Wednesday, April 13, 1983/The Battalion/Page 11
exican labor group
emands pay increase
fnited Press International
Rico CITY — Mexico’s
■movement formally de-
ided the government autho-
j emergency pay hike and
concessions in the face of
tinning high inflation.
labor leader Fidel Velaz-
Inet Monday with Labor
istt r Arsenio Farell Cubillas,
imerce Minister Hector
ndezand Planning Minis-
Cailos Salinas de Gortari to
sen the new demands,
lazquez said although the
bin's economic situation is
|, ‘the labor movement has
laced in a situation that is
more serious and difficult,” the
Ultimas Noticias newspaper
said.
“Now we are not just talking,
but in full action,” Velazquez
said, adding he had formally de
manded an emergency wage in
crease, a freeze on all rents and
the addition of a basic foods bas
ket to workers’ monthly be
nefits.
Velazquez did not specify the
amount of a salary hike union
leaders are demanding. The
government and the labor sector
had already agreed on an auto
matic pay boost in July.
Leaders of the 5 million-
member Mexican Labor Con
federation met last week after a
20 percent gasoline price hike
and agreed on the demands,
saying workers’ salaries are not
keeping pace with inflation that
hit nearly 100 percent last year.
Agrarian Reform Deputy
Minister Salvador Robles said
more than half of all arable land
in Mexico has been distributed
through the land reform prog
ram, leaving no land left to give
to 3 million peasants with pend
ing claims.
“It’s logical that the amount of
land available (for distribution)
is limited. There are 195 million
hectares (480 million acres) and
100 million have been distri
buted,” he said. “We can’t in
crease the amount of land.”
But independent peasant
leaders claimed Robles was
lying. “His declarations are pro
vocative and false,” Roberto
Jaramillo, a peasant leader of
the Unified Socialist Party was
quoted by afternoon newspap
ers as saying.
Heladio Ramirez Lopez, an
official of the National Peasant
Confederation, an independent
peasant group, said “the process
of land redistribution cannot be
considered dead.”
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Holocaust victims reunite
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ISHINGTON — Thou-
|ol survivors of Adolf Hit-
'death camps stood and
red Monday as President
pn promised them lasting
Hy in the United States
israel.
Be crowd of 15,000, which
Bed survivors and their
Bn, also gave Reagan sus-
B applause when lie said
Rpld should never forget
R ai |offmankind's darkest hours
m[ Bannihil a tion of 6 million
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p (nonuse you that your safe
tn here and in Israel, will
B be compromised,”
Reagan said at the opening cere
monies of the first American
gathering of Jewish Holocaust
victims.
“Our most sacred task now is
ensuring the memory of this
greatest of human tragedies, the
Holocaust, never fades — that
its lessons are not forgotten,”
Reagan told the crowd at the
Capital Centre in nearby Land-
over, Md.
The last gathering of Holo
caust victims was held in Israel in
1981 and drew about 8,()()()
people.
The four-day U.S. reunion is
billed as a way to express thanks
to the United States for provid
ing a homeland to victims of
Nazi oppression while also giv
ing living testimony Hitler’s
“Final Solution” was real and
not, as some revisionist histo
rians havq postulated, an ex
aggeration or the product of
someone’s imagination.
Participants in the gathering,
many still haunted by memories
of the Holocaust, set up a “Survi
vors’ Village” at the city conven
tion center. A computer there
was programmed to help survi
vors locate f riends and relatives.
Today, Vice President
George Bush will present the
keys of two government build
ings that will house a permanent
Holocaust memorial and
museum.
Benjamin Meed, president of
the Holocaust gathering, told
the Capital Centre crowd, “We
cannot forget the mighty Amer
ican army crushing Hitler’s for
tress.
“For this reason, we have
assembled here in our nation’s
capital — the world’s greatest
democracy — to give thanks to
those hundreds of thousands of
Americans who fought to liber
ate us and the thousands who
gave their lives to crush Hitler’s
Germany,” he said.
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Wednesday, April 13
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Matisse: Jazz
Wednesday, April 13, 1983
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