Regarding Builder’s Day, this Tuesday many activities were carried out at the UEB #1 Arquitectura e Industriales, to honor outstanding workers in the sector in Villa Clara, with the presence of Osnay Miguel Colina Rodríguez, member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Party in the province and other authorities of the territory.
On the other hand, the Construction Brigade Followers of Camilo and Che sent a congratulatory message to its colleagues in the country for celebrating Builder’s Day today, at the proposal of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro in 1972 in tribute to the martyr Armando Mestre Martínez, assailant from the Moncada Barracks and expeditionary yacht Granma.
Receive our fraternal greetings to the men and women who contribute with their plans and projects to build the imperishable work of the Revolution, even in difficult conditions due to the shortcomings imposed by the growing aggressiveness of the United States government.
An official note from the group’s management pays tribute to the anniversary, welcomed by the National Union of Construction Workers and its central figure Armando Mestre Martínez, at the suggestion of the top leader of the Cuban Revolution in August 1972 at the III of your union organization.
At the Second Congress of the Union of Young Communists, held that year, Fidel himself argued the need to create the Construction Brigade Followers of Camilo and Che in order to counteract the destructive impact of Hurricane Alma in 1966 in that territory, located 143 .30 kilometers from Havana.
Nearly 200 young Cubans fulfilled the assigned mission for three years, mainly in the construction of basic secondary schools in the then Isle of Pines.
The contingent was organized very quickly, made up of people, with an average age of 30 years, more men than women and mostly from the capital, especially from organizations of the Central State Administration and where voluntariness predominated.
His slogan is “The present is for struggle and the future is ours”, evidenced the socio-economic urgencies promoted by the Cuban Revolution in the midst of gigantic mobilizations, and which revealed the development and consolidation of the Column Movement.
An initiative of this type brought together more than 45 thousand young people mobilized in the tasks of the harvest, agriculture in general and construction, among other “shock works”, as the Union of Young Communists called them at the time and which spread through its unifying, strategic experiences with promising results. / With information from ACN.
Source: CMHW
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