Office of the Historian

811.504 Mexico/260

The Ambassador in Mexico (Messersmith) to the Secretary of State

No. 14999
Mexico, December 28, 1943.
[Received January 1, 1944.]

Sir: Reference is made to the Department’s instruction no. 4799 of November 19, 194389 in connection with the setting up of a four-man commission composed of two representatives of the Mexican Government, [Page 585] and two representatives of the Government of the United States, to consider problems raised in relation to the Mexican railroad workers employed in the United States under the agreement of April 29, 1943.

I now have the honor to inform the Department that in a note dated December 16, 1943 the Ministry for Foreign Affairs has informed the Embassy that the Mexican representatives on the commission will be Lie. Luis Padilla Nervo, the Oficial Mayor of the Ministry of Labor, and Mr. Manuel Aguilar, a Mexican Consul assigned to the Consulate General in Los Angeles.90

The Ministry added that the Mexican commissioners will be glad to join the United States commissioners in El Paso, Texas on January 17, 1944. It is presumed by the Embassy that the Mexican representatives can be located through the Mexican Consulate General in El Paso.

Respectfully yours,

For the Ambassador:
Sidney E. O’Donoghue

Second Secretary of Embassy
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. The American members were Judge Charles M. Hay, General Counsel of the War Manpower Commission, and William G. MacLean of the Department of State.↩