Memorandum a la American Federation of Labor Sobre la Crisis Internacional Que Algunos Capitalistas Extranjeros Pretenden Provocar en Mexico

Nueva York, 1919. Good plus.. 15pp. Large octavo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some staining on front wrapper and first two text leaves, minor edge wear. A rare missive sent from the Alianza Liberal Mexicana to the American Federation of Labor in 1919, asking for their help in "counteracting the propaganda that a large group of capitalists have begun to make in this country and in Europe in favor of an armed intervention in Mexico." The Alianza issued this plea during a "new unrest, a consequence of the struggle between absolutism there and the democracy that has not yet arrived" in Mexico. They also address the impact of the exploitation of American companies in Mexico, and quote or mention President McKinley, the Monroe Doctrine, Woodrow Wilson, and William Jennings Bryan in relation to foreign intervention in sovereign nations. In the end, the Alianza calls on American "working classes" to discourage any armed intervention in Mexico, as laborers "seek the happiness of the people through the only possible formula: justice and equality." Basically the work represents the struggle of the working classes trying to prevent unrest in their own country spurred, at least in their eyes, by capitalism. The text is signed in type by two officials of the Alianza Liberal Mexicana, Enrique C. Llorente and Enrique Santibanez, writing from New York City on December 24, 1918. OCLC records just two copies of this rare pamphlet, at NYPL and Tulane.