The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1927, Page 6

Stee THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927 Se eee ea a aa Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Mexico By MANUEL GOMEZ. EXICO is a heart-breaker for the U. S. capitalist press. Cartooni and editorial writers long ago devel-| oped the not too ingenuous habit of picturing the republic to th a “land of pulque and p 1 olution,” with the bedraggled Mexi- can peons ever willing to engage in “revolution” for other apparent veason than that they were born that The failure the presen mez-Serrano outburst against the s government has dealt a serious s conception. Repeating, the 1923-2 in armed rt e la Huert no of blow to still more decisively. bacle of the adventur tion led by fadeout of and Franci nation since t any pr entation since the court the Street and hington. The umstances e not cc at the national now insparable from the ag olution and the hi ers, while th labor-pe the national revolution an te American imy lism. realization of th’ bourgeois-burez Catholic tho t fense of the st ted to the qu: revolution. an rev- p of the work- tic elements — were—to the de- us quo and contribu- Some of these elements k defeat of the counter-j ct rallied many } will desert the national revolution to- | morrow, as the Mexican class struggle | necomes sharper, but for the time ing they have bowed to the logic of the united anti-imp Others, in leading places, have remain- ed with the revolution to betray but the rved a temporar- ily the ha lir tinuing the too I aken * * * AL Ge Gome worker and pe that Ss gove: ‘ollowers Ca firmly intre o majo ¢ in four it is far to the ly on a has been against from the beginning. 2.—The upper bourgeuvisie. generally speaking supported SERRANO is dead nera is fleeing for his life thru the state of Vera Cruz, where nt popu-| € , their th in and devotion to the revolu- tion remains ur rise li hostile soon he should come ¢ f the mountains with still nt ched than ever. | ez might fol- grave solving the es- nt as it ap- revolutionary element ation are: 1—The landed aristocracy, which $ the revolution which the movement against Porfirio Diaz but which deserted the revolution dur- ing and after the rise of Carranza. 3.—The Catholic Church, which in the present situation represents the interests of the above cla which has roots in all cla Mexican society. 4.—Sections of the army. American imperialism. but of it, two years in s to the great|their way toward such a movement, | not ant Catholicism of last year pro- g banner. General o had achieved notoriety in aulipas by acting as a labor-hat- Detroit Co-Operative To Speak English and ke a long step forward October 26, when ciation for the retail ats, and general mer. organized at the Fin. 14th St. (Near Mc- workers. 9 organizations all s cooperative n Detroit at present, but i nguage b: cooperative, aracter. should Third German Workers Delegation to U.S.S. R ive campaign is rmany for the An exten’ Ses delegation is being organized The |under the slogans: and “F: mperialist war |of the wor |the Soviet Union.” | 1 over Germany to greetings | which are to be sent to the workers tof the U. | the Tenth Anniversary of the October lution. Everyone who signs the greetings also contributes ten pfen- ning to cover the travelling expenses of the delegation. Fails In Channel Swim. LONDON, Oct. 21.—Miss Mercedes Gleitze, London typist, failed today to [repeat her performance of a few weeks’ ago in swimming the English Channel, according to a wireless dis- patch to the Evening News from an aeroplane over the channel. Asso- | was outlined today e an Interna- | committee appointed la ested in the Co-|tor J. W. Wadsworth, Sophi ez) attend | Loeb, president, and Mrs. Oliver Har-| join as charter|yiman, vice-president, of the Child | | | J Shale DESTITUTE HORDE OF CHILDREN IN DETROIT, Oct. 21—Cooperation in | PHILIPPINE ISLES American FathersLeave Native Families WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 ment that Gomez declared his candi- dacy for president all doubt vanished. He could not hope under any conceiv- able circumstances to receive enough votes to elect him as against Obregon. It was plain that his electoral cam- revolt of nation-wide proportions. And Mere Fact That Porto Rican Is Innocent Not ‘Enough to Release Him BOSTON, Oct. 21.—United States {Circuit Gourt of Appeals this after- }noon took under advisement the case \of Capalino Figueroa, who languishes Porto Rico for the murder of Ce- jferino Colon, a erime for which an- other man stands confessed. The case of Figueroa has through all the state and courts of Porto Rico since been federal ro 4 —The de-' the defendent was found guilty of the plorable condition of thousands of ying on a plantation. titute children in the Ph committee consisted of former § Welfare Committee of America. The report presented to the presi- 9 | dent showed that there are thousands jof children of unmixed blood in pov- . (erty and distress. Besides there are 18,000 children of | now in| American fathers and native mothe! sending |in the Philippines who are in di third workers’ delegation to the | distress, the American father having in most cases deserted: . F; The report suggested that in order} “Struggle against | t) give home life to these children, by | atern 1 unity | keeping the home together when the} ing class of Germany end | breadwinner is vemoved, the Philip-| e _ _|pine legislature enact a law to pro- | tions of signatures are being | vide home care for dependent children. 8. S. R. for the occasion of JJ, S, Government Sinks| Roots Into Argentine Oct, 2h. -— WASHINGTON, ippines i government ummer. The | } na- Irene re The American government is planning to Demanding justice on the grounds of his co tutional rights, Figueroa refused a pardon by the governcw) of Porto Rico. Mere innocence mea. little to the American judiciary. \Spanish Monopoly Will 'Use Oil From the USSR s; MADRID, Oct. 21.—An oil monop- cly has been awarded to thir i banks by the Spanish government, i }was announced today. The monopoly is mefely a market- ing monopoly. Oil will be provided from Soviet and Roumanian wells -in addition to American wells not con- trolled by the Standard Gil Company. | Bok’s Prize Man Dead. BERKELEY, Cal., Oct. 21. — Dr. Charles H. Livermore, winner of the Bok peace prize, for which he was awarded $100,000, was dead here to- day. He collapsed yesterday while speaking before the Women’s Alliance spend at least $500,000 in the pur-|¢f the Unitarian Club. chase or construction of an embassy | at Buenos Aires. The fierce competition for Argen- tine trade and the growing indications that the state department regards | Latin-America as a U. S. protectorate are given as reasons by observers| here. Livermore’s article resulted in free |charges of collusion between himself and the Bok committee. His winning thesis was a rather stale argument for the League of Nations. BUY THE DAILY WORKER |. AT THE NEWSSTANDS paign was merely an initial stage in| what was to be a carefully-planned | in the jail at Colonia Tuno Guayama, | 1923 when |° [BUILD THE DAILY WORKER!) all the elements listed above supported him. In estimating the extent of the set- back received by the reaction it is a mistake to consider the Mexican counter-revolution as something con- fined to Mexico, without relation to the policy of Washington and Wall | Street. American imperialism is the most persistent enemy that the Mexi- can revolution has to face. One must see the Gomez-Serrano affair in per- | spective, showing its connection with a whole series of events including not only the Catholic and anti-labor (ar- ticle 123) struggles, but the iand-and- oi] laws controversy as well. | Too much is made of the differences | | between the Wal! Street oil men and | |the Wall Street bankers with regar {to Mexican policy. It was after all | | President Coolidge who appointed as | successive ambassadors to Mexico both | James R. Sheffield (“the agent of the} \oil interests”) and Dwight W. Mor- | row, of the firm of J. P. Morgan. The ze does not indicate that Amer- | an imperialism has abandoned either } the direct or the indirect (subsidizing | cf counter-revolution, etc.) method of | | aggression against Mexico. It 1s not} too much to say that the counter- revolutionary danger would not exist at all if it were not for that aggres- | sion. | | Certainly the House of Morgan, in| |which Ambassador Morrow was a | partner up to the moment of his ap-| | pointment, looked with favor upon the {recent outbreak in Mexico. Certainly | further disturbances will help to make | Mr. Morrow’s job in Mexico City eas- jier. It is plain that armed counter- evolution could not hope to succeed in its objective at the present time, | given the fact that the United States | government is not prepared to adopt a program of military invasion. But the menace of rebel movements is a club which Ambassador Morrow can wield effectively to drive a hard bar- gain with President-apparent Obregon. Obregon had the House of Morgan to deal with once before, during his firs term as president of Mexico. It was not until he satisfied the Morgan debt demands thru the Lamont-de la Huerta agreement that the United States government recognized his re- gime. It should be borne in mind that Obregon represents the right wing of the present regime in Mexico. Unless the Mexican masses are on the alert they may fjnd that they themselves | are in the very trap set for them by | Wall Street. They may find that es- sential conquests of ‘the revolution have been defended against armed as- AA ist front.)"THE Gomez-Serrano rising was not) ing instrument of the U. S. oil in-| when I was in Mexico, From the mo-|it was with this understanding that, sault only to be bartered away in the just a chance thrust. For nearly |terests, and in Vera Cruz by assault- | the reactionary elements |ing the peasant ieagues on behalf of n society have been feeling | the landowners’ organization known) as the “Sindicato de Agricultores,”) ithout foreign stimulation. The | was looked to as a prospective mili- |tary leader of the movement which | events had been preparing. His loyal- | ty to the Calles regime was questioned on all sides as far back as May, 1926, hour of apparent triumph. As a matter of fact the Calles-Obre- gon regime has only two possible courses open to it: either it must make its peace with American im- perialism (in which case it could no longer claim to represent the revolu- tion), oc it must throw its efforts in the direction of cteating a national sccio-political structure independent cf imperialism and capable of devel- oping a constructive national economy in spite of it. Te workers and peasants repre- sent the only classes in Mexico upon which such a program could base | itself. Any policy which does not base itself frankly on these classes, in al- ance with the petty-bourgecis and ther sympathetic elements cannot pretend to be charting a safe course for the Mexican revolution. President Calles has never faced this issue squarely, despite his elab- orate “national reconstruction pro- gram”—in which, after all, the inter- ests of the workers and peasants are relegated to the background. There was even something lacking in the {way in which he met the Gomez-Ser- no rebellion. It is true that he acted vith promptness and decision in nul- llifying the counter-revolution on the nattlefield but he did not’ explain the counter-revolutionary issues to the people. Up to the present moment he has given out no proclamation of any kind, much less a direct appeal to the workers and peasants. In this sense the present situation represents a step backward from the atmosphere cf the “yed-battalion” days. Obregon will not swing the pen- dulum back the other way. The Communist Party of Mexico must be on the alert for every pcs- sible shift in the center of gravity of the revolutionary regime, (such as that from Calles to Obregon, who is now the real head of the gov- ernment). While supporting the gov- ernment in every progressive stand against rebellion, the Party must not hesitate to point out the internal dan- gers of the situation and to’ oppose every step away from the worker- peasant base of the revolution. The Party must press for effective guar- untees on the part of the workers and peasants as the only safeguard of the uhited anti-imperialist front. Friends of the Mexican revolution in this ccuntry must watch every move of American imperialism, remember- ing that Mexico constitutes the his- toric point of focus for the clash of forces inherent in the application of Monroe-Doctrine . policy to Latin- America. i The First American Trade Uniow Delegation WILL REPORT ON Sunday Afternoon, October 23, 2 o’clock JAMES MAURER, President of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor. JOHN BROPHY, of the United Mine Workers of America. 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