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The Argentinian dictatorship has represed the wave of public OLTOT SInECs anG pO SOWs Wik egan on 26 October, but it ha not completely recovered pobe crisis santed with a week. B2 SUP AC DY CB MOIO3 ne Beenos Aile Wonder ground, state-employed electricity, oil, water and dock work, and the pilots of Argentina's aternational airline. The workBe increase: per cent constituted a direct threat to the gime s pay poncy, woicn na: fixed an upper limit of 40 cent inclusie of productiviy CO-ORDINATED The widespread and evidently co-ordinated character of the The current miners" strike in Chile — the first openly - and the recent public sector strike in Argentina are an indication that the brutal dictatorships of Latin America's southern cone are not getting things all their own way. BOB JOHNSON looks at how the Argentinian Government dealt with the - another example of the use of troops for strike-breaking — and the rifts it has opened up in the strikes made them the clearest demonstration yet of the ability fight back in the face of repression and cause wat are, at the very least, embarrassing dents in the military armour.
PROPAGANDA Affer some day's hesitation the Governcat sont in the croops arrested — and in at least one case shor — strike leaders, and DUNANL E SUCUM DETERFERERHing propaganda. However it also made some concessions, improvL EnE erELIous DIrcrs the final settlement to 35 or 40 per cent.
WEICASS OTTACEOL BIE ICH be cough to maintain the workliving sandards. Inflation wIll he close to l0 per ceel tus ycar.- which means further hig drops in real wages are to be sapaca oa tap or mic nopo hand.
witbout productivity conditions come perilously close to a hreach of the official limit and it is clear that these SCULUECHE SOUCINE ICOS TRAN A TOOREE victory for the Goverament.
UNPOPULAR Politically The strate Martines de Hoz inSTOISE volves peshing through measures W'ana ate hichy unnonula? hot only witlin Enc but with considerable sections of Chile and in Arpertina in the TOTECISC -3LT51 military regime is to depress wages and to bankrupt a wide range of allegediy cing for the home market. In the Jong run, supposedly, the overall TO TaIS efficiency of the economy will improve.
DUI ENCHOWING WICC 1S SERO0L opposition from the awners of the affected industries and from the weder forees associated with the ideolngy of desarrollismo ('developmentise"). This current is stronger and politically less Th not within the armed forbes the military DHCE BEHIELEL able to build MS H BUsLad this is important. or Economy Ming.
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