Chile project 513-0032 · 1968 · labor policies and markets

TRAINING PROVIDED TO CHILEAN LABOR LEADERS AND ADVISORS THRU COUNTERPART UNIONS IN U.S, AND PUERTO RICO AS STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPING DEMOCRATIC, RESPONSIBLE LABOR MOVEMENT IN CHILE. PROJECT GOALS ARE: 1. TO WORK WITH EXISTING FREE LABOR GROUPS TO STRENGTHEN THEM AGAINST EXTREMIST POLITICAL FORCES AND INCREASE THEIR INFLUENCE IN LABOR MOVEMENT; 2. TO WORK WITH UNION GROUPS OUTSIDE FREE LABOR MOVEMENT TO REDUCE POLITICAL CONTROL EXERTED BY LEFT WING GROUPS; 3. SUPPORT CHILEAN LABOR GROUPS TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS; 4. TO NEUTRALIZE MARXIST PROPAGANDA AIMED AT LABOR MOVEMENT AND TO CHANGE ATTITUDES OF MARXIST LABOR UNION LEADERS TOWARDS THE US. GOAL WILL BE ACHIEVED THRU: 1. PROVISION OF TRAINING IN U.S. OR PUERTO RICO FOR SELECTED UNION LEADERS; 2. PROVISION OF IN-COUNTRY TRAINING EACH YEAR FOR ABOUT 1,000 OFFICIALS AND UNION MEMBERS THRU THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR FREE LABOR DEVELOPMENT (AIFLD); 3. ASSISTANCE IN DEVELOPING LABOR UNION HOUSING PROJECTS, AND; 4. ASSISTANCE WITH FINANCING SMALL PROJECTS OF SPECIAL SOCIAL, POLITICAL, OR ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE ORGANIZED BY LABOR GROUPS. AIFLD EDUCATION PROGRAM CONSISTS OF SEMINARS AND COURSES OF VARYING DURAT

Source: DEC abstract, PD-AAA-357-B1 (1968). The source's own text.