Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...British-owned Mexicano Railway?a $50,000,000 line connecting Mexico City with the major port of Vera Cruz?is close-mouthed J. D. W. Holmes. Last week he said: "We shall not have to wait long to see the complete bankruptcy of this line if the projected labor law is enacted...
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...
...branch of the U. S. Department of Labor...