THE AMERICAN FLINT 11

being shot down and in which the weak good the world, the church not ex

in
ill
are left home, not only cepted, has been interrupted. And

of at

at
and suffer the

to
the great evils the war, but strife, unless some great ideal has

of
to
continue end
cannot express the great toil, the work

to

of
the race. arisen lead the hosts

I
this great catastrophe. ers who are left will find themselves

in
at
sorrow feel
I
It has set back the labor movement for the grip

of
those who believe the rule

in
a
long period. The greatest movement for steel and by shot and shell.’’

of
The Mexican and Labor Organization
BY GEORGIA KOTSCH.

wrong impression re work and his training generations

of
current
in

in
A

is

gard the Mexican workers’ capacity buffeting, by political waves.

to

plenty evidence, however,

of
There

is
for economic organization. That far
so

that the Mexican, when brought into in

he has not organized on the economic dustry, will respond readily any

as

as
field, any extent, cannot denied, but
be

the need for organiza

to

other people

to
looking over his history and environ industry.

-
in

tion
in
ment, this can explained. recent years political
be

Whenever

a in
The Mexican proletariat has been sub lull, the minds

of
strife has had the
jected the most outrageous treatment workers have turned economic wrongs.

to
to

any working people Since 1911, organizations have come into

on
of

the globe. Not

only has been the pawn prominence, the most important being
he

of

ravenous
in a

the railway employes, the employes

of
home, adepts
at

master class the arts

political intrigue, subtle trickery and the cotton factories and the stevedores of
of

the port Vera Cruz.

of

deception, but time and again foreign

vultures have descended pick his lean In 1911 there was strike of all trans
to

bones. portation workers on the western coast,

His work has been on the land and the demanding
of

reduction hours and

a

a
difficulty organizing either politically 50% increase wages. Some demand
in

in
or

economically, the American farm that The native Mexicans were replaced
us

worker will give clear perception by foreign scabs.

of
a

the handicaps suffered by the Mex With the temporary peace under the
of

one
ican worker. De Barra regime, there was remark
la

Always the sharks and beasts prey, strikes, the most im

of
of

able outbreak
fattening governmental positions, portant which was the 2,000 tramway
of
in

political issues. Mexico City. Their organization

of
to

have directed his mind men

He has fought through the long years was highly developed and five days
in

of blood which drained the race of its they gained their demands.
best and greatest, and slaved through the Dock workers, the employes
of

the
long unpaid years grime and toil un Refinery, miners,
of

Waters-Pierce the
til, reading his tragic history, one can peons the Saguna and Torreon ranch
on

only marvel that has any virility left

he

various times and with

at

es, all struck

put up any kind fight. intelligent demands and effective tactics.
of

with which
to

That “Land and Liberty” his slogan, The organizations

of

the miners and

is

the direct and necessary result the cotton mill employes, have been dedi
of

his
is