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    "ocrText": "able political alliances enabled the Communists to place a sizeable delegation in Con-\ngress in 1946 (three senators, nine representatives). The registration of the Com-\nmunists for the 1948 elections was 158,755. Their actual vote in 1948 was, for the first\ntime, less than the registered number of party members, and today, as a result, the\nCommunists have nine representatives only, having lost their three senators and their\nfavorable relations with the government parties. This will necessarily reduce the\nparty's influence on Cuban political life.\n4. OTHER INFLUENTIAL GROUPS.\nThe following organizations, though not primarily political, are sufficiently in-\nfluential to merit attention in any survey of Cuban political life.\na.\nConfederation of Cuban Workers (CTC).\nFrom 1925, the year of its founding, until 1947, the Cuban workers' confed-\neration was dominated by Communists who used it for political purposes and who are\nthus able to claim for themselves credit for many of the economic benefits the CTC\nwon for the workers. Communist control of the confederation was contested from the\nmoment it was organized by Autenticos who sought to use the organization for their\nown political purposes. This rivalry ultimately resulted in a split early in 1947 into\nCommunist and Autentico factions, both of which maintain the use of the CTC name,\nand claim to be the legitimate representative of the workers. The government, how-\never, has recognized the Autentico faction as the official one and thus has given it the\nadvantage over its Communist rival.\nThe two rival CTC factions claim a total membership of over 500,000. The\ncomponent unions include such important groups as the sugar workers and long-\nshoremen. The strength of the organization, combined with a sympathetic attitude\ntowards it by the Grau regime until the 1947 split, resulted in genuine economic gains\nfor many types of workers. The average wage of sugar workers, for example, has more\nthan doubled since 1944. The total wages paid in private industry increased 32 per-\ncent from 1946 to 1947. In general, organized labor in Cuba has been able to maintain\nor improve standards of living and real wages in the face of rising prices for consumers'\ngoods. The success of the CTC in bringing this about has also increased its political\ninfluence and, regardless of any ultimate decision concerning the present split in\nthe ranks of labor, the authority of unions organized on a national scale will continue\nas one of the basic realities of Cuban economic life.\nb. Federación Estudiantil Universitaria (FEU)-University Student Federation.\nThis highly influential group is the semi-autonomous student government or-\nganization in Cuba and is composed of representatives from all the departments and\ndelegates from each academic course of the National University. It maintains close\ncontact with similar organizations in the secondary schools. The effective political\nactivity of university students in the 1933 revolt and thereafter made this organiza-\ntion an important political force which, by means of demonstrations, strikes, and dis-\norders has frequently influenced government action. Its leaders, unlike those of similar\n7"
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