The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-22
The Mexican Communist Party and
American Imperialism

The convention of the Mexican Communist Party
has outlined campaign against American i'm
perialism and one would expect that in it's coun-
try the officials of the trade unions would consider
such a move one of the greatest Importance to a
working class which is doubly exploited-by native
capitalists and by Wall Street.
But this is not the case. The offcaldom of the
Mexican Federation of Labor is tied neck and crop
to the policy of the American Federation of Labor
which, thru its tool the Pan American Federation
of Labor, prepares the Mexican labor movement
for it's daily sacrifice on the Wall Street altar.
In the old days when the Aztec priesthood ruled
what is now Mexico, prisoners Of war we're butcher
ed by the thousands to honor number of blood
stained deities. They were led up to the top of
the teocalis-the gigantic pyramids on which the
ceremonies were cOnducted-stripped bent back
over the sacrifcal stone, their breasts cut open
and their still beating hearts plucked out by the
priests
A ceremony similar in many respects to the
ancient customs was performed at Eel PasO. The
Mexican workers were led across the Rio Grande,
the high priests of Wall Street, CARRIED in the
habiliments of labor, dedicated them to American
Imperialism and sent them back across the river
in chains, to a death slower and less merciful than
that at the hands of the Aztec priesthood.
The chains on the limbs of American labor have
the naked eye But they are there and their clank-
ing is heard in Wall Street where it causes great
joy.
The Offcialdom of the Mexican labor movement
has assisted the sale into slavery of the workers.
They have been rewarded with well-pad positions
of ease and comfort.
1t is for this reason that they look with angry
eyes on the campaign launched by the Mexican
Communist Party-a campaign directed at their
paymasters.
The corruption and decay of the Mexican labor
movement is one of the most enlightening events
in recent Aemrican history. Once militant even
revolutionary, the Mexican labor movement has
been touched by the leprous hand of the agents of
American Imperialism the hand that blights what
ever its fingers clutch. In the United States its
agents in the ranks of labor are preaching uncon-
ditiOnal surrender to the master class. In Mexico
they have delivered the labor movement to the oil,
copper and timber barOns.
The Gales government is a creature of Wall
Street and wars on the Mexican working class.
The labor Judases give it protective coloring and
fool the masses who fought and bled for it, believ
ing it belonged to them.
1t is under such conditions that the Communist
Party of Mexico holds its convention and raises
the standard of against American imperial
ism. In the trade unions it meets the same perse-
cution that Communists in the United States are
familiar with but it operates in a country where
the working class has been reduced to a colonial
status and its task of exposing the treacherous
labor union oficialdOm before the masses is that
much easier.
The important thing is that the Mexican Com
munist Party has understood the nature of its
task and has attacked Mexican reaction at its
weakest point.