The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-05

party of Porto Rico will explain:
"The Socialist Party of Porto Rico
declares that the continued influence
of the people of the United States
upon the destinies of the people of
Porto Rico has been, and is, a civil
izing one. That the extension of the
constitution Of the United States of
America to Porto Rico represents a
positive guarantee of the public and
political liberties, of favoring and
protecting the rights Of the individu-
lal, and therefore we favor the per-
manent and inseparable union of the
people of Porto Rico with the people
Of the United States"
Here we have a socialist party in
which Sam Gompers and Matthew
Vol could be proud of membership.
Socialists U. S. Lackeys.
The following recent incident in the
Porto Rican senate chamber is quite
characteristic of an official, the Sec
rotary of the Pan-American Fedora
ton of Labor. and can we'll indict the
Pan A. F. Of L. in it's attitude to-
ward American imperialist aggres-
sion.
1t was during the session of the
Porto Rican senate held March 22-27.
The Senate President and leader of
the bourgeois Unionist Party, in out
lining his intended discourse between
the visiting Secretary of War Davis
at the official banquet, suggested that
he intended in addition to laying bare
the problems of Porto Rico, to con-
denim the Latin American policies of
the United States initiated by Roose-
welt with the rape of Colombia, and
pursued at present in relation to
Nicaragua.
Trembled for Their Jobs.
Our Secretary of the Pan-American
Federation of Labor, the honorable
Santiago Iglesias, hastily interviewed
and warned Barcelo:
"You would assume serious re-
sponsibility in confronting the secre-
tary of war regarding the policies
which his government may pursue in
its relations with Mexico and Mica
ragua. You should confine yourself
exclusively to the problems concern
ing Porto Rico and not meddle in in
ternational affairs. Such an act
would be interpreted badly by those
in whose hands the fate of our. aspi-
rations lie." Which means the fate
of their political ambitions, whose
further development can be realized
with the granting of political auton-
omy (but not independence to the
Island and which would give either
of these politicians the opportunity
to become governor.
Barcelo with much humility bowed
before the 'labor" senator Iglesias,
adding "True, very true, as colonials
it is not our right to vent our feel
ings and sentiments. | will confine
myself as Senator Iglesias sug-
gested"
In its every act then the Socialist
Party is demonstrating that it is the
tool and standard bearer of Ameri-
can imperialist rule in Porto Rico.
The relative ease and completeness
with which the labor branch of Amer
lean imperialism has succeeded in OBJ
structing the development of labor
movement expressive of the real in
terests of the workers, and bringing
it under control in Porto Rico, has
created desire in the American la
Dor bureaucracy to extend its conquest
to the labor movements in the other
Latin American countries. First sub
jugated by the military forces of the
United States this becomes an easy
matter. The instrument created for
this purpose is the so-caIled Pan
American Federation of Labor or
ganized in 1918.
And that the Pan A. F. of L. with
the temporarily conquered labor
movement of Porto Rico as it's cor
ner stone, and the tested Porto Rican
flunkey as its Spanish secretary, is
on the road to betray the labor move
ment in other conquered countries,
may be demonstrated by the existing
situation in Cuba
Cuban Workers Betrayed by
Socialists.
In Cuba prior to the reign Of the
tyrant Machado, we had labor
movement that STROBE rapidly toward
militancy. The workers organized in
the tobacco industry were the back
bone of this militant anti-imperialist
labor movement, and with the sup
port of the masses of "Colonos," gave
birth to Communist Party oriental
ing towards the leadership of the
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