The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-10
Women Of Mexican Republic Fighting
 For Equal Rights
By CHARLES H. MARKS, Jr. q. N. S. Staff Correspondent.o

Mexico City, July 10-Particlpation
 by a delegation from Mexico City in a feminist congress in the United
 States has revealed the existence of
 a Woman's Rights movement In the
 Mexican capital. But the feminist ag-
 itatton in the capital is insignificant
 compared with the activities of the
 militants of the State of Yucatan,
 whose high chief, Sonora Elvira Car
 rillo Puerto, is a visitor here. Sonora
 Carillo is a sister of the Yucatan gov
 ernor, whom American press reports
 have pictured as a communist. but
 who recently defied the actual com
 munists of the State when they un-
 dertook to paralyze the industries
 and the railroads of Southeastern
 Mexico by means of a general strike.
 Sonora Carrillo soon may be
 Mayor Carillo, for her sisters of Merida, the state capital, propose to
 nominate her for the post of Munici-
 pal President, a project in which they
 elevation to a judgeship in San Luis
 Potosi of Sonora Dolores Arriaga
 Buch.
 The 200 federated feminist leagues
 and parties of Yucatan have a total
 membership of ten thousand, who
 are working for the uplift of the sex
 throughout the republic, for the ele-
 vation of the home through the
 elimination of the liquor ev1l, Tor the
 better education of the young and for
 increased economic efficiency among
 the women workers.
 The feminist movement in Yuca- tan dates from 1915, when the first congress was held. Within the next two years it assumed a more az gressfve character, since which time Sonora Carillo, has directed the propaganda, overcoming step by step the obstacles placed in her path by social, racial. religious and political
 prejudice as embodied in the reac- tionary social aristocracy.
 Favor Prohibition
 These organized women of Yucatan are particularly proud of the results of their local option campaign against alcoholism.
 Sonora Carrillo quotes one of the mestizas as saying:
 The less wine our husbands drink
 the more and better food we have, to say nothing of the family autom obile rides on Sunday"
 In the prohibition areas the women
 don't hesitate to use direct action to squelch bootleggers One time in the district of Dzitaz they took cogniz- liquor law their husbands and sons were coming home with pockets empty and step uncertain. The local league delegated a committee to find the source of the liquor supply. They discovered that an employe of the railroad, in alliance with a man or the town, was bringing intoxicants in from wet Valladolid. When the next shipment arrived the committee of women held up the two bootleggers. wrested away their containers and e1nptied them in the street.
 After this exploit the entire mem bership of the local league banded together to convey to the Governor at Merida their protest against the illicit traffic. The station agent, ap- parently in sympathy with the boot lessers, refused to sell them tickets or admit them to the railroad plat form. This only strengthened their determination. They walked the en- tire distance to Merida, more than 40 | miles, regarding their journey as a pilgrimage in a holy cause. Needless to say, the Governor heard their complaint and acted upon it. | In Merida, the central league, over l which Sonora CarilIo presides, pub fishes a weekly, La RebeIdia, of | which Senorita Nelly Aznar is di- rector. Under the auspices of the l feminist leagues there has also been 1 established a technical school for women workers in which productive
 arts and crafts are taught. From 1 time to time instructive pamphlets
 are printed by the leagues and dis | tT.ibuted free of charge to the people of Yucatan.