The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-14
By ALBERT MOREAU.

THE arch-enemy of the Mexican workers and
- peasants, the strike-breaker Ortiz Rubo
was elected president sof Mexico by the will
of Lamont Morrow United States Government,
His victory was prepared by Portes Gil and
the consort of counter-revolutionar bourg-
eoisie at the service of Wall Street finance
capital. The fact that Vasconcelos the anti
reelectionist candidate was allowed to run for
the presidential ticket is not and cannot be
an indication of the democratic" way the cleo
tons were handled. For Vanconcelos is another
tool of American Imperialism and has, during
the election campaign, promised full support
to Yankee capital in Mexico
Mr.. Morrow and Portes Gil prepared the
ground for this victory many months in adj
vance. The systematic attack upon The Com
munist Party of Mexico and the revolutionary
trade unions, the plundering of the offices
and printing shop of Ell Machete, official or
gan of the Communist Party, the series Of
murders, jailings and deportations, constituted
the first steps of the election campaign initiated
by the government and its bourgeoisie with
Ambassador Morrow at the head. Further
more, in order to secure the complete an
Inhalation of the Communist movement and the
revolutionary trade unions, Portes Gil intro
duced the project of labor laws which is now
railroaded through the Mexican congress.
Some of the anti-labor provisions embodied
in the fascist Labor Code have already been
put into practice before being approved by the
congress. This, of course, was necessary in
order to pave the way for successful election
which was to put in power Pascual Ortiz Rubio
who is today meeting with Mr.. Lamont on
United States soil.
In spite of the terror of the Mexican govern
ment, in spite of the methods used by the bour-
geoisie to keep out of the polls the workers
and peasants who stood for their candidate.
Triana, the $4,000 votes found in the urns that
escaped the robbers hands, prove conclusively
the unpopularity of the two bourgeois candi-
dates
The problems before the American imperial
lists in Mexico found their expression in the
well known question which their financial ex-
perts have of late discussed under the caption:
"Mexico's Capacity to Pay" 1t is estimated
that the national public debt of Mexico amounts
to approximately $825,00000O or per capita
debt of $4,000 The blessings of the revolu-
tionary leaders who betrayed the masses since
their advent to power in 1910 can be shown
by the following comparison in per capita fed
eral tax: In 1910, 753 pesos and in 1926 this
tax was raised to 21.02 pesos.
The promised distribution of land among the
peasants was always myth. Oregon, Gales
ana FOTJeS I'll never IulIllleu Lnelr promises
by which they secured their victory. Only
AIS of the land was distributed among the
peasants and the remainder went to American
imperalists and their Mexican lackeys.
WALL STREET RECONSTRUCTION
The so-called National Reconstruction" of
Mexico is to be brought about by American
imperialism on concrete and definite conditions
proposed by it. The adoption of the Fascist
Labor Code is particularly essential for the
carrying out of the new policy on Mexican
financial "stabilization" and the payment Of
its international debts. The working class is
called upon to pay Uncle Shylock whose official
executor is Lamont. But this working class is
accustomed to use its traditional weapon, now
in more virulent FORM to fight exploitation
and oppression: the strike.
/. The Labor Code gives the workers the fright"
to strike but the amendments virtually outlaw
it. The fascination Of the unions consists in
their subordinstion to the government special