The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-10

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The deportation threats had become
chronic. Every time the Communist
Party issued a new manifesto or
started new move, every time new
union indicated tendencies of mill
tant nature-came another expulsion
threat.
Tension frightened in June.
But Of a sudden, towards the end
of June, tension frightened in Mexico.
The government became panicky
when it saw the autonomous unions
urged on by the Communists, prepare
the first steps toward the formation
of national federation independent
of the government-which federation
promises to control the basic oil in
dustry, railwaymen and others, leav-
ing the government unions only in
control Of minor industries. Also the
American state department became
uneasy and "protesty." And above all,
there doomed on the horizon the sin
lister cloud of a general strike of the
most powerful labor group in Mexico,
the railway federation.
The Communists had been predict
ing the strike and explaining its ne
cessity for a year and half-ever
since the signing of the Lamont-De la
Huerta treaty. The Communist state.
ment issued then to the effect that
the standardization (return to pri-
vate hands, of the aforementioned
railways proYided by the treaty con
tanned secret provision to the effect
that before handing over the roads
the government was to lower wages
break down conditions and destroy
the powerful railway federation
The guess" of the Communists as
to a secret provision attracted little
attention among railwaymen at first
but bit by bit the actions of the gov
eminent made it clear that it had no,
been guesswork but correct analysis.
Thereupon, the railwaymen began en-
tering the Communist Party and pre-
pairing for a fight. By twos and
threes they entered, and then by tens
and twelves. May LIST found them so
far advanced in their militant mood
that they invited Wolfe to address
their May Day meeting. BY June
first they had invited him to start
class in the tactics of the class
struggle in their headquarters. A
government representative "unoficial.
ly" interviewed Wolfe and informed
him that the class would not be per-
mitted. After the first lecture of the
course, he received a second visit and
was informed that he would never
give the second lesson, that deporta.
ton papers were ready and that if he
knew what was good for him he would
drop it,"
RalIwaymen Join Party.
The class continued and after every
session some new railwaymen Joined
the darty. Alliance, organ of the AL
lance Of Mexican Railwaymen, be-
gan carrying articles favorable to
Communism. It's editor joined the
party. The party named committees
Of action to aid the railway strike
and the unions began putting them
selves on a strike footing. The last
week in June they elected a Commun.
list general secretary Of the Fedora
ton.
The government perceived that
"orientation" and strike were synono-
nous and rightly judged that this
class in the tactics Of the class strug-
gle would complicate their problem of
crushing the railway unions. In fact
anything which tended at this juno
ture to increase the will to struggle
and the capacity for struggle of the
railwaymen was menace to the gov
eminent and to the imperialist La.
mont-De la Huerta treaty. This class
had become to Gales a nightmare, n
symbol Of resistance to his policy or
surrender to American capitalism.
And the presence Of Wolfe had be.
come announcement"
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
June ~, 2S, and 30. there were con-
ferences between the executive of the
party and various prominent Com
munist railwaymen and sympathiz-
ers.
On June 30 there was to be a gen
eral railwaymens meeting and on
July 1 the new Communist secretary
OF the Federation was to take ONCE.
On June 80 Wolfe disappeared and 36
hours later--the fastest time possible,
he was on the American side of the