Evening star., 1937-12-25

PRESIDENT TRUJILLO
DECLARES THAT IN THE GOVERN.
MEkT's PROGRAM SCHEDULED BY
HIM, THERE is NO ROOM FOR
FAscIsM NOR COMMUNISM.
AN INTERESTING MESSAGE FROM THE DOMINICAN
STATESMAN TO THE SENATE OF HIS COUNTRY.
Cudad Trujio,
District of Santo Domingo,
December 1887
To the President of the Senate
City.
My Dear Mr. President
The Law No. 12o3 dated November 4, 1885, on the re-
preston of communism and other doctrines of the
character has lost its raison detre because OF the dis
appearance of the which served basis for that
legislative enactment That law at the time at which it
passed had its object to avoid that certain out
ambition rather than in lofty and noble purposes of social
justice might take hold in midst through spirit of
mitaOn and might to hamper the efforts that the
Government which preside has been carrying to
the benefit of the working classes of the Republic.
was of the opinion at the time when by virtue of my
constitutional prerogatves initiated the law in question:
that violence employed with errorstc ends and with sub
verSive motives and purely anarchical could plunge
the country into an irrational class struggle creating deep
abysses full of blood between capital and labor which, in
nation of retarded industrial development where the
of wealth essentially agricultural would not
have had result other than that of frustrating the efforts
of the Government in favor of the Dominican working
and farmer
My administration has done work of true justice and
OF
classes has created Department of Labor entrusted
with combating unemployment and with stud ying every
problem that affects the life of the working in to
find proper solution 1t has effected scientific and equt
able distribution of all the lands capable of cultivation in
accordance with the provisions legislation that conc
ates the interests of the working with the rights pr
vate property It has initiated laws regulating labor which
ebody all the conquess that the ideals social justice have
made possible the most advanced and democratic nations
of the world 1t has initiated and administered laws of
social insurance It has ratified all those Conventions
initiated by the international Labor Office OF Geneva in
favor of manual workers. 1t has established special Agr
cultural Centers to bring within the reach of the agcu
trists lacking the implements and the most
advanced teachings of the agricultural science. And
finally is carrying vast plan of social improvement
which will raise the Dominican worker to the standard of
living to which he entitled factor of the first order in
the political and economic life of the nation.
Faithful to the PRINCIPLES Of genune M ne and IN sGmpets
administration will seek at ali times preserve the char
actestcs Of the national soul and to maintain in ali their
shining and answering purity the democratic course OF
the Dominican constitution
Neither faSciSn communism, strange doctrines in
environment in violent contrast with the traditions
and with the spirit OF people, shall ever have place
in the program of national progress that have set down
for my administration to follow.
Neither communstic fascistic, the Dominican Re-
public and always shall be pure democracy, whose
institutional organization modelled after the immortal
principles that inspired the patcians of Philadelphia who
in 1887 gave the Americans the precious legacy of the
first Political Constitution of the New World does not admit
nor will admit of the adoption of extremist of
anagonstic deooge which today perturb the universal
conscience.
Inspired by these principles shared alike by the people
and by Government of the Dominican Republic hereby
beg to submit approval the Congress the annexed
project OF law which derogates the law passed November
1886 for the repression of comunstc outcroppings
which, through lack of favorable environment among
selves did not fortunately to endanger the good
that Republic enjovs organized nation
God Country and Liberty-Signed- L. Trujillo.