The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-28
NICARAGUANS Bee
AMERICAN LABOR
TO SAVE LIBERTY
Promise Guerilla War
On Yankee Marines

Calling upon Latin-Americans to
unite as one man, to arm, to carry
on guerrilla warfare against the Wall
Street conqueror of Nicaragua, ito
kill from ambush and in the dense
ness of our forests" the American
mercenary troops brought to main
tain Adolfo Diaz on his presidential
throne, 5000 Nicaraguans driven into
Costa Rica have signed petition to
the people of Nicaragua and organ
lied labor all over North America.
Appeal. To All Labor.
The petition was composed by Luis
Felipe Ibarra, president of the Mica
raguan league of Costa Rica. 1t is
addressed "To the Constitutional Re-
volution, To the People Of Nicaragua,
and to the Federation Of Labor Of
Central America, Mexico and the
United States of America" The
workers of the United States are es-
pecially appealed to: If the sover-
eighty of your great republic rests
in you, why don't you help this pro-
letariat people (of Nicaragua ?"
Slavery or War.
The petition recited that the Near
aguans have to choose only between
holding out their hands for the fet-
tiers of Wall Street, or marching to
battle, and continues:
"To our brother workers and to the
people of Central America, we say:
Be with us in this hour of our cruel
fixion; if you canot help us with your
blood, because those who govern you
prevent it, help us nevertheless by
giving us courage and moral support
in the pulpit, the press and by petit
ton and protest; for we are brothers
in race, in language, in location, in
our common aspirations and ideals,
and finally, in the socialism of the
present day which joins all men Of
all races in their anxiety to live
better life, materially and spiritually.
Mexico-Big Brother.
To the workers and people of Mex
leo we say also: You are our Zig
brothers racially. From your watch
tower you have discovered the tor
tuous road that the Yankee conqueror
follows TO surprise these peoples, and
you have sounded the alarm to all
Latin America. Help us to defend
our constitution, our justice and our
dignity, that have been scorned by
the present Government of the
United States, for you are greater
and more powerful than we are and
very scrupulous about liberty. Your
voice is heard by all the people of
this continent and of the whole world.
To American Labor.
Workers and people Of the United
States: You know what liberty
is worth. The lamp Of the statue
which you have in New York harbor
seems to say to all the travellers of
the earth who come to your shores:
"Here liberty reigns." If this is
true, why do you allow your bankers
and public men to impose the shame
full slavery of capitalism upon a
small, weak country like Nicaragua?
If the sovereignty of your great Re-
public rests in you, why don't you
help this proIetariat people, who are
your brothers in name, by their de-
mocratic institutions and by the ideal
which unites all the workers of the
world in the fight against centralized
capitalism?
Your representatives in the United
State senate can divert the course of
the imperialistic policies of your bust
ness men with respect to these coun-
tries Of Latin America, if you but
ask it.
Your future lies in our virgin lands.
Here you can come with every conf
dence, if you come with your civili-
zation, your industries and with the
lamp of kindness in your hand; but
do not allow the "money-changers in
your temple" to come to us to pur-
chase our liberty with millions Of
gold, for the sovereignty of the most
unfortunate people of the world can
not be bought with money, unless
at the cost of blood and dignity.
To you, constitutional soldiers, we
say: Stand firm in your places be-
meath our flag; the time has come
to put your valor and patriotism to
the test, for the moment approaches
to avenge the blood which American
bullets made us shed in 1912. At
that time we were an army, shat
tered, ill-fed and unarmed, but in
that hour Of sacrifice our last bullets
shed the blood Of those hired soldiers
which the same Adolfo Diaz himself,
caused to be disembarked on our
shores.
u Today we are armed and with JUS
tice as shield on our breasts. II
the Yankee outrages us again, let
us unite as one man and do not pre-
sent ourselves in one battle. Carry
on guerrilla warfare, kill him from
ambush and in the ,denseness of our
forests, in order that this time he
may know how a dignified and free