The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26
URGE WORKERS
AR NJ AND SEIZE
POWER IN MEXICO
Communist Manifesto
Demands Action
Special to The Daily worksry

MEXICO CITY, March 24.-The
Communist Party of Mexico tells the
workers and peasants of that coun-
try IN a manifesto that counter-revo-
lutionary movements such as those of
de la Huerta are a continual dinger
until the workers. and peasants them
selves are organized into an army
and workers and peasants govern
ment is instituted.
The present government is afraid
of the workers and trusts rather to
reactionaries who betray 1t, as was
shown in the de la Herta fascist
movement. The manifesto follows:
Manifesto OF the Communist Party
of Mexico to the Workers and Pea
SAINTS:
HE reactionary rebellion Of
A Sanchez, Estrada, and De la
{. Huerta is near to its end. The gov
eminent, aided by the peasants, the
workers, and the major part of the
army, has won. During the danger,
the Communist Party aided the gov
eminent with all its forces. We did
this not because we considered the
government perfect but because we
understood that the reaction was in
finitely worse. Now that the immi-
nent danger of the reaction has dis
appeared, we wish to call the atten-
ton Of the peasants and workers to
the serious errors made by the Gov
eminent, which made possible the re-
bellion.
There is only one way to prevent
ounter-revolution. This one way
is the formation Of a peasants and
workers government. Peasant and
worker not only in the legislatures
but also in the tribunals; not only in
its tribunals but also in its national
Executive and in the Executives Of
all the states; not only in it's execu-
tives but also and above all, in the
real force of the government: THE
ARMY.
Follow Russian Example.
When the workers and peasants of
Russia conquered in their revolution
against. the Bourgeoisie in 1917, they
created tribunals not of lawyers and
advocates, but Of workers and pea
SAINTS. The law of the new tribunals
said: "Any man that works can serve
as Judge, except advocates, lawyers,
former judges and students of law"
And the tribunals Of Workers and
Peasants Russia have never blocked
the agrarian demands of the peasants.
Today not one landowner is left in
Russia. 6hat is what you call an
agrarian revolutionl
When the workers of Russia--our
sister country-took power, they dis
armed all troops in sympathy with
the bourgeoisie or the landed inter-
ests; they dismissed all reactionary
generals; they armed all the revolu-
tionary peasants and workers; put a
Communist Trotzky at the head Of
the army; they made generals of the
workers themselves and formed the
famous Red Guard. This Red Guard
has been able, during six years, not
only to prevent any counter-revolu-
ton, but also to defeat the interven-
ton of France, England, Poland, ia
pan, the United States and twelve
other countries, defending itself
against the whole united Capitalist
World
Resetionsry Generals.
Our Government has left an en-
tire division in the command Of
Guadalupe Sanchez, and what is
worse, knowing all the time the re-
dictionary sympathiss of Sanchez,
commended to him the criminal task
Of disarming the most revolutionary
peasants of Vera Cruz. This is a
fact known by every one, to which
may be added the tragic death of
Felipe Carrillo in Yucatan, whose
traitorous military elements would
have been reduced to impotence, by
the workers of the Peninsula II they
had been permitted to bear arms.
Our Government has left an entire
division in the hands of Enrique
Estrada. President Obregon knew
that Estrada was a reactionary in
things agrarian, because the president
himself says: 81 offered Estrada the
post Of Minister of Agriculture, but
the declarations he made were so
reactionary and SO opposed to the
agrarian aims Of the Revolution that
! had to withdraw the offer" Never
theless he left Estrada in command
Of an entire division, as if the army
did not mean anything to q revolu-
tionary government.
Must Have Workers Army.
The Russian Revolution armed its
workers and peasants. Our revolu-
ton was unable to furnish the work
ers and peasants with arms when they
asked for them. The Government
has not known how, OF has been un-
able to destroy the professional army
and to create proletarian army.