The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-03
Bv ]. NEVAREZ.

In Cuba, one of the West Indian
provinces Of the American Dollar En-
pire, there now exists a reign of
terror against the working masses of
that Island, which in its horribleness
and in its bloodiness can rival the
white terror of Zanlov against the
Bulgarian workers. The list of out
RACES perpetrated against workers in
Cuba is too long for the space al
lowed; it is enough to say that Ches-
ter NJ. Wright of the Pan A. F. of L.,
who recently returned from that
Island reports that 200 of the out
standing trade union leaders of the
Island have been treacherously and
most brutally murdered, hundreds of
militant workers linger in prisons or
on prison ships where they are subject
to the most unhuman treatment.
Wall Street Reaction.
Prior to the introduction of the
present reign of white terror, the
labor movement of Cuba was making
rapid strides in development towards
militancy; the trade union movement,
particularly among the railroad and
tobacco workers, grew rapidly, and
promised to give expression to the
anti-imperialist consciousness of The
Cuban masses. This was topped by
the formation of the Communist Party
Of Cuba, and the growth of strong
anti-imperialist political movement
among all elements of the native
population. The development of a
strong anti imperialist labor move
ment in Cuba could not be tolerated
for one moment by the American
imperalist rulers, at time when the
Wall Street empire intends not only
TO retain what it already has in its
clutches, but plans further aggression
and subsection to its will of the rest
of Latin America.
The militant labor movement of
Cuba had to be crushed, it is a fore
runner to the submission of Nicara-
qua and the plans Of attack upon
other Latin American republics.
Erect DeSpOtlc government.
To facilitate the crushing of Cuban
labor, Wall Street had to have ma
tive government completely sub
missive to its will, and under the
auspices of one of its. military men,
General Crowder as ambassador"
thru fraudulent methods imposed on
the Island of Cuba, government
headed by a General Machado, who
upon ascending the Presidency Of the
government gave his oath to the
American bankers that he will 'be a
better Plat amendment that the Plat
amendment itself" The first blow
struck by the Machado Government,
naturally, was against the Com
munist Party, with the imprisoning
of it's leaders, including Julio Mella,
and their later assassination or ex-
pulsion from the country, then fol-
lowed, to present day, period of
systematic terror in which the eff
forts of years were destroyed, COM
plete disruption Of the trade unions,
the kidnapping, and the murder in
cold blood of hundreds of workers, the
breaking, with military force, of
strikes of colonos in the sugar plan
tations and centrals and the forcing
them to accept the brutal terms for
labor, dictated by the superintendent
of the centrals.
The following is n picture Of the
make up Of the Machado-Crowder
government.
Machado acts as the President Of
the clique of which he is in reality
nothing but mouthpiece, and whose
real but silent director is the Ameri-
can General Crowder. Machado, UNI