The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-20

of Coolidge under which American
imperialism hides itself. The instru-
ment of American imperialism, the
president of Cuba-has been extreme
ly efficient Machado is a Portuguese
name and means Ratchet Machado is
well-named; he has been a Ratchet
for the Cuban proletariat, weapon
at the same time sharp and heavy,
which smashes what it cannot cut off,
but we must not forget that after
all the Ratchet is only an implement,
and in this case the executioner
manipulating it is American capital
ism.
Machado's Record.
what is the record Of the Ratchet
in Cuba? What is the transcript of
deeds of the servant of Yankee CAPT
talism among us? He goes to Wash
ington to put himself at the feet of
his master and to promise solemnly
that there will be no strike in Cuba
which will last twenty-four hours
the impoverishment of Cuba in order
to protect Yankee interests; curtail-
ment of the sugar crop and consent
to contract labor from abroad while
there are one hundred thousand men
without work in Cuba and the popu-
Ilation is dying of hunger; ruthless
destruction of labor organizations and
assassination of workers and pea
SAINTS, agreement with the American
Federation of Labor to create in Cuba
"a branch of that yellow organiza ton
which will support the present Cuban
dictatorship, indefinite maintenance
in power of an iron tyranny, brutal
and unjust interference in the student
conflict here, waste of the public
funds with ornate edifices to hide the
general poverty of the people.
Hypocrisy Revealed.
"Such is in brief the record of
services accomplished for the master,
who now comes to our country to re-
ceive attentions and to give his pat
on the back to the faithful servitor.
"That is the significance of the
Pan-American conference and the
visit of Calvin Coolidge. And while
hvpocrisy and wickedness hold sway.
while the cunning greed of the i'm
perialist center embraces the traitor
GUS selfishness of false leaders of the
colonial slaves DESPITE of the in
corruptibles-w will you do, peo-
pie of Cuba? You will be impotant,
hungry, wild with rage, eating your
heart out with misery and misfor-
tune! You will watch the caravan of
frockcoats, full-dress uniforms, d9co-
.rations, emblems and bourgeois han
ners pass through the richly decked
out capitol, and among those who
march you will think you see some
one who perhaps only comes disguised
as participant in the tragi-comedy,
but who really carries with him the
hope and the true voice of his people,
of the peoples of America, and YOU
viii want toL--you cannot help-cry
out the terrible words: Porto Rico.
Santa Domingo, Haiti, Panama, MIC
ARAGUAi
Murdered Comrades.
Cuban worker: the gold embroid-
cred cape with which the Cuban bour-
geoisie adorns the CITY and adorns
the bourgeoisie itself for the recep-
ton toNthe Pope of the Dollar does
not extend far enough to cover YOU
1t is the dress uniform in which the
lackey dresses himself to receive his
lord. Those specks of gold have not
been sufficient to leave anything for
you What reaches you is the hurt
OF the fang which the treachery and
selfishness of those who govern YOU
have not yet cleansed Of the specls of
blood of your murdered comrades
They were victims of the Yankee blu
tocracy. He who laid them low is the
slave OF that plutocracy That pluto
cracy has a general headquarters,
Wall Street and political repre-
sentative, Calvin Coolidge.
"Do you hope for anything from
the gathering in which this monster
Yankee capitalism this repre-
sentative--the president of the United
States--hand-pick the delegates of
slave governments and of peoples en-
shaved against their will. Nothing
worth while can come of it. The real