The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
American Labor Should
Watch ToiIers' Struggle
in Mexico Under Gales
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, Gen. Putarco Elias Gales president of Mexico.
President Samuel Gompers with 800 officials Of the
American Federation of Labor, delegates Ell
Paso convention conspicuous participants in the est
Wies incident to the Inauguration. American socialists with
whom Gales fratenzed during his recent brief stay in this
country, hail the regime in Mexico as their
Con1pers accepted the rule Of Premier Macdonald, in
Great Britain that stood loyal to all the mperast policies
Of the British Empire and the socialists Of the United States
have snted in their declarations Of solidarity with the
bloody regime of Fritz Ebert president Of the German
capitalist republic Of the Krupps and the Thyssens
American labor must realize that there is as yet no
Workers Republic Of the Rio Crande. There
struggles ahead for the Mexican workers and peasants be-
fore they achieve Soviet Rule Gompers not in Mexico
City help toward the emancipation of Mexican labor He
there to help strange in the chains OF American inn
periaism to keep it obedent to the capitalist system in
which he believes
The Communist international has clearly pointed out
that there possibilities for the Gales govern
ment in Mexico, just double alternative faces every
hestatng compromising betrayng socaldemocracy These
the following:
to bray peasants shamefuly
q " to put the state apparatus fully the disposal Of the
taxation and the petty bourgeois
maintain expensive military apparatus by
placing administrative posts)
ruptcy
Both Of these alternatives give equal benefits to the
return OF the capitalists to power.
Gales acquiesced in the oustng of the Communist dele
gates from the gathering Of Mexican labor Jaurez;
crime against the Mexican workers and peasants under the
tuteage of Gompers himself
Thruout the entire period Of obregons regime Gales
party to the attacks of the government on the work.
ing class.
AS president over all Mexico Gales will be different
than the late Felipe caro who headed the socialist regime
in Yucatan He will suppress the militant trade unions
opposed him. accompanied with brutal persecution of the
Communists He will hesitate to shoot them down when
necessary
Workers peasants the Inauguration ceremonies
held Mexico City, cheeed the right hand of President
Gales Deputy Luis Marones the Compers Of Mexico But
the Mexican will learn that neither Maones
Compers their fend that their real champions the faith
full fighters for their class the Communists who
expelled from the Gompers American Federation
of Labor and Marones Confederation Regional obrera
Mexicana.
The Washington correspondent of the Federated Press
grows enthusiastic about the Gales regime in Mexico,
he did about LaFoe prospects during the recent cleo
He saws that the trade unonsts in Mexico relied
upon the first line Of The arsenas are IN the
hands Of labor officials Many trade unions thru military
drill with full accoutremens furnished from these arsenas
he points OUT
But the big crime comes when the workers in Mexico,
Germany and elsewhere will be led to turn their guns
the mtants in the labor movements just as they use
their votes in their trade unions to expei the Communists
directions against the capitalist enemy and all its allies
The future struggles Of labor in States will
be mrored in the experiences OF Mexican labor under the
regime Of Gales Germany, Italy and Great Britain are
the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, thousands of miles
away. Mexico is close at hand.
American abor's oHiciadom holds aloof from Europe
But It is interested in Mexico, like Americas great mpeas
Labor north south of the Rio Crande will find
many interests in
Labor in Mexico will not be free until It has established
Mexican Soviet Republic usher in the Communist social
order The only way that labor in the United States
freedom Of Mexican labor, has achieved
its emancipation, Is to the ruins of the capitalist
order in this country Republic Of the United
North and South America These are things worth thinking
about as the sef-procamed saviour Of Mexican labor,
Gales, mounts the presidential chair at Mexico City.