The Diplomacy of Suppression: Los Revoltosos, Mexico, and the United States, 1906-1911

Raat, W. Dirk

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“…80 Earlier, in 1908, when President Theodore Roosevelt sought to clamp down on Mexican revolutionaries by proposing legislation to allow censorship of mail and to expand the secret service, Congress voted his proposals down. 81 Francisco I. Madero's military uprising against Diaz in 1911 drew much support away from the Magonistas. Although much of the business and agricultural elite had benefited from Diaz's solicitation of capital from the United States, a deep and prolonged Mexican economic crisis, triggered in 1907 by a financial crisis in the United States, had undermined the middle class and roused even wealthy men like Madero to battle for political liberties and constitutional government.…”

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Workers' Movements in the United States Confront Imperialism: The Progressive Era Experience

Montgomery

2008

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In 1898, the American Federation of Labor feared that colonial expansion would militarize the republic and undermine the living standards of American workers. Subsequent expansion of industrial production and of trade union membership soon replaced the fear of imperial expansion with an eagerness to enlarge the domain of American unions internationally alongside that of American business. In both Puerto Rico and Canada important groups of workers joined AFL unions on their own initiative. In Mexico, where major U.S. investments shaped the economy, anarcho-syndicalists enjoyed strong support on both sides of the border, and the path to union growth was opened by revolution. Consequently the AFL forged links there with a labor movement very different from itself. Unions in Mexico became tightly linked to their new government, while World War I drove the AFL's leaders into close collaboration with their own. The Pan-American Federation of Labor was more a product of diplomatic maneuvering than of class solidarity.

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“… Ibid.,[61][62][63][80][81] Snow,15; Gregg Andrews, Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, The United States, and the Mexican Revolution (Berkeley, 1991), 2-90, 118; Collin Davis, Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike (Urbana, 1997), 70, 147.…”

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Workers' Movements in the United States Confront Imperialism: The Progressive Era Experience

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The Diplomacy of Suppression: Los Revoltosos, Mexico, and the United States, 1906-1911

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Workers' Movements in the United States Confront Imperialism: The Progressive Era Experience

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