The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
Latin America Workers
SeUdOm Must Be Ended


others more courageous.
Its editorial solution for the inn
perialist corruption in Porto Rico,
for example, is for the two quarrel
ing lackeys of Wall Street, Iglesias
and Barcelo, to kiss and make up
and trust in representative gov
ernment," which has been fully
proven to represent nobody in Porto
Rico but the Yankee sugar trust
and land grabbers.
Ignorant or Treacherous.
Either it is so ignorant of political
language that it does not know that
Hoover's urging of better airplane
routes to Latin America is an i'm
perialist move for conquest, or it
deliberately betrays the race for
whom it assumes to speak when it
also endorses the airplane confer
ence at Washington.
While it furnishes an excuse by
remarking that the development of
the airplane makes it possible for
a small nation to resist an invader,
yet it ought to know that the Wash
ington conference is aimed precisely
at disarming and controlling these
small nations by supervising their
airplane development.
Protects Tyrants and Traitors.
In addition, and quite shamelessly,
it denounces its readers whom it in
vites to contribute letters to its
columns, for sending in anonymous
letters. But it is obvious why an
immigrant worker, fearing deporta-
ton to his homeland now ruled by
fascist assassins, wishes to conceal
his identity, yet express his feelings
about these assassins in the paper
speaking his own language.
Spanish American immigrants
should get along without the news"
rather than absorb the viewpoint of
the capitalist la Prensa" on the
problems of their race.
Of course there exists an I.W.W.
paper also, published weekly, but
like the entire I.W.W., it is pitifully
confused. In its issue for November
"a, for example, it has two-column
EDITORIAL against anarchism on one
side of the front page yet in an
other two column article on the
other side it essentially advocates
anarcho-syndfcalism, not realizing
apparently that its propaganda for
the latter makes it imperative to
fight against the former.
1t is of the utmost Importance
that all Communists and sympath-
izers understand the problem before
them of reaching and organizing
these millions of Spanish speaking
workers in the fields and factories
of this country. Communists and
militant trade unionists have plain
duty to bring the Latin workers
with whom they come in contact,
under the influence of the Trade
Union Educational League and the
Workers (Communist) Party.
Welcome the Communist Paper!
We have shown how the various
Spanish language papers mentioned
above cannot and will not fill the
need, a basic need for any organiza-
ton, of workers press. But there
now exists real Communist paper
published in Spanish by the Work
ers (Communist) Party. 1t should
be pleasure to every militant
worker to circulate this paper, "Vida
Obrera" (Workers' Life), among all
Spanish speaking workers accessible
to him in mine and field and mill.
The "Vida Obrera," issued month
ly, is young, it has issued only three
monthly numbers, but it has fu-
ture ahead of. it. 1t is edited by
Leon S. Ruiz, at 43 East 125th St.,
New York City, and costs only fifty
cents year. 1t is of supreme i'm
portance in building the unbreakable
alliance between the workers of this
country and of Latin America that
will finally give the death blow to
Yankee Imperialism, their common
Zoe.