The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-18
ELLIS OF LIFE
OF JULIO MELLA.
The COMMUNIST
Brother Tells History
Of His Activities

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arti" school, named for Marti, the
lban Liberator.
Leading a strike of the students
the University of Havana, he was
peeled. With come 400 of the
udents, Mella went to the uni
,rsity and took the institution by
orr, ousCing the reactionary PRO-
.ssors and installing revolutionary
achers from the Jose MART Uni
srsity, who remained for some time
cause popular sympathy was
it'll the student body. This was in
}24.
Pounds Tailors' Union.
In 1925, Mella organized the
ailors' Union, and was delegate
the congress at Camaguey, where
e National Labor Confederation
Cuba was organized. He organ
ed the Anti-Imperialist League of
lba, and also in 1925 organized the
ommunist Party of Cuba, becom-
G its first secretary. He was in
ssantly active in organizing the
'ess for all sections of the work he
as devoted to and became the cut
anding revolutionary leader of his
,ople.
The Cuban labor movement was
aiming power and influence, in
ute of the beginning of organized
'sassination of its leaders which
as accumulated with the farcical
lection" of the present Cuban
'esident, Machado, who was for
erly a butcher and who, at & ban
let given him by New York bank
s just prior to his accession to
over, promised, eff I am president,
strike will last more than 48
ours"
In front of the Pavret .Theater
Havana, someone set off bomb,
hich harmed no one. Mella had
} connection with this incident.
ut three or four months after it
opened was arrested and held on
lie charge. An evident frame-up.
was released on $1,000 bail, and
once resumed his activities.
Again arrested one night and
ken to Jail, he was given over to
detective at ! o'clock in the NOR
ng to transfer him to another Jail,
it'll the understanding that he was
be shot enroute under the famous
ley de Fuga" or pretense that he
as "trying to escape" By strate-
I'm, Mella prevented his guard
ON numbering him and reached
other prison, the main Havana
il, still alive. Here he began
niger strike, which reused the
hole international labor movement
+ the % days it lasted. The bloody
achado regime was forced to re-
ase him on bond. This was early
1926. Evading assassins who
ere on his track, he escaped to
onduras through Cienfuegos on
rgo boat.
Hounded by Imperialists.
In Honduras, he was arrested at
e request of the United Fruit Co.
nd deported to Guatemala. There
/ held a meeting to organize the
nti-Imperialist League. The same
ght he was arrested and deported
Mexico. There he organized the
pmmunist Youth, became secre-
ny of the Continental Committee
/ the Anti-Imperialist League and
embers of the Central Committee
the Communist Party.
In 1927, he was delegate to the
russels congress of the League
gainst Imperialism and for Colo
al Independence, and was elected
Iember Of it's executive. On his way
Brussels he was in New York
the Lenin Memorial of 1927.
liter Brussels, he visited Moscow
the invitation of the Communist
|ternational. He returned to Mexi-
in April, 1927, and took part in
lganizing the "Hands Off Nicara-
la!' organization to aid SANDING
hid the Association of Cuban Rev
lutionary Refugees. During No
ember and December in 1927, and
hnuary, 1898, Mella was in New
,ork. Back to Mexico, ne acted as
Icretary of the Communist Party
hiring the late summer in the abb
lnce of Secretary Garlic.
Mella was author of "The Cry
the Martyrs" and "The Revolu-
binary Struggle Against Imperial
In" and was preparing book to
entitled "Whither Cuba?" He
rote extensively for the press Of
he labor and anti-imperialist move
lent.