The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-10

Their Jackson is the Deputy Chair
man.
Thus we have here conflict be-
tween the workers Of Cuba on one
side and the united forces of the
American, British, and native capital
lists on the other side. This is a stu
alton which affords unassailable proof
of the truth that in conflicts involv-
ing fundamental class interests the
capitalists tend to forget their nation
al differences, tend to put aside their
inner class disputes and join hands
against the working class.
This strike of Cuban workers
against international capitalism also
brings into sharp focus the peculiar
nature Of the class struggles in the
countries that are less developed in
dustrially, in the lands that are
spheres of influence or areas of in
vestment for the big bankers and in
dustrialists- of the countries having
higher degree of industrial develop
ment. In the struggle against the for
eign capitalists exploiting them, the
colonial workers come in conflict with
the imperialist governments support
ing the American, the British, the
French, the Japanese or the Italian
owning classes. Under these condi-
tions the struggles of these working
and farming masses often tend to as
sumo somewhat of national color.
The native capitalists become an or
ganized force in the special national
conflict which sooner or later devel-
op into open fights for complete ma
tional independence from the foreign
capitalist imperialist yoke.
But at the same time the native
working class and poor farmers of
these so-calIed backward and weaker
countries must also wage a relentless
class war against their own exploit
ers, against the capitalists of their
own nationality. Naturally, the fact
that the native working class and the
bourgeois nationalists get together for
a common fight against foreign oppres-
sion tends to blur the Numerically
opposite politico-economic interests of
the two classes. Tho the workers and
poor farmers of the colonial peoples
and the oppressed nationalities should
be in the forefront of the fight for
complete national independence from
the foreign imperialist governments
and capitalist classes, yet their task
is to fight aggressively at all times
also against their native exploiters
holding them in subsection. In this
strike of the Cuban railway workers
we have an example of heroic strug
gle by the Cuban proietariat against
the native as well as the foreign CAPT
talists. The fact that the Cuban
workingmen are chatting under the die
tatorial rule of the American imperial
list government does not prevent them
from striking hard at their exploiters.
Widespread Discomfort Sweeps
Colonies.
Never before has there been such
deep-going widespread discomfort in
the Latin-American countries and the
various possessions as there is to-
day. The government Of Venezuela is
only a puppet of the most sinister in
terests of Wall Street. In Peru the
workers have time and again struck
against the Fascist government, which
is only a servile creature of the oil
and railway interests of the United
States. In Chile the Fascist govern
ment exists only by the grace of
American bank notes and Yankee
military and naval prowess. In Ar
gentina the foreign governments are
tanning the flames of working class