The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-07
'OBREGON PARTY
FACES SPLIT over
ASSASSINATION
Labor Leader Charged
with Act
BY BERTRAM D. WOLFE
(Stah Correspondent Of the FEDERATED Pres

MEXICO CITY.-A split is threat
ening in the civil forces of the fed
eral government where a serious
difference of opinion has arisen over
the poorly named question Of direct
action" The rumors to that effect
took open form few days ago when
Vito Alesio Robes, staunch govern
ment supporter, ex-minister of labor,
and senator with socialistic tenden-
cies, offered a motion to impeach
Luis n. Morones, deputy and leader
Of the Laborista party, so that his
dismissal from the chamber might
deprive him of his parliamentary
privilege Of exemption from arrest.
He might then be called to account
for the murder of another senator
for which Robes declared Morones
responsible.
The break became more open
when Jose Vasconcelos, minister Of
education in the cabinet, rendered
his resignation by telegraph to Presi-
dent Obregon. He refused to make
a statement, but it is we'll under
stood that the same question is i'm
volved.
The senator who was murdered
outside the senate chambers a few
days previously, was Field Jurado,
Cooperatista. 1t is generally felt,
that the assassination was political
and his opponents charge Morones
with the moral responsibility. They
base their charge on a chain of cir
cumstantial evidence beginning with
the murder of Felipe Carrillo by the
facsisti in Yucatan, followed by
threats Of vengeance on the part Of
Morones and other prominent labor
leaders.
These threats gradually took the
form of punitive expedition to Yu-
catan on the one hand, and of using
"direct action" against the senators
and representatives who, altho parti-
sans of the counter-revolution re-
manned in the national congress to
block legislation and particularly to
block the ratification of the claims
convention between Mexico and the
United States. These senators could
not legally be touched because of
their parliamentary exemption.
Leaders of the Mexican Fedora
ton Of Labor gave notice publicly
that if these friends of the counter
revolution did not cease their OBJ
struction they would be made to. The
federation leaders telegraphed to the
president on the western front, ask
ing him to furnish train facilities to
the parliamentary fascist so that
they might go and join the counter
revolution, where they belonged"
Senator Field Jurado then wrote
a letter to Morones which is reported
to declare that he would be in the
senate on such a day and every day
thereafter and that he would do his
utmost to block the work of the gov
eminent till de LaHuerta should be-
come president of Mexico. He was
there at the appointed hour and time
and so was an automobile with armed
men. When he left the senate house
shots fired from the auto ended his
life. The auto disappeared.
Immediately there was strong diff
ference of opinion expressed on the
matter. One faction of the civil
government declared that such VEN
geance degraded the supporters of
the government to the same level as
the murderers Of Felipe GARLIC.
These included such men as Vascon-
celos, Alesio Robes and others. The
president from the battlefield issued
a statement condemning the murder
and requesting that every effort be
made to apprehend and punish the
responsible parties. Vasconcelos re-
signed when more than week had
passed and no arrests had been
made. The text of his resignation is
not yet public but / have reason to
believe that it refers specifically to
the murder of Senator Field and
protests absolute loyalty to General
Obregon.
Enemies of the growing domina-
ton of the Laborista party within
the central government are working
the opportunity for all it's worth
trying to force the government to
repudiate Morones.