Union man jailed
NZPA-Reuter Sao Paulo A military court in Sao Paulo has sentenced Brazil’s best-known labour leader, Luis Inacio da Silva, known as "Lula”, to 3J years imprisonment for encouraging a six-week strike in the motor industry, his lawyer has said. Luis Eduardo Greenhalgh told reporters that two other trade-union leaders were given the same sentence, two were acquitted, and eight others WARM*
The 13 defendants end their lawyers all boycotted the proceedings held at only 48 hours notice. The convicted men intend to appeaL The trial has been condemned by all Brazil’s main Opposition parties. Trade unions and Left-wing parties in several Western countries spoke out in support of the; 13 trade unionists or sent ’ observers to Brazil. Lula, who is also president of a radical new Labour Party formed igst year.heard raws pf
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Press, 27 February 1981, Page 6
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