WORKING-CLASS MILITANCY NOTED IN PERU
The Lima correspondent of the Buenos Aires daily Clarin reports a certain amount of movement in the Peruvian social scene that may foreshadow a sharpening of the class struggle. As cited in the November 28 issue of La Verdad, he wrote: + .
"Without a solution in sight, the strike in the fish industry, a strike that constitutes a very stiff blow to. the country ' s economy, is. beginning its twentieth day. Up to now, according to the Sociedad Nacional de Pescadores, the loss amounts to 240 million soles [27 soles = US$1]. The conflict began in several ports on November 2 and up to date has paralyzed 18 big fish centers along the entire coast, leading to dangerous hunger strikes among the fish workers in: Pisco and: the capital. The strikers in Supe, Huacho, Chancay, Tambo de Mora and Pisco have announced a march on Lima for next Tuesday with the aim of interviewing the president of the republic. The march is being encouraged from Lima at a time when, significantly, partial work stoppages are occurring in some of the banks, a sector of the students are in convulsion, and groups of elements have appeared in the streets. If the latter have been peaceful up to now, marching in such a way as to only create traffic problems at the peak moments, they are publicly displaying their political tendency through placards. which bear as their sole inscription the name of Hugo Blanco, or refer to the bloody encounters in the Toquepala mines, references that clearly have no relation with the conflict that concerns them, but which clearly tell what forces are behind the dispute, which is taking on signs of increasing gravity.'
a snapshot, ‘ caken as the revolutionary peasant leader finished testifying at the trial in Tacna September 6, which appeared in La Cronica. The Lima daily quoted Hugo Blanco as telling the military court, "I am satisfied with everything I have done for the peasants and now I can die tranquilly."