The times-news., 1938-11-07
PART ii

Mexico has been used in the past as a field lab
oratory for propagatng ideas which have been eff
fectively transpanted into the United States To-
day Mexico is the backdoor threat to American
democracy as we'll as the base for frontal attack
on private enterprise in all of the Western Hemi-
sphere.
To realize fully the seriousness of the aid and
comfort given to the Mexican revolutionaries by
the presence of John l.. Lewis, Edwin S. Smith of
the NLRB and other Americans who attended the
Mexico City Labor Congress" and applauded its
sneakers one must first understand President Car
denas and his policies.
.'..-"- Socialistc Government
The most significant statement of policy was
given directly to me by the official spokesman for
President Cardenas, Attorney Antonio Ramos Pc
drueza. "Of course you know we are socialstic
government and we are natonalizng our resources,
like Germany Italy, Chile and other countries have
done for the benefit of our nationals" ' :,
During the Labor Congress-" President Car
denas attacked the doctrine that any nation may
protect the foreign investments of its citizens. He
defended appropriation of all sub-soil rights He
urged development of an American Continental
Navy" to enforce his social-economic theories and
advocated the inftration of the armies of other
countries with propaganda conveying the leftist
ideology. '.'. ">..
On the platform directly behind President Car
denas were the American delegates, Mary Van
Kieeck of the Russell Sage Foundation, Edwin S.
Smith of the National Labor Relations Board and
others less prominent. Mr.. Smith appeared suff-
ciepty interested to take many notes on the pro-
ceedings. President Cardenas invited all Latin
American countries to follow his policy of taking
any foreign-owned property without admitting a
otal,y a1o
from South America agreed that it seemed like a
grand idea. "
"a" International H-jacking
As | watched the faces of the American dele
gates seated on the platform, wondered whether
they could all completely fail to see the point in
volved in the extraordinary hospitality Mexico
showed them. President Cardenas, obviously an
astute student of psychology, must have realized
that the stage was ideally set for his propaganda
in favor of international hi-jacking. a.. 81
Edwin S. Smith included the American press
in his bitter attack upon what he described
'reaetonary caPitalism.'' He hailed Mexico
the only other country besides his own which
had enlightenment enough to recognize the rights
of all workers ...... 49, --...-.
Thus the "Labor Congress- was used to set
pattern for political action against private enter
joining to undermine the policy of their own gov
ernment's Secretary of Statel .'..- -. be ,...
""s... Mexico's theology
This new industrial theology of Mexico is Off
cialy described, as follows: ...- '."
"The fundamental points of the national pro-
gram according to the technics of the Revolution,
are: ... '.r'' '... '"
Q-"Insurgency of the proletarian classes
..' seeking economic and actual equality,
(2)-"Creation of new State to realize pro-
gressive socializaton of means of pro-
duction.
1.-THE fight or conflict for control of instru-
ments of production chiefly centers around the
land and machines for making machines with all
their appurtenances." '" ..-
Such are the objectives of the bloc that holds
Mexico in an iron grip. The bloc includes Presi-
dent Cardenas and his cabinet; the National Revo-
lutionary Party Mexico, which placed Cardenas
in power and now keeps him there with a military
force, supplemented by militarized labor unions;
the CT.M, which constitutes the CLIO, of Mexico
and with which John L. Lewis has repeatedly ex-
pressed his friendship and cooperation; the Inter-
national Revolutionary Lawyers Guild, the Inter
national Revolutionary Teachers Guild-both of
which include affiliated members and organizations
in the United States in their respective fields. And
now is added the C.T.A.L., or Pan-American Labor
Confederation .... ...- So. ..... ,a.....- .. ',.
The American members in these international
organizations have pledged themselves to extend
and project the industrial aspects of the Mexican
ideology into the United States. 1t is. quite pos
sible every American worker and employer may
eventually be asked to decide whether these Mex
lean innovations shall be added to our present in
dustrial legislation.
ash, - s.iar PART iii
The appropriation Law hangs over the head of
every business man in Mexico like the sword of
Damocles 1t may be used at any time to force
companies to negotiate with C.T.M. unions for new
contracts, to force the payment of new and con-
fseatory taxes and to- force out all employer op-
position to the liberalism" which in Mexico is the
equivalent of our American 'New Deal" g
The objective of the new Latin American Labor
Federation is to extend this legislation throughout
the Western Hemisphere. -
The Mexican appropriation Law provides that
Industries which are considered to be. of, public