Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.MEXICO: Tyranny v. Tyranny
Mexico's squarejawed, hard-eyed President Emilio Fortes Gil is an oldfangled rough-and-tumble battling lawyer with a newfangled humanitarian conscience. Last week he finished jamming through two thirds of Mexico's 28 state legislatures a Constitutional amendment. It permits enactment by the Mexican Congress of a law which Senor Fortes Gil declares will "create an equilibrium between the Tyranny of Capital and the Tyranny of Labor."
The lawyer-President personally drafted the law when he was Minister of Interior in the cabinet of bull-necked Plutarco Elias Calles, also a...
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