The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-18
Mexican Workers Badly Paid

tons the masses are striking back.
The strike of 10000 railwaymen in
1926, the constant and growing con-
flicts in the mines (as in Jalisco,
etc.,, in the textile mills and oil
fields shows what is taking place.
These strikes are being violently
depressed by the government.
1t is this mass industrial move
ment which is frightening the gov
eminent and leading it to attack
even the GROIN (the A. F. Of L. of
Mexico. We see that although the
labor movement in Mexico is very
young (the GROIN having been or
ganized in part by the government
itself, then calling itself revolution
ary.) yet already the officials of
the GROIN and the Pan-American
Federation of Labor have become
thoroughly exposed. These officials
are no longer followed by the
masses. They are hated as the
whole petty-bourgeoisie, which has
now broken with its revolutionary
traditions and now follow in the
wake of American Imperialism, is
hated. This move to the left on the
part of the masses has caused the
government to attack even the
GROIN unions and to start policy
Of open fascism. Today the GROIN,
hit from the top and hit from the
bottom, is rapidly disintegrating and
new revolutionary trade union
movement is taking its place.
Proletariat Young.
We can appreciate the difficulties
the Mexican industrial proletariat
has to face when we consider that
the proletariat really only exists
since 1914, and that so per cent tc
rs per cent of the industrial prole-
tariat has an agrarian character
Finally, we must keep in mind that
over so per cent of the proletaria
is illiterate. Yet, in spite of these
difficulties, under the leadership Of
the S. P. the industrial workers are
forming a great powerful movement
However, up to now it has beef
the agrarian masses who have
shown the NEST acute revolutionar!
temper. Cheated in the last revolu
ton, time after time they hav'
seized the land with arms in theil
hanIs only to be routed by superio-
federal forces. Their miserable 10
has made them a revolutionar.
group.
Different Categories.
| Today we see National Agrarial
League (*Compesinos) of almos
4 10000 and under the leadership o
the C. p. These agrarian toiler
have united with the industrial
workers in two big movements, tn
Workers Agrarian Toilers Bloc ooh
os-Compesinos) and the Nationa
Assembly for the Unity of Worker
and Agrarian Toilers. At the sam
time new National General Cor
federation of Labor has been formed
This is The masses answer to fas
cism and its preparation for tn
coming Civil War.
(*Note:--I have not translate
the word Compesinos literally. Lii
orally it means those who are
the country. But that includes
categories-given above-and
very confusing. The National Con
pesinos League, for example, col
tains mostly semi-proletarians, fe
agricultural workers and very fe
peasants. 1t is therefore very nece'
sary that the word compesinos |
dropped and an accurate termino
ogy used.)
The fourth article, to be print'
tomorrow, in the series ON the rece1
Mexican Unity Congress of Wor
ers and Peasants, auill deal with u
conference of Mexican acorkers AZ
agrarian toilcrs: its compositio
program, etc. A feature Of the a
ticle will be an Interview aci
Triona, chosen by the congress !
its candidate for The coming Gle
tions.