Word: ctm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Mexico's rigged political setup, the Presidential nominee of the Cárdenas-controlled Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM) is virtually certain of election and the candidate backed by the potent, 1,000,000-strong Mexican Confederation of Labor (CTM) is virtually certain to be nominated by the Party. Last week, although President Cárdenas still has 21 months to serve and the election is more than a year away, the CTM put its seal of approval on square-faced, bullnecked, 43-year-old General Manuel Avila Camacho, until recently Minister of National Defense...
...broadcast this news for home consumption was that simultaneously in Mexico City was convening the first Latin-American Labor Conference, which opened with many a sharp cry against "Nazi and Fascist penetration of Latin America." Host to the conference was ascetic, sloe-eyed Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only a few months ago in Manhattan, Laborite Lombardo had professed himself certain that the Government of which his 1,000,000 workers are a keystone would never dream of bartering its oil with dictatorships. However, none of the delegates from the 13 Central and South...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s continued purchases of Mexican silver. Mexico was in the grip of an economic upset. One day last week the great square in front of the Presidential Palace was turned over to the 25,000 demonstrators of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). The CTM Secretary General, intense Vicente Lombardo Toledano urged support of the Mexican New Deal, proclaimed: "All property owners and capitalists in Mexico are Fascists...
...rdenas program. Nine months ago he resigned in a huff. With cries of "Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potosí" waddled off to his great Las Palomas hacienda. From there he continued to block organization drives of the Leftist CTM labor union in his State, permitted Catholic schools to continue, defiantly hung on to his huge land holdings and held up Government agrarian engineers in their efforts to slice up Potosí estates into communal ejidos...
...hours later a band of laborers, fired with their President's pronouncements, raided a meeting of the antiSemitic, anti-Communist Mexican National Vanguard. Shots were fired, several were wounded, including Vanguard President Ruben Moreno Padres, who was knifed in the back. Rightist sympathizers blamed the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers) for the clash. Faced with the accusation, Confederation Secretary-General Vicente Lombardo Toledano coyly attributed the attack to "some people passing by who heard the Vanguard attacking the Government and rushed to its defense...