Uruguay: CP breaks the General Strike

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The Communist Party leaders of the banned Uruguayan trade unions this week called off the general striké against the recent military coup Days before, they had rejected governmen wage offers of 25-50% and reiterated the demand for restoration of democratic rights and for wage increases of 70-80% to counteract claims that 'the workers could not go on for more than ten days without pay", and that the strike 'has anywuy made real progress against the regime and weakened President Bordaberry internally and internationally In the factory occupations and the massive demonstration against the regime on 9 July, the workers of Montevideo gave the lie to the Stalinists claim that they would not fight on. In some factories, the CNT bureaucrats have had to use strong-arm tactics against militants to force a retum to work On the day after the confrontation with the 9 July demonstracion, army chiefs issued a communique blaming fresident Bordaberry for the events: the policy of force, it said, was the government's, and the army was only obeying orders, To the CP this was contirmation of their strategy of 'pushing the army to the left' of Hordaberry, But the coup of 27 June and the 'new dictatorship are above all the work of the army. By calling off the strike, the CP has allewed the counter terolutionary regime to