The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-31
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hdtched Out
The Truth
. INTERESTING is NEWS
Q FROM MEXICO
. THE PARTY LINE
. TO HANG THEMSELVES

Interesting news from Mexico. Very
interesting.
Two labor gatherings there, send
ing out news-one of them one way,
the other one another way.
Vicente Lombardo Toledano, left
winger leader, had session in which
he laid down for his followers an ex-
act Moscow party line platform, in
great detail. Undoubtedly he had
them swaying in the aisles.
Toledano was, until recently, titu-
lar head of the CTM, which was fos-
tered by the recent Cardenas regime.
Now he doesn't hold the title, but he
surely holds the power. He's boss
man.
Also Toledano is president of the
Latin-American Federation of Labor,
which Mr.. John l.. Lewis helped to
launch. This gets important.
x x X
Also from Mexico City comes news
that week the GROIN, right wing la
Dor organization, affiliated to the A.
F. of L., held it's convention and took
about the kind of action the A. F. of
l.. would take, but dealing with Mexi-
can problems as Mexicans, of course.
The GROIN is gaining strength rap
idly, which is good news.
But about Mr.. Toledano-and our
State Department ought to be inter-
ested. Perhaps it would be if De-
rfy, al 1o@
things get to Secretary Hull's desk.
Mr.. Toledano laid down the Mos
cow line. He still thought U. S. cap
italism needs keen watching, al
though, of course, what with Russia
in the war it won't do to be quite as
nasty as formerly. Also it is advis-
able now, he thinks, to be halfway
friends with Britain. The Moscow
line, you see-and some new flags
must be hung out on that line. "When
the devil was sick, the devil a monk
would be :"
But let's move on. Mr.. Toledano
quit his CTM office to become presi-
dent Of his (and John l.. Lewis') Latin
American Federation of Labor.
We can be sure that if Mr.. Tole-
dano lays down the Moscow party line
for Mexicans he lays down the same
line for all Latin American labor.
Thus, as far as Toledano's leader
ship is concerned, it is throughout
Latin America, a MOSCOW leader
ship-and nothing less.
The explicit purpose of forming the
Latin American Federation of Labor
was to split Latin America away from
the United States!
That is damned big fact in these
days.
How much Mr.. Lewis plays with
the Latin American Federation to-
day is uncertain Maybe not at all.
But he surely was there at the launch
ing. If he is out he ought to say so.
X X X
Mr.. Toledano hasn't become a lit
tie tolerant of the United States be-
cause Of the United States or because
OF democracy. 1t is solely-and he
makes it clear-because of Russia and
the party line.
1he Ioledano speech was full of
loyalty to Moscow. Hatred of the
United States seethed underneath.
United States intelligentsa has
raved about Toledano, gone nuts over
him. The usual mushy senile desper-
alton
But we have now a first hand pic
ture that ought q knock the foolish
ness out of lot of heads, scrape the
wool from lot of bleary or myopic
eyes.
Latin America has had a plenty big
dose of Communism and a plenty big
dose of HitleriSm. The little conso-
laton is that there are those who,
if given enough to the party line, may
hang themselves with it-CMW.