Luis Napoleón Morones

Who was Luis Napoleón Morones?

Luis Napoleón Morones was a Mexican union boss who served as secretary general of the Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers and as secretary of economy under President Plutarco Elías Calles.

Morones was born in Tlalpan, a delegación of the Mexican Federal District, and worked as an electrician.

During the Revolution, he supported Venustiano Carranza. He was an electrician, and joined the Casa del Obrero Munidal in 1913. He founded the "Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas" locally in the Mexican Telephone and Telegraph Co. in 1915. From 1916 to 1918, he participated in political and labor organizations and congresses, and by 1920, he was head of the CROM, and helped to broker General Álvaro Obregón's accession to the presidency. In 1922, he founded the Mexican Labor Party and its organ El Sol, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, where his prime role consisted of mediating between the working class and government elites.