-DATE- 19900126 -YEAR- 1990 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- -AUTHOR- -HEADLINE- More Coverage of Workers Federation Congress -PLACE- CARIBBEAN / Cuba -SOURCE- Havana Television Service -REPORT_NBR- FBIS-LAT-90-018 -REPORT_DATE- 19900126 -HEADER- BRS Assigned Document Number: 000001750 Report Type: Daily Report AFS Number: FL2601034890 Report Number: FBIS-LAT-90-018 Report Date: 26 Jan 90 Report Series: Daily Report Start Page: 2 Report Division: CARIBBEAN End Page: 3 Report Subdivision: Cuba AG File Flag: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Language: Spanish Document Date: 26 Jan 90 Report Volume: Friday Vol VI No 018 Dissemination: City/Source of Document: Havana Television Service Report Name: Latin America Headline: More Coverage of Workers Federation Congress Subheadline: Castro Speaks Author(s): President Fidel Castro Ruz to delegates of the 16th Congress of the Cuban Workers Federation, CTC, gathered at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana on 25 January--recorded] Source Line: FL2601034890 Havana Television Service in Spanish 0100 GMT 26 Jan 90 Subslug: [Remarks by President Fidel Castro Ruz to delegates of the 16th Congress of the Cuban Workers Federation, CTC, gathered at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana on 25 January--recorded] -TEXT- FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Remarks by President Fidel Castro Ruz to delegates of the 16th Congress of the Cuban Workers Federation, CTC, gathered at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana on 25 January--recorded] 2. [Text] We have placed high hopes in all these things that we are doing, slowly. It is not a question of doing everything in a hurry. There is already a contingent in the area of communications, as the comrade said. There is already a contingent in a construction materials enterprise, because one cannot apply these criteria everywhere. 3. There are other sectors in which we should also organize contingents. We are doing things slowly so everything can be done well. Now, contingent workers are the best-fed workers in the country, they are the ones who rest better or those who rest in better conditions, they receive all kinds of medical care. I would say they are among the healthiest people in the country. 4. What Palmero [head of the Blas Roca Calderio contingent] said reflects some things I discussed with him, some things that I told him. There are some wormoids [gusanoides] out there, some wormoids in some circles who are ultimately against the revolution, who are hurt by the good things achieved by the revolution. These are the ones who complain if there are no houses, or if there is a shortage of something. When the country begins to apply measures and methods to solve a large number of problems, and when we start to work the way we should, then they begin to fabricate things. These are people who generally do not work; these people--who do not work-- are hurt every time the revolution does something. If we create family doctors and if this strengthens the revolution, then the fabrications begin; if we create contingents, then they start to fabricate things about the contingents, they look for negative sides to the contingents, as if this effort was not being made by humans. 5. Do not forget the cost of a revolution, which cost something more than efforts. It costs blood; it costs lives. If the revolution demands that we sweat, then we ought to be happy, because this is the lowest price we can pay for a revolution, that is, our sweat. To defend the revolution we must be willing to give our lives, the lives of thousands, of tens of thousands, of tens of millions of human beings. Those who want the revolution weakened seek to put the revolution at the mercy of imperialism. How much would a weakened revolution cost, that is, if it is ideologically weakened, if it is politically weakened? Millions of lives, because a revolution brings so much justice to the peoples that even it makes many mistakes. There are always millions of people prepared to defend it. [applause] -END-