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Rh freedom to those who with pride call themselves workmen.

For the Union of Port Mechanics.

2em

In addition to the handbill propaganda the I.W.W. publishes one daily and one weekly newspaper, and the editors and writers have all come from the United States since Congress declared war against the German Government.

But the I.W.W. is not the only lawless organisation with which the oil companies have to contend. While the Carranza Government controls the city of Tampico, General Don Manuel Pelaez, one of the rebel leaders, is the king of the oil fields. President Carranza's authority extends only eight miles from the city limits and along the railway line to Monterey, the industrial city in Northern Mexico. The direct railway line from Tampico to Mexico City is blocked. Señor Carranza's officials control the docks and the tank reservoirs near the city. On the other side of the Neutral Zone, or Mexico's No Man's Land, watch the Pelaez soldiers. General Pelaez controls the beginning. President Carranza the end, of the oil business. Pelaez taxes the production; Carranza taxes the exportation. Pelaez and his army—estimated at three thousand to twenty-seven thousand men, depending upon the authority quoted—get