The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-05
GUNS ASKED OF
U. S. To DOWN
CUBAN REVOLT
|Reactionary Junta Sup
presses Papers

WASHINGTON, May 4.--The Gu
ban Government has asked the United
States to sell it a large quantity of
ammunition for use in quelling revo-
lutionary disturbances in the island,
it was learned at the State Depart
ment today.
Tho the amount the Cuban Govern
ment has asked for, was not reveal
ed, it was indicated that it is pre-
pared to spend about 100000. Secre-
tary of State Hughes has turned over
the Cuban request to Secretary of
War Meeks, to learn if it can be met.
Weeks wiz take no action until Mon
day.
In making public the Cuban request,
State Department officials expressed
full confidence that the zayas admin
istration would be able to cope with
the budding revolution in the islands.
All editions Of the newspapers her
aldo de Cuba and FL Heraldo, were
confscated by police on the ground
they contained exaggerated reports
of the movement against the govern
ment of President Zayas.
It was reported the editor of Her
aldo de Cuba will be deported as a
"pernicious foreigner"
The government claimed the situa-
tion was well in hand" and meagre
reports reaching the capital indicated
loyal troops were restoring order in
the affected areas.
Troops still were mobilizing in the
vicinity of Cienfuegos.
All indications lead to the belief
that the present Cuban government
can count on the full support of the
Washington Coolidge administration.
Recently there arose a serious dis
putes between a group of Cuban CAPT
talist railway interests on one side
and an American capitalist sugar ship
ping combine on the other. The lat
ter, who are closely associated with
the American Smelling and Refining
Company and the United Fruit CON-
pany, appealed to Coolidge for help.
Colonel Tarafa was the leader Of
the Cuban capitalists. The American
interests were dominated largely by
the Boston financial clique, which al
ways has the ready ear and the will
ing hand of Coolidge at its bequest
The administration settled the dispute
by removing some of the most OBJ
jectionable features of the Tarafa
Railway Consolidation Bill and thus
appeasing the sugar and shipping in
terests so close to the White House.
Today, the administration is very an
xious not to disturb this arrangement
and considers every attack on the
present Cuban government as an at
tack on the stability Of this arrange
ment. Besides Colonel Tarafa also
hoo some other American and even
British capital behind him. The Wash
ington government is anxious to avoid
all further complications from this
source at this time.
chafe at Wall Street Tyranny.
An added reason for the readiness
of the Wall Street government to save
the present Cuban regime is to be
found in the growing wave of unrest
that is threatening to sweep the whole
Latin and Central American region.
Most Of this difficulty arises from the
fact that the various peoples and even
certain competing capitalist interests
are chatting under the yoke of the
tyrannicsl governments set up by
Washington in the Latin American
countries. Thus the American-sup-
ported Fascist government in Peru,
the Wall Street puppet governments
in Venezuela and Bolivia, are in dan
ger OF being overthrow. The Ameri-
can capitalists are anxious to stifle
this protest movement and are there
fore doing everything they possibly
can to check unrest wherever it mani
tests itself in order to have the freest
hand possible in their other interna-
tional dealings. That accounts for
their anxiety to liquidate the present
Cuban revolt and to hasten the end
of the rebellion in Honduras after
their own agents manufactured the in
surrection.
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