Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-27
GOMPERS ASKS
THAT MEXICOBE
RECOGNIZED
Labor Leader Makes Appeal
for Favorable Action by
United States.
STANDS WITH HEARST

Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Samuel Com
pers, president of the AEl erican Fedora
ton Of Lalor, has added ais voice to the
demand being made in certain quarters
for recognition 6MexicO. The only per
sons who can derive advantage from the
Withholding of recognition, Mr.. Com
pers asserted, are certain American
bankers who hope to drive better bar
gains"
Mr. Gompers' appeal for affirmative
action of the United States on the Mex
lean question, which will appear in the
March number of the American Fedora
ZIONIST, was made simultaneously with an
official White House announcement of
the Administrator 'unalterable" atu-
tude on Mexico. President Harding let
it be known that the United States was
eager to resume full relations with the
Obregon government, but only with the
understanding that Mexico give satisfac-
tory guarantees regarding American life
and property south of the Rio Grande-
STAND OF MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT.
The Mexican government, it was said
at the White House, is fully acquainted
with the policy Of the United States, and
ness to meet the terms which have been
laid down.
Mr. Gompers regards the Governments
terms as ridiculous" and expresses the
belief that the Oregon government has
had all the better of its argument with
the United States. Curiously enough,
Mr. Gompers seems to align himself
with William Randolph Hearst in the
latter's attack Of the national association
for the protection of American rights in
Mexico.
1.-THE United States Government,
through the State Department" said Mr..
Gompers, has asked the government OF
Mexico to enter into a treaty prior to
the extending of recognition. Upon this
score the Mexican government has the
better Of the argument.
eft has set forth that it cannot in
honor enter into an agreement which
would compel it to do things which 1t
intends to do and is doing. This posi-
ton commands the respect of those who
are not in downright opposition to every
thing Mexican.
SOMETHING AT WORK
BESIDES DIPLOMACY.
Americans who are not prejudiced by
a desire to get possession of Mexican re-
and conditions are coming to the con.
clusion that there is something more than
diplomacy at work in the relations be
tween the two countries. 1t is a fact
beyond dispute that American capitalists
have sought to shape the policy of the
United States In such manner as to
bring to American investors the largest
possible return. 1t evidently is thei1
conviction that by attempting to retard
the granting of recognition they could
wiring larger concessions and more ia
vorable investment terms from the Next
can government"
The National Associa don for the Pro
lection of American Rights In Mexico is
characterized by Mr.. Gompers as 1.-The
principal organized exponent of Ameri-
can Imperialism in Mexico and the prin-
cipal organized appetite for Mexican oil
and other natural wealth, che congratu-
lates Mr. Hearst for the latter's expose
Of alleged plot of the association to GUST
President Obregon in favor of Gen. Pablo
Gonzales, but wants TO know why Mr..
Hearst was silent so long.
SENATE
INVESTIGATION.
Mr.. Gompers charges the Mexican in
vestigation conducted by the Senate more
tHau d year ago WHICH, DTouSHI Jul WHAT
is known as the Fall report because its
author was Albert B. Fall, Secretary of
the Interior, but then a member of the
Senate, was dominated by the national
association and witnesses chosen by the
association packed the hearings of the
Senate committee. At this point Mr..
Gompers asks why Mr.. Hearst publishes
with evident relish" the testimony of
the Fall committee and failed to attack
the association.
GAS a matter of fact" said Mr.
Gompers, 'the oil interests can be in
jured but little by an exposition now of
what they were doing a year and a half
ago.-Copyrght, 1922, sby Public Ledger
Company.