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...Sign Mistaken. To keep everything going smoothly, Lopez Mateos last year asked leaders of government workers' unions-including the railwaymen's Redlining Demetrio Vallejo and the teachers' Othón Salazar-to postpone wage demands for one year until Lopez Mateos could pay off some inherited government debts. Vallejo took the request as a sign of weakness and in March 1959 called a wildcat strike. Lopez Mateos cracked down hard, threw Vallejo and 2,600 other railwaymen into jail. Vallejo and about 500 strikers have been there ever since without trial. Ex-President Cardenas, still a hero...
Payoff. If it has defaulted on ownership, INRA has brought to the peasant a definite, though perhaps temporary economic advance. In Oriente province, called the "cradle of the revolution," the INRA boss is Major René Vallejo, a bearded, widely-loved obstetrician. Blowing a kiss into the air, he shouts, "We are doing beautifully!" The 1,400 workers on Vallejo's Twenty Roses and Camilo Cienfuegos cooperative farms last week collected their pay-about $2.70 a day, up $1 from the old scale - and happily lined up to buy ice cream or have their pictures snapped, at 25? each...
INRA has established 460 "people's stores," driving small, private merchants out of business. "We make less than 10% profit," boasts Major Vallejo...
...government ruled the strike illegal. Cops raided union headquarters and broke up riots at rail terminals with tear gas and clubs, arrested union members on sight, including Vallejo and all his top lieutenants. The government charged that Vallejo is a Communist (he claims to have quit the party in 1946) and had plotted the strike with the second secretary and military attaché of the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. The government booted the two Russians out of the country...
...cozy old system whereby union leaders cooperate with the government and in turn get cushy government jobs. Sample: Labor Confederation Chief Fidel Velázquez is also a Senator. Even if López Mateos' stern measures win this round, the show of worker loyalty behind Vallejo was a signal of more labor turmoil ahead...