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...Mexico City President Emilio Fortes Gil attended, as he had promised he would do (TIME, Sept. 9), a football game between the University of Mexico and the Club de Sportivo. The President's wife went too and. with the cloudy enthusiasm proper to all female football spectators, was heard to cry: "Que Emocien!" ("How thrilling!"), the day after the game, Reginald Root, Yale '25, University of Mexico Coach, was called again into the presidential presence, to hear these gratifying words: "Football appeals to me more than any sport. . . . Our young men are virile and will soon learn...
Last week burly President Fortes Gil invited Coach Root to his castle at Chapultepec and said: "I shall be glad to give all possible encouragement to this sport in Mexico and shall look forward with pleasure to your next game. I shall be there...
...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...
...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 Seņor Fortes Gil and his huge agrarian following in the Mexican Congress can put through if they stubbornly so choose...