The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-29
PROTEST MELLA
MURDER AS ACT
OF U. S. AGENTS
Latin and U. S. Labor
Must Unite Forces

speakers at the protest demonstra-
ton held Friday evening at the
New Harlem Casino. against the
murder of Julio Mella by Cuban
governmental agents of U. S. imper-
ialism. and adopted resolution Of
ficially expressing their determine
ton to carry on the fight on Amer
lean Imperialism and its Cuban
lackey. Machado, in which fight
Mella himself fell victim of Ma
chado's bullets.
The chairman was Alberto Nor
eau of the Spanish section of the
All = America Anti Imperialist
League, the local branch of which
arranged the meeting.
U. s. Government Guilty.
Robert Minor, editor of the Daily
Worker, accented in his speech the
fact that, mot the cowardly gun
men who shot, not Machado, the
miserable flunkey of Coolidge, not
some particular interest of the
United States, but the U. S. capt.
talist class as a whole, the United
States government itself, is the
principal" in the murder of Julio
Mella.
Minor exposed how the Machado
government had set out on propa-
ganda campaign to claim that Mella
had ''insulted" the Cuban flag,
counting on the fact that the Cuban
flag remains as a fetish to many
Cubans who regard it as a symbol
of lost national independence,
while they hate the Cuban govern
ment which has made Cuba "a YAM
kee plantation" BY so doing,
Machado hoped to shelter his muir
der of MelIa behind screen of "pa-
triotism"
Imperialism Headed Toward War.
Clarence Hathaway, editor of La
Dor Unity, official organ of the
Trade Union Educational League,
compared the terror against the
workers in Cuba to similar imper-
ialist attacks on the workers in all
colonial and semi-colonial countries,
such as Colombia, Nicaragua, India,
Egypt, etc. The U. S. imperialists
were bribing governments in So
called independent" countries, get
ting control of power and material
resources through these lackeys. In
Latin America, the aggressive role
of U. S. imperialism was in grow
ing sharp conflict with the position
there of England, and from this and
other rivalries struggle is devel.
oping which will soon eliminate II
new world war between these i'm
perialist powers.
Hathaway emphasized that the
only reliable leadership in the anti
imperialist struggle was the revo-
lutionary proletariat of both the
countries oppressed by imperialism
and the imperialist countries them.
selves, united with each other anc
with the exploited peasantry il
common fighting array. Mella's
greatest work was as organizer Of
these forces for resistance to u. S
imperialism. The present Assembly
of Workers and Peasants in Mexico
was great step forward, and {
conference in May at Montevidet
would unite the great mass of Latir
American unions against imperial
ism and its lackeys in the labol
movement.
Our Tasks In U. S.
Here in the United States, h,
said, our duty lies most heavily il
the organization of the unorganized
most exploited workers, the build
ing of new militant unions imbuet
with international solidarity t,
counteract the treacherous role o
the Pan-American Federation of La
Dor led by the A. f. of L. reac
tionaries. The Trade Union Educa
tional League is the organizin,
force behind these new fighting
unions, and the need for such i
shown by the imperialistic action
Of the recent A. F. of L. conven
ton, which endorsed the cruise
bill, and asked the exclusion of Mex
lean, Filipino and all Asiatic work
ers from entering the Unite
States.
Harriet Silverman of the loca
Anti-Imperialist League, pointe
out that the murder of Mella wa
part of the whole imperialist tel
ror such as seen in Argentine
Liberia, China, Cuba and elsewhere
Our task, she emphasized, is t
build bonds of unity between tn
exploited Of the United States an
those of Latin America, throug
trade unions, workers organizs
tions, anti-imperialist leagues an
all other real forces genuinely anti
imperialist. Our new work mus
emphasize this need toward Lati
American workers and peasants.
Latins Expose Frame-Up.
LUZ Martinez of the Spanish SEE
ton of the local Anti-Imperialis
League, addressed the meeting i
Spanish, as did also Leon S. Rui
of the Spanish Bureau of the Work
ers (Communist) Party, who rt
viewed the activities Of Mella an
exposed the attempt by Mexican pc
lice to frame up Mella's own con
rades in order to cover the escap
of his assassins.
Karl Reeve of the Internations
Labor Defense, spoke on the hur
ger strike of Mella and how the