The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-17
Translated by HARRISON GEORGE,
(From "The Latin American
Worker.")

IN almost all the countries of Latin
America, the workers most diff
cult to organize in trade unions are,
without doubt, those who work in
the enterprises belonging to the i'm
perialist powers, especially the Yam
kee and English imperialists.
The North American capitalists
have brought to Latin America, in
addition to their factories, a long
experience and great practice in the
matter of fighting and destroying
the labor movement.
The Yankee enterprises in Cen
trail and South America are real in
dependent governments, with their
own police, and an enormous and
perfect system of espionage. No
person outside of the personnel,
neither the local authorities, nor
with greater reason the representa-
tives of labor organizations, is able
to enter these feudal holdings.
Workers Efforts Strangled.
The workers are treated like ami
mails, and the slightest attempt on
the part of the workers to organize,
is ferociously strangled by the COM
pany with the aid of our authori-
ties.
They have also introduced, with
great cleverness, division among
the workers, by means of greater
or less privileges, dividing the labor
aristocracy and the exploited mass.
In a word, they have introduced all
the refinements that the sharks of
Wall Street use against their work
ers in the United States.
But the workers and peasants of
Latin America are not only victims
of direct exploitation by the United
States capitalists.
Puppet Governments.
Yankee Imperialism, with it's pol
icy of peaceful and violent penetra-
ton, with it's factories and armies,
methodically and day by day, cuts
into the liberty of the peoples of
the Caribbean and of South Amer
lea. Almost all the oppressed and
exploited masses of our countries
find themselves in the clutches of
the governments imposed upon them
by the North American capitalists
and which, as consequence, work
in complete accord with those CAPT
talists.
It follows, then, that our work
ing and peasant classes suffer the
double and terrible blows of i'm
perialist reaction and that of tyran-
nical and feudal governments.
Are we alone in this fight? Are
the proletarians of Latin America
the only ones who struggle against
the imperialist monster? MOI They
have within their reach a great and
loyal ally in the shape of the revo-
lutionary proletariat of the United
States itself.
The struggle begun, and certainly
unequal, between the Colossus of
Wall Street and the oppressed peo-
Piles of Latin America, there APP
pears at times among the working
class elements less advanced in un-
derstanding, certain desperation,
state of mind that leads to mis-
taken conclusions and prejudices
that by right belong to our petty
bourgeois, concerning the role
played by the North American
proletariat in our anti-imperialist
crusade.
u. S. Workers Not Foes.
We refer to the false conception
of grouping in one and indivisible
whole the Yankee bourgeoisie and
the workers of that country as COM
mon enemies of the workers of
Latin America.
For our liberal intellectuals and
the petty bourgeoisie there exists
no difference; they do not see, or
do not want to see, that in the
United States there exists a class
differentiation as profoundly mark
ed and with interests so antagonis-
tic as in the rest of the world.
1t is quite true that the revolu-