a fighter has died in Peru's labor rights
Great fighter and journalist association uncompromising defender of the rights and freedoms of its people, Guillermo Lazo Sheen has gone silent on Saturday June 27, but we Flag bequeaths unbeaten social justice.
His physical disappearance does not mean a "huge void difficult to fill" as they say on the death of a great fighter. In this case, its leadership remains in effect, the tasks he has been sharing until his last days are there as an example and challenge for us and for Peruvians to come.
On 29 April last year the Government decorated with William at the Government Palace with the Knights of Labor, along with figures like journalist and former Minister of State Bertorini Alfonso Grados, Luis Jaime Cisneros educator and writer Estuardo Núñez Hague.
Rare but necessary recognition of a social activist who for more than half a century was able to stand firm alongside the workers, supporting prisons, persecution, marginalization and a thousand other troubles due to stubbornly oppose groups political and economic power in all governments.
Until the last moment, overcoming physical difficulties of its 86 years of age and heart problems, was firm to coordinate with the leadership of the CGTP the most suitable actions to consolidate and strengthen the union struggle in these critical days.
In the hardest years of the Fujimori dictatorship tireless remember him as a columnist for the daily La Republica fighting against the machinery of power that swept large labor victories that had cost so much sacrifice the workers of our country.
When the country returned to democracy, the pen of William continued waging battles in defense of the rights of workers universally recognized, but systematically enslaved and groped el Perú.
El 15 de enero del año 2004, publicó en La República el artículo: 85 años de las ocho horas plenamente burladas.
Allí denunciaba la complicidad de la Autoridad de Trabajo con los empresarios que hacen tabla rasa de un derecho laboral fundamental: “Hace 85 años, el 15 de enero de 1919, los trabajadores conquistaron la jornada de las 8 horas, que se mantiene como oficial solamente en el papel. Los empresarios han "flexibilizado" este derecho imponiendo dos a cuatro horas adicionales sin pago alguno, como aporte voluntario del trabajador para reactivar la empresa. No aceptar esta "colaboración" puede terminar con el despido”.
Recuerdo que, en los años 70, in my undergraduate years, without knowing him personally, carefully read your column Eight Hours in the newspaper Expreso.
was a great union organizer (Grace House, Faucett), leader (Central Association of Private Enterprises in Peru, Faucett Union, Federation of Civil Aviation), Advisor (Banking Federation, National Confederation of Industrial Communities (CONACI), Trade Union of Telephone Workers of Peru.
participated in the reconstitution of the CGTP in 1968 integrating Unifying Trade Unions Committee (CUOS), and was one of the active leaders who organized the strike of July 19, 1977 that ended with the dictatorship of General Francisco Morales Bermudez.
But the charisma and leadership of William covering aspects further breadth and depth of our human condition. He recalled with fervor to their land Cajamarca Cajabamba which preferred to call Gloriabamba as he called Bolivar.
His pride was undeniable when he evoked his father's teacher Tomas cajabambino Sheen Murga and gaze lovingly licked him when he spoke of his beloved mother, Dona Victoria Lazo Gonzales.
Friend and endless contertulio workers, poets, teachers, academics, artists, retained some manuscripts of youth verses that spoke of love and unwavering hope for a life of solidarity and shared to everyone.
"I was not born to do it but fighting lines, but no matter, if I am not a poet, my life is a poem," he said in one of our many nights of bohemia.
was born on October 12, 1923, so celebrating his birthday on "race day", or "Indian" or "peasant", until someone came to celebrate the "500 years of encounter of two worlds. " He
October 12 closest friends we met at his office to congratulate Camaná shred Sheen Guillermo Lasso its 500 years. Laureano Carnero Checa gave him a box of bottles of tequila brand name "Centennial" and all signed a scroll. This was of jocund and witty bohemian life of this beloved friend that leaves a deep imprint.
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