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THE MICHIGAN DAILY


Friday, October 27, 1972

Strikes keep Chile quiet

but tense

SANTIAGO (P) - Returning to
Chile after an absence of seven
months, a Chilean describes the
atmosphere in Santiago recent-
ly as "placid on the surface and
bubbling with anger underneath."
Few trucks can be seen on the
roads leading to the capital,.
since private truckers struck to
protest the low freight rates im-
posed on them by the government
and a tentative plan to set up
a state trucking company.
Nearly all Chile's 155,000 shop
keepers rang down their shutters
in sympathy with the truckers
and because they claimed Presi-
dent Salvador Allende's policies
were gradually squeezing them
out of business.'

Gasoline was rationed and long
lines of cars formed all day at
the few service stations that still
operated under heavy military
and police guard.
The trucker's strike and t h e
shutdown by shop keepers were
part of a less visible but equally
massive movement of protest
by Chileans out to prevent Al-
lende, a Marxist, from turning
this ribbon-thin nation into a
Socialist state.
It included walkouts, partial
strikes, and sit-ins by doctors,
dentists and nurses, airline pilots,
private bus line owners in San-
tiago, students in some of the
universities, waterworks engi-
neers and other professionals,
small farmers and bank clerks.

Allende tried to check the move-
ment by placing four-fifths of
Chile's provinces under a state
of emergency - a mild form of
martial law.
Allende claimed the crises was
engineered in part by some "Fas-
cists" which he linked to what
he described as an "international
economic blockade" imposed on
his country at the urging of three
American copper companies;
Kennecott, Anaconda and t h e
Cerro Corp.
Last year, Allende nationalized
without compensation the shares
the companies had in five huge
Chilean mines and now, he be-
lieves, the United States and oth-
er capitalist nations have hit
back by shutting off Chile's cre-
dits.
Dr. Eduardo Frei, the Christian
Democrat who preceded Allende
as president, thinks Allende is us-
ing the copper companies as
scapegoats to hide the fact that
government mismanagement in
the two years the Popular Unity
has been in power "brought eco-
nomic disaster to the country."
Allende slipped into power two
years ago by a narrow margin
and began his term with a cam-
paign to bring all big business

and much of the economy under
state ownership as fast as he
could. '
He froze prices and raised wag-
es. Unemployment dropped sharp-
ly, production soared and people
ate and bought more.
His government bought out or
expropriated banks, textile mills,
plants, factories and farms by
the hundred. Those it could not
lay hands on it "intervened" or
"requisitioned" - legal euphem-
ism for taking over.
The crunch came when the $375
million in the Central Bank's
kitty ran out, the world price of
copper - Chile's bread money-
dropped sharply, and the govern-
ment. had to cut imports to the
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bone.
In one year, the Allende admin-
istration had to devalue Chile's
money from 14.35 escudos to 46.00
escudos to the dollar.
Inflation began to rocket. The
cost of living went up 99.8
per cent in the first nine months
of this year, forcing the govern-I
ment to order all wages and sal-
aries doubled.
But Chileans, a stoic mountain
people, seemed to be keeping
the crisis placid on the surface,
and except for sporadic out-
breaks in downtown Santiago,
there have been few big disturb-
ances.
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