Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lawyer-President personally drafted the law when he was Minister of Interior in the cabinet of bull-necked Plutarco Elias Calles, also a two-fisted idealist (TIME, Nov. 19, 1923, et seq.). Little was heard of it then. Printed on 160 single-spaced pages the Fortes Gil Labor Code is too complex for one Mexican in 1,000 to grasp. Basically it aims to displace the present ill-coordinated State labor laws with a sweeping Federal system of drastic potency. Passage of the necessary Constitutional amendment last week gives the President a free hand to railroad enactment...
...Code Fought. Never does prudent Motorman Henry Ford differ openly with the Chief Executive of a land where he is selling cars. All the same a large extension of the Ford Assembly Plant in Mexico City is not being proceeded with. Scare-heads in the Mexican Press declared last week that if the Fortes Gil Labor Code is enacted Senor Ford is resolved to pay off all his Mexican assemblers, keeping only a sales and service force in the field...
Even more startling was a resolution adopted by the General Confederation of Mexican Workers, a potent radical labor group. Denouncing "restrictions on the right to strike and dangers to workmen in the so-called 'Labor' code," the confederation resolved "to exhort all affiliated labor groups throughout the country to order partial stoppages of work and finally a general strike if Senor Fortes Gil's project is insisted...
Plainly the Tyranny of Capital and the Tyranny of Labor between which a humanitarian President is trying to establish "equilibrium" were both furiously suspicious, last week, of the Labor Code which Se�or Fortes Gil and his huge agrarian following in the Mexican Congress can put through if they stubbornly so choose...
...Steinmetz, not crazy, destroyed according to program. Afterwards he showed one of his inanimate victims to deaf Thomas Alva Edison. Tapping him on the knee in Morse code, he telegraphed: "My lightning did that, Mr. Edison...