The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
SOUTH, CENTRAL
AMERICAN EVENTS
TOLD BY WOLFE
Columbia Boycotts u. S.
Anti-Labor Movies
BY BERTRAM d. WOLFE
(Stan Correspondent Of the Federated Pruss)
Haiti.

BY BERTRAM d. WOLFE
(Stan Correspondent Of the Federated Pr,ss)
Haiti.
w. w. Cumberland has been named
by the department of state as the fin
ancial adviser on Haitian customs and
taxes. By the department of state
of Haiti? G'wanl BY THE depart
ment of state-the state department
of the American Empire.
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Honduras.
The manipulated revolution that
has come as an aftermath of Ameri-
can umpiring of a deadlocked cleo
ton in Honduras has caused the U.
5. to send down another battleship
on the Pacific coast. The battleship
Milwaukee has just entered the port
of Amapala to keep company with the
Rochester of the Atlantic feet. With
modern big guns the two ships be-
tween them can fire clear across this
little country, can start or stop revo-
lutions and make or unmake presi-
dents according to the Collection UNI
pire's decidons.
Argentina.
All interest in the most powerful
labor organization of Argentina, the
U. S. A. Union Sindical Argentina
is conferred in the question, Amster-
dam, Berlin or Moscow? The next
congress will decide the question of
utilization and the papers are full of
the pros and conA Amsterdammers
almost do not exist. / have yet to
see a single article in any Argentinian
labor paper in favor of Amsterdam
The tendencies of the u. S. A. are
anarcho-syndicalist and the majority
of the papers of the country are in
Anarchist hands. But the drift to-
ward the Red International is so
strong, that they are not advocating
affiliation with Berlin, but merely at
lacking Moscow. Moreover, they are
prejudiced against Berlin on account
Of it's splitting tactics, being all unit
ed-fronters and bitterly attacking
their own "divisionista" Anarchists at
home.
The Berliners have formed little
labor federation of their own called
the F. o. R. A. Federation Obrera
Regional Argentina). The press of
the majority unions distinguishes its
anarchism from that Of the F. o. R.
A. by calling itself the New Anarch-
ism (Which term is much heard in
South America now that the younger
anarchist unionists are revising their
concepts of organization and struggle
in terms of united front and class
organization rather than individual
ism). To what is left of the f. O. R.
A. they apply the term Quintista, Di-
visionista or Purista--the last being
the equivalent of the English term
"purist."
Consequently, the Anarchists in the
u. S. A. in place Of advocating Ber-
lin, either attack Moscow or confine
themselves to advocating a Pam
American relationship in place of an
international one. This the Red-In-
ternationalists characterize as "Gom-
persism."
Colombia.
When the Colombian Tenants
league boycotted the Theater Colon
Dld UGCduSC IL ICluScu W PCIAAAll lAACAiA
to hold meetings and began picketing
the place the management offered an
ti-labor propaganda films made in the
United States. The picket lines in
creased. Then the government, con-
sisting of men of wealth, used its po-
sition against the Tenants league.
The day that the boycott was ex-
tended to all the branches of the
theatrical company in the entire re-
public and big demonstrations were
planned, the police and military fired
on the workers and then invaded the
labor headquarters. The women's
committee in Barranquilla went to
the governors palace to protest.
While Maria del Mulato was appeal
ing to the governor to lift the decree
against it the Tenants union, the mill
tary, in the presence Of the governor,
attacked the committee of women,
driving them out at the end Of the
bayonet.
Maria del Mulato, with a sucking
child, is in prison, as is another
woman, who headed the committee.
Mere membership in the Tenants
iedgue is now suinclenJ 10 meNiI a
jail sentence. For Nicolas Gutarra,
one of the league leaders, the order
was issued: Capture N. Gutarra in
any form"
A vigorous protest on the part of
the Cuban labor movement is the pre-
lude to a stogm Of La|n-American
protest against this brutality.
Organize Capital Chauffeurs.
WASHINGTON. d q March 10