The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-11

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'Hands OFF,
IN THE House and Senate a
1 move is under way for
holy crusade against Mexico.
Like the ancient Crusades to
win the holy land from the in
fidel Turks, the present in-
tervention plans clearly con-
ceal their aims. The shiboleth of
religious freedom in reality covers
up the most petrified bigotry of the
Catholic Church. 1t is primarily a
desire to hold on to its lands and
to stop the waning of it's power over
The minds of the Mexican peasants
and workers.
To achieve their aims, that sec.
ton of the American capitalists as
ISOLATED with the Catholic Church
go to every extreme to hide the real
situation in Mexico. They invoke
the assistance of the dead infidel
Thomas jefferson, Just as readily as
they do their saints. But more dan
gerous still they drag in the be-
fuddled windbag, Senator Borah, to
Introduce q resolution in the Senate
for investigation" of Mexico, while
Congressman Connery does the same
thing in the House of Representa-
tives.
It's not investigation they want.
They know the situation. They want
acknowledgements. force, the
army used against Mexico to pre-
serve not the heavenly aims of the
Catholic Church, but its earthly
huge tracts of land, its rich income
from the superstitious and priest
ridden workers and peasants.
NOV here's hitch for them. The
" Calles-Cardenas government of
Mexico is primarily tool of Wall
Street. But Wall Street is COM
posed of different capitalists. In
order to get their ideas over, the
American capitalists who favor in
tervention in the interest of the
Catholic Church go to the most
ridiculous extremes in distorting in
the American press what is happen
ing in Mexico.
For example, we have that bright
gentleman, Mr.. Connery ask: Does
the American Ambassador favor
Communism in Mexico?"
So much does Ambassador Jo-
sephus Daniels favor Communism,
that in 1919 he utilized American
transports and battleships to send
armies to Siberia in order to shoot
down Communists.
Connery's idea, of course, is If
you can label anything Communism
then the limits off and you can
resort to any sort of skullduggery.
There is about as much Commu-
nism in the educational laws of
Mexico, which are under direct at
tack, as there is in Roosevelt's
Strlkebreaking NJ r. A. The Mex
lcan government. in fact, has def
mite fascist tendencies. Just like
Hitler, it covers these fascist trends
with Socialist demagogy, in order
to win the masses. 1t even organizes
It's Storm Troops But in Mexico,
which has undergone a long period
of revolutionary struggles, and in
which the Mexican government still
calls itself revolutionary it is nee
essary to give the Fascist bands red
shirts, to make them believe they
are fighting capitalism. the Gath
Ole Church, and for Socialist ed
ucation-even the right to study
Marx and Lenin.'
THIS faScism of bastard type
was mobilized by the governing
party Of Mexico to divert the grow
ing struggles of the Mexican work.
ers and peasants. When the Mex
lean workers demanded more wages,
and the peasants more land and
less taxes, President Cardenas an
sWered with attack the Catholic
Church. i" This is sort of bull fight
ing strategy where you hold out a
red banner SO that the force of the
bulls horns is oissipated in thin air,
instead Of hitting the tormentor.
The new Socialist education
laws went into effect on Dec. 1,
1894 The church resisted. Car
denas was able to mobilize large
masses against the corrupt Church,
Serious clashes took place in which
Catholics killed Red Shirts and Red
Shirts retaliated
But the American Catholic Church
and the capitalists connected with
It,, want war against the Mexican
people to make sure that in the
internal scuffle in Mexico, not a
cingle link of the Church's enslave-
ment shall be broken.
Father Coughlin assists the cru
SADIE by splitting his lying poison
over the radio besmirching the
whole Mexican population.
Borah begins to trumpet for "re-
ligious freedom in Mexico.
But whatever the pretoxt, inter-
vention in Mexico in any form
would tighten the grip Of all the
big American trusts, would STRENGTH
EN- the huge LAND ownings of the
Fascist Hearst, and bolster UP the
power Of oppressive Church.
To these great enlighteners and
freedom lovers, we should sayi
Hands off Mexicol"