PASSIVE POLICE
COUP WELL TIMED (Rec. noon.) BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 18. Colonel Peron’s coup occurred when thousands of workers mobilised by the unions Peron created when Secretary for Labour and Social Welfare virtually took over the heart of the capital with the police passive, even encouraging them. A strike by 500,000 members of the General Confederation of Workers
supporting Peron nearly brought to a standstill Argentina’s industrial and commercial activtiy. Peron hailed the strike as a day of glory for the workers. However, not all of the unions supported the general one-day strike The Buenos Aires Labour Council, representing all of the city’s trade unions, declared that the strike was “ imposed by Nazi elements in the Labour (Ministry, who with pistols in their hands were trying to paralyse the country to aid Peron.” Peron’s right-hand man, Lieutenantcolonel Domingo Mercante, has been appointed new head of the Secretariat of Labour and Social Welfare.
A high source reported that the Argentine fleet has moved out of its base at Puerto Belgrano, 500 miles south of Buenos Aires, for a destination which is not disclosed.
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Evening Star, Issue 25618, 19 October 1945, Page 5
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