Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-12
Pan American Federation
Pledges Mexico Support

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, Feb. 10.-Following
the report of Santiago IglesiaS, Span
ish language secretary, on his recent
trip to Mexico, the executive COM
mite of the Pan-American Fedora
ton of Labor, through President Viii
liam Green, publicly declared its
earnest and reasoned belief that
nothing Mexico has done should be
the cause for unfriendly feelings be-
tween that government and ours"
1t was brought out forcefully that
there has yet been no cause for pro-
test on the part of the Government OF
the United States and that, regard
less of the content of the laws enact
ed in Mexico, there can not be a
proper cause for diplomatic protest
until there is an alleged injustice in
pursuance of the law, or as a result
of its enactment.
1t was further brought out that
there has been a general mlsrepre-
sentation of the character of the new
laws in Mexico regarding the alleged
retroactive terms in those laws. As
to this it is pointed out that there is
in the laws no retroactive feature In
reality and no feature from which, In
a just case, relief may not be had in
the courts.
No Cause for Friction.
Secretary of Labor Morones, in the
Gales cabinet, has been informed by
the American Federation of La
Dor that the organization does not
deem any cause for friction to exist
and that the organization will, now as
in the past, fight to the limit for a
continuance of the established har-
monious, friendly and peaceful rela-
lations between the two republics.
President Green said he hoped that
in all dealings of our Government with
Mexico they shall be based on fair
ness and justice" !,
Instead of hampering, the United
States should" he said, encourage
the economic advancement of the
$1,000, 900 people of that country.
Mexico Acts as u. S. Would.
From information just given me |
wish hto reiterate the pubic declara-
ton | made in June last that nothing
Mexico had done should be the cause
for unfriendly feeling between that
government and ours.
Santiago Iglesias, Spanish-speak-
ing secretary of the Pan-American
Federation of Labor, was sent by me
to Mexico City to investigate rumors
and charges that have been circulated
throughout the United States. | find
that Mexico has done nothing more
than what our own Government has
done. 1t claims the right, as the Unit
ed States claims the right, to handle
its own domestic affairs.
Certain States of our Union have
alien land laws and in some non-resl-
dent aliens are even forbidden to IN
herit land. The United States refuses
citizenship to certain nationals and In
some States they are forbidden to own
land. The immigration question Is
strictly a domestic affair.
Close Relations Enjoyed.
For more than ten years the Amer
lean Federation of Labor and Mexican
Federation of Labor have enjoyed
close relations. Each year those rela-
tons have become more friendly until
now both respect each other and feel
that through them a better feeling
can be maintained and advanced be-
tween the two governments.
"Mexico's problems are great. In
order to advance the interests of its
people it is necessary for its govern
ment to enact laws that will protect
them. Mexico is a sovereign state
and is the sole Judge of its domestic
affairs.
Plea for Fairness.
at is to be hoped that in all deal
ings of our Government with Mexico
they shall be based on fairness and
justice. Instead of hampering, the
United States should encourage the
economic advancement of the 15,OOO,-
900 people of that country. | am con-
WINGED that the following of such a
policy by our Government will be not
only to the benefit of Mexico but TO
the United States as we'll"