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...strikes with Government approval, also cutting in on the benefits of Cárdenas' expropriations. But meeting last week in Mexico City, the 4,589 delegates to the annual CTM convention were puzzled, disunited, sore. The cause was just one man, Cárdenas' heir, Manuel Avila Camacho, whom the CTM had helped to elect President of Mexico...
...years mass-conscious Cárdenas moved his country a long way to the left, collectivized farms, turned the National Railways over to the workers, expropriated not only the oil industry but big estates of the hacendados. In three months Avila Camacho has snapped Mexico back to the right (TIME, Jan. 20), left his left-wing backers wishing they had a bag to hold...
...stars: Lázaro Cárdenas, Joseph Stalin and Lombardo Toledano, not necessarily in that order. The job of Mexico's official labor leader under Cárdenas was congenial enough to him, but not so congenial has been the position of apologist to the left for Avila Camacho's middle-of-the-road administration. By CTM's constitution he had to retire this year. For months it has been an open secret that his successor would be the more conservative Fidel Velazquez, who helped him found...
...feast of glory and justification. For weeks he had warmed up his farewell address. (Favorite line: "I leave office a rich man-rich in the hatred of the bourgeoisie.") On the convention's opening day, he delivered it with gestures, eloquently declared that the Avila Camacho regime was only a "modification in details" of Cárdenas' program. Equally eloquent was the inference that Lombardo, noted for his political agility, was leaving himself free to jump left or right...
...Mexican election installing Avila Camacho as President...