IGLESIAS AT NEW POST
IGLESIAS AT NEW POST New Pan-American Labor Secretary at His Desk SANTIAGO IGLESIAS, preaident ef the Porto Rican Federation of Labor, who was recently elected Spanish-language secretary of the...
...He revealed himself as an expert barker for the great side-show of the circus of capitalism...
...The Conference will die-cutt immigrstion matters and will alto, it is expected, take up questions rsised by Secretary of State Kel logg's much criticized statement on Mexican affairs...
...We still hsve the same old job of weeding out the sheep from the gosts, of sifting the chsff out of the wheat, of separating error from truth...
...On the witness stand, under the brilliant scientific questioning of Clarence Darrow, he had to acknowledge that he had never been honest enough to examine tho religion of his parents...
...This is truly an age ef transition...
...He is else familiar with conditions affecting the workers of Cuba, where ha steal soms ysars...
...IGLESIAS AT NEW POST New Pan-American Labor Secretary at His Desk SANTIAGO IGLESIAS, preaident ef the Porto Rican Federation of Labor, who was recently elected Spanish-language secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, has arrived in Washington and assumed his new duties...
...I am convinced that the results of the Conference will make a favorable impression, not only in Mexico and the United States but in all of Latin-America...
...The old fetishes ara relng Junked every day...
...Thus it happens that In 1926 ws are faced by a condition similsr to thst which confronted Europe as a rasult of the thirty years' war from 1818 to 1648...
...Now that we have depoaed kinga as masters, we have simply changed to bosses thst ruls by wealth...
...Changed Bonn And thus arose the partnership of Church and State...
...There* fore, I say again that Eternal *riti-cism is the pries of truth...
...8/» if you, dear reader, have not the courage and honesty to use criticism yen will never get anywhere...
...The old Idols ara being knocked off their high perches...
...In economic...
...Freedom and happiness will never be conferred on us by others) wa have to earn them ouraelves...
...These ars ths times that try men's souls," just as surely now as in the times of Thomss Paine and the American Revolution...
...Iglesias was the conference of representatives of Mexican and United States organised Labor, to be held in Washington late in August...
...In the field of morale and .ethics you will not dare to formulate new and truthful rultrs of your Own aa long as you blindly worship \\* Idiotic dogmss and creeds of the past, But you can be free from bigotry, from economic slsvery, from politl* cal childishness, if you will thinks for yourself and criticise unmercifully every proposition that eon* fronts you...
...It is a sad fact how history is bound to rspeat itself...
...Iglesias succeeds Canute A. Vargas, who resigned as Spanish-language secretary when he waa appointed Labor attache to tha United States by the Mexican Government...
...The workers of the United Stapes," be saw), "have demonstrated tha value of organisation beyond the shadow of a doubt and the workers in Spanish-speaking countries of North and South America are beginning to profit by tht example of their fellow toilers in the great Republic of the North.- Ths Pan-American Federation of Labor expects to uke full advantage ef this feeling and to push the work of organisation and ths gotpel of trade unionism ia every Latin-American nation...
...Though bora ia Spain, Mr...
...This is the same ske-show that has served to uphold the power of rulers snd chieftains from the earliest ages...
...Iglesias said that foremost among his activities would be work to build up the Labor movement in Porto Rico...
...Mafias has lived most of hie life In Forte Rico and ha understands thoroughly tha needs and aspirations of the people of the island...
...Iglesias will continue as Pros!p,— I, ,......, dent of ths Porto Risen Federation ef Labor and will work, as harete fort, to organise the toilers ef Forte Sice under the baaaer of tha Fedora-tion, which is affiliated with the American Federation of Leber He will slao retain bia aaat in the Porte Rican Senate, v here he hae been a consistent and effert ivt champion of the interests et* tha worhing people of Forte Rise...
...By applying the yardstick of criticism to every problem it is possibls to ascertain the truth, And It can be done in no other way...
...And every one of us must do his or her part...
...Thus you will acquire flstfnewer freedom that will finally lead to hap* pineaa and prosperity here on this earth, regardless of the fear of everlasting torment or the promiaa of eternal bliss...
...The meeting will show the world at large that the toilera of two great republics—the United States and Mexico—are firm in their friendship and are determined to work together, despite the efforts of those who may atrive to stir up ill feeling between the two nations...
...Cuba, Mexico and the nationa of Central and South America...
...Iglesias to International Labor Newa Service, "that the Conference will be productive of much good and will serve to strengthen the good will existing between the workers of Mexico and the United States...
...Discussing his work for the Pan-American Federation of Labor, Mr...
...He said that recent reporta have convinced him that the workera of Latin-America are awakening to the urgent need of organization and are showing a keener interest in organization than ever before...
...I feel sure," said Mr...
...Now I will give you a formula, a yardstick, which I devised more thsn a quarter-century ago, but which has until now not appeared in prlt.t: ETERNAL CRITICISM IS THE PRICE OF TRUTH...
...Among the first matters to engage the attention of Mr...
...In politics and citiaenship you will still follow ths leader's chariot or bandwagon and pick up the crumbs ef patronage...
...It was likewiss inevitsbls thst the tribe's soothsayer would havs to support the new lesder, otherwise he might have his own hesd knocked off...
...Tha old liss are being found out...
...THE PRICE OF TRUTH By DANIEL MORGAN AS one of the 6,000,000 voters who supported the late Mr...
...Now, as ws have simply changed rulers, wa have the same old fight on our hands which our early Americans so bravely tried te win...
...As soon as a man arose in barbaric times who could swing a bigger club than any one else In his tribe, the stern logic of events made him the lesder...
...The one thing that the early American pioneers of 800 ysars ago were united on waa to break up the alliance between Church and State...
...Bryan during all the stirring scenes from 1896 to 1908, I was finally compelled to question his honesty...
...A Magi* K*r This is ths ksy thst will open every door that can bt optned...
...Ia tbit work I am confident that we will have the hearty support ef every organisation affiliated with the Pan-American Federation...
...you will still be a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water...
Vol. 2 • August 1925 • No. 32
