10 SOCIALIST APPEAL December 18, 1937 Rivera Bares Mexican Plot Against Trotsky INTERNATIONAL NOTES Supervises Soviet Election Arrests and Shootings Continue Last Minute Removals From Ballot. By John Wright MEXICO CITY, devastating exposure of the aims and frame up plots of the Stalinist GPU operating on the North American continent was widely publicized Stalin Elects Himself bere recently in El Universal, influential Mexican newspaper.
The elections in Russia are over officially. As was guaranAn amalgam against Leon Trotsky was attempted by the Trials, though you could deduce he has succeeded in establishing elect Stalin and 1, 142 other members of the Supreme Council (569 teed in advance, 100 of the voters turned out unanimously to GPU here when Hernan Laborde, it from the documents and sub in America to bring pressure for the Council of the Union and 574 for the Council of NationaliCPU agent and secretary of the stantiating facts exhibited by the against the interests invest ties. e. 1, 142 stooges for Stalin, Stalinist party, tried to link up International Commission; buted in the Spanish American Trotsky with the machinations now, thanks to the slanders countries in the name and title of General Cedillo, fascist lead Stalin police agent, Hernan LA of anti imperialism.
Advised Ballots Be Signed. Laborde made his slanderous borde, you know from your own But this game, unfortunately charge at a People Front meet experience where leads the cyni for Stalin, cannot help being from the 900, 000 school teachers down to all school children of In addition to the previous vast mobilization of the apparatus, ing here.
cism of the Moscow liars, by ana discovered and understood by pioneer age. more than 1, 000, 000 agitators were sent out to ogy with their Mexican colleagues Washington. This game will be the rural districts and 2, 000, 000 volunteers (as Tried Worn Out who impute to you the fantastic, particularly dangerous, even more by the Daily Worker for Dec. 13) assisted the in driving proudly reported Method ridiculous, and even farcical inn than forestalin himself, America, the people to the polls. The Soviet citizen in these elections had Pressed for facts or documents, Mexico in complicity with Trots and especially for Mexico, which to the his failure to vote for Stalin. While the Stalin tention of preparing a coup in governments of Latin America, the choice between either showing up at the polls or explaining Laborde failed to produce any. ky.
He tried the worn out method Stalinism, that is to say, by the cynically kept up the sham of the secret ballot Pravda insisted, claiming that Trotsky knew a Ridiculous Charge Certainly Washington if you please, that unless the ballot was sealed it would be invalid General who knew Cedillo, and On the other hand, what in will not tolerate the Stalinist it at the same time made it quite clear to the citizens that they that the general, whose name is Antonio Villarreal, was the link. terest would Trotsky himself have attempt at blackmailing and had better have iron clad proof of having voted, suggesting, in fact, The article printed in El Uni: in preparing coup against the racketeering pressure. The history that they sign their names to the ballot, thus placing the illiterates the entire of Mexico and all Latin America on the the only government versal exploded the myth e spot. link world that has given him asylum, teaches us that the power of the Sender Garlin reports in the Daily Worker that Children reand vindicated Trotsky above all without concerning him United States has had vast means fused to stay at home and insisted on accompanying their parents completely since it gave the real self with the taking of power by of action in this region to pre to the polls. Apart from the fact that the absence of a schoolchild facts about Villarreal and also the proletariat?
serve its interests.
placed the GPU in the limelight (previously mobilized for the campaign) would have to be ex The has placed you But to hide this game which, plained by the parents, the presence of children constituted an addiwhich it hadn expected.
The unmasking off the GP and Trotsky, he continued, in whatever the direction it takes, tional proof that the parents had not been remiss in their duties.
the center of its concentric in threatens the national interests and the publicity given to its trigue to hide the principal crime of the Mexican people, because overy move was a severe set back of its manoeuver. The aim is it threatens them with falling Voting Safe Guarded for the Stalinist frame up artists. nothing else but to create in under the tyranny of the El Universal printed the ex Mexico a situation that would there has been invented the new under which the elections were held. Virtually nothing was allowed Detail after detail provides proof of the vast reign of terror posure in the form of a trans persuade President Cardenas that ridiculous and sript containing a public conver his only salvation against fascism the cynical amalgam: Trotsky to interfere with the sacred right of all Soviet citizens to vote.
sation, in the presence of report. is to deliver himself into the arms Villarreal. Vasconcelos. Cedillo People voted in home districts, in sanatoriums and Vacationing ors between General Villarreal of Moscow. Patiently, like mois fascism. For its future ends, the places, on battleships on the Red Fleet and on trains which sped and Diego Rivera, noted painter ture, Stalinism has permeated suffering from narciss over the rolling steppes of Russia. howls the Daily Worker. Even and friend of Trotsky.
the bureaucratic mediums of ism, is also preparing its candi being sick in bed was no excuse for failure to vote. Soviet citizen The El Universal article, in Mexico: the magistracy, all the date for the government of Mex could provide against such contingency either like Stanislavsky, part, reads: dependencies of the Department ico, which will be the next chap the venerable director of Moscow history making theatre. by An Incredible Charge another department and even of Education, a good part of ter of its activities here. making an official request to be permitted to vote at home. 01, if he happened not to be a dignitary, by applying for one of the How can Sr. Hernan Laborde, organs very near to the Execufleet cars placed at the disposal of aged and invalid voters to if he is in his right mind, said tive.
drive them to and to and from the polls. Dec. 13. It is hardly General Villarreal, make the The occasion arriving, it would to be wa be wondered at that many harrassed functionaries, seeking to ridiculous and incredible charge cost Stalin or his nothing safeguard themselves against corpses being suddenly resurrected or possible errors in documentation, placed on the rolls the names binations with Trotsky, and that non shots (as General Obregon of people recently deceased, and of new born babes, to save nothing am a fascist?
called the attentions paid to his colleagues Diego answered: of the feeble minded and to interest them in and the insane. See Pravda for Nov. 25. the being persuaded. to create a pages of the official Stalin Franklin Roosevelt was that toward the latter stages of the election campaign, particularly Because Laborde and his ac pseudo sub fascist uprising, with press, it is quite apparent complices are trying to exploit the purpose of bringing about asked at a press conference the when it became clear that only those handpicked by Stalin would placed on the serious apathy, to put it mildly, set in Commission of Inquiry into the push the Government of Mexico present recession. He answer among the activists engaged in organizing the elections. Thus, Moscow Trials, presided over in into the arms of the Jed; Just an assumption.
New York by the greatest phi and supplant the power of the wonder, if when the 180, 000 Pravda for November 25, after giving a glowing account of the losopher, John Dewey, approache present government by that of offe in the past few months tell party and trade union organizations, city and distriet Soviets forget steel workers who have been laid progress of the campaign, comments cautiously: However many you, asking you to participate Stalinism.
in it.
their wives and families there is about the organizational and technical preparation for the elec But why did the Commission Object of Maneuver no food for them, that they will tions.
address itself to me, when have answer, Just an assumption.
no personal or political relations The real object of this ma wonder if the thousands who with any of its members, and noeuver is to create in Mexico are standing in line at the relief The drive against the enemies of the people has not abated moreover have never occupied a base for action, blackmail or offices all over the country can and it is certain that far from slackening it will gather in momenmyself with any of the matters political racketeering against the agree with just an assumption. tum especially in the coming days before the convocation of the in which it is interested. Washington government. Stalin The Stock market seems to me Supreme Council sometime in January.
needs the collaboration of the to be going down. Or is that perRecord of Villarreal United States not only for the haps just an assumption. Last Minute Changes in Ballot exchange on a grand scale of the Maybe should turn the market The Commission approached products of industry and for fi graph upside down. Then the To the long list of Soviet embassies that are being purged, Gen. Antonio Villarreal, said nancial combinations but, above market would appear to be going hould be added the personnel of the Tokio embassy, the majority Diego Rivera, because he is one all, for political support at the up. Or is that just an assump of whom have been recalled. Rumours will not down of a pending the initiators of the Mexican international gambling table. tion. Revolution; his struggles began Stalin not only needs the trial of no less than 15 Soviet diplomats on the charge of Trotbefore 1910, the official date of United States in the Orient, but says that there is no war going the complete list of candidates is finally made Roosevelt State Department skyism. purge, the scope of which will become clear only when the beginning of this Revolution; in the entire world. Stalin wishes on in China. Is that just an as the he is one of the first labor or to use in Latin America (which sumption. place even among the newly elected deputies. To the names of ganizers of his country; his ini remains the surest and nearest The thousands of Chinese that Postyshev, formerly of the the Political Bureau, and Mezhlauk, who Hal trade union work prepared field of investment and market are facing Japanese guns made replaced Ordjonikidze as the head of Heavy Industry, and both of the famous revolutionary strike for the United States) and espe from American scrap iron don whom were previously removed from the roll of candidates, Stalin Cananea, with Flores Magon, cially in Mexico, which shares a seem to think that it is just an has now added the names of General Alksnis and General Bokis, and at that time to organize work very extensive and vulnerable assumption.
head of the Air Corps respectively.
ers in Mexico was a way to go to frontier with the United States, Roosevelt seems to have been those who sent Tukhachevsky and others to the executioner block.
jail, exile, or the gallows; not a tactic of pressure and conces having trouble with his teeth So brazen is the work of the frame up artists that even the 33 now, in the period of the La sion toward that country. Through lately. What would he pages of Izvestia had to be devoted to the exposure of one over bordes, when it is a convenient the control of the power of the thought of his dentist if he had zealous individual. The editor of Russian Art has been fulminating way of getting into the Chamber in the Latin American been told that it was just an against the staff of another Soviet publication Theatre as Deputies or the Cabinet, or countries, if the United States assumption. collecting salaries paid by the proceeds in agreement with In the case of the tooth he of every kind of anti Soviet crime, up to and including TrotskyMoscow severnment or that of Moscow, he will yield and make knew that something was rotten the same sort of campaign against the staff of Russian Art. The Hexico, or both.
concessions to American capital In thinking that a dentist who scandal comprises the fact that one and The GPU, added Diego Ri in the name of the defense of the would make such a diagnosis was vera, has committed a serious which needs the Unit also rotten, he would not be mak Altman, is editor of Theatre while he also happens to be editor tactical error. You, before now, ed States as an ally or at least ing just an assumption. We of Russian Art. The gentleman was playing safe. See Izvestis end not know in reality, through as a sympathizer. But it the know that there is something for Nov. 24. xperience, of what sort, of what latter is stubborn in regard to rotten in the present capitalist In every one of its aspects the election reflects the depraved mature were the Stalinist slanders aiding Stalin, he will use the system. And that is not just an and brutal regime of Stalin. To the long list of his judicial frameand lies about the Moscow Popular Front Governments that assumption. John Dwyer. ops, Stalin has merely added an electoral frame up. Just An.
Assumption From od Alksnis was among have