The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
ARGENTINE FASCIST
THREATEN WORKERS

The "LiSa Patri6tica Argentina"
an organization supported by the
so-called Association Nacional de
Trabajac (National Labor Associa-
tion) which is actually an organiza-
ton of the most reactionary anti
union manufacturers in state
ment to the press, declared that it
has no confidence in the ability and
desire of the new president Irigoyen
to repress labor agitation and that
it must therefore prepare to take
matters into its own hands as in
1919.
During the previous presidency of
Irigoyen in 1919, a general protest
strike in Buenos Aires developed
from strike for higher wages in
one factory, when strikebreakers and
police killed strikers. In the strug-
giles which followed, lasting several
days, the Patriotic League of Ar
gentina," having recruited and
armed students, sons of bourgeois,
gainsters and the lumpen-prole-
tariat, attacked the buildings of the
trade unions and the labor papers,
destroyed them and burned them to
the ground with the passive and s.
tive assistance of the police. In these
fights several hundred on both sides
were killed and the January week in
which this occurred is known in Ar
gentine history as "bloody week"
Though the workers were defeated
in this unequal struggle against the
police, and the armed bourgeoisie,
Irigoyen negotiated with the leaders
of the labor movement for the cessa-
ton of the general strike and
promised to force the manufacturers
against whom the original strike
had started to accede to all the de-
mands of the strikers. He also
promised to release all workers of
the several thousand arrested in the
course of the street fights. Under
these conditions-promises which
Irigoyen kept, the Regional Fedora
ton of Labor (Fora) called off the
general strike.
This incident contributed to Irigo-
yen's popularity among large part
of the workers and the lack of con-
fidence on the part of the powerful
reactionary Argentine manufactur-
RS association, bearing the name
National Association of Labor"
This organization opposed the can
didacy of Irigoyen and supported
with large sums the candidacy of
the conservative concentration" an
alliance of the remnants of the old
conservative party and the right
wing of the split Radical Party,
the so called anti personalista
against the leadership of Irigoyen)
or "Alvearista" wing, which was de-
feated in the last election.
Fascist Threat.
The manifesto of the "Argentine
Patriotic League" headed by the
famous strikebreaker, Carries, says:
"The brigades Of the interior sent
to the Central Committee of the
Argentine Patriotic League declara-
, tions of adhesion to the resolution
put again in force the measures of
security adopted by tbs institution
, i'll 1919"
"The brigades of the interior
point out at this juncture the neces-
, sity of preventing the country from
again passing through commissions,
under appearance of labor move
, ments, as it had to suffer in 1919,
when, due to unpreparedness and
, the surprise, delegate of foreign
: countries we're almost on the verge
Of establishing regime and a gov
eminent based on the Soviet organi-
cation.
eff this is again intended now,
then it is well that the foreign agi-
tators and those who remain i'm
passive during their activities,
should know that the Argentine peo-
ple are solidly organized to meet
any emergency. :"
1t is threat OF the Argentine
fasc.-t organization against the la
bar movement and against the gov
eminent if the latter is not success
full in ppressing the workers.