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Leader of the Worker Movement.
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A charismatic personage. |
He was born in San Pedro
Atzcapotzaltongo in the municipality of "Nicolas Romero" in the State of Mexico
in 1900.
From his youth he shows his skills of being to leader, since in
the year of 1923 he organized a union between the milk workers of the property
of the Rosary and in 1929 he founds the Union of Workers of the Milk Industry
with the Sanchez Madariaga brothers.
He got to unite to several
independent organizations in June of 1933 and he joined with Lombardo Toledano
to create the Constituent Congress of the CGOCM, which only had three years of
existence.
During the period of the president Lázaro
Cárdenas del Río and with support of this personage, Fidel
Velazquez creates the "Confederación de Trabajadores de México"
(Confederation of Workers of Mexico) (CTM).
Fidel Veláquez was
elect like Secretary of Organization and Propaganda and in the year of 1940 he
was elected as Secretary General of this organization, position that he
performed until his death.
Velázquez became Federal Deputy and
Senator of the Republic from 1958 to 1964 and the Senate granted the medal to
him "Belisario Dominguez".
Fidel Velazquez offered a press conference all
Mondays, in where he not only spoke to union questions but also of policy and
subjects of national relevance. A celebrate phrase of this personage was: "
That one that moves does not appear in the photo".
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