The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-20
The Mexican Government and the
League of Nations

THE Mexican government has become men,
ber of the League of Nations. In accepting
the invitation of the Twelfth Assembly of the
League to join this combination of world i'm
perialism, the Mexican government made a ges-
ture of opposition to the Monroe Doctrine This
was taken, in some bourgeois quarters OF Latin
America as an indication of a change Of policy
by the Ortiz Rubio clique towards Yankee i'm
perialisnn. sReports from Mexico went even as
far as saying that the Mexican delegate to the
League of Nations will undertake to voice OPP
position to Yankee imperialism in the name of
the countries of Latin America.
The facts Of the situation do not justify any
such expectations 1t is just as likely that the
Ortiz Rubio delegate to the League of Nations
will undertake to function there as an AGENT of
Yankee Imperialism AGAINST the peoples Of
Latin America and against the imperialst rivals
of the United States. This does not exclude
the possibility that the Ortiz Rubio government
may see fit to flirt with other mperialist powers
especially Britain, even putting up a certain
show of Opposition" to the Yankees But this
does not change the fundamental role of the
Ortiz Rubio government-tle role of servant and
mainstay of Yankee imperialism in Mexico
However, there is certain significance behind
the recent gestures of Opposition" of the Ortiz
clique of fascist murderers which has grown fat
and rich in the process Of helping Yankee I'M
perialism to extend its domination in Mexico,
finds itself confronted at the present time with
a growing wave of mass resentment against it
self and its Yankee inperialist mast ers. The
masses OF workers and peasants, whose lives have
been made unbearable by the deepening crisis
and the rapacious exploitation of the native and
foreign oppressors are rising to struggle against
foreign imperialism especially Yankee, and its
native tools. At the same time, the Ortiz Rubio
clique is being pressed very hard by the pro-
British section of the Mexican bourgeoisie, which
in part reflects the sharpening rivalries between
Yankee and British imperialism
The Ortiz Rubio-C Gales clique is therefore
compelled to maneuver 1t is forced to make
certain gestures of Opposition" to Yankee i'm
nerialisnl-such as, its recent defiance" of the
Monroe Doctrine-in order to pacfy and de-
ceive the workers and exploited peasants while
\ at the same time crushing mercilessy every
genuine anti-imperialst movement. 1t is forced
to make these gestures also for the additional
reason that the domination of the Ortiz Rubio-
Gales clique in the National Revolutionary
Party" is being seriously threatened by the pro-
British section of this party and of the Mexican
bourgeosie and landholders
All this goes TO show that the temporary and
relative sterilization which was brought about
under the guidance of Morrow is RAPIDLY
COMING TO An END. The recent death of
the "stabilizer" of Mexico under Yankee hege-
mony may he symbolical of the approaching
death of the regime that he helped to establish
Morrows regime of temporary and relative
sterilization in Mexico was established at the
cost of the almost complete s,biugaton of the
economic and political life of the country to
Yankee imperialism. In the wake of Dwight
W. Morrow who was one of the pillars of the
General Electric ard of the House of Morgan
came the further entrenchment into the eco
nomic and political life of Mexico of the Ma
tional City Bank the International Telephone
and Telegraph Company, the Electric Bond and
Share Co. Ga subsidiary of the General Electric)
and other Yankee monopolist corporations
There began a veritable orgy of imperialst rob-
berry and spoiaton in which the Gales Rubio
clique also grew rich and powerful. The foreign
oil-trusts were securely re-established in their
possessions The Church was placated to make
peace with the state at the expense of the
peasantry. The carrying out of the Agrarian
Reform, which at best was no solution for the
agrarian problem in Mexico was stopped al
together and fresh campaign was instituted to
drive the peasantry off the land. According to
Carleton Beals 60 per cent of the land privately
held In twenty-nne states, is at present COM
prised In haciendas of over $500 acres, 48 per
cent in haciendas of over 10000 acres and 20
Dsx esnt N hacendas Of over 100000 acres. The