Word: lombardos
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...your excellent piece on Lombardo Toledano, the Mexican labor boss and head of the Latin American Confederation [TIME, Dec. 30], you ask whether he perhaps has broken with the Communists...
...Lombardo has always put on a candy face for powerful Mexican politicos and for "Yankee" reporters, but he has carefully explained his altered tactics to the faithful. In a speech in the Esperanza Iris theater, center for Soviet movies, Soviet Legation entertainment and other propaganda events, Lombardo painstakingly discussed the new tactic and justified his ten-year no-strike pledge and his pact with Mexican industrialists...
With copious quotations from Marx, Lenin and Stalin, Lombardo demonstrated that this was the "true" revolutionary line for weak and colonial countries: a "nationalist", economic and political front to fight capitalist imperialism...
...Mexico, the Communists kept a tight grip on the trade union movement through Vincente Lombardo Toledano, who, as head of the C.T.A.L. (see below), is a powerful figure throughout Latin...
...there was an alternative theory: maybe the party line had changed again and Lombardo was shifting with it (as U.S. Communists would shift if the line changed from the Foster class-struggle position back to Earl Browder's let's-seem-to-go-along tactics). In any case, Mexico's Communist Party, with a bare 8,000 members, was one of Latin America's least formidable. "There'll be no Communist revolution in Mexico," Adolf Berle had said. "Mexicans have had their revolution-after their own fashion...