The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-16
REBEL TRIUMPH
WOULD AID The
WORKERS FOES
Gales and Gil Have
Permitted Growth
Of Reaction
Demand Arms, Power
Workers and Peasants
Oppose Rebellion

With civil war raging in Mex
leo, the attitude of the Mexican
Communist Party toward the
present insurrection and toward
the Gil government, becomes a mat
ter of great Importance and a sub
| ject of intense interest to every
revolutionary worker. The Daily
Worker has received and publishes
herewith, the call to the workers
and peasants of Mexico by the Mex
lean Communist Party. 1t was is
sued on March 5, the day following
the outbreak of the rebellion, and
published in the Party's official or
gan ''El Machete" on March 9. The
manifesto reads as follows:
Comrades:
"The revolt of the generals of the
north, the revolt of Aguirre in Vera
Cruz, and the revolt of the generals
in other states, is an uprising of all
the forces of reaction, of all the
hacendedoes and large landowners,
of all1the reactionary generals and
governors in order to establish in
Mexico military dictatorship of all
the elements inimical to the inter-
ests of the working class.
Prepared in 1928.
Defeated under de la Huerta in
1923, and failing under Gomez and
Serano in 1927, the Mexican reac-
tion in 1928 prepared for the present
armed revolt. However, the situa-
tion today is graver and more diff
ficult than it was in 1928 and in
1927, because today the militant
Catholic reaction, the clerical and
reactionary landowners, was joined
by the group of Sonora-the elements
which only yesterday were known
as the representatives of the Mex
lean Revolution
''The revolution, made with the
blood of the peasant masses, and
with the sacrifices and sweat of the
working class, has not given the
people that for which it was fight
ing. The land continues to remain in
the hands of the large landowners;
the oil fields and the mines, the
greatest riches of the country, are
in the hands of foreign capital, and
all the means Of communication and
transport are in the control of ma
tive and foreign companies which eX-
plot them at the expense of the
Mexican people and to the detriment
of the workers and peasant masses.
What Has Happened.
What the Revolution did was to
establish new class, a class of new
rich, landowners of the Revolution,
generals, governors and lawyers who
thrive inside and outside of the gov
ernment, living on the budget and
accumulating wealth for their own
benefit and for the benefit of their
/ friends.
Instead of giving the power to
the people, the Revolution trans
ferred it to those elements which
today, in collusion with the native
and foreign capitalists, apply sys-
tenn of continuous sabotage against
the rights, demands and the strug-
gle of the workers and peasant
masses. Article 81 is not being COM
piled with.
'The National Agrarian Commits
sion has become transformed into an
apparatus of pettifoggers and bur-
eaucrats, paid by the same landown-
ers in order to prevent the realiza-
tion of the just demands of the
agrarian communities and villages.
Article 123 exists for the>majority of
the states only on paper, because in
reality the working class suffers
from the most abject capitalist ex-
ploitation.
Petty Bourgeoisie in Power.
"The reyolutionaries of 1910, the
petty bourgeoisie now in power, are
incapable of effecting the economic
reconstruction of the country. All
the agitation and propaganda of
Gales and of the Laboristas, faith
full servants of the petty bourgeois,
for the establishment of an independ-
ent national Mexican industry is the
greatest failure in history, the most
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