The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01

presented by the two Peruvians al
the Washington convention. Their
credentials bore high-soundine
names; the Universal Uuion OF
Considerations of Artisans and Lab
orers of Peru" and the Assembly Of
United Societies of Peru" This is
the first time that either of them has
been heard Of.
] overheard one of the newspaper
men asking delegate Luis Roberto
Rios Castell of Peru exactly what
kind of organization it was that he
represented. The query was a puz-
zler, but he answered:
ooh. general organization" "
as it a trade-union organization"
"No, it isn't trade union organ
ization."
as it a cooperative, them"
"No, it isn't exactly a cooperative.
"Well, then, what can it be!
"You see, it is an organization
friendly to the working people"
The Peruvian attack on Martinez
did not lack delegates to second it.
A degelate from Panama took hand
in the debate in order to reply to the
insinuation that the United States
government had ever interfered in
Panama, and declared proudly if un-
convincingly that "the republic of
Panama is just as free and sovereign
as any country on earth"
Dominican Delegate Terrified.
Then came delegate Pozos of Santo
Domingo to say that although the
Dominican delegation had originally
signed Mariners resolution it was
under a grave misapprehension and
to request that the dslegation's name
be "erased from a document which
details a long lis of improved
charges and which attacks govern
ments." president Green arose
from the chair to say graciously that
the request of the dominican dele
gate would be granted.)
1t should be stated here that the
Dominican Confederation of Labor is
another one of the mi this represent
ed the the convention of the P A.
F. of l.. There is o real labor
movement in Santo Dvlningo. There
has been a small bodN of intellectu-
ais there known as tn Nationalist
Brotherhood" which sent delegates to
4ha o~I 1904 g -
P. A. F. Of l.. 1t is now announced
that this Nationalist Brotherhood"
has been merged with the mythical
Dominican Confederation of Labor"
Cuban Delegates Defend Dictator.
But for unadulterated depravity
the prize must go to the Cuban dele
CATION. Unlike most of the other
Latin-Americans, the Cubans carried
credentials of bona fide labor or
ganization, even though it is an or
ganization operating in a single in
dustry and including only a part of
the workers in that industry.
To have representatives of this
one organization the Railroad
Brotherhood of the North of Cuba
speak for the Cuban labor movement
is, however, cruel joke. The great
mass of the Cuban unions have re-
peatedly denounced the Pan Amer
lean Federation of Labor and refuse
to send delegates to it's conventions.
Cuba has been much in the news
papers of late, owing to the brutal
attacks against the workers and
peasants carried out wholesale by
President Machado in connivance
with U. S. Ambassador Crowder and
the Sugar Trust. Trade unions have
been destroyed, their offices scuttled
and their leaders jailed or assassin
ated. SO vicious has been the anti
labor tyranny of President Machado
that trade-union periodicals in every
country in the world have protested
against it. Even the A. F. of l.. has
felt it necessary to send out through
its officials news service a series Of
articles by Chester M. Wright de-
nouncing Machado in the roundest
terms.
Yet the Cuban delegation to the
Washington convention of the Pan
American Federation of Labor was
50 brazen in its apologize for the
Machado government that some of
lnts regarding the credibility of
r.