LOMBARDO TOLEDANO, VICENTE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2008
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LOMBARDO TOLEDANO, Vicente
Mexican professor and publicist. Born: TeziutlAn, State of Puebla,
July 16, 1894. Son of Vicente Lombardo and Isabel Toledano. Married
Rosa Marra Otero y Gama. -Educated: Freneti Commercial School and
National Preparatory School of Mexico City; University of Mexico, degrees
of licentiate in law, 1919, M.A., 1920, Ph.D., 1933. Public Career:
Secretary of and professor in the Mexican Popular University a, labor
institution), 1917-1921; professor of law and philosophy in various --.
Faculties of the University of Mexico, 1918-1933; in 1933 expelled from
the University for his radical views; secretary of the government of the
Federal District, 1920; head of the Department of Public Libraries of
the Secretariat of Public Education, 1921; director (and over a period
of years professor) of the National Preparatory School, 1922-1923, 1932-
1933; formerly director of the Summer School of the University of Mexico;:
Governor of the State. of Puebla, 1923; member of the Municipal Council
of Mexico City, 1924; federal deputy, legislatures of 1926 and 1928;
director of the Central School of Plastic Arts of the University of
Mexico, 1930-1932;: member, and one of the secretaries (to 1921), of the
Mexican Regional Confederation of Workers (popularly known as CRON).
Upon his expulsion from the University, Dr. Lombardo Toledano was in-
strumental infounding an institution of his own, the "Gabino Barreda11
University of Mexico City, which opened its doors in February 1934 with
an enrollment of 500 students and which is now known an the Workers'
University (Universidad Obrera). Dr. Lombardo, a Marxist in philosophy,
has been associated with the movement in Mexico which aims to make the
schools vehicles of socialistic propaganda. Co-founder of the General
Confederation of Workers and Peasants of Mexico City (very largely
incorporating the left wing of the CROM), 1933. In June, 1935, the
General Confederation of Mexican Workers and Peasants, together with
other labor organizations, formed the National Committee of Proletarian
Defense for the purpose of strengthening the revolutionary program of
President CArdenas, and to unify the Mexican working classes on a broad
and permanent foundation. This purpose was realized at the National
Congress of Labor Unification, held in Mexico City in February 1936, out
of which grew the Confederation of Mexican Workers (Conf ederaci6n de
Trabajadores Mexicanos, or C.T.M.), the most important trade-union body
which has thus far existed in Mexico. Sr. Lombardo is general secretary
of this Confederation at the present time (1939). He is head of a
popular editorial concern which aims to diffuse new paths of learning
and culture among the masses, and which is now publishing the b4-monthly
review Futuro. In connection with his efforts to strengthen the Mexican
labor movement, Sr. Lombardo has in recent years'attended most of the
left-wing labor conferences in Europe, and has also traveled widely in
the United States and Latin America. Member: Sociedad Cientifica
"Antonio Alzate"; Sociedad Mexicana de Geografia y Estadistica;; Sociedad
Mexicana de Estudios Sociologicos; etc. Author: La influencia de los
heroes en el progreso social (1919);'E1 derecho publico y las nuevas
corrientes filosoficas (1919); La signification del reparto de tierras
(1921);: El reparto de tierras no se opene a las ensenanzas de Nuestro
Senor Jesucristo (1921); Definiciones sobre derecho publico (1921);
Etica (1922); El problema de la education en Mexico (1924); La libertad
sindical en Mexico (1926); La Doctrina Monroe y el movimtento obrero
(1927); Los derechos sindicales de los trabajadores intelectuales (1927)
El contrato sindical de trabajo (1928); Bibliografia del trabajo y de la
previsi6n social en Mexico (1928); Geografia de las lenguas de la Sierra
de Pueblo (1931); Conclusiones del Primer Congreso de Universitarios
Mexicanos (1933); El plan sexanal del gobierno del Partido National
Revolucionario (1934); La doctrina socialists y su interpretaci6n en el
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articulo 3?. constitucional (1934); Ha caido una estrella (1936);
La revoluc16n del Brasil (1936); Cincuenta verdades sobre la U.R.S.S.
(1936); Un viaje al mundo del porvenir (1936); Escritos filosoficos
(1937). Dr. Lombardo is also an assiduous contributor to various
Mexican and foreign newspapers and periodicals, principally to El
Universal and Futuro of Mexico City. Residence: Villa Rosa Maria,
San Angel, D.F. Office: Rosales 26, Mexico, D.F.
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