The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-13
The International Army
of SANDING

Gustavo Machado, of the Hands Off Mica
ragua Committee, upon his return from San,
dino's army made a statement in "El Machete'
organ of the Mexican Communist Party, to the
effect that Sandinos army was made up Of
fighters from all Latin American countries
The American bourgeois press has pointed t.
this statement as justification for the main
tenance of American marines in Nicaragua
Machado's statement proves that the cause de-
Tended by the army under SANDING is not only
liberty for Nicaragua but the liberty of all
Latin America.
The New York Herald-Tribune writes an edi-
torial to prove that if Sandinos army is not
made up of Nicaraguans only then it's compost
ton is of bandit" such elements from all
parts of Latin America who could not find
means of sustenance in their own countries
have gone to Nicaragua, enlisted in Sandino's
army and are preventing the United States
from establishing peace there. The Tribune
adds that this fact more and more justifies the
presence Of American marines-because they
not only guarantee peace to Nicaragua but pre-
ter of looting.
Such arguments may convince" some SNUG
bourgeois readers of the Herald-Tribune. On
the other hand however, the "invincble" mar
ines after more than year of fighting have
been unable to subdue SANDING and his troops
If his group were really made up of few
bandits it would have been easy to wipe them
out in less than two months There are over
5000 American marines in Nicaragua now and
Sandino's forces grow stronger day by day
because they make excellent use of the modern
war machines captured from the marines.
If it is true that the Nicaraguan people have
repudiated SANDING, how is it then that he has
been able to sustain his troops for over year
The imperiaIist press of the United States
is unwilling to write the truth, to admit the
defeat of the enormous power of the United
States at the hands of a group of bandits,
facing 5000 marines This state of affairs
would be impossible unless Sandinos army hac
the aid of the Nicaraguan people. 1t is sig
nificant to note that whatever losses SANDING
sustains are at once filled by applicants from
all parts of Latin America. Sandino's sol
ders know that they are not alone, that back
of them are the conscious workers and peas
ants of all of Latin America.
The heroic Nicaraguan army may be de-
feated, but only by the Indifference of the
proletariat of the United States, fooled by
their yellow leaders. However, the struggle
will be repeated many times, and American
Imperialism, in spite of its agents like William
Green and Co., in spite of its lackeys as presi-
dents of the Latin American Republics, will be
defeated.
The fact that soldiers from all parts of Latin
America are fighting in Sandinos army, prov
ing the solidarity of workers and peasants all
through Latin America against United States
imperialist aggression, should inspire us with
confidence in an ultimate victory-and ii
should convince us that our place is by the side
of these fighters. Their struggle is not merely
against Moncada and the other Nicaraguan
traitors, but against the Wall Street capital
lists who have sent the marines. We cannot be
conscientious fighters if we remain with our
arms crossed in the present struggle. Their
struggle is a phase of the same struggle in
which we are participating in all lands Our
miners, our textile workers, etc, will win moth
ing if they do not relate their struggle with
the struggle of their brothers in Latin Amer
Ca. We must begin to understand the close
relationship between the struggle for indepen-
lence in the colonial and semi-colonial coun-
ries and our own emancipation. The liberia