The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-12
pORTES Gil IN
SECRET Farley
WITH MORROW
Murderer of Peasant
Leader Rewarded

MEXICO CITY, June 11.-Cloak-
ing in the profoundest secrecy, be-
cause of fear of the resentment of
the masses, the maneuvers by which
he aims to betray one of the majoY
achievements of the Mexican revo-
lution-the suppression of the re-
dictionary catholic church-President
Portes Gil held a long conference
yesterday with Dwight W. Morrow,
Wall Street ambassador to Mexico.
The subject of the conference, it is
commonly believed, was the new al
lance being planned with the cath
olic church, an alliance whose terms
are being worked out under the di-
rection of American Imperialism
which is eager to consolidate the
reactiopary forces in Mexico that
are so submissive to its will.
The negotiations between Portes
Gil and the two papal emissaries,
Archbishop Ruiz y Flores and
Bishop Pascual Diaz, which were
scheduled to start yesterday, have
been postponed, presumably because
Ambassador Morrow, who arrived in
this city only Saturday after a
three weeks trip to the United
States, needed more time to talk
over Wall Streets instructions with
Portes Gil.
Gales Also Arrives.
Minister of War Gales has also
arrived here suddenly" from va
cation in northern Mexico. 1t is be-
lieved he will participate in the ne
gotiations.
Meanwhile the bloody repressive
measures against the Communist
Party, the National Peasants
League, the Workers and Peasants
Bloc and all other left wing organ
izations and their leaders continue.
though the smouldering resentment
Of the masses threatens to burst into
flame at any moment.
Reward Murderer.
MEXICO CITY (By Mail) The
murderer of Jose Guadalupe Rodri-
guez, Communist and peasant or
ganizer in the province of Durango.
has received his reward. General
Medinaveytia, commander of the
military operations in Durango, who
ordered the summary execution
without court-martial of Rodriguez,
has been cited for Especial services"
for this bloody offering to the Mex
lean bourgeoisie.
Medinaveytia explained to Presi-
dent Portes Gil that he had Rodri-
guez shot in conformity with
telegraphic authorization from Min
lister of War Gales for "unauthor-
lied purchasing of munitions" "a
charge of which he was exonerated
shortly before by the civil judge)
and on account of the "antecedents
of this individual and because the
military command considered him
dangerous to the public peace and
because the work of Rodriguez
may have induced the masses to re-
volt"
At the same time Valente GUM
tana, chief of the secret police Of
Mexico City, who received medal
from President (''Butcher") Ma
chado of Cuba at the time of the
assassination in Mexico City of Julio
Mella, leader of the Cuban Commu-
mist Party, and who is believed to
have had hand in the assassina-
ton, has been promoted to be chief
Of police of the federal district.
New Reactionary Move.
MEXICO CITY, June 11.-Riding
the new wave of reaction, the ex-
IRENE Authorizations Party is
planning to introduce a proposal at
its convention in this city in July
to deny soldiers the right to vote.
This move is intended to stifle the
rising revolutionary sentiments
among large disillusioned masses of
the soldiers and is a possible pre-
liminary to the Acknowledgement of
large numbers of the armed pea
santry. 81