Word: clotario
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...peso was to devalue it (from the official rate of 300 per dollar to a current 460). That puts heavy strain on the ceiling prices of imported goods, and the whole program is in deep trouble if price ceilings give way. Sure that they will, Labor Federation Leader Clotario Blest, blinking tired eyes in the sunny patio of Santiago's Central Jail, says: "The heart of the matter is that only the little guy will have to tighten his belt...
...C.U.T.. Chile's biggest labor federation, staged the strike as a protest against the arrest of its president, Clotario Blest, who had made a rabble-rousing speech denouncing President Carlos Ibanez and his Cabinet as "traitors to the fatherland." Blest was released on bail a fortnight ago, but the strike was called anyway. It was an ugly symptom of the nation's sickness...
Squeezed by chronic inflation. Chile's workers have become strike addicts, and their burning discontent has benefited the Communists. Though the party is outlawed and the Ibanez government is antiCommunist, the Reds have burrowed deep into the labor movement. Their biggest coup was the capture of Clotario Blest. White-haired Bachelor Blest, longtime head of the National Association of Government Employees, is a strange bedfellow for Communists. He is a Roman Catholic whose favorite reading is the Thomist philosophers. In 1952 the Communists invited Blest to Moscow along with other labor leaders. The fact that Holy Week services were...
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