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Guayaquil, Ecuador. OTAATION CONTAINED Politi wal Activity ay yall HFIED Visit of Vice-President WALLACE CPt ow Wavub i.) sy to Ecuador. TE SHel 2 pysrasesy? ARrlZd> Reference is made to report dated 3-20-43 entitled CONGRESO OBREROS, etc. Character, Ecuador Political ~ R which concemned a workers congress in Quito and the political ramifications, . On the return of Pedro/SAAD, Guayaquil labor leader, - communist, aid member of the local Anti-Nezifascist Committee, he was arrested on orders from Quito and has been in jail since. The date of the arrest was the first part of the week begiming March 2l. This office has intercepted a number of telegrams which have been sent from Guayaquil labor unions and bodies to the President of the Republic in Quito requesting the release of SAAD. As of this date, April 9, he has not been released. 8 One telegram dated April 3, 1943, from the secre tay of the Cimite Empresa Trabajadores Fabrica Roma, requested the President to"release SKAM SAAD, Director of the Union Sindical Guayas, as an expression of Ecuadorian Democracy before the Reception Program for WALLACE", I, is understood that some of the labor units under the influence of SAAD have been attempting to secure an interview with WALLACE when he is in Guayaquil, and m= t give demonstration in the "Huancavilca Arerat with some of dix the labor leaders making speeches in conjumetion with representatives of the University ama of Guayaquil and the Artists and Wy,iters Soceitye This demonstration was of course to be in honor of WALLACE. The principal labor group interested in this program was the "Union Sindt uayas" of which SAAD is the Director. This group is s confederation o approximately 60 Guayaquil labor unions. Its nearest competitor in the labor field is the Confdereacion Obrera which is composed of about 10 labor untdiis- oFtion of 6 to 1 in strength is aemExeakak approximately correct in both numbers and influence. The labor groups mentioned above were under the impression that they had secured from the Guayaquil Program