The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19


name "Escapulario," wore
applied to certain "hols
cloth" used in religious
ceremonies.
Again the assassins revolver speaks for re-
action, for the cause of clerical counter-revolu-
ton This time in Mexico The weapon Of
individual terror, of political assassination
appears once more in long series of incidents
as a characteristic weapon of reaction.
But if the darkest forces in Mexico based or
landlordism and clerical privilege, have muir.
dered General Obregon, it does not necessarily
follow that Obregon at the time of his death
represented the forces of progress for the
Mexican masses. Stupidity, blind inability to
estimate social phenomena and the trend OF
history is characteristic of the type of reaction
represented by the attempted counter-revolu-
ton in Mexico leading to the assassination of
Obregon.
When the counter-revolution, encouraged
and financed by Wall Street interests, was or
ganized and launched by the Mexican church
and landlords, Immediately directed to the
overthrow of the Mexican government headed
by Gales, it was the duty of the workers and
peasants of Mexico to rise against the counter
revolution. They did this with magnificent
courage and the military power of the counter
revolution was destroyed.
But when the workers and peasants kept
Gales and Obregon from being overturned by
military counter-revolution, that was no guar
antee that Gales and Obregon would be faith
full to the workers and peasants. United States
imperialism, seeing that the impracticability of
the attempt to overthrow the Mexican govern
ment at that particular time through military
force, resorted to the more subtle tactics of
direct pressure of the big New York banks COM
bined with diplomatic pressure of the United
States government
Dwight Morrow, the Morgan ambassador
from Washington, was the intermediary who
exercised the strongest corrupting influence
upon Obregon. Morrow interceded with Obre-
gon directly for peace" with the clerical re-
action; Morrow wanted Obregon to base him.
self upon clerical landlordism and no longer to
be dependent upon the vigilant and ever more
militant and unreliable" working class and
peasantry. AS long as Obregon had to depend
upon militant workers and peasants against the
priests and landlords, Wall Street would be
Inconvenience in trying to use Obregon as a
policeman Of imperialism to suppress the MeH-
can workers and peasants for exploitation by
United States capital.
Ambassador Morrow in approaching Oregon
held in one hand the threat of military aggres-
sion and in the other hand the bride of loans
and the corrupting favors which petty-captal-
list politicians such as Obregon find it hard to
resist.
Before the assassin's bullet laid out Obregon
as an enemy of the clerical-andlord reaction,
Obregon had already shown many indications
that he had himself gone over to the cause of
reaction.
There is every reason to believe that Morrow
had already succeeded. Vague intimations and
half-denied rumors of reconciliation between
Obrt gon and the Catholic hierarchy were ac-
companied by sharper repressons of the work
ing class by the Mexican government. The dis
gushing imperialist orgy in connection with the
flight of Lindbergh to Latin-America the fail
ure of Mexico to fulfill its historical role as
leader of the anti-imperialist struggle of Latin
America as evidenced in the savsh capitula-
ton at the Havana conference, followed by the
surrender flight of the Mexican aviator Car
RANDALL go to show that Obregon had capitu.
lated 10 the coalition Of Mexican reaction and
United States Imperialism prior to his murder
by the dark forces of clerical reaction
United States capitalist newspapers are now
specializing on what will happen next in Mex
leo. To the Wall Street capitalists this means
nothing more than the problem OF how they
can control Mexico through other instruments
now that Obregon, whom they had practically
signed up as their agent, is no more
But to the workers and peasants of Mexico
there is no uncertainty as to what Will happen
next, in the main outline. 1t will be bigger
and fiercer, more direct struggle OF the United
States financiers and government to enslave
the Mexican masses with new instruments.
Cor the Mexican workers and peasants 1t VIII