The daily worker., 1929-01-14


sang the international" and ca
wrinkled and water-stained, which
the police drenched with fire hose
Saturday night when they violently
dispersed a Mella demonstration.
Carrillo, secretary of the Mexican
Communist Party, addressed the
procession from the balcony of the
Party's headquarters, accusing the
Cuban government directly of Mel
las assassination.
The procession then moved on to
the National Palace, where Ursulo
Galvan, a leader of the National
Peasants League, spoke, declaring
that President Machado of Cuba is
a tool of American Imperialism.
From the National Palace the pro-
cession went on to the courtyard of
the National Law School. where
Mella was a student, and thence to
the National Theatre.
Diego Rivera, the world famous
Communist artist, addressed the pro-
cession as it halted before the Juarez
monument. Rivera attacked the
Mexican bourgeoisie and the Mexi-
can government which was respon-
sible for breaking up the first Mella
demonstration Saturday night. The
procession then moved on to the Of
fices of the Communist Party press
and finally to the Pantheon Dolores.
Prior to Mella's assassination on
the night of January 10 by hired
gunmen in the pay of the Machado
government, the Cuban government
had attempted to obtain Mella's eX-
tradition from Mexico. The Cuban
government recently sent a number
Of high officials t. Mexico to dis
tribute Cuban decorations to Mexi-
can officials, high and low. AT
that time, Silva Herzog, the present
Mexican minister to the Soviet
Union, declined te accept a decora-
ton, declaring that he refused to ac-
cept a decoration from a govern
ment of assassins."
The Cuban government was OBJ
viously preparing Cuban bourgeois
opinion for the assassination of
Mella. A short time ago it an
nounced in the Machado press that
at a workers demonstration in
Mexico City, Mella had torn a Cuban
flag. This statement was utterly
false, nevertheless the Mexican am
bassador to Cuba apologized for tie
"incident," which never existed out
side the columns of the fascist press.
In similar manner, the Mexican
police, following Mella's murder, at
tempted to shield the crime of the
Cuban government by circulating a
false report to The press that Mella
was killed by a jealous rival in a
quarrel over girl. This has been
denied by Tina Modotti, who was
with Mella before and during the
murder and at the operating table
when he died, as we'll as by another
eyewitness Of the assassination.
The Mexican Communist Party
has declared that the Cuban am
bassador to Mexico is spending enor-
nous sums to corrupt the Mexican
police and press. The Mexican
police is now headed by Puig Cas-
auranc, the new governor Of the
federal district, who is a close per-
sonal friend Of the Cuban ambassa-
dor to Mexico.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13.-Deepest
Indignation prevails and spreads
hourly wider among the Mexican
masses at the atrocious murder of
Julio Mella. Official denials by the
Cuban ambassador, G. Fernandez
Mascara, to the charge of the work.
ers that Mella was deliberately as
sassinated by agents Of the Machado
government of Cuba, are laughed to
scorn and do not find the slightest
credence even in the capitalist press.
Not since the legal murder of
Sacco and Vanzetti by the capital
lists Of the United States, have the
workers and peasants of Mexico
been so aroused against Yankee inn
perialism, which all hold responsible
for the murder.
The Mexican police, under the
government of President Portes Gil,
Who Cannot IT, Mella's murder
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