Mexico 1912-1950

Synopsis

Three powerful trade union confederations dominated Mexican labor history in the twentieth century. The Casa del Obrero Mundial helped organize industrial workers from its founding in 1912 to its defeat in a general strike in 1916. The Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana (CROM) ruled Mexican labor affairs from 1918 until its decline in the 1930s. The Confederación de Trabajadores de México (CTM) became part of Mexico's ruling political party from its inception in 1936, supplanting the CROM in the state-labor alliance. Within these organizations, three powerful leaders—Luis N. Morones, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, and Fidel Velázquez—shaped the history of the state-labor alliance in modern Mexico.

Timeline

• 1910: Vassily Kandinsky pioneers non-representational painting.
• 1912: Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage, from Southampton to New York, on 14 April. More than 1,500 people are killed.
  Vicente Lombardo Toledano. The Library of Congress.
• 1914: On 28 June in the town...