MEXICO: Dreamed-Up Award

Mexican Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano had been repeatedly termed a Soviet "tool." Communist-line Lombardo had paid little heed.

During the past year he had consolidated his position as No. 1 Latin American labor chieftain, President of the Confederation of Latin American Workers, the only international labor union south of the border. Last December he returned from Paris as a vice president of the newly formed World Federation of Trade Unions. But immediately Lombardo got into new trouble. He charged that reactionary Sinarquistas were smuggling arms from the U.S. into Mexico, failed...

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