Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-08-12
Good For Mexico
NO SCAB GOODS IN OUR NEIGH
BORING REPUBLIC
Big Locomotive Contract Cancelled
Because Firm is Unfair-Argen-
tine to Follow Suit
(By Federated Press)

Washington-President Vauclain of
the Baldwin Locomotive Company is
in Mexico City trying to renew a
cancelled contract for the furnishing
of II locomotives to the Mexican gov
arnment.
Raymond DeNegri, director general
of the Mexican railroads, has cancel
led all contracts for railway equip
ment and supplies placed with firms
unfair to organized labor. Baldwin's
will not build any locomotives for
the present government of Mexico If
the locomotives can be secured from
any source which is not hostile to the
organized labor movement.
DeNegri wants to purchase 100
freight cars at once, and with them
the necessary equipment and tools
with which to repair 400 locomotives
at the government railway shops at
Aguas Calientes.
The International Association of
Machinists' office here has forwarded
to Ezekiel 'Salcedo, director of the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
at Mexico City, at his request, list
of firms fair to labor which can fur
nish printing presses, type and other
supplies for that bureau, while it has
received word that Antonio l. Villa
real, minister Of agriculture and
fomento, who has placed orders for
nearly $3,O00,OO0 of agricultural ma
chinery, carts, harness, tools for well
drilling, etc., in the United States un-
der thesa same terms, is in the warket
for automobiles, trucks, tractors and
many other articles to the value OF
$8,0O0,0OO.
The millions of dollars worth of
farm machinery, motor trucks, trac-
tors, well machinery, etc., which the
department of agriculture of Mexico
is about to buy in the United States
will be distributed from six central
selling points, and the individual
farmers will secure it together with
a wage of one peso per day until their
first crop is harvested, under an agree
ment to repay the cost of the ma
chinery and supplies and all other
advances on long-term partial pay
ments, with interest at l per cent to
cover the cost of handling the goods.
No interst is charged them by the
government for the use of the money
represented by the farm equipment
and supplies.
The government imposes customs
duty of 35 per cent on, American ma
chinery imported by private parties.
1t charges no customs duty to itself
as importer of these goods for the
Mexican farmers. Hence the anti
union manufacturers Of farm ma
chinery or automobiles in the United
States must face not merely the boy
colt of the government purchasing
agents but the 35 per cent tariff wall.
For once government in America
has taken sides with the masses of
the producers instead of taking sides
against them.
Reports are current in Washington
that Argentine has taken up the
Mexican idea and that the state de-
partment has protested to the Argen-
tine government at the cancellation
of orders for great quantities of
American goods piled on the docks at
Buenos Aires, which the port workers
refuse to handle because they came
in non-union ships, were made in non
union factories and were sold by big
financial interests hostile to the free
dom of the progressive states of Latin
America