Luis N. Morones

Married in 1888, the couple moved to the capital in order to find jobs in the textile factory of San Fernando in Tlalpan.

Although his parents wished him to become a weaver, at age 17 Luis began working as an electrician, repairing all types of electrical motors.

Urban workers joined the Constitutionalist faction, forming Red Battalions to fight against the peasant army led by Zapata.

Obregón intervened to prevent Morones's execution, but he was imprisoned for a time and then left the capital for a provincial exile in Pachuca.

Gompers invited Mexican labor leaders to send a delegation to a meeting at the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas in 1916.

Twelve U.S. soldiers were killed and 23 captured at the border and President Woodrow Wilson threatened war with Mexico, if they were not released.

Three revolutionary generals from Sonora, Alvaro Obregón, Adolfo de la Huerta, and Plutarco Elías Calles revolted against Carranza under the Plan of Agua Prieta.

[9] In 1922, he founded the Mexican Labor Party (or PLM) and its organ El Sol, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico in Tacubaya, where his prime role consisted of mediating between the working class and government elites.

Obregón died at the hands of a religious fanatic in 1928, but rumors that Morones was involved circulated and Calles forced him to resign.

Morones possessed large property holdings in his Tlalpan neighbourhood and owned a luxury hotel in Mexico City.

[13] He flaunted his ill-gotten wealth with displays of diamond rings and expensive cars, leading to charges of hypocrisy and corruption.