AMERICAN "SLACKERS" IN THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION: INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN POLITICS IN THE MIDST OF A NATIONAL REVOLUTION

From: The Americas | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Botz, Dan La | Copyright information

In the spring of 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I and adopted universal, male, military conscription, American war resisters and draft dodgers known at the time as "the slackers" began to arrive in Mexico.1 Senator Albert Bacon Fall claimed there were 30,000 slackers hiding out in Mexico, and slacker Linn A.E. Gale agreed with him.2 When American adventurer, reporter and writer Harry L. Foster passed through Mexico City in 1919, he noted that there were hundreds of Am...

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