The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23

The meeting places of the Commun.
list Party in Santos and Sac Paulo
have been raided, the furniture and
literature have been destroyed. The
comrades are being terrorized and
forced to leave the cities because of
their being bounded day and night by
the Brazilian gendarmarie. The Cen.
trail Executive Committee has been
unable to maintain constant commune
cation with the various locals. Just
now the only local that is in healthy
condition is the one in Rio Grande do
Sui.
Recently the oligarchy discovered"
bomb in the post office. This bomb
was Of it's own make. The authorities
however claim that the Communists
manufactured it. AS a result several
comrades were arrested. These pro
vacative methods, so often used by
the United States government, are be-
ing copied by the Brazilian dictators.
Notwithstanding this intolerable
persecution, the membership of the
Communist Party in Rio is growing.
It's influence is rising even more rap
idly. The syndicalist elements are be-
ginning to side with the Communist
Party. More and more the workers
are learning the truth about their
leaders and about the great sacrifices
being made by those belonging to the
Communist Party. The field of bat
, tie, against the white terror is now
principally occupied by those of great
courage and revolutionary spirit. The
latter are to be found mainly in the
Communist Party.
The Brazilian Party is only four
years old. It's legal existence was linn
tied to the first four months. It's pres
ent membership totals twelve hundred
and is organized in shop nuclei The
strongest section of the Party is in
Sac Paulo where the greatest indus
trial development is to be found. To
day, however, most of the Commun-
lists have deserted the city, except
those who could not make their get
away. Industry here is relatively
speaking still small. Modern machin-
cry has not been fully introduced.
Small shops predominant. Tho indus
try has not yet been trustified as
completely as in the United States
and other countries, foreign capital is
very strong, and controls every rail-
road in the country. "A Canadian
company controls the railways in Rio
and pays the most miserable wages.
This British corporation has great in
fluence with the government and exer.
cises decisive voice in its policies.
American Finance Is Here.
The National City Bank of New
York has great branches in every port
and city of Brazil. Numerous other
American enterprises of considerable
strength WELD great influence on the
government and really dictate its poll
! cies.
Let us consider the recent revolu-
ton and try to trace its origin. First
of all it should be understood that
this revolution can in no way be con-
sidered a proletarian revolution. 1t is
military revolution, but not Fas-
cisti outbreak of the type that took
place in Spain and Italy. This is true
despite the fact that all the proclama-
tions and propaganda resorted to by
the Fascist leaders in their attempts
to give a Fascist coloring to the
revolution.
A few military officers who were in
opposition to the present government
were imprisoned. This struck terror
in the hearts of other officers who
feared that the same fate would be-
fall them. Here we have the immedi-
ate cause of the outbreak. Also. here
and there were a few members of the
working class involved in the revolu.
tionary activities.
The military rebels do not have a
definite policy to guide them. If
there we're a well organized Party
with sufficient strength, II could step
in and formulate a policy which
would win for these leaders the sup.
port of the intolerably exploited
masses, and give an entirely new
turn and character to the revolt. 1t
was precisely this fear that was up
permost in the minds OF the Brazilian
government leaders, and melted
them to resort to the most brutal sup
preston and murder. This also ac-
I counts for the latest attempts to
break up the labor movement and to
imprison its leaders. On the whole,
however, the masses seem to be in
different to the military movement.
The present Brazilian government
would be much better off II IL would
not resort to suppression OF the
workers organization at this time.
To Translate Lovestone.
In conclusion let me say that ]
have conferred with the leaders of the
above mentioned Federation OF Labor,
rhay all amman IN ha vary much In.