The times-news., 1938-11-05

What | have just seen and heard in my survey
of Mexico bears the earmarks of an international
conspiracy ''' 'l .,""'"
To DESTROY American democracy
To sabotage the policy of the U. S. Depart
ment of State
To spread Mexico's appropriation program
to all of the Western Hemisphere
To link radical labor unionism in the Unit
ed States with Mexicos program for
world revolution. pa
To convince Latin America that Mexco's
"social revolution" is simply the Roose-
velt New Deal. ~
The presence and sympathetic speeches of John
l.. Lewis of the C. !. o. and Edwin S. Smith of
the u S. National Labor Relations Board, served
to encourage this program and tended to strength
an Mexico's defiance of Secretary of State Hulps
demands that American rights lin Mexico be pro
tected
The facts are so shocking and the implications
so sprious that deem it citizens duty to turn on
them the full light of nationwide publicity There
fore 7 am writing for AMERICAS FUTURE-and
asking it in turn to release to the entire press of
the country-this condensation of a 1900 word
article am publishing in the magazine of which
am editor.
PART
The recent sessions in Mexico City of the Inter-
national Industrial Relations Institute, which at
tended, proved to be merely an adjunct to a radical
international labor meeting. The Labor Con-
gress," in turn, was the carefully prepared spring
board for a movement to extend Mexico's program
of expropriation. confscation and Communism to
all of Latin America.
Lewis Prominent Delegate
Conspicuous among the "fraternal delegates" to
this Labor Congress- John L. Lewis of the
C.. l. o. Others were present from every country
south of the Rio Grande excepting Brazil. Con-
spcuously absent were representatives of the
American Federation of Labor, which declined the
invitation. ''. .' .'.
Whether by design or coincidence, the impress
sion was created that the extension OF Mexlco's
Red ideals into all the Americas has the approval
of the North American New Deal and of its labor
ally, the c. I. o. " '.....
Edwin S. Smith, member of the United States
National Labor Relations Board, speaker at two
sessions, was present on the platform when Mex
lean President Cardenas expounded his doctrine of
appropriation and invited all Latin America to fol-
low his example Mr.. Smiths commendation of
Mexican labor laws and his bitter attack on 'reac
tionary capitalism in the United States gave Mex
leans the impression that the Roosevelt admins
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confscation of American properties in foreign
countries. Mr. Smith has denied that this is a JUS
tifable inference, but the impression became so
widespread that it already has served the purpose
of those who planned the fortnight of propaganda
meetings in the Mexican capital 2""r'
Thunders His Approval
The climax of enthusiasm came when John L.
Lewis, speaking before $4,000 enthusiasts in the
hammer-and- sickle bedecked bu-ring, thundered
his approval of the confscating Mexican President
and his policies.
D. workers of the world always have the same
adversaries in the great corporations" Mr. Lewis
said "They constitute the er enies of the workers
of the whole earth. 1t does not matter that these
avaricious corporations which exploit workers are
in the United States or in Mexico or in the coun
tries of Europe-ther attitude towards the work
ers and the tactics they use are the same in all
countries. ...f, .,
+ ""We are convinced that Mexico is marching
along the road of progress T.. What has taken
place in Mexico and the United States must, take
place in the rest of countries of Latin America
Democracy has always had its enemies and
now they are allied with Fascism and reactionism.
In the United States the reactionafies are allied
with employers. Reactionary EMPLOYERS and
their satellites would welcome the triumpb of Fas
cism in America and for this reason the workers
of the whole world are jubiant about the assembly
of the Federation of Latin-American Workers"
'.v -. Classed With xxx. ...,-, ..
Mr.. Lewis worked up the interest of so 600
listeners by linking American industrial and busi
ness interests with such alleged Fascist organiza
tions as law and order committees, farmers, asso
Citations and civic organizations which he placed
in the same class as the Silver Shirts, the Black
Legion, the ku Klux Klan and the German-Ameri-
can Bund. .. ..r. =, .-,. e., 90, ,,r.--,..
during all OF his public appearances in Mexico,
MI Lewis did not offer one single suggestion as to
no" government, industry and labor could work
more effectively together. In allying his C. L. o.
WIN the international Labor Congress, he ap-
peafed to be more interested in organizing an in
'ethational labor front against business than in
gaming new concessions for his American c. 1. o. |
members cr l.r.,4 "a =
Expert political observers in Mexico City were
positive that Mr.. Lewis eulogies greatly strength
ened President Cardenas' standings in Mexico and
that CaFdenas fully appreciated the Importance of
receiving the moral support of so powerful labor
leader so close to the President of the United