Show TELEGRAM at Happened All Joined the Union Laborers Now Are A cal eal Nabobs and For For- Are Land tf Just fust Because Caris Car Car- y is Socialistic Cover Gover- f Alvorado Unionized Trade Tirade in States State's Sole Ce of Wealth and r S i 2 Above Typical Above Typical residence resi resl- p K dence of a Yucatan landowner under the tho theold d t vt old regime 4 I I r Typical four-family four Maya Indian house in Yucatan Yucatan- XICO especially Yucatan is a section of the globe from which 9 dependable news or satis- satis information radiates We that liat revolution has made a I Hour four nearest neighbor d that the imperialistic reign and Huertas has closed s I f What is the effect ch outlying territories as Yuca- Yuca th its area of miles and ed population of souls a large admixture of Indian sa L' L a told true story throws a flood of light on the then n situation one of the oddest ern ern history Robert Haberman ells ii it is is- isa a socialist lawyer identified with labor He was three years in the States Army with the rank of nt he studied law y ROBERT solemnly swear to tell th the ih and nothing but the truth cant can't tell the whole truth Yucatan Gulliver himself nt a equal to such a task n s upside down inside out end Ind end to Everything that lappen appen anywhere happens there he finest country you ever saw the rottenest it all depends you are ou are a capitalist to working men you youree ree that Yucatan Is rotten If working man your verdict Different different The capitalist dont don't the he working men in Yucatan people exploit the cap cap- u are a socialist you will be lonesome in Yucatan If you sec socialist alist you will be terribly d 99 65 per cent of the rated the socialist ticket at a ast st election while I was there 1 per er cent of them ever heard Marx Economic Determinism Value or any other of the Reds practically everybody a SOso SO- SO Yucatan has not adopted soI soI soi soi soi sol so- so l I 1 i c i i I Il I r Yr I l' l li lI I I i n. n Salvador Alvarado i Kt It hasn't even instituted GovI Gov- Gov I Ownership Its one industry d by the capitalists who capitalists who to have a thing to say in inis is management ar a pacifist in the usual the term you will be shocked ur senses by the situation in There the army runs I g Almost every army j Vi a civil office too f fare are a militarist you vou will he a locked hocked for for almost all the army officers are socialists and anti- anti mill militarists If It you should happen to be a Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian revolutionist and if you helped win vm freedom for your country by overy ov throwIng the Czar Yucatan will give y you U a political headache In Yucatan it was the czar who rebelled It was the czar who rose as one man against the conditions of slavery and insisted that the people should be free whether they wanted to be or not It was ho he who demanded that the people rule It was he who insisted on liberty libert equality and fraternity for forbe forlie 11 lie be Is a czar czar socialist Gen Salvador I 1 I Io o r I II I I II e rw I I II I z rf o or Io o I r I 4 i iI l I I I i i iI I I I i Carlos Castro Socialist I 0 i I a and n d Constitutionalist II I 0 I candidate for Governor Gover- Gover nor of Yucatan I i f Alvorado Military Governor of Yucatan Yucatan Yucatan Yuca Yuca- tan under Gen Carranza In Yucatan common laborers get from 5 to 10 10 a day The capitalists get nothing or nothing or just as near to nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing as Gen Alvorado can figure it Any worker may quit his job in to Yucatan but he cant can't get discharged At least 1 if he is discharged he ho is pretty sure to get from one to three months' months pay in advance and free transportation trans trans- tr transportation ns- ns to any part of the province where he wants to work In oder to get a job a man must belong to the union The president of the railroad by the way is a union agitator and anal is' is strong for this law by-law o of the organization He lIe must join the union before going to work as the railroad workers are not organized alon along t tl the e lines of the American brotherhoods brotherhoods brotherhoods broth broth- but in one radical industrial organization similar to the I. 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W The people of Yucatan the common people are arc the happiest people I have ever seen T The e capitalists are about the gloomiest gang I know 0 of Their one product is in great demand Never were there such prices offered for it The American harvester industry is practically dependent for Its existence upon this Yucatan product a product which can be grown nowhere else lathe la in inthe the world and for which there is no substitute And yet the capitalists of if f Yucatan with millions invested In Inthe Inthe inthe the industry cannot dispose of their product in the public market They have to sell It to the State to Gen Alvorado's socialist Government at atthe atthe atthe the price the buyers stipulate The State then sells it in the open market and the returns are wonderful This product is The soil of Yucatan is too poor to grow anything else If the soil were fit for fol anything else It would not grow the right sort of the growth would be he so rank that it would not have the tough fibre which is essen- essen Hal Ial For is the plant from which practically all ou out oUS binder cord used in harvesting is made It may almost he be aid said that the wheat industry industry indus- indus try of the United States is dependent i upon upon this precious of ot Yuca Yuca- tan It is no wonder then that the fortunes fortunes fortunes for for- tunes of Yucatan until they struck this unheard of catastrophe were famous throughout the world Henne- Henne quen was one of the choicest bonanzas on earth and the owners of the great estates lived in more than royal mag- mag Now there is scarcely a aland aland aland land owner in Yu Yucatan atan who would not noi noibe be glad to sell out But who wants to buy Who Who at least wants to pay anything that looks like a fair price for land tied up with such restrictions The best they can do is to hope and pray for a return of the good old days of Diaz or Huerta and Huerta-and and vote 35 of 1 per cent strong against the damnable damnable damnable ble socialists When Gen Alvarado came to Yucatan Yucatan Yucatan Yuca Yuca- tan about two years ago he found all this magnificence still in flower in spite of the troublous state of war He also found something else Ho found a race of ot slaves perhaps the most degraded slaves on the lace face face of the earth The Indi Indian n laborers worked in the fields practically without pay If they didn't work fast enough were beaten occasionally they were i clubbed to death or tortured in a I hundred other ways as an object lesson lesson lesson les les- les- les son in industry Thousands Thousand of ot them were wearing chains as they worked Chains about their ankles that frequently fre fre- cut through to the bone Not all the employers were cruel There were good employers and bad Jf n an employee didn't produce the goods a bad employer would kick him himin himin in ir the eye A good employer er would only kick him in the neck It was only h natural tural then that the slaves generally generally generally gen gen- accepted their lot as a personal matter and did not rebel against the system The The good rich men besides built many churches They didn't build schools schools' so that any anyone one would notice it as pickers dont don't need education But Gen Alvorado with the government government government gov gov- of all Yucatan suddenly thrust upon him was the strangest sort of man He lie didn't care e much for Mexican n millionaires as he had seen them but he lie loved the down and especially the Maya Indians He Ho was more than a soldier and more than an executive He Ho was an idealist and a a scholar He had heard of or Karl Marx 1 I f I I i I I Ii Ii i i I I I I I II I I I e II I I I i iI I A i Robert Haberman Habeman soldier I lawyer and news ex i i surplus value and all aU the others and he be decided that he would put a little o of Karl Marx into Yucatan and take a alot alot lot of ot surplus value out There were a good many socialists even then in Yucatan Land Liberty and Justice was their cry but buE they j I finally cut this down to Land an and Liberty concluding that with such a I combination justice ought to be able to look ook out for herself h had hod had no chance with the vote so most of or U them em had expressed their convictions by Joining the various uprisings Eventually the leaders among them became officers In the i revolutionary evolutionary army There were few socialists among th the tho Maya slaves They were crushed beyond beyond be be- yond the tho power to revolt and their one solace was to get drunk at tho the private still which was was connected with every ranch Many devotees of liberty were ere drinkers too and they were hardly prepared for Gen Alvorado's This Is what what Gen Alvorado did He proclaimed freedom He made slavery slavery slavery slav slav- ery a crime He lIe issued orders that all al' workers must be paid sufficient wages to sustain in them the in not only the necessaries but the reasonable luxuries ies tes of life and that in the determination tion of such compensation each was wast t to tn be considered as the tho head of f a family fam tam ily He made it a crime to discharge a man without reasonable grounds ground and instituted a Labor Department i ithe in inthe inthe the Government which should be the final Dual arbitrator of such dismissal He destroyed all the stills He prohibited prohibited pro pro- the manufacture of all strong stron I liquor but allowed the Importation of ot beer ber He prohibited bull fighting and andall andall andall all gambling making even the playing of card games without stakes a crime Then he turned the socialists loose among all the workers to organize labor unions everywhere One organization of the capitalists 11 he lc protected and encouraged That was waR the Commission del fAr do He da Hann This wn waa JI a arn ron ron- operative institution which ha had been formed by the tho farmers to protect themselves as they supposed from the machinations of the American Harvester Harvester Har Har- vester industry The rhe Harvester Company Company Company Com Com- pany was dealing with the big fellows the little fellows had to sell through them and the price they offered for was oft often n as low as a a. cent and a n. half a pound So they organized this union each member agreeing not notto notto notto to sell any except to the organization organization or or- the organization to sell to the Harvester men a fine idea said Slid Gen Alvorado Alvorado Alvorado Al Al- unexpectedly for all the tiia farmers saw plain ruin ahead if they had to pay real wages to their help belp a a. fine Idea Well We'll make It a State Department The Th Governor of Yucatan will be President of the com com- com mission No one may l except to the commissi commission n al and d well we'll see that you get a living HYing He did Those who who I had capital invested in invEsted invested in- in vested in have got a livIn living since but that's all The Tile State Commission Commission Com Com- mission when I was there was paying paying paying pay pay- ing seven cents a pound for and selling it to the AmerI American an Harvester Harvester Harvester Har Har- vester Company for eighteen n cents a J. J pound With all this tremendous revenue charges of personal graft have not held against Gen A Alvorado He has however most liberally financed the revolution Alvorado ha has practically closed the Jails in Yucatan He freed Creed thousands of or prisoners There is only one Jail now which Is the most luxurious estala esto es- es to tala fio a an In n fh Q and nfl it Via has col v twenty six Inmates They rhey are paid one-half one of ot the value of their product by br Alvorado's orders and earn from five to ten dollars a week Two of ot the prisoners are women one of these thes remains re remains remains re- re mains In Jail only because sh she wont won't move out I 1 wonder if there Is another another another an an- other State on earth with a population tion of of with such a prison record The next pert G Governor vernor of Yucatan will willbe willbe b be Carlos C Castro now President of the tha railroad He was nominated by the Socialists and Constitutionalists and his selection in lu November is certain The only opposition will be based upon personal liberty to drink and gamble and see bull fights But bull fighting Ju in Mexico is the sport of the nobility and the nobles In Yucatan at least have long since ceased to count Men en as a rule choose their own hours hours to to work and they knock off durIng during during dur dur- ing the heat of oC the tho day dar Then they hire automobiles at 2 an hour and I give the family an outing along Meri- Meri ferd d dt's dc's s 's Fifth Avenue the Pasco Monte Montejo l jo Often they are still In their working clothes The sight i was as as a delightful shock hock to me Yucatan folk tolk love lovo children An Au American socialist is always welcome among them until be he begins to talk about birth control They show plain plainly ly 1 then then that they are bored With all Its socialist feeling I 1 found round few operatives co-operatives in Yucatan and they ther were doing an Inconsequential business busi busi- ness I thought I saw how they might be made great Institutions and was I I invited to explain my scheme before befort I the railroad mens men's co At he ae close of ot my speech a fireman moved that be bo appropriated to give my plan a trial A switchman seconded second second- ed the motion and it was carried I Iwas Iwas Iwas was dumfounded The matter had not even been referred r to a n. committee as there was only a hundred thousand dollars in American money involved I saw one sight in Yucatan however which filled me with unutterable sad sad- ness It was a group of Indian slaves listening to Alvorado's messengers who had come to explain to them hem that they were free The slaves could no not noi believe it They thought it was a cruel I 1 Joke The rhe knew nothing in life Ufe except except except ex ex- ex- ex submission and and could not even comprehend wh what t. t freedom om meant Nee Needless l t to say when he sl slaves ves of this type ar are are freed they q do donot not take taketo to industry They work as as little mOo as possible and spend the rest rest of t their time in Idl idle pov poverty But Gen Alvorado Is not dIscouraged aged Ho has n not t expected too much from lifelong slaves sla he has had his hia eye on the theft When he ho c came me to fO Yucatan Tb fe about schools in th tb the s State te He established more and m made education compulsory ty for children adults alike Some of ot these are th the most advanced trade and industrial schools school in the world and to one of them the Normal School fo for Maya Indians Indian's built on an improved plan of the Institute each hacienda must send two students a year Gen Alvorado is the strangest man tUan manIn manin in b Mexico l And beyo beyond d question he la lAthe lathe the greatest t |