The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-31
CUBAN OFFICIAL
ADMITS MACHAD0
KILLED WORKERS
Pan A. F. of L. Report
Carefully Censored


pressing an interesting series of Les
ters from the Argentine delegation
against police supervision over the
character of their delegation contains
a virtual admission by the Cuban am
bassador to the United States, that
the Machado regime brutally sup
pressed the railroad strike in 1926 to
protect United States interests"
While the report contains, for in
stance, number Of irrelevant letters
between President Green of the A. F.
of L. and patriotic socie les of Peru
and the American State Department
regarding the Tacna-Arica dispute; it
spondence between Iglesias, Secretary
Of the Pan American Federation of
Labor, and the Argentine Labor or
CARNATIONS, in which the latter ex-
planned their refusal to participate in
the Congress because the invitations
had been transmitted through the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which in
turn delivered them to the Ministry
of the Interior (the police) with whose
approval the delegates to this extra
ordinary congress were to be ap-
pointed.
The report publishes an. interesting
correspondence between Green and
Orestes Ferrara, the Cuban Ambas-
sador in Washington. Green wrote to
Ferrara regarding the persecution of.
labor in Cuba and enclosed a report
on the brutalities and expressions of
the Machado government. Green as
sured the Cuban ambassador that he
was reluctant to give credence to
this information"
Green Suppresses Facts.
The memorandum, however, is not
published in the report Instead,
there is published long letter from
Ferrara attempting to justify the
Cuban Government Thus the case
of the workers against the Cuban
government is conveniently suppressed
by Green, while the governments de-
Tense is published in full
In reply to the long list of Cuban
labor leaders who have been assassin
ated, or have mysteriously disap-
peared enumerated in Green's sup
fa.ession memorandum, the Cuban
ambassador replies:
almost all the names are of
strangers who have abandoned vol
unfairly or by force the territory Of
the republic. Almost all of these
strangers have been banished from
other countries, arriving in Cuba to
initiate social revolution. | beg of
you to read the information given by
Secretary Kellogg to the Senate of
the United States on the Nicaraguan
affair" (Kellogg's famous memoran-
dunn on Bolshevist activities in Cen
trail America)
Ferrara continues:
There is no doubt that there are
several dead resulting from violent
fights and there are also several dead
who were mysteriously killed, as also
happens in these great conflicts in
rural communities. -. Varona (the
socialist leader of the railroad work
ers) was assasslnated also"
Wall Street Hand.
The Cuban Ambassador explains
that the threat of American inter-
vention compelled it to suppress the
strikes of workers against the foreign
capitalists. Ferrara writes:
ut is absolutely true that there
was in Cuba a strike of railroad work
ers in 1926; that this strike lasted
many days and that the government
which had viewed it with sympathy
because it considered that the work
men had some right was obliged
to commit acts of suppression on ac-
count of the continuances of personal
offenses, dynamiting machines, dam
ages to property, explosion of bombs
etc.
The strike, Ferrara says, assumed
revolutionary character, with the
object of forming a revolution in
Cuba, the beginning of more ex-
tensive revolution in the American
continent"
I'm this STRIKE" Ferrara explains,
many citizens of the United States,
high employees of the Sugar Com
panies, We're threatened with death
by the revolutionary element, and it
was with difficulty that they escaped
the victims. You who know the theory
sustained (by COOLIDGE, and actually
used, that government should de-
fend, although in a foreign land, the
life and property of it's citizens by
the sending of troops will COM
plehend with what perplexity our ad.
ministration was seeing the course
which events were taking"
So the Cuban government con-
veniently uses the threat of Ameri-
can intervention to excuse its ruthless
suppression of strike.