The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-23
By HARRISON GEORGE.
(The Second of Two Articles)

IN previous article we spoke of the great
significance, both to the Haitian masses and
to the international proletariat, of the forma-
ton in Haiti of the National Workers Party.
The organization of this Pare was repealed
by letter printed in LA Presse' of Port
au-Prince on November %, just before the
martial law decree of imperialist America The
letter was addressed, publicly to Haitian
leader, Antoine Pierre Paul, authorizing him
to speak for the Party to American authorities.
In the previous article we referred to the weak
ness of the Party in lacking class program
But the weakness revealed in the letter goes
deeper than lack of clarity on the imperative
need of independent class program and action
For the letter indicates a reliance and hope
OF imperialism Transforming itself from an OPP
pressor to a liberator; Upon imperialism YER
sus imperialism What futility!
We see, for example, these officials of
Workers Party of oppressed Haiti, appointing
Antoine Pierre Paul, to the vain task of sap
pealing to the loyalty and high morality of
the President of the United States" for "a
gesture of superior justice and magnanmity
on the part of the American rulers in Wash
ington' (for the restoration" above mentioned
and for 'the election of the successor of Mr.
Borno").
Why Imperialist Occupation
But if understand that American mper-
ialist interests, its necessity for markets and
raw materials, for coffee and place to invest
capital at big profit, America imperalst de-
mand to expand exploitation from the proletar-
lat of the United States to all Latin America
to swallow in its iron nav the profits wrung
from the Haitian peasant the Cuban sugar
worker, the Mexican miner, the oil worker of
Colombia and Venezuela, and to drive British
imperialism from control, to fortify Haiti
against British Jamaica's naval base-if we
understand these things, we at once know that
it was not the lack of "hgh morality" which
caused American Imperialism to invade and
subjugate Haiti, nor can any appeal addressed
to the conjectured "high morality" of American
imperialisms present spokesman have the
faintest chance of releasing Haiti from the
talons of Yankee rule. Moreover Hoover's
loyalty is not to the interests of the Haitian
toilers, but to the National City Bank which
exploits the Haitian people.
Indeed, the facts of life, since the Haitian
Workers Party wrote the letter referred to
here, have given overwhelming answer to such
absurd expectations. And that answer has
been written in the blood of the heroic peas
ants of Aux Cages!
To appeal to Hoover to petition the "ruers
az w washington TO De just and magnanmouS"
is to appeal to the tiger to release its fangs
from the throat of its prey, to appeal to the
leopard to change its spots
And what follows from this? In reliance
upon the enemy to cease being an enemy, is to
forego the only effective means of attaining
the end desired For the movement of the
masses must rely upon the masses themselves,
not something or someone outside of them,
and certainly not the very imperialist ma
chine which is robbing and expressing them.
What Is the Bar to Freedom?
Do not the Haitian masses passionatey de-
mand freedom from Haiti as a prerequisite
to their solution to the problem of bread and
land? Then who dares stand between them
and that aim? The Marines, the Garde dHait
and the insect Borno! The letter says:
You will not forget TO inform tho agents