Evening star., 1932-12-27
POLITICAL H0TBED
THR|vES IN BRAZIL
Beginning of Vargas Program
and Next May Elections
Spur Activity.

By tho Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO, December IT,
Initiation Of work on BrazlIS consti-
tutional project, coincident with an
outburst OF pre-campaign activity In
preparation for the elections next May,
promised by Provisional President Ge-
tulio Vargas, have turned Brazil into
a political beehive.
Both political and constitutional
tendencies swing to the left.
The governments constitutional COM
mission is dominated by appointees
favorable to the governments labor
and social DEGREES, which will exert q
strong influence on the new document
and the political lineup. Women's
suffrage. recently decreed by the pro-
visional government, is another impor-
tant factor.
The labor measures, including the
elght-hour day, pension and sickness
funds and limitation OF women's and
chndren's work. were considered ex-
trialists and "old families" which
previously had dominated Brazil. One
OF their principal effects has been to
increase the class and political con-
seriousness Of the labor unions.
Oficials Back Vargas
Official and semi-official elements in
the powerful States of Minas Geraes
and Rio Grande Do Sui are preparing
to support the provisional govern
ment's ideas in general in the forth
coming elections.
In Minas Geraes government party
was organized only this week under
Olegario Maciel. the state president.
He pledged support Of the old Liberal
NJ Haa
President before the 1890 revolution, In
which he was victorious. Gen. Flores
Da Cunha, tnterventor (governor), was
leading the Rio Grande Do Sui group.
In Rio Grande. the remnants Of the
two old parties, which demanded i'm
mediate return to constitutional gov
ernment, have formed an opposition
bloc, led by Mauricio Cardoso, former
minister Of justice in the Vargas gov
eminent and therefore sympathetic to
many OF the provisional governments
measures
The old opposition parties. the Re-
publicans and Libertadores. we're weak
ened as result of the civil war and
imprisonment or exile of their lead
ers. Borges de Medeiros, the popular
Republican leader and provincial gov
ernor for 25 years, is prisoner and
DR.. Paul Pilla. Libertador chief, Is in
exile in Argentina for revolutionary ac-
tivities.
Attempts will be made to fuse the
Minas Geraes and Rio Grande pro-
government factions into a national
Liberal party which, according to Vir-
gllio Mello France, youthful Minas
GeraeS leader. will not be the prop
erty Of the provisional government"
Revolutionary Left"
A powerful nationwide current
so-called revolutionary left" or ten
ente" QieutenanD element which
| sprang into prominence as result Of
the 1880 revolution, has prepared a
nationwide campaign.
| This revolutionary left" includes
the national organizations. Club Fifth
of July and Club Third of October,
named for dates Of the 1922 and 1890
/, revolutions.
The leftists include virtually all Of
the young military and naval officers
! who hold interventorships in many
states and who have been the strong
est hackers of laws favorable to the
laborer, the small farmer, and the
/ white collar employe. This group also
=! favors representation in Congress for
/ ioDoA cyAoAeoteo, O ioW -taAA A4 PouSy, 3llu
\ is most pronounced for a national"
/ Brazil. rather than domination by the
T richer states, like Sac Paulo.
| The various pro-government currents
| appear to have little opposition. Lead
/ ership Of the old Paulista parties was
shattered by deportations after this
| years revolution and the Republicans
! have been unusually quit. Sac Paulo
] Democrats have reorganized under the
/ presidency Of Carodoso de Mello.
owing to deportations of their leaders
and detection of bloc which opposed
the reVolutiCn !.