MEXICO DRAWS A NEW CODE

...In the various parts of the country the school teachers are organized in unions, and practically all of them are affiliated with the C. R. O. M. The aims of these unions are: First, mutual help...

...A strike of school teachers in Vera Cruz was finally settled some few weeks ago through the good offices of the Confederacion Regional Obrera Mexicana (Mexican Federation of Labor— C. R. O. M...

...The Congrus settled in addition some other questions of, less importance, as, for example, the establishment of i Mexican Consumers' Week, during which all the women of Mexico should uie for the feeding of their families only Mexican products, refuting to use foreign products...

...We are not out by hook or crook to "capture the unioni...

...Talks With Thomas A Weekly Letter from the Socialist Candidate for Mayor of N.Y...

...Hylan is the "friend of Labor," and he cries because some Labor leaders are deserting him...

...Notwithstanding that as far back as-the .TOs there .were the beginnings of a cooperative movement in Mexico, this movement, however, didn't develop to any great Importance because of the blind polity ef the Porfirio Diaz regime, as "til as to the revolutionary period »f the Civil War...

...Th* Congress emphasised the fset that the woman should not omit any effort to fulfill these obligations, and also decided that it is necessary to revise the eivil law*, which would guarantee te tha woman her rights as wife and mother, and especially to give more speed and justice to the legal procedure which involvet women...

...There are two principal questions which occupied the sttention of the Convention...

...On tho positive side we are out to persuade our brother and sister workers of the essential correctness of our program for bringing justice and happiness and a be'.ter life to (he peoples of this earth...

...Religious institutions are failing to control the women...

...That is the negative side of it...

...part of the women not to swallow the feminist movement whole, but to go into it with caution, from fear that it can affect the home and family, which, according to declarations accepted by the Congress, ought to be considered at sacred, and in support of which the woman should make lany kind of sacrifice...

...City THERE are two principles to which Socialists are committed which it is i - fitting that' we should recall on Labor Day...

...Heart and soul, mind and strength, we believe in the Labor movement...

...and to her general condition a* a woman...

...After seversl days of strife the third group got control of the Congress, and with their control there came into prominence those ideas, related to the improvement in the moral status of women...

...Practically all of the 92 unions which compote the Labor movement of Mexico City, affiliated with the Confederacion Regional Obrera Mexicana, are either endeavoring to form cooperative societisi or have actually established them, for example, the Union of Workers of the National Factories, *hich have already iet atide a mm •f 50,000 pesos, with which it it now establishing six cooperatives of consumer* and producers is the vicinity of the most important national factories...

...Th* Congress resolved further that the League of Women* to be organised shall conduct a strenuous campaign to prepare women for work in relation to her family, for posts in the public administration 'iet Which she has capacity...

...Since 1919, however, the Mexican li?erstion of Labor hat been trying * spread the idea of cooperation esong the workers of the Republic Mexico, and in a few parts of ¦ country has even succeeded in atibhshing agricultural cooperative -But the moment seems to have arrived to give thit movement a new impulse, especially in the induttrial tenten...

...It is important to note that the Congres*- spoke first of* the datici of the woman and only later discussed the rights of woman, especially on questions of social politics...

...Hasn't he, on occasion and other under pressure, voted in the Legislature for a tiny installment of what ii Labor's rights...

...On* represented the ideas and plans of th* Protestant Church, another ideas and principles of the Catholic Church, and a third group was composed of thote elements without sny particular religious tendencies, but interested in social problems, and especially in the problem of political rights for I women...

...The Confederacion Regional Obrera Mexicana has always taken the greatest interest in questions of primary education...

...expects Lsbor to frrget the way he and his party have ignored the injunction issue, scorned Labor's demsnd that private profiteers be d ivea out of the field of workmen's compensation fc.sjrenee, and tide-stepped the issue of the immediate ratification af o Child-Labor Amendment to which they were solemnly commit-, tedt Waterman is a "friend of Labor"—but that is to laugh...

...One of these times is upon us in thi shape of the municipal campaign...

...We are committed to the Labor movement...

...The strike in Vera Cruz was caused by the attempt on the part of the local authorities to cut down the already meager salaries of the school teachers...

...A basic principle of thii League is that woman should not suffer from the error of a badly interpreted feminism, and that her activities Should be in relation to the duties which Nature and society imposed upon her as a fundamental basis for the existence and well-being ef the home and the family...

...The second question of importance which oame up for discussion and decision, and which was finally adopted by the Congress, was the appointment of a committee to organise a League of Women whose program and plans would be based on the ideas and tendencies of the group controlling the Congress...

...And for that h...

...Our second principle is that it is not our business at a Party to usurp the functions of Labor union...

...MEXICO DRAWS A NEW CODE Far-Reaching Program of Social Legislation Will Be Presented to Parliament in September By Elizabeth Goldstein jfc'i$U5AT work for tha f uJLtera if »t praaent being ll|f|h,H in Mexico...

...Tpjeeount of all the viciiiitudei jtogh which Mexico has passed, Bgatise in a country so large it ^ not easy to coordinate the 9)os of tha working classes, it ¦Eterei years to propara this jjjfcl l?gislation...

...Labor Day is for us a day not merely to .'ook backward on what hat been done, but forward on what remains to be done...

...Second, collective bargaining...

...It hallo hoped that this new legislaMfwill effect a sort of r?conciliafile: between the opposing parties •iste greater spirit of cooperation...

...Why," he layt, "didn't I give Pete Brady and Jim Holland good jobs...

...IMg, basic points ef this proposed Isgislstion are: First: Thst rights and duties of ^Capital and Labor are to be (tfiotly denned, ao as to eliminate asy possible strife which might iris* from an erroneous interpretation of the law, as embodied in ¦Mi Constitution of 1917...

...Walker is the "friend of Labor...

...Let us make this Lsbor Day a day for (reaching the necessity for the unity of Labor . n the political field to beat the bosses in politics as in industry...

...fa thii end, the new legislation ViU content ittelf with the question sf wtget, working hours and conditions of health, in accordance with uV decision of the Washington labor Congress in 1019...

...to fight for the establish ment of institutions in which motheri who are obliged to work for a living could leave their little children under the charge of persons competent to csre for them, and other questions of minor importance...

...and consumers...

...I At the ssme time there is the tendency on th...

...Third, to reorganise the plan of instruction in the primary tchools...

...Second: The law regulating the SHagmlc strife of the nation must «agni to improve the general ecojBBgfl condition of the country, by Increasing production...

...We know that in the long run our own party can succeed only in proportion as it is genuinely a Labor party...

...The workers' cooperative in Mexico, due to his interest in the movement, can rely always upon the assistance and cooperation of the President of the Republic...

...Nevertheless, there are time.*- which call fo more intense effort than others...

...Fer these restons, it it absolutely sjetsisry to have collaboration beSit the workers and the employm, which collaboration will elimin¦Hpft, will create mutual confifies and a better understanding between the two opposing camps...

...It it time Labor began to vote f< ..self and its children, and for making City and State servants of the people and not of the interests I Awvs»wi c...

...The tssks ahead cannot be accomplished suddenly or easily...

...I The Congress of the Woman of .the Iberian race, which was called by the Mexican Section of the League of Spanish-Speaking Women, which hat iti headquarteri in Spain, and the President of which il BaQMl Carmen de Burgos, has juit tnuaH its session in Mexico City...

...A conSpnal committee, headed Bardo Trevino, one of the US deputies, has prepared ESjflne of social legislation, l*ldi will be presented at the ¦Lina of the new parliaEury session in September...

...This faith in the Labor movement is our first principle...

...tond piece of work looking i better future, which the >vement in Mexico is about h, is the establishment of cooperatives of producer...

...the Labor contract which the new law proposes hopes to establish, if not permanent peace among the producing element of Mexico, at least I standing armistice...

...And for that ho expects Labor to forget the tort of men he hat made magistrates, his alliance with anti-Labor employers and lawyers like Henry Fruhof and Harry Gordon, and his bad treatment of the building • trades...

...We need not a disorganised mob but an organized army...

...Thit is the season when every candidate is a "friend of Labor...

...The intervention of the C. R. O. M. and the friendly and helpful attitude on the part of the Governor of the State, Senor Jarre, finally brought about a settlement ef this trouble to the satisfaction of the teachers...

...As a matter of fact, the first general strike organized by the C. R. O. M. in May, 1919, was called to help the school teachers of Mexico against the unjust demands and persecutions of the Government of Carranza...

...It is well to remember here that just at the political party, Partido Laboritta, wat created and formed by the Confederacion Regional Obrera Mexicana to assist in the political field, the cooperative movement is considered an arm, or a part, of the Confederacion on the economic field, and will be a controlling factor in the general socisl question in Mexico...

...However, this collaboration cannot stilt without recognizing the rights «( Mexican Labor, and their right to benefit from individual industry...

...It is hoped to establish sliding scales of wages, which could not be affected by irresponsible demands of sitter of the interested parties...

...protection of womanhood in her occupation, be this intellectual or manual...

...Our achievements csnnoi accurately be measured by yearly milestones...

...It is slso important and interesting to know that the President of the Republic, General Calles, during hie trip through Europe last fall, spent most of hit time in ttudying the various forms of cooperatives in Germany and France, and as soon as he returned to Meicox he ordered to be published seversl works on those European cooperative movements and their publication in Mexico...

...It is evident thst there is a strong tendency among Mexican women to organize themselves, and to fight for improvement in their conditions, intellectual, social and morii...

...Some day we will t»U the story of his antiLabor record...

...There were three distinct groups in this Congress...

...It is not likely that even Henry ; 'ubb will vote for a New York City Republican a* « "friend of Labor," to occupy the Mayor'* chair...

...Against this record I ask every Socialist and sympathiser with our municipal platform to set our promises^- our well-worked-out plans, our pioved loyalty to Labor's cause...