The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-03
Oil and the
Inperialists
in Mexico
(Continued./

the hands of the Catholics, by the
public collections for the church,
made in the U. S. All this proves
that the U. S. would like to estab-
Iish in Mexico a reactionary gov
eminent favoring Yankee imperial
ism.
Towards the Right.
The Mexican government is
marching with all haste towards the
right. As an immediate consequence
of the accelerated pressure of the
U. S. over our government, this
pull to the right is evident in all
public acts. The metropolitan press
speaks shamelessly of the establish
ment of a fright" government, OF
liquidating agrarian reforms, OF
yielding to the demands of the
church. The majorities of both
houses of congress are composed OF
right elements and the same can be
said of the generals of the army.
The Obregon bloc has lost what
ever "petit-bourgeois" aspect it may
have had and has converted itself
into an open tool of the reaction and
the agrarian bourgeoisie. 1t is I'M
questionable that once in power OBJ
RECON would have established a
military dictatorship-the famous
Strong government" for which the
reaction and American imperialism
has so long been striving. Obregon
dead, this process towards strong
government" develops with greater
rapidity-with no attempt on the
part of the group in power to cover
up its betrayals of revolutionary
principles. Reaction lifts its headl
The memorial of the 139 Catholics
to congress is the sign of a new Of
fensive against the petty bourgeoisie
and the establishment of a govern
ment of the reaction.
A reactionary congress will not
elect a revolutionary president
that is obvious. The new president
will be an instrument of this reac-
ton and of American capital.
The Position of Gales.
General Gales has placed himself
between the sword and the wall.
His speech at the opening of con-
gress has nothing to do with the
real situation. To make philoso-
phic dissertation on democracy and
against personal leadership, to
preach morality to an assembly not
10 per cent of which was elected by
democratic proceedings-to speak of
the harmony among the revolution
airy family" at the very moment
when this "great family" is shat
tered to bits, to preach peace and
tolerance while the reaction is pre-
pairing an attack against the gov
eminent in broad daylight-is some
thing which can be done only by one
prepared to fool himself and to be-
tray others.
This speech of Gales is the swan
Song of the petty bourgeoisie, which
after twenty years of struggle is
abandoning the field to the rights.
Soto Cana and Morones.
In the agrarian sections the divi-
sions between the right and left pro-
crosses very rapidly. Soto y Cana,
the traditional leader of the national
agrarian party, has become the de-
fender of the agrarian bourgeoisie
end the large landowning interests,
thus betraying the aspirations of
thousands of peasants fallen in the
fight for land. The national agra
rian party is fast becoming a polit-
ical cadaver which sooner or later
the reaction itself will enter.
Who speaks today of PREPARATION
of land? On the contrary, they
speak of returning the land to the
former owners. The lands which
for years have been worked and I'M
proved by the peasants of the agra
rian communes will be the price
with which the reaction and imper-
ialism will buy the generals and po-
litical chiefs such as Soto Gamas
and Cox.
Who speaks today of arming the
peasants? On the contrary. They
speak of taking their arms away
from them, to prevent them from
impeding the transfer of power to
the landed and clerical reaction.
Tho ga orariano Soto ~ Cop,a ,o,y
has nothing to 90 with the agrarian
movement. The true agrarians-
the peasants Of the revolution, must
throw cut of their midst those who
speak of peace with the enemy
those revolutionists of yesterday
who today are landowners them
selves and the allies of the reaction.
The leading group of the Mex
lean labor party and the leading
group of the Mexican Federation of
Labor (CROM) are one and the
same. The director of both groups
1.-The political boss--is Luis N. Mo-
rones.
In reality there is no difference
between Soto y Cana and Morones.
One is the agent of the agrarian
bourgeoisie among the peasant
masses; while the other is the agent
of the industrial bourgeoisie and
Yankee imperialism among the
masses Of the workers. The strug-
gle between these two men is the