DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES

Latin Americans are mostly working people. Therefore, we have a need for jobs with

adequate pay, schools to educate our children, decent housing and fair access to these things

in the richest country in the world.

We Latin Americans have found the labor movement to be the most effective ally in the

achievement of our needs and aspirations as working people.

As Latin American trade unionists, we have found that the organizational and political

experiences we have gathered in our unions place us in a position to make a substantial

contribution to both the Latin American community and to the labor movement in general.

The traditional enemies of the aspirations of workers to a decent life are also, in the main, the

enemies of the aspirations of the Latin American people. It is, therefore, our intention to

unite for a common goal in repelling the oppressive aims of such negative forces. To achieve

these objectives we must first improve communications and cooperation amongst ourselves,

then between ourselves and the Latin community in general and, particularly, between

ourselves as trade unionists and the rest of organized labor as a whole.

Accordingly, it is in this spirit that the LABOR COUNCIL FOR LATIN AMERICAN

ADVANCEMENT is created in the pursuit of achieving social dignity, economic and

political justice and a decent standard of living for every Latin American worker, and as a

vehicle to attain the respect and equality to which every citizen of this great nation is

rightfully entitled.

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