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...zaro 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...
...even Lombardo's exit was spoiled. Three days after his speech, President Avila Camacho put in a surprise appearance at the convention, neatly stole the show. Marching down the aisle to the blare of a truck-drivers' band, he mounted the platform, embraced his townsman Lombardo, then turned and lectured...
...conscious defender of the workers' conquests and oppose groups attempting to discredit them." But the workers, he went on, must go forward with the country, obey the laws, learn discipline, above all cooperate with the Government. Scarcely skin-deep under the rhetoric was the threat that Avila Camacho would allow no actions of labor to smother the boomlet in Mexican business that has popped since his inauguration. But surprisingly enough the conservative press saw in the speech a move to the left on the President's part...
Preoccupied delegates voted at the convention's end to appoint Velazquez Secretary General. But their hearts were not in it. All were too busy digesting the knowledge that President Avila Camacho would stand no nonsense from labor, wondering about labor's next move...