The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Preparing the Case Against Mexico

Ambassador Sheffield returning Mexico for confer
ence with Coolidge Kellogg and presumably has carpet bag
f Of ~evidene of violations WarrenPayne
which provides compensation for American advenures whose
the enforcement Of the Mexican constitution
of 1917.
That the Coolidge kellogg Sheffield conference is merely
ormaty department thinks it necessary TO observe
before any public made Mexico and advantage taken
of the precpad by the hierarchy Of the catholic church
is ntimaed Washington dispatch to the Hearst press dated
August IA which says
ANY change Mexican policy of the United States
will hinge upon the report Ambassador Sheffield returning
from week it learned at the state department
today
In the meantime powerful capitalist papers like the Chicago
Tribune are theoretically preparing the ground for often
sve against The Tribune in series of special articles
only the Mexican agarian measures for the abon Oh
ndordsm division of the land the poems from the
administrative standpoint challenges the principle of this egs
aton. The Tribune says:
The agrarian movement in Mexico purely political
measure There any number of which andess
poems could settled under wise colonization scheme
But poems land already planted to crops and their
leaders poems election time OF all the millions
of which have been appropriated very small portion
is under cultivation today few herds and the
meat Mexico is increasingly large extent I'M
ported from the United States
The above statements deliberate peersion of the facts
We have space all the misstaemen IN detail
wnown rule of evidence that one statement OF wit
ness can false his whole testimony be mpeaced
The animal products Mexico rapidly increasing in amount
instead decreasing the Tribune quotation
implies The of in the United States
of which the Baldwin Locomotive company is
directormakes the following statement IN Its most
recent report:
The big drop in petroleum byproducs offset by the
increase in the export of other commodities
CHIEFLY IN ANIMAL PRODUCTS THE TOTAL AMOUNT
IN 1924 BEING 4364595 AGAINST 9S295O0 IN 1929
Emphasis ours
The export products land this trade is almost en-
ev with States DOUBLED in the year 192425 In
stead of showing 1t is manifesty impossible for ex
po unless domestic production
increases 1t precisely in the field Of stocang
where the charges decay that this tremendous increase has
taken place
Accompanying attack the agrarn law the Tribune has
long alleged prosecutions and appropriations of AMER
CANS Coodges statement relative to the elves and property OF
Americans given additional significance by such propa
ganda.
beginning the of Wall Street against the
Mexican people being prepared advance of the arrival of Am
bassador Sheffield.
stupid overlook such signs as these The
American labor which the Mexican labor movement
oosnd right OOr assistance must do more than
assert its neutrality Th Monroe Doctrine of Labor proclaimed
grandioquenty be made into for the
Mexican against American imperialism
Neutrality impossible American labor cannot play mega
tive either for the Mexican people for the
church and the imperaists whose tool it is ..-