The Washington times., 1924-01-10
MEXICAN LABOR
GRATEFULT0
COOLIDGE
In Mexico. obregon's Party ls
Radical and Huerta's
Conservative.
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ernment Of the revolution" In Mex.
leo the "Revolutionists'' are In Of
flee under Obregon, and are Ell
gagged in taking land away from
large landowners and in dividing
1t among the peasants.
Huerta II Opposed.
The leaders Of the De La
Huerta faction have shown them.
selves hostile to this division, which
is sometimes called ''confiscati0n. "
President Coolidge, In giving mill.
tary help to Obregon, finds himself
on the side Of the Revolution, q
and his usefulness to It has raised
up for him q host Of admirers In
the Mexican farmer -labortte fele'
ment.
In the United States Senate the
radical northwestern Republican
and Farmer.Labor Senators have
been put in an embarrassing dilem
ma by this situation. In principle
they object to the furnishing of
arms by this Government to a for.
eign government. On the other
hand a delegation Of Mexican and
American labor representatives has
explained to them that these arms
viii be used In support Of a gov.
ernment which admittedly is favor
able to farner.laborism. The Obre-
gon side is their side. They today
were making no great stir to pre-
vent President Coolidge and Hughes
from helping It.
LabOrite ObregOn's Aide.
It appears that the General Sec
retary Of the Mexican Labor Party,
which is rather more radical than
the British Labor Party, has been
President Obregon's chief Of mum.
tions. This man 1s Luis N. Nor
ones who, along with all the rest
OF the Mexican Labor Party, is
supporting the presidential candi-
dacy Of Plutarcho Elias Gales.
President Obregon is also support.
ing it.
President obregon has given many
high official positions to members
OF the Mexican Labor Party and
has followed policy regarded as
favorable to labor and to the
peasants and now, besides being
backed by Coolidge and Hughes, he
tB getting the support Of large num-
bers Of hastily recruited workers
ana peasants who belong to trade
unions and to farmers unions.
It is now regarded here as Ger.
tain that II President ObregOn re.
tains his power he will owe It to
the American State Department and
to the Mexican farmer.labor organi.
Nations which fear that Aldolpho de
Ia Huerta would side with the land.
lord elements and the big business
elements and stop what Is called
"the work of the revolution"
Hughes Opposed COnfiscatlOn.
Additional interest is lent to this
situation by the discovery that
Adolpho de Ia Huerta's chief gen.
erals-Henrique Estrada and Quad
alupe Sanchez--are charged with
being well known critics and enc.
mics OF article twenty.seven OF the
Mexican constitution, which is pre-
cisely the article that deferred
Hughes for such q long time from
being willing to recognize Obregon.
It is under article "a that land
10 taken from landowners and
divided among the peasants.
Estrada was deposed by ObreEon
from being Secretary Of ARri.
culture because he took q hostile
view Of this division and Of
article q. Sanchez. as military
commander under Obregon OF the
district In which Vera Cruz is
situated, lmpeded the operation Of
article 81 and arrested many
members Of. farmers unions who
were trying to get land.
ObregOn the Radical.
The Huerta-E Estrada -Sanchez fac.
ton b accordingly called ICON.
servative," while the obregon.
Gales faction IL called radical"
It got 30 radical" and "progres.
sive" and forward-loolinx" and
"idealistic'i that It reduced the
Mexican national army from
10000 men to $4,000 and reduced
It's munitions accordingly. This Is
the reason why now It has to ret
munitions from Hughes who
recognizes the ObregOn govern.
msnt - the government Qf satal-