The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-25
Reaction ConsoIidates It's Forces in Mexico

working and peasant masses 1t is achievement for
Wall Street through its agent Dwight W. Morrow, in his
pagn against the workers and peasants of Mexico and of all
Latin America.
The agreement between the government of Portes Gil
and the Roman Catholic hierarchy Mexico untes the agents
of Imperialism represented by the government with the
feudal landholders represented by the church.
This latest act in the progress of the Mexican ruling
reaction sheds glazing light recent political
events in the Southern republic 1t confirms conviction,
expressed at the time of the event. that the murder of Obre
gon result of conspiracy in which the Yankee mpe
riaists the church jointly participated Portes Gill
ackey Wall Street. who occupies the post of president
which the murdered Obregon elected holds in
dictionary embrace the bloody hand Obregon assassin
Nor this latest political event be separated from the
waton murder by forces of Corade Guadalupe
Rodriguez the founder and leader of the Peasants League
in the state of Durango This assassination of Comrade
Rodriguez by the Mexican is the ceares ndca
ton of the policy it is definitely following policy
aimed at disag the workers and peasants and delivering
them helpless into the hands of the mperiasts and the
feuda reaction Rodriguez than any other saved
the government of Portes Gil from serious defeats in the
state of Durango the hands of the feuda propeors and
the generals last March When the
reaconary surrection held the state of Durango Comrade
Rodriguez went to that state and organized the workers and
peasants in the of the rebels d.
rected many heavy military engagements defeated many
rebel detachments and captured large supplies of and
munitions with which he equipped the worker and peasant
the defeat
forces The fact that the workers and peasants being
alarmed the government that had already gone
to the camp of the mperialists. Even partially armed
working class and peasanty endangered the reactonary
of the government hence the order to dsarm the
before they aroused against the treachery of
the Portes Gil government this motive that resulted
in the execution of Comrade Rodriguez.
After the reactionary military forces had been crushed
the of Mexico under orders of Morrow reward
ed Comrade Rodriguez by arresng him and charging him
with approprating without permission He tried
by drun-head court-martal and summarily shot.
The murder of Comrade Rodriguez the prelude
campaign for disarmng the that is Systematically
being carried out in Mexico. The socaed peace between
state and church, combining of the imperiasts and the
feuda land holders against the should all the
class conscious workers and peasants to the real motives
of their class enemies. The Mexican will shortly
face the question of nsurrcon against the and
the feudal reaction The must resist to the very last
extremity any further attempts to disarm them.
1t is also imperative that The of workers and
peasants the other Latin American nations understand the
dangers involved IN this latest reactonary alliance 1t is
quite evident that the persts of the United States
going to utilize the church in their drive to consolidate all
Latin America into Yankee colony.
In its worldwide struggle against its imperialst rival
Britain the Yankee ruling class is DESPERATELY striving to
crush all resistance in Latin America, that utilize
naval and military advantages in that part of the world and
also obtain uninterrupted supply of material for
industries 1t part of the campaign to consolidate
the for the next be separated from the
drives being waged within the United States to crush the
militant unions The tyranny that murdered Sacco and
Vanzett and is trying to murder IA Gasona strikers also
responsible for the murder of Corade Rodriguez Julio Ma
and thousands of other workers and peasants in Latin Amer
ica The ties that must unite in struggle the workers of
North America and Latin America extend to all parts of
the world where Yankee deposm operating They unite
the workers of the two American continents with the work
and peasants of the Soviet Union whose
constantly the object of imperiaist provocatons and
spraces They unite with the of Germany who
bear the burdens of the reparaon and Who
to the workers in America suffer most from the devastating
effects of capitalist naturalization. ~
No occasion should be overlooked to display the inter-
national solidarity of the working and peasant of
the world is this that the worldwide strikes
demonstrations that will take place throughout the world
International Red Day, August 1st acquire special gn
In Latin America these demonstrations and strikes
should take the special form of struggle against any attempts
to further disarm the workers and peasants and drive
place in the hands of the masses who alone
the revolution against the imperiass and feudal land
holders.
In the land of dollar despotism the workers must stage
strikes and demonstrations against intervention
ton in Latin America for the defense of the Soviet Union
fight to iberate andi