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

discomfort because Of their highland
ed interference with the laws of the
country for the sake of enhancing the
interests of the various national cap
italist groups The British and Amer
lean governments are now attempt
ing to dictate the manner of operation
and enforcement of the Argentinian
pension law in such a way as to in
sure special privileges for their own
capitalists.
In the Hawaiian Islands. 10000 Fill
Pine sugar workers are in revolt
against the degrading conditions forced
upon them by the sugar barons I'M
der the leadership of the American
governor general harrington, himself
a millionaire plantation owner
In the Philippines the struggle for
national freedom and the development
of great mass organizations Of the
workers and poor farmers is going
on apace.
In Cuba there is intense unrest. A
number of American capitalists have
bought land - the small Island Of
Pines off the Cuban coast. These ex-
ploiters now want the Islands annexed
to the United States in order to en-
nance the price of their lands and in
order to facilitate their exploitation
of these lands. The other day the
writer received letter from one of
the leaders Of the Communist and Ia
Dor movements in Cuba, which pre-
scented the critical conditions prevail
ing there in the following light:
Now. that adjacent small island
(The Isle of Pines) has, ever since
the Spanish conquest, been part of
Cuba and the Cuban people are great
ly excited Especially are the natives
of the Isle of Pines excited over the
possibility of their coming under the
yoke of American imperialism.
"The issue is between the natives
of the Isle of Pines and the Cuban
people in general on one side and the
American imperialists on the other.
At the present time the nationalist
sentiment is afire in all the Latin
American peoples against American
Imperialism, altho our patriotic CAPT
talists are ready to sell their souls to
the highest bidder"
The American Workers Must Act.
It is obvious that the working and
farming classes of the Latin-American
countries of Cuba and the Philippines
are fighting the same clique of CAPT
talist exploiters that the workingmen
of Pennsylvania, New York and Illi-
nois and the poor farmers Of North
Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, and
Washington are resisting.
When the American capitalist class
secures a victory over the working
class of the Argentine, Brazil, or Mex
leo, or Cuba; when the Yankee ex-
ploiters, aided and financed by their
imperialist government, succeed in
getting a firmer hold on the resources
Of the lesser developed industrial
countries, they are only fortifying
their positions against the working
class and the dispossessed farmers at
home. And when the oppressed mass
es of these countries rise in revolt
against the tyranny of the foreign cap
italists, invaders and armies OF mill
tary and financial occupation, it is
the American workers and expropri-
ated farmers that are rushed to the
front in the Tropics, in the Caribbean,
in Honduras, in Panama, and else
where. Consequently, the workers and
poor farmers of the United States, in
their own interests, as matter of
duty to themselves and not as mat
ter of charity to their brothers in the