The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-30

MEXICO CITY.-One Of the phe-
AVA nomena that accompany the per
sonal relationships disguised in demo
cratic forms so typical of many Latin
American countries, is the rapid pro
gressive disintegration Of the political
parties or groups to which the presi-
dents Of Mexico nominaIly belong
This disintegration was covertly To-
mented both by Gales and Oregon,
as It is the only alternative to his
fortifying such groups and thus hav-
ing to share with them his power and
perhaps even submit to their discip-
line.
THIS constitutes the immediate poll
= teal cause of the disintegration
of the so-called socialist" bloc in the
present chamber of deputies which
manifests itself in the form OF a con
hict between its constituent parties,
the Agrarista and the Laborista
(Agrarian and Labor parties.) More
over, there are deeper-lying social
causes which determine both the per
sonal dictatorship and the conflict be-
tween the parties in question.
In Mexico, where every movement
tends to take the form Of a crystal
lization around a personal chieftain
or caudillo with the consent of or in
revolt against the big chief who is
head of the army and president of the
nation, the labor party cannot be ex-
planned without great emphasis upon
its own caudillo and the particular
presidents that il has supported or
fought.
THE labor party, like the Confedar-
4 acton Regional Obrera Mexicana on
which it tries to base itself, grew I'D
around the personality of Luis N.
Morones and little group Of follow
ers (about half dozen.) At the same
time, its name, Tabor" and its pre-
tended socialist program are explain
able as filling certain vague aspira-
tions of the masses.
The labor party first became a poll
tical force in the petty maquinations
that center around the president and
the chambers while Carranza was the
supreme chieftain of the nation. All
of its leaders, including Morones, were
then in the pay of Carranza. How
ever, he elected to aid In its disinte-
grafton in favor of other parties and
Morones joined forces with Oregon.
Gales and De la Huerta who prepared
a revolt which overthrow Carranza
within one month after il started.
Morones then became the representa-
tive Of the Obregon government in
the labor movement. being in the pay
Of Obregon as he had formerly been
in that of Carranza.
THE political majority of the then
parliament finding that Oregon and
Gales elected to reinforce the labor
and agrarian parties as the more cas-
lily controlled group. changed from
support to hostility and engineered
with the aid of the military and some
support from English capital and
Mexican landowners, the De la Huerta
rebellion. The rebellion crushed, the
labor and agrarian parties remained
as the sole administration parties, and
the forms Of an election were gone
thru on behalf Of their candidate, Cal
les.
From the moment that Gales as
sumed power, it became obvious that
he was going to eliminate the agrar-
ian party from the political arena. His
very cabinet appointments foreshad-
owed It It had been foregone con-
clusion that the agrarian party would
have the ministry Of agriculture and
the labor party the ministry OF COM
merce, industry and labor Morones
was the candidate for the latter posi-