The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-08

By c. p.
A new wave of white terror, more furious than
those before, is beating in these moments on
the Communist Party of Mexico, the Unitary
Trade Union Confederation, and the other revo-
lutionary organizations The methods of repres-
sion introduced by eX-President Portes Gil are
being perfected by President Ortiz Rubio and
the pack of dogs that serve imperialism in the
state governments, III the army, in the city ad-
ministration the police, etc.
In the cotton growing regions, such as Tor
reon and MatamoreS. the prosecutions and the
attacks have acquired extreme violence. This
is because thousands of agricultural workers
have been thrown into starvation by the eco
nomic crisis, and above all, by naturalization
Matamoras is where dogs of the fascist gov
eminent and the white guards of the ranch
owners murdered twenty workers and poor peas
ants one woman among them who led the
demonstration against the terrible living con-
ditions of more than twenty thousand starving
workers of that region.
The last outrage of the fascist dogs has been
the arrest and torture of Comrades Guadalupe
Saucedo Aurelio Andrade Dioniso Encinas and
FREDERICK Reyes, the first two from the Conlmu-
mist Party, and the others from the Young Com
mupist Federation
These comrades we're barbarousy beaten IN
Torreon. submerged for long hours in icy water
and threatened with death. One of them was
hung up by the feet and another had his finger
nails torn out, trying to force them to declare
against the leaders of the Party and the Youth
Federation, to reveal addresses and SO on
Afterward they were taken to Mexico City
and lodged in the penitentary. where they are
held in isolation, without any legal proceedings
whatsoever. Frequently they are taken to the
military garrisons and tortured by being lined
I'M ho hafo fir D.
cent news states that these comrades are threat
| ened with deportation to the Mario Islands a
penal establishment in the Pacific wheree they
send murderers and other criminals AS a pro-
test they have declared a hunger strike The
Communist Party and the Youtn Federation
the Red Unions and the Red Aid have begun
agitation for the release of these and all the
other prisoners jailed throughout the country
The growing white terror in Mexico is ex-
planned by the aggravation of the growing eco
nomlc crisis the increase of unemployment, the
starvation, misery and terrible living conditions
of millions of workers. peasants, and poor en-
ployees. The fascist government of Ortiz Rubio
is throwing upon the backs of the working class
all the burden of the crisis. The REIMBURSEMENT"
on the railroads has thrown 10000 railway work
ers and employees out of work. Thirty per cent
OF the mine workers are jobless Thousands and
thousands OF agricultural workers are unem-
ployed In the textile factories shoe and metal
shops, there are thousands of workers on part
time The government has authorized the tex
tile factories to reduce the working week to
three and four days.
The country population lives in the same or
worse conditions than the working class. OF
the $4,000 poor peasants who have received
land. many have had to abandon it for lack
of means to cultivate it, and have returned to
their condition of Moons mr. in nooct re cac bove
gone to swell the iobless army. The new re-
forms In the AGrarian Law proposed by Ortiz
Rubio to congress will certainly be approved as
first legal step to deprive definitely the 2OOO,
900 agrarian workers and poor peasants of land
The petty bourgeoisie of the city and country
the small merchants and farmers sitting under
the weight of taxes and the thousand forms of
robbery of which they are made victims by the
government and the clique of great land owners