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Gomez Writes on the
Background of the
Conflict in Mexico
Continued from page u


tocracy at home, another represents
Rome, and the third is that of U. S.
Imperialism. These three heads can
not be confronted singly, for they all
grow upon a single body.
Religion plays only secondary role
in the conflict-religion and the church
being Of course two entirely different
things. What we are witnessing is a
phase Of the Mexican revolution. 1t
is customary in Mexico nowadays to
speak of the revolutionary period as
embracing the years 1911-1920, but
actually the revolution did not begin
with the overthrow of Don Porfirio
Diaz any more than it was terminated
by the overthrow of Venustiano Car
rama. The beginnings Of the bourge-
ois revolution in Mexico date back to
the so-called "Ayutla revolution the
reform laws and the constitution of
1857. The struggle Of those years was
against army, church and landed aris-
tocracy. The church was one of the
great props Of the semi.feudal system
As In Europe before the reformation
the church was rolling in wealth. Two
thirds Of all the land in Mexico were
said to belong to It. It's interests were
tied to those Of the ruling aristocracy,
not only economically but socially and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
SLUSH PROBERS
WILL RECALL
SAMUEL insult
Anti Saloon Leaguers
May Be Quizzed

The senate slush fund committee
will renew its labors at 10 a. m. this
morning in the federal building. It is
reported that among the star witnesses
expected to appear this week, are Fred
Lundln, reputed to be the "brains" OF
the Small machine, Samuel insult, the
spendrlft utility maenate, Clement
studebaker, auto and traction baron,
Ira D. copley, another traction mag
nate and sundry other personalities
who contributed large sums of money
to the campaign chests Of the SEN
atorlal asplrants.
Will Be Asked To Explain
Senator Reed is expected to ask the
donors why they were so generous and
what did they expect to gain, besides
patriotic satisfaction, from their gener-
osity.
1t is probable that Reed will have
to conduct the investigation alone as
Senator LaFollette has his hands full
with an election compaign in Wiscon-
sin.
The anti-salOon league OF Illinois
officials may be called as witnesses
and give their reasons for supporting
the Mckinley and Smith candidates..
Both are dry, tho Smith is supported
by the labor bureaucrats who are
everything but arid and by the Grove.
Barrett machine of Cook County,
which knows every bootlegger in the
state by his middle name.
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WRITE AS you FIGHT

dominant social forces in the revolu-
tionary movement-more or less under
the uncertain hegemony of the petty
bourgeoisie.
WREN estates began to be parti-
w toned out to peasant communities
and nationalist legislation began to be
projected, American imperialism took
alarm. As soon as the Mexican people
began to lay hands on the oil question
and on the question of foreign eco
nomic domination in general, Wall
Street became the outstanding enemy
of the Mexican revolution, allying it.
self with every reactionary element in
Mexico, from Felix Diaz to the catho-
lie church.
Thruout this period the church re-
manned an active rallying center for
reaction in Mexico. In the name of
religion, 1t mustered "the faithful" for
one political coup after another. 1t
openly and covertly supported counter.
revolution. 1t even stopped to trea-
son against the national interests, en-
gaging in countless intrigues with the
representatives of foreign capital.
TT was natural and necessary, there.
l. fore, that the constitution OF 1917,
which was a revolutionary nationalist
constitution aimed particularly at the
foreign monopolists OF Mexico's oil
and other resources should strike
hard blows at the power of the church.
President Gales Is the outstanding
representative Of Mexican natiohalism
on the petty-bourgeois program of the
constitution OF 1917. Determined to
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denominations. Cartoons are again
appearing here and there furtively
limiting at the possibility of counter
revolution. And in Mexico itself the
reactionary clericals, encouraged from
outside, are organizing leagues of re-
ligious defense" and engaging in open
and audacious conflict against the gov
eminent along the whole line.
VET Gales must stand firm. If the
L. church is not now finally stripped
of every strategic possibility for po-
iitical struggle the conquests of the
national revolution will be perma-
nently endangered. But the govern.
ment is finding that it cannot mobilize
its natural supporting strength without
turning to the working masses.
Among the politically and economi-
cally organized workers OF Mexico
the power Of the church has already
been broken. II is TO be hoped that
Gales will now cease his efforts TO
break up the organization of the rail-
road workers, give up his fltful at
tacks upon the Communists, and dis
continue insisting upon the necessary
domination of petty-bourgeois stand
ards, so that the entire organized
working class, together with all other
elements interested in maintaining ma.
tional sovereignty and the conquests
OF the hard-fought revolution, may
present common front to the native
and foreign forces OF reaction. Every
enemy of reaction and Imperialism
should support the Mexican govern.
ment in this crucial conflict.
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preserve the hegemony of the petty
bourgeoisie, he has not been too scru-
pulous in applying the working-class
provisions of the constitution. Be.
cause he was afraid to rely frankly
upon the working and peasant masses
he has sometimes had to vacillate in
his struggles against the imperialist
demands Of the United States-a cir
cumstance which must certainly do
him harm. Nevertheless, he Is a revo.
lutionary nationalist and has evolved
a program for the development OF an
Independent national economy which
is the first serious and systematic eff
fort of its kind put forward in Mexico.
Obregon lodged the provisions Of
the constitution referring to the
church, just as he lodged many other
provisions. Gales set out resolutely
to carry them into effect. The eonsti.
tuition OF 1917 goes much further than
that of 1857 in this respect. It not
only forbids clerical education OF chill
dren in public or private primary
schools, but 1t excludes all priests from
politics, prohibits foreign priests from
officiating and limits the priesthood in
various other ways. In his recently
issued regulations upon the subject,
Gales prohibits religious newspapers
from discussing politics or criticizing
the government.
TT must be remembered that these
regulations were issued at time
when the untiring political activities
Of the clergy were working hand and
glove with the reactionary elements at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
COUP BLOCKED
BY Threat OF
LABOR revolt
.MOrgqn's Hand Hidden
Behind Marshall Foch
(speelaI 10 The Daily Workerl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
PARIS, Aug. 2-lt was learned that
plot to establish a military dictator.
ship, in which American banking in
terests are suspected to have had a
hand, was Matched during BRANDS
premiership in June. The list of those
involved plainly indicate that the plot
ters were Interested In dlssolvlne tho
chamber Of deputies by force to puv
over the Mellon-Berenger debt agree
ment.
Were Interested in Debt Agreement.
The plotters met secretly on the
night of June %, and among their
number were Ambassador Berenger
and Doumer, head of the debt COM
mission to the United States, with
other members Of that commission.
Besides these were Aristide BRAND,
then premier, Marshall Foch, GeA-
eral Guillaumat, and Joseph Caillaux.
The chamber of deputies was to
meet five days later and pass upon
Brands program. The plot was to
take test vote on minor question,
and if not upheld, the parliament was
to be dissolved by force.
To Dispense Deputies.
1t was arranged with Marshal Foch
and General Guillaumat to use troops
to surround the chamber Of deputies.
At signal from BRAND, cavalry Of
ficer would enter with soldiers under
his command and order the chamber
cleared, with sabers if necessary. The
troops were to proceed upon instruc-
tions from the minister Of war.
All that prevented this coup d'etat
was the fact that news of it leak
ed to the extreme left, the Communist
and socialist members OF the cham
Der. Preparations were made and the
ultimatum sent TO BRAND that if troops
were called out, the working class
would be called to rise behind them
in revolt, The plotters had to give up
their plan. They wanted a dictator
ship, but not a dictatorship OF the
workers.
Morgan Wants Accounting.
PARIS, Aug. 2.-The Morgan bank
ing interests have informally demand
ed of the French treasury that IL
make an accounting on exactly when
and for what the Morgan loan to
France was used, and the present
balance of the loan. -
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politically as well. Recognized Off
cially as the state church, to the ex-
clusion of all others, it's mighty organ
ization was part of the reactionary
governing machinery, as a part of
which it engaged in constant political
intrigues and exercised religious-politi-
cal domination over the fearful masses
from the cradle to the grave.
The Reform Laws.
THE famous Reform Laws and the
l. constitution Of 1857, carried thru
under the leadership of Benito Juarez,
severed once for all the official rela-
tionship between church and state.
They also abolished monasteries and
converts, prohibited the church from
owning property and secularized pub
lie education.
During the long years OF the Diaz
dictatorship, however, the church SLOW
ly regained much of its former power.
The constitution OF 1857 was still
nominally in effect but most OF its
anti-clerical provisions, like many
others, became dead letters.
With the popular revolution against
Diaz the modern period in Mexico be.
gins. To the revolutionary movement
was added a new force: the agrarian
revolution, the struggle Of the poor
peasants for the land. Moreover, as
the rapid stages of revolution from
1911 on succeeded each other, the up
heayal ceased to be entirely capitalist
in the classic sense. A militant prole.
tariat emerged, and peasants, workers
and petty bourgeoisie became the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
schlsmatlc Church Ready.

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2-The Roman
Catholic church in Mexico, working
under orders from the Vatican, is fos-
tering the development of an eco
nomic crisis in Mexico with the OBJ
ject of causing the overthrow of the
government of President Gales, today
charged Father A. Lopez, general Sec
rotary of the Mexican schismatic
Catholic church.
'In view of the circumstances in
which the nation as whole has been
placed by the action of the Roman
church in abandoning its temples and
disseminating religious services,
thereby causing disgust and incon-
venience, the Mexican Catholic church,
firm in it's purposes, theoretically
places all its resources at the services
of the Catholic people of Mexico" said
Lopez.
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MAY USE TROOPS TO
STOP MINE PIGKETS,
is BRITISH THREAT

LONDON, August 2. -Intimation
that the government intends to use
troops to prevent further picketina
in the coal fields was made today in
the house of commons by Sir Will
liam Joynson Hicks, home secretary,
when he moved the continuance Of
the state emergency for another
month, in accordance with the kings
proclamation.
Sir William appealed to the labor
ties to use their influence among the
coal strikers to "maintain calm" so
that it will mot be necessary to use
troops.
Tho there have been numerous
small clashes in the coal fields since
the strike began, Sir William ad-
mitted that thus far none has as
sumed serious proportions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
VIGIL Radio Program

Chicago Federation of Labor radio
broadcasting station VIGIL is on the
air with regular programs. 1t is
broadcasting on 491.5 wave length
from the Municipal Pier.
TONIGHT.
$500 to 7ioo-chioaao Federation Of Ia.
Dor Talks and Bulletins.
200 to 7:3o-EIeana Moneak ouintette,
Chamber Music.
1880 to s;ao-vaudeviIe Program; Little
Joe Warner, Character Singing; Miss
vella Cook, contraltoj Kenneth n. cIark's
Hawaiian 0uartette,
$3.50 to e;oo-WcFL Ensemble: Instru.
mental Solos, Musical Comedy Shows.
500 to s;3o-corrlne ingram, Popular
songs Jimmie Epeert, Songs Of Today
$3.50 to 1o:oo-Request Hour-Pop1Iar
Dance Music.
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AMERICAN LABOR
STANDS BEHIND
GENERAL GALES
Support Enforcement
of Constitution
Continued from page u

Caranza, Villa and Obregon, in 1914,
disposed of Huerta with their new
revolutionary armies, they made a
covenant that the reform laws of 1857
should be enforced and that a new
constitution should be given Mexico,
safeguarding the political and econ
omic liberties Of the masses. Car
rama revolted, and he was overthrown
by labor's military leaders-Obregon
and Calles-when he betrayed the
pledges he had made to labor Obre-
gon kept faith, and Gales after him
has kept faith, in the opinion Of Mex
lean labor affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor. It will be remem-
bered that Samuel Gompers was the
guest of honor at the inauguration of
Gales, just before his fatal illness in
December, 1924.
Maintenance of Public Order.
AS viewed by the American Fedora
ton of Labor, the present problem of
the Gales administration, with refer
ence to the church authorities, is one
of maintenance of public order. These
church officials actively supported the
revolt of a section of the army under
Adolfo de la Huerta, in the winter of
1923-24, against the Obregon admins
tration. They have always opposed
the distribution of lands to the poems
and the granting of wider political in
fluence and economic security to the
organized workers. They have kept
the organized labor movement on the
defensive. And turnout the revolu-
tionary period and the period of peace
which followed the defeat of de la
Huerta they have, in the opinion of
Mexican labor, violated the laws of
1857, never repealed, which forbade
the church to own property and for.
babe aliens to act as clergymen. Now
Gales has provided penalties for VIC
lations of these old laws, and has
served notice that the laws will be en-
forced, in order that Mexico shall be
free from the danger of reactionary
revolts.
American Labor Backs Mexico.
American organized labor, as shown
by resolutions adopted year after year
in convention, has encouraged Next
can labor to extend its power in or
der that the Mexican masses may be
freed from the old subsection to a
privileged class that held most of the
land and all of the military. It dis
likes discussion of religious issues. 1t
regrets that a church issue has been
created. But it stands by Gales and
Mexican organized labor, the domi-
nant liberalizing force in the repub-
lie.
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CURRENT EVENTS
BY r. !. o'Flaherty.
Cont uued from page y

Cont uued from page y
sight he SCUM ded the alarm. II those
little go-gette RS are encouraged they
should develo into utility magnates
some day ami finance the political
campaigns of needy senatorial aspir-
ants.
TALK about Keeping All the switch.
4 This is wol tse. A lseventy-three.
year-old groom, by name Benneto (not
Benito) Ferrara,. was to be married
to Rosalia GiarI upto, Is, at p. m
1t is quite likely that the groom was
poor and that t he young bride was
taking pity on hi loneliness. Now, it
was Rosalias fl st venture in matri-
mony and she we IS i'm patient. so was
not Benneto. RI Isalta must have for
titude, for it waJ after four, and the
groom was still waiting to come.
1--WE O'Clock CO me and still the am
l. orous lover came not. Rosalia
wept. Her broth er swore. He went
to seek Benneto, peady to challenge
him to mortal COZ nh at for sighting his
sister He found the groom slumber-
ing peacefully i d a chair Selling
him by the neck, lie pushed him into
a convenient ice wagon and rushed
him to the altar. The happy couple
returned to Benne tos home for the
honeymoon. Anot her marriage was
recorded in heaven
-
WHO ruins Chin a? A better ques-
w ton would be Who is running
China? Part of t he answer to this
question can be 70 und in the alleged
accord recently reached between
England and Japan over the ALLEGATION
of the personnel Ell nployed in the Chi
nese maritime Gus toms. The accord,
as it is called, inc reases the number
of Japanese empld yes in the customs
and gives Japanesl9 banks proportion
ate shares Of Chin csc customs funds
for deposit. Most of those now en-
ployed in the custt rms are British. 1t
is reported that ST has Strawn was in
on the agreement.
H.
THUS our Chris tian and heather
L governments an dividing the Chi
nese spoils between them. Is is sur
prising that those international bur
glars should look with hate on Soviet
Russia, which STREET ches out a friendly
hand to the struga ling Chinese peo-
pie? Is it surprisi ng that our CAPT
talist publicists should try to poison
the minds of the people of all coun-
tries against the Chinese elements
who are lighting to free their country
from the foreign Nvultures that are
preying on them?
Get an autographed copy Of Red
Cartoons by Fred Ellis and Robert
"A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
TWO MORE 1924
GARMENT STRIKE
PICKETS FREED

Mrs. Sophie Ruddell Sophie Young)
and John Gottlip left the Cook county
Jail amid the wild cheers and applause
Of fellow members of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union after
they had ended their sentences for
defying Injunction" Judge Denis E.
Sullivan's anti-picketing edict.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04
AATI-CLERICAL BANNERS
CARRIED BY PARADERS
SHOW LABOR ATTITUDE
(speeIaI to Ia paIIy W0rkerl

AOPCklel " ti0 lazy NNNIRoIl
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2.-The ban.
ners carried by the paraders in the
big labor demonstration against the
church on Sunday that filled the
wide Mexico City avenues and took
hours to pass, were very enliehten-
ing as to the attitude of the work
ingclass towards the clergy.
Some of the banners read: 1--WE
Are Not Slaves of Rome" "What
Have The Clergy Done For The
PeopIe?" president Gales Com
pleted The Work Of Jaurez,"
"clericism Is The Enemy Of Thot"
and "You Mexicans, What Right
Has Rome To Dominate Your"
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They can do even better work II
they will become affiliated, wher-
ever possible, with the American
trade union movement, if they will
link themselves organizationally
with the Workers (Communist)
Party and help build the Labor
Party.
They must also work for the
closer utilization of the organized la
Dor movement in the United States
with the labor unions in the islands.
There are about $4,000 Filipinos
in the United States, to be found in
such scattered cities as Chicago,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle,
New York City, Omaha, Detroit,
Cleveland. Baltimore and Minnea-
polls. About 1000 are students,
working their way thru American
schools, and planning to return to
the islands. 1t may be taken for
granted that every one Of these is
an advocate of independence.
Few workers in this country to-
day realize the fact that growing
colonial empire Is developing under
the stars and stripes, and that the
Philippine Islands constitute the
richest part of that empire, thereby
making It valuable and treasured
source of loot.
The conditions Of labor in the
colonies directly affect the labor
struggle in the homeland. Already
the American Federation of Labor
fears the competition of cheaper
Filipino labor. 1t is, therefore, to
the self-interest of American labor
to help raise the standards of living,
not only of the Filipino, but of all
oriental peoples.
The Filipino workers must learn,
even as American workers are learn
ing, that they cannot depend on any
other class to achieve their enamel
patton. The latest news sent out by
the press agents accompanying Col
onel Carmi Thompson, Coolidge's
eye, on his tour of the Philippines,
is that a native lawyer and bust
ness man." have informed the pres
ident's representative of their en-
phatic opposition to independence at
this time.
1t is to be expected that such
traitors will turn up. The ruling
class always has gold to purchase
them. 1t does purchase them.
The British Empire has purchas-
ed them in India, Egypt and else
where. The American Empire buys
them in Hawaii, the Philippines, Gu
ba, Porto Rico, or in the semi-sub-
ject nations of Latin and South
America,
The DAILY WORKER fights for
the Filipino workers as part of its
struggle for the whole worlds work
ing class.
1t puts special emphasis on the lib
Grafton movement in the Philip
pines, because that struggle is the
special concern of the workers of
the United States and The DAILY
WORKER exerts every effort to
make them realize that fact. May
the courage that The DAILY
WORKER inspires in the Filipino
workers resident in this country en-
courage them to join in this effort.
The working class must achieve
unity in its war against the enemy
capitalist class.
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Mexican Workers
Unite in Demonstration
Continued from page y

NCNN'AANS4 - go h@e9~ -
cream and movies is concerned, but
the poorer classes seldom have any.
thing but the barest necessities any
how and a boycott of Injuries, is for
them, quite meaningless.
Another plot against Gales life is
thot to have been unearthed when a
Catholic girl government employe was
arrested with several other women
all implicated with evidence pointing
to possible attempt at the deed, but
the story is discounted in well-in-
formed quarters.
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Chicago Officials Statement.

The statement which appeared in
the Chicago Tribune's Sunday edition
in which the Gales government is as
sailed by number of Chicago labor
officials for its enforcement of the
Mexican constitution confiscating vast
estates of the church and allowing
only Mexican citizens to be clergy
men, is not an official statement of
the Chicago Federation of Labor or of
the Chicago labor movement. 1t is the
personal statement of number of Of
ficials of unions that are using their
office in an attempt to make it appear
that the Chicago labor movement op-
posed Gales action against the clergy.
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Chicago |. L. D. Branch to Hear
Max Schachtman.

Max Scbachtman, editor of 1.-THE
Labor Defender" official monthly or
gan of international Labor Defense,
will be the speaker at the next meet
ing of the Eugene Barnett branch Of
the Chicago International Labor De-
Tense. His subject will be 1.-THE Sec
ond National Conference of the /. L. d.
Its Significance to the Workers"
The meeting will be held at 1888
Hirsch boulevard tonight at p. m.
sharp. All members Of the branch
are urged to be in attendance and to
bring sympathizers to the meeting.
WHITE Ae NOII EIcIrt
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Install SOC, oooth Phone Here.

CHICAGO, Aug. celebrating the
fifteenth year of the telephone in Chi
cago, the Illinois Bell Telephone Com
pany today installed its S00,OOOth IN
strument in the Office of B. e. Sunny,
chairman of the board.