The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-03-24
CONSPIRE
TO CRUSH AMERICAN
WORKERS ANDDE-
sTROY UNIONS.
Millionaires Plan Free
Trade and use of Peon-
age Labor Through
National Legislation.

10 utilize Mexican cheap labor on the
one hand and to strike a staggering blow
at organized labor III the United States
| with the other, is the plan of the million
aires behind bill for the abolition of
all tariff restrictions between this coun.
try and the United States of Mexico.
Locked in the desk of senator repre-.
senting not only his State, but one of
| the biggest trust companies in New York
City, lies this bill which, if it becomes
law, will complete the modern ''Con-
quest of Mexico by the $500 900 900 of
American capital already invested in
that country
The Mexican end of this monster
combination has already been settled and
agreed upon by no less person than
President Porfirio Diaz, and is today
the sensation in financial circles of the
Mexican capital. Diaz has given first,
unofficial statement as to the proposed
international relations, in which he out
lined his position in the following plain
language to representatives of the Gug.
genheim copper interests, who are now
in Washington:
The favorable consideration of Mex
ico will be given to these proposals, but
the details of such n measure cannot
at present be discussed by me-
The sum and substance of this in
ternatlonal agreement, if perfected,
would mean that flood of American
capital would pour into Mexico for the
erection of additional mills, factories,
and smeltcrs to be run by Mexican la
uarfnr nf
paid American labor for the same class
OF work, and that the product from
these plants would return to the United
States free of duty.
The pressure for the adoption of this
momentous measure comes from Amer
iecn interests already intrenched in
Mexico: The Hartman interests, West
of Tampieo, own 100000 acres of oil
lands; Hearst owns 100000 acres in
the State of Chihuahua foreign in
vcstors, among which the Standard Oil
IS chief, control oil leases over a strip
of land in Mexico estimated to be one
thousand miles long and seventy five
miles wide; in Sinaloa a grant of q
100000 acres has been given to on Amer
lean corporation, with Headquarters in
SHS 10y VI i-oS <AHSclcS, IN payment Tor
making survey of that State These
are but fraction of the American land
holdings in Mexico, no mention being
made of the mineral grants, water rights
and public-utility franchises possessed
by citizens of the United States.
Why the Hartman lines were rushed
along the West Coast of Mexico, why
Taft met Daz with fraternal greetings
in Ell Paso, why Mexico has been kept
free of all labor organizations, free for
the coming of the American capitalist
with his mills, factories and smclters.
is now made plain by this last proposal
interests which will wipe the border line
to American trade, but will still keep
it guarded and intact to the entrance of
American labor standards.
If this bill becomes law Mexico will
become the preserved commcrcial-hunt-
ing ground for the American millionaire.
If this bill becomes law the American
alborer will be compelled to produce in
with the peon laborcr of
Mexico.