MEMBERS OF LEFT-WING POLITICAL PARTIES AND LABOUR MOVEMENTS STAGES DEMONSTRATIONS ON SEPTEMBER 9 AND 11 ALONG THE VALPARAISO-SANTIAGO HIGHWAY AND IN THE PLAZA BULNES IN SANTIAGO CENTRE. THEY DEMANDED IMMEDIATE NATIONALISATION OF BIG COPPER MINES AND CALLED FOR THE "TOTAL RESUE OF THE BASIC WEALTH FOR THE COUNTRY".

ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND DEMONSTRATORS, CARRYING PLACARDS AND PICTURES OF HO CHI MINH, PARADED THROUGH SANTIAGO ON THE 11TH. INSIDE THE AUDITORIUM IN SANTIAGO, LUIS CORVALAN, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, ENTERED WITH HIS WIFE. SALVADOR ALLENDE, THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY IN THE SEPTEMBER 1970 ELECTION, RECEIVED AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION WHEN HE ENTERED THE AUDITORIUM.