The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-10
CUBA SUFFERS
IMPERIALIST
WHITE TERROR
Unions Crushed and
Unionists Killed
BY HARRY CANNES.

The disappearance, arrest, and oft
entimes open murder of labor and
revolutionary leaders in countries
dominated by American imperialism
is not an uncommon occurrence. The
disappearance and probably secret
murder of Alfredo Lopez is not at all
surprising when we remember that
Lopez was charged with being the
author of a pamphlet criticizing the
strikebreaKing activities of President
Gerardo Machado, the outright tool of
American imperialism and particularly
of General Crowder, the personal rep
resentative of Wall Street in Cuba.
brushes Railway Union.
Machado had succeeded, thru the
use of the most brutal and terroristic
methods, in crushing the railroad
brotherhood of Camaguey. Local or
CARNATIONS of the railroad union were
raided, members were Unfortunately
arrested and held under cruelty ille-
gal and wantonly brutal conditions.
Machado's role as chief scab most
giaringly puts him in the limelight as
the puppet of American capitalism in
the breaking of the railroad union.
All the railroads in the north of Cuba
are controlled by United States CAPT.
TAI. Undoubtedly Machado's orders
were to crush the brotherhood as a
safeguard for American profits. Lopez,
active labor leader, was picked as
one of the foremost organizers in
Cuba.
This was not Lopez's first taste of
Machado's fascist methods. Lopez
had often been arrested, questioned,
bullied, but was usually set free on
pressure from the working class.
Not the First.
Neither is the murder of Lopez the
first act of open brutality on the part
of Machado's Wall Street govern
mental machinery in Cuba.
Julio Antonio Mella, now an exile
in Mexico, is another victim of Ameri-
can Imperialism in Cuba. The mem
DRY of Mella's illegal Imprisonment
and hunger strike has hardly slipped
cut of the days news when Wall
Street adds a deeper hue to its al
ready black record in Cuba by the
murder of Lopez.
"Independent'' only In Name.
The independent Cuban government,
dominated by subservient group of
Wall Street bootlickers, is one of the
most groveling supporters Of Ameri-
can imperialism. Every possible penny
of profit that can be wrung out of the
Cuban workers and peasants finds it's
way into the Golfers of American bank
ers.
The exploitation Of the Cuban work
ers and peasants is carried on whole
sale under the foremanship of Presi-
dent Machado. His entire state ma
chinery is at the beck and call of the
American investors: the United States
Fruit Company, the American Sugar
Refining Company. the American To-
hacco Company and last, but not least,
the National City Bank. These in
reality are responsible for the murder
of Lopez.
Same In Peru.
Machado in Cuba does not stand
alone as the willing and survile tool
of American imperialism in the ex-
ploitation of his own people. Wher-
ever American imperialism does not
outrightly own the land, whether It
be in Central America, South America,
or elsewhere, it does not overlook pro-
tecting its investments by the corrup-
ton and substitution of the local
dictator. The dictatorship of Peru is
just another such an example OF the
terroristic rule as that of Machado
in Cuba.
First Mella, and now Lopez. But
the crimes of Machado and the Ameri-
can investors in Cuba has not ended
with Lopez. No organization of the
workers in Cuba is safe in the face of
the strikebreaking, union-smashing,
openly terroristic activities OF Gen.
eral Crowder's Cuban government.
Cuba is a small country, semi
colony lying in the shadow Of the
United States right. Cuban workers
must have help to fight the Machado-
Crowder-Sugar Trust terror.
The unopposed success of the
bloody deeds Of Machsdo will mean
the extension of this method of sub
DUNG workers wherever the American
dollar collects the sweat of the work
ers.
Cuban Workers Heroic Fighters.
The Cuban workers and peasants
have always exhibited determine
ton to fight unrelentingly against
American domination and exploita-
ton. That's why Lopez was MUIR
dered. To crush the tyrannical CO.
operation. OF American Imperialism
with the misunderstanding, numbering
Machado dictatorship, the united pro-
test Of the workers everywhere ef-
fected by American Imperialism is
necessary.
The murder OF Lopez will not stop
the heroic efforts to stem the worst
type of exploitation rampant in Cuba.
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