Y Out of Mexico?

On Mexico City's Balderas Street, few blocks from Central Park, stands a big, modern, five-story Y. M. C. A. building. It used to be chocked full daily by 3,400 members having fun at concerts, lectures, sports. Last week a visitor might have wandered through every one of its 75 bedrooms, through its grand hall, its two gymnasiums, its barbershop, swimming pool, library, restaurant and met not a living soul.

Y officials said the trouble all started with a sassy kitchen hand named Severe Moreno. Y employes blamed Stewardess Dolores Uranga and Secretary Alberto Salinas Carranza, technical adviser to Mexico's Street Cleaning Department and nephew of onetime Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Last month Severo Moreno sassed Stewardess Dolores Uranga, not for the first time. Secretary Carranza sentenced him to an eight-day suspension without pay, called a policeman to help enforce the sentence. Intolerable was that affront to the polysyllabic dignity of the Union de Obreros y Empleados de las YMCA, which consists of 77 cooks, waiters, janitors, clerks. It struck.

Most roomers left the building. A few hung grimly on without water, light or service until the Federal Department of Public Health ordered them out last week because of sanitary conditions. Strikers said they would not come back, until Secretary Carranza and Stewardess Uranga had been dismissed. Before they would dismiss secretary and stewardess, replied the Board of Trustees, they would put the Mexico City Association and its Chihuahua branch into voluntary bankruptcy, send the Y. M. C. A. out of Mexico for good. Up from 3,400 Christian young men who had paid their dues to the end of the year went an outraged howl.

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