The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-28

most interesting dates in the process
not only the beginning Of German COLI
lapse, but also the starting point of
the domination of the dollar over the
economic life of almost all countries.
The Communist International compre-
bends it thus, and studies now with
great care the processes most neces-
sary to crush the economic power of
the United States.
Weakness Makes Easy Victims.
Wall Street seized in it's sphere of
in fluence, almost all the Latin-Amer-
lean countries. The veniality of the
professional politicians and the lack
of revolutionary orientation, when
not Of labor organisation, in the Latin
American countries, favor extraordi-
narily the work OF the Yankees.
To recount in detail the assaults
and immoralities of the agents and
representatives Of Wall Street would
be too extensive. Haiti, Santo Dom
lingo, Panama, Venezuela, (whose
president, Juan Vicente Gomez, is a
historic BLACKBOARD from which the
United States will not easily clean
itself), are living examples Of the DO
litical and economic voracity Of the
United States.
An Example Of @Nordic" Rapaeity.
The last little business Of each one
Of these countries and the rapacity
of the Industrial enterprises of the
"Nordics" have most firmly CONSOLE
dated the control of North America
over the economic resources Of these
unhappy countries.
In Cuba, land Of which we wish to
speak particularly, General Crowder
imposes presidents, finances the treas
ury, reforms the cabinet, speculates
with the income from the lottery and
rejects or approves all the political
decisions that might weaken or
strengthen the power Of the United
States over the island. The Cuban
Sourgeoisie accepts the burlesque
pretense Of liberty and democracy, at
which the United States can laugh
with IMMUNITY.
Iankee monopoly.
As is we'll known, the principal
source Of wealth in Cuba is that of
sugar production. Whoever controls
the customs house and the plantations
of sugar cane, will be master Of the
island. Well, then, there are in Cuba
some $50 sugar plants Of which more
than 100 are in the hands OF North
American capital.
The General Sugar and the Cuba
Cane Sugar corporation are able to
say that they have under their con-
troll eighty per cent Of Cuban sugar
production. The rest is in the hands
of Spanish proprietors, timid specula-
tors, with little capital, whose exist
ence is due to vanish in the jaws of
the great North American corpora
lions.
Tools Of Big Capital.
Located between the capitalists and
the proletariat of the country, there is
an intermediate class Of small holders,
mostly Cubans, whom the capitalist
Of the United States are controlling
and using against the prolstariat.
But the logical process Of capitalist
development makes certain that in a
not far distant time, these small hold
ers also will have disappeared, abb
sorbed by large industry.
In order to attain this end, banking
enterprises have been established for
some time now, dedicated to bank
rupting the small holders by Ioaning
them money at usurious interest.
Only Workers Fight Imperialism.
The fight against North American
imperialism may be truly said to be
developed only and exclusively by
the working class. The Cuban bour-
geoisie and the Spanish capitalists are
bound hand and foot by American
imperialism.
Cuba is not country Of great pro-
letarian turmoil, however, some i'm
portant things have taken place there
in recent years. The fight in the su.
gar plants is a recent example. Only
at the end of the last year have they
acquired the experience necessary to
organize themselves and then not ex-
actly against the government Of Cuba.
Last Years Struggles.
In the month of November, 1924,
the Railway Workers Union Of north
ern Cuba, whose trains cross the most
important sugar zone Of the island,
set themselves theoretically to the
task OF organizing the sugar workers.
In the month of November last
year, the peasants organization, num-
bering $4,000 members, sustained a
strike against the Cuba Cane corpora
ton in which they paralyzed 16 plants
md some $4,000 workers, among
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