Word: fraternidad
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LABOR. In Buenos Aires' suburbs one morning, a series of explosions boomed out; rails were ripped up and a bridge damaged. Commuter trains were stranded; thousands were late getting to work. The demonstration was staged by members of La Fraternidad, the brotherhood of engineers and firemen. Bulldozed against their will into the Perónista General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), they were striking for the freedom of their union. To Perón, who regards Argentine labor as his permanent prop and personal property, the uproar was acutely embarrassing: first he tried to ignore it by blaming the disturbances...
...original fraternidad, which became a legal corporation in 1902, charged that an upstart group, incorporated in February, was guilty of "fraud and deceit" in calling itself the Concilio Originate and was unfairly competing with the older Penitentes' monopoly on organized self-punishment...
That the Penitentes are also American was disclosed last week as the coming courtroom battle exposed the origins of the quarrel: the new, upstart moradas had been founded by Democrats; the older fraternidad was dominated by Republicans. Though each Penitente scourges only himself, many a Penitente evidently felt that his flesh could best be chastised under a two-party system...
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