Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-11-13
BY Louis p. lrby.
international News Staff Cores

International News Staff Cores
pondent)
Mexico City. Mexico, NOV. ~ =
Labor complications. conb.ne'
with activities against the govern
ment of Carranzista conspiratOrs
are causing increasing uneasiness
Il is feared that one OF two serlou'
situations may be presented. Ih'
first is a general strike, with {
multitude OF idle men ana the can
ger of bolshevism, of which Mexic'
already has had taste IN so:nt
sections. The second is formidao
Ie Carranzista uprising started un'
der "smoke screen" OF .ipoi
trouble.
Carranzistas have been busy Win
their mischief-making Tor somt
time, They have had agents no'
only along the border but in the
cities of the interior, the conciliat'
ing policy of President Adolfo de
Ia Huerta having enabled a nunlpei
n gain positions in the heart oil
the country for the spreading oi
nropag ganda and for the maturing
Of plots.
Where the large sums of money
used by the Carranzistas are com
ing from is a matter of great Liter
est here. German liquor dealers
ana others, who were pleased by
the unfriendly attitude of the late
President Carranza toward the uhi'
ted states and feared prohipitioh
under the present government, are
said To have given literally to the
Carranzista fund. There Is even
hint that some money has been ad-
ded to the CararnZista Golfers py
Rritish interests, which were DIS
nosed to favor any means of re-
tarding American enterprise IN Mex
leo. ,....a
Now that Carranzista plotting
may set Mexico afire with the
flames of bolshevism some are
wondering whether the packers Oh
gtbe Carranzista movement will con
tin1e their contributions.
getback for Government.
X The de la Huerta government.
doing ali it can to restore ih.,uS
trial harmony, but has met WIN a
sserious setback. The owners OF me
coal mines in Coahuiia where the
miners are on strike, have refusea
n accent the mediation OF the SOY;
a arnment and have expressed deter
mination to fight the strikers uiith
hunger forces the men to return ~
work. .ha
This attitude was taken by the
mine owners because they weie
convinced that the governh'eh'
favored the striking miners'
sunporters of the government eN-
,x,a,nad this apparent leaning OF
thai de la Huerta administrator "
1abor. said: "In the present s'".e
~ affairs it would be sulciua' "
toLa sides but it would be worse
than suicidal, If that Is possible "
ha unfair, or seem to be uhla's' 70
1.ho, Enemies of the government
M irving to incite the worKlhs
.a,asses and as radicals have beeh
nreparing the way Tor yours
incendiary agitation, the DANGER W
serious trouble is very real
..panresentatives of the mlhe
o,yners saw that President de II hu'
arta owes his success In the pas Va
sattlinq labor troubles to employers
..,,,a have Welded to his REQ Aes'
that they grant concessions l'ia' "a
IN part true. But when thes "u.
that the president has hot s".ieu
concessions from the LABOR uhlo"s
4.av are in error. There nave pesit
.ances;osns on both sides in al 0.
tha disputes settled by the prese''
administration ,o,,,
and seriously impern the WORK "
reconstruction in Mexico, IL ~ 'ne
dutv of all employers TO do All 'taes
can To preserve Industrial peace.
More Mine Trouble.
r,he mine trouble is not confined
10 the coal mining districts ihere
ara strikes, or threats OF strikes III
nearly all OF the mining sections
THE owners OF silver mines, nke tne
coal operators, say that they cannot
Increase wages. They tell or the re
cent heavy drop III the price Oh s'-
yer and insist that they are at pres
ent running their mines at a loss
in hope that an advance IN silver
will relieve them.
II is said that the coal miners
strike win force $4,000 men into
idleness. Mexico today faces condi-
tions most serious. as there are
great numbers idle and restless ana
ready for any sort OF undertaking.
Don Luis Cabrera, secretary OF
the treasury under President car
rama, whose return to Mexico has
been vigorously opposed, is meet
ing the expectations of those who
depicted that he would make
trouble" AT the earliest moment, He
has written long open letter to
DIR. Cuthberto Hidalgo, assistant
secretary of state, saying that IL
was the duty of the government to
discover and expose the secret