The Mena weekly star., 1922-03-16
.BOLSHEVISN IN
 MEXICO ECL|PSED
Reaction Against Radicalism Results in Greater Government Stability --Disturbances Now Are Local
 Affairs.
By HARRY L. ROGERS. International News Service Stan
 

Correspondent.
 Washington, March 12.-Bolshev- ism in Mexico has undergone an eclipse, according to reports today from Mexico City, which are based on information concerning conditions in practically every section of the country.
 Officials assert that the reaction against radicalism which set in im- mediately following the riots of last summer in Morelia, Michoacan, when several women were killed during an attack upon a religious procession, has extended over practically the whole of Mexico, making itself felt even among the anti-clericals.
 Earlier tendencies of some mem bers of Obregon's cabinet, notably Gales, Minister of Government, and de la Huerta, Minister of the Treas ury, are reported to have been notice ably modified, with the result that radical leaders no longer pin their hopes of support upon the Obregon administration and are becoming more and more discouraged by the ap- parent lack of support from Russia. Soviet ActiTlties CruSned- The defeat by Argentine authorities of the communistic activities among | the workmen of the port of Buenos Aires and other shipping centers is believed to have had marked effect upon the spirit of those agents of Soviet Russia who had been stationed in Mexican seaports with the object of l lindoctrinating the native workers with | the tenets of communism. Even in the Tampico district, where uncertain | ty concerning oil legislation has led to considerable unemployment, the radical propaganda is said to have failed signally.
 Anticipated disorders in Lower Cal ifornia in connection with the inaugu- ration of General Lugo, the new gov ernor, failed to materialize, and the Obregon cabinet is launching upon a scheme for the reclamation of arid lands and the colonization of uneEl- ployed from other sections of Mex lico which apparently is winning the hearty support of the population. An official report from San Pedro de las Colonias, State of Coahuila, reclares that Bolshevism has practically dis
 appeared turnout the so-called La guna district, which is the great cot ton growing section of Mexico. Credit lis given to Colonel Jose Cardnes,
 Chief of the State Rurale Forces, for
 the breaking up of the fifty-six labor syndicates which for two years have
 dominated the region.
 Disturbance Are Local.
 Government authorities attach only local significance to the various labor
 disturbances which have occurred 1T
 Mexico City. The riot occasioned dur ling the strike of chauffeurs would have been avoided, they believe, if the same willingness to negotiate had beer
 shown as in the case of the recent
 bakers strike. They regard these
 manifestations as purely labor-unior
 difficulties, with no relation to thu broader phases of radicalism.
 Of all the sections of Mexico wher' tendencies toward Bolshevism hav'
 been noted Yucatan holds the cente of the stage. The system develope' by Salvador Alvarado in this section Z has grown under the Obregon re girne until day lsborers have extortes ? $50 day, as compared with $1.50 II normal times. Either because of tn, influence of Alvarado in the Obregol , administration or because the Mexi can president believed radicalisn , would burn itself out if left unhinderet
 the Central Government has takel , few steps to check the action of thu ] Yucatan radicals.
 . 1t is now announced, however, tha , General Serrano, the new Minister O , War, will make tour of inspection
 thru Yucatan. In some quarters thi is believed to foreshadow new poll cy on the part of Obregon with re speet to the Yucatan radicals.