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After Perón became President, Evita went to work on the fourth floor of the Central Post and Telecommunications office where she began to attend to delegations of workers who asked her to intervene in solving labor disputes or helping them obtain better wages. This relationship with the unions continued to intensify until 1952. It provided her with a solid political power base and created a foundation for her social work. During the early months of 1947, Evita was busy creating her first weapons in defense of the poor. From the beginning, Evita had aimed for "direct social help": a job, medicine, housing. She would continue throughout her few remaining years of life to create immediate solutions.As President, Perón returned to the topic of women's suffrage in his First Message to Congress, on July 26, 1946, and in the Five Year Plan. Within this framework, Evita began her campaign. She worked from different vantage points: with legislators, with the delegations who visited her, with the women congregated in the civic centers, by means of radio and the press. On August 28, 1948, in the Ministry of Labor, Evita read the Declaration of the Rights of Senior Citizens.
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