in recent months. Gui-
Sado reiterated his appeal for solidarity at a
Presss. conference Nov. 24 in which several

C, trade union leaders, including B.C.

€deration of Labor president Art Kube
ie Carpenters Provincial Council presi-

nt Bill Zander, took part.

he press conference was called on the
aa of another day of ptoest in Chile, sche-
aed for Nov. 27. Originally slated for two
aa Noy. 27 and 28, it has now been con-
Aaated into one day, with forces across
€ political spectrum of opposition united

n Staging the country-wide protest.
Juisado said the co-ordinating body, the
tke Command, includes the Popular
Fe eratc Movement (MDP), embracing

Cleft Socialists and Communists as well as
Sy union and community groups, the
z Mistian Democrat’s Democratic Alliance

Nd the Socialist Bloc.

€ day of protest is expected to build the

Momentum that has gathered across the

ae with particular force since an earlier
st Otest day and subsequent national strike
aged Oct. 29 and 30.

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CESAR GUISADO...urges renewed
solidarity.
“But we can expect the Soa will be
arsher this time,” he warned.
ae national strike Oct. 30, Chile’s first
general strike in the 1 years since the fascist
coup, paralyzed transportation, printing
and construction as 90 per cent of the
workers in those industries downed tools
for the day. Across the country, more than
50 per cent of industrial workers stayed off
the job and many of those who did report
for work attended solidarity rallies with
ete Seguel, president of the National
Workers Command (CNT), called the his-
toric strike ‘“‘a total success” emphasizing
that it had been staged amidst mounting
repression as authorities sought to create a
climate of fear among the workers and
banned all press reports about it. (The CNT
is the central labor federation inside the
country; the CUT, the Central Union of
Workers, which united 90 per cent of Chi-
lean workers before the es Eee the
nion movement in exile.
ae before the strike, Pinochet had
stepped up the terror campaign against the
population, arrested nearly 300 people,
most of them trade union and community
leaders, and sent them to the re-opened
concentration camp at Pisagua. Once the
internment camp for Chilean Communists
when the CP was outlawed in the 1940s, it
was filled with Popular Unity supporters aft
73 coup.
f Be vith the declaration Nov. 6 of the
state of siege — first imposed in 1973 but
lifted five years later — Pinochet’s repres-

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sion, and the battle to restore Chilean
democracy has reached a new stage.

It isa measure of the growing isolation of
the Chilean dictator, said Guisado, “‘but it
also means that the Chilean people need our
support and solidarity more than ever.”

Among the recent disappeared are some
20 trade union leaders including CNT secre-
tary Alimiro Guzman who was in Van-
couver as part of a solidarity tour in 1982. “I
hope he is still alive but we have no word,”
Guisado noted. ;

And in a scene grimly reminiscent of the
aftermath of the 1973 coup, police and sold-
iers invaded a shantytown outside Santiago
Nov. 10 and seized over 2,000 people. “they
took every man over 15, tortured many of
them and sent hundreds into internal exile,”
he said.

“We now know of more than 400 in
internal exile.”

Guisado also noted that the stadiums are
again being used to hold prisoners “‘because
there is not enough space in the jails.” In
September, 1973, the stadium in Santiago
became infamous as a jail and torture
chamber for the military junta.

The regime has also turned on Catholic
church criticism. Earlier this month, Igna-
cio Gutierrez, the priest who heads the Vic-
ariate of Solidarity, the Catholic human
rights office which has tried to trace the
disappeared, was barred from returning to
Santiago from a conference he was attend-
ing in Rome.

Pinochet is having to repress wider and
wider sections of the population and with
increasingly vicious methods in an attempt
to deal with the opposition that has become
potentially overwhelming.

“What we have now is another Sept.
11 — and people are again being exe-
cuted,” Guisado emphasized.

He urged unionists to take up the issue of
Chile solidarity in their locals, including
financial aid for CUT and the CNT, and to
protest the state of siege and the renewed
arrests to the Chilean cabinet.

B.C. Fed president Art Kube said Friday
that he would seek to get an emergency
resolution on Chile on to the floor of the
federation convention this week in order to
highlight the issue.

One of the projects CUT is seeking B.C.
unionists assistance for is the organization
of a delegation of Canadian trade unionists
to go to Chile to observe events first hand.

Guisado also called on unionists imme-
diately to send letters of support to unions
in Chile with copies to CUT, as well as
letters of protest against the repression to
Chilean justice minister Sergio Onofre
Jarpa, Ministerio del Interior, Santiago,
Chile, and to General Augusto Pinochet,
Palacio de La Moneda, Santiago, Chile.
The address for the Chilean Central Union
of Workers, is P.O. Box 76948, Station S,
Vancouver, B.C. V5R 5T3.

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