The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-12
MARIN HERE TO
FOOL WORKERS
OF PORTO RICO
P olitic al Quacks in
Wall Street Service

We publish below the first of a
series of letters from Porto
Rican worker now in New York
telling Of the conditions of the
workers and peasants of that ISL
and under sWalI Street bondage;
he tells also of the quacks who
serve as the tools of Wall Street
in keeping the Porto Rican work
ers enslaved, particularly those of
the socialist party. The first let
ter below deals with one of these
misleaders who has come to New
York to mislead the Porto Rican
workers here.
Ever since the coming to New
York of Luis Munos Marin, the last
Ct a long line of political "has beens"
in Porto Rico. movement has been
On foot in Lower Harlem to organize
all Porto Rican fraternal, benefit
and political organization into what
is termed by Mr.. Marin as "a strong
and powerful fraternal body"
This movement was carefully. and
cunningly planned long before our
friend Marin junketed to New York
by the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. d.
rectors of the bourgeois fraternal or
der known as the Liga Puertorri-
quena e Hispana, otherwise the Porto
Rican Spanish League.
The Porto Rican Spanish League
had made other moves towards Sam
algamation" at different intervals of
its career, but to no avail, they need
ed PROFESSIONAL politician of the
type of Luis Munos Marin to turn
the trick for them. Marin is we'll
known to us Porto Rican workers as
one of the islands outstanding po-
litical quacks.
On one occasion he was a member
Of the defunct Unionist Party. later
he jumped into the political band
wagon Of the yellow socialist party,
and in the feverish and heated po-
litical days of 1920, when the ira
ditional party of labor betrayers be-
gan to show some signs of strength,
you could hear that bozo in my own
little town of Naranjito and in most
every hamlet and city of Porto Rico
boiler cut his lungs in behalf of the
working masses and energetically
pronounce himself against TIE
wretched system of feudal and CAPT.
talist exploitation against the bloody
imperialist plunderbund and the ca
pitalist system in general and
for workers and farmers govern
ment.
But the electoral results Of that
year were not gratifying for the So
cialist party, and naturally there
were NO sinecures Forthcoming, so
he decided to quit, having digested,
l believe, Aristotle's old adage: "a
man cannot speak virtue with an
empty stomach"
In other words, he just did like all
Socialists" sooner or later do, stab
the cause of the workers in the back
for the sake of his own material we'll
being.
A few years later, when it was
well understood that Marin was no
longer red" the Porto Rican AL
lance, the newly acquired dress of
the old and dilapidated republican
and unionist parties, manned by Tous
Soto, corporation lawyer, and Don
Antonio R. Barcelo, a patriotic
quack OF superb magnitude, decid-
ed to take him into their bosom
again and made him the editor of
the most corrupt and perverse paper
ever published in the island, La De-
mocracia, official organ of the So
called patriotic" Porto Rican AL
lance.
Whether he quit or got fired from
the editorship of that organ I do
not know and I do not care to guess,
but one thing, I am sure of, he was
not the editor of La Democracia dur
ing the political campaign culminat-
ing in the last November elections,
when the Alliance just barely won by
a small, dingy margin.