The times-news., 1938-11-09
PART v

mood IN
includes the following characteristics of the Roose
velt deal:
Capitalization of government and personalized
LEGISLATION and administration; agricultural regi
mentation extended to complete soclazatlon OF en-
tire areas; labor boards providing legal fiction
for quietly exterminating private enterprise; IN
dustrial unionism politically allied to the central
government controlled propagandizlng OF a 'popu-
lar front" instead of the "People's Mandate work
ers' cooperatives directly encouraged ana nnanceo
with government capital; also
Attacks on the press regularly released by gov
ornment officials; Reform of the Judiciary to
rrov;de notical control of the courts, regarded by
President Cardenas as more important than enact
ment of the Mexican Labor Law; purge" OF al
onposition and 'smearing of all who crltcize gov
ernment policies as "reactionaries', "Faselsts
"traitors' and capitalists; devauaton of curren-
CIV: financing agricultural credits with Federai
loans; systematic destruction of states rights.
Cardenas tells his audiences that ne is dong the
same things in Mexico that Roosevelt has done IN
the United States. John L. Lewis and Edwin s.
Smith confirmed the parallel, and SO did other
speakers from Mexico and South America. Inc
Cardenas administration even puollshed text
book showing parallel policies IN full detail.
Some Hitler Aspects
Mexico's parallels do not, however, end with the
New Deal. In these respects the Mexican program
bears resemblance to Hitlers.
Regulation of private industries under complete
state CONTROL persecution OF reglous groups; con-
trolled elections with one-way ballots; clustering
Cardenas similar in sound, appearance and person
al mannerism to Der Fuehrer; martial atmosphere
of Congress surrounded by bayonets; armed pohti-
cal pressure groups to offset professional army;
salute of battalions to their leader by outstretched
hand; using natural resources in international par
ter; appropriation of major industries and natural
resources.
On the other hand-in fact on every hand in
Mexico-are ear-marks of the Russian system
The Hammer and Sickle everywhere; appeals to
proletarian class hatred; persistent destruction OF
private enterprise; suppression of political opposl-
ton; communal farms; war on capitalism described
as s'Faseismo; seizure of church property; social
zation" of army and navy as enforcement agen-
eies for industrial polices MARKHAM ideology taught
in the schools; censorship of press radio ana pno-
tography cooperation in building and international
revolutionary front.
Have these policies of the Revolution prought
Utopia to Mexico? No.
Initiation and rising costs which the labor
TO the workers bad food, bad housing, insufficient
clothing steadily declining standard OF living
Neither the communal farm nor the worker-man-
aged industry has produced the promised "aDun-
dant life"
The private enterprises which have survived the
social reform" are forced to conduct their opera
tions upon an extremely restricted scale.
There is no recourse for the employer when en-
4ba;r For far
tory laborers are known to have forced company
doctors to write out prescriptions for expensive
imported medicines which they trade at the drug
stores for Partisan perfumes.
''- Regimentaton Everywhere
The RECOMMENDATION and militarzation of indus
trial workers and the roletariat' is carried on
aggressively. Union members are marched up and
down city streets carrying banners, many of which
demand the formation of Society without classes"
Inter-plant jurisdictional strikes between fac
tions in the same union frequently close plants.
In the majority of plants discipline has been de-
stroyed Since employers cannot discharge with.
out encountering legal process and paying the
worker three months wages plus bonus employees
often want to be "red" because they will get more
money than they can obtain any other way-and
after this payment there still remains the chance
for decision against the employer in the Labor
Board with recovery of wages for the full period
during which the employe has not worked
| In the majority of large plants, union officers
have more authority than the plant management
because of the Exclusion clause" in labor con-
tracts under which the union may force the en-
ployer to discharge employees upon request
Under the Labor Law, if plant employs more
than ten men it is forced to unionize under closed
shop, and the union tells the employer where, how
when and how many men must be employed Fail
ure to employ enough men is just as much a viola
tion of the contract the failure to pay contract
wages. , @ .-..
| Heavy Tax Burdens
There is not an hour in the day during which
employers in Mexico are not under fire from either
pohtlcal or labor leaders. Demands upon manage
ment are further complicated by heavy tax bur-
dens, including such extremes as being taxed on
unpaid government debts to the company Natural,
ly' news of these occurrences is not widely public
lzed. Facts are withheld from fear of reprsal
Publishers fear to publcizze such incidents because
violent methods are often used to discourage dis.
cusson. Mass meetings of workers display banners
indicating hostility of the administration to the