The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-04-23
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WASHINGTON, D. c., April 22.-
Outlining senatorial evidence in his
possession, showing that number Of
Mexican political refugees have lately
been i'm orisoned in the United States
jails for from four to eighteen months
and then discharged without trial be-
cause of the entire lack Of evidence
TO convict them of breaking United
States laws, Representative Nichols
OF Pennsylvania appeared before the
house committee on judiciary and
asked fo~ a favorable report upon his
bill demanding investigation of the
imprisonment of Magon, Villarreal
ahd Rivera, three victims named.
Nichols is in receipt of letters from
every part of the country asking for
this investigation, and witnesses from
the border states have signified their
willingness to come to Washington
and testify before congressional
committee as to the systematic per-
secution, in this country of the po-
litical enemies of Mexico's president
by the United States officials.
Miners Will Assist Nichols.
Although the miner. representative
asserts that he has undertaken this
investigation of the cases of the Mex
lean political refugees solely upon his
own initiative, yet it is significant that
both the Western Federation Of Min
ers and the United Mine Workers
Of America have passed: strong. reso-
lutions denouncing the tyranny in
Mexico and the persecution of the
Diaz has suppressed, time and again;
/ the attempts of the Mexican miners
to organize. and when the last at
tempt was made, at Cananea, Sonora,
over hundred Mexican union miners
| we're shot down by the combined
force of Green's cowboys and Diaz'
rurales.
Western Federation Miners are we'll
aware that miners in Mexico would
Immediately organize and raise their
standard Of living if it were not for
| the guns Of Diaz' rurales ready to
! .hoot them down at the slightest pre-
text.
Mother Jones to the Fore.
Mother Jones, whose influence with
! the miners is as marvellous as it is
| great, has arrived in Washington for
! the avONed purpose Of aiding the
| investigation demanded by Represent
! alive Nichols. This grey-haired
| woman, who has been in the thick
IF every miners struggle for the last
! thirty years, has lately made a trip
| along the Mexican border where she
| received at first hand, proofs of the
! systematic espionage, persecution and
Imprisonment which constantly fol:
| lows Mexican, political refugees in this
| country.
Polio, spies from the Mexican capi.
| ;ol. In conjunction with American
private detectives, follow the political
enemies of President Diaz all through
the United States. The power of
J Mexico causes the arrest of these
Mexican refugees upon American soil
| and in many cases they are kept for
! months in Jail without evidence OF
any guilt and released without trial
The coming Mexican presidential
election. with it's ferment of unrest
and threatened revolution, has caused
Diaz to spend money without stint
Lpon his publicity bureau. Not salts
fled with openly subsidizing all the
prominent newspapers in his own
country he has lately been lavish in
providing funds for publicity in the
! United States.