The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-17
By ALBERT MOREAU.

THE effects of the fourteen years of American
marine rule in Haiti have brought the down
trodden and starving peasants and workers into
a sharp conflict with their masters and their
blood-thirsty tool Borno The events which de-
veloped with the spontaneous strike of students
followed by the strike of the dock workers at
Port-au-Prince in the early part of this month,
cannot be regarded as an isolated incident.
There is a deep rooted cause that motvated
Mr.. Hoover to Immediately despatch batteships,
guns, airpanes and marine forces on the urgent
call of Commissioner Russell who feared that
the permanent presence of the 700 marines
could not cope with the situation. The revolt
spread all over the island and the courageous
workers who deprived of their arms, marched
with sticks and knives to demand the end of
foreign rule and oppression marks the deter
mination to put an end to the unbearabe con-
ditions under which they live.
The Revolt Spreads
Since the forcible American occupation of
Haiti in 1915. the black masses have been con-
stantly robbed of their land and through Bor-
nos dictatorship the peasants have been forced
to surrender. all their products to the American
imperialist plunderers. Chattel slavery was re-
inforced and the masses are compelled to keep
paying. the heavy taxes to the National
City Bank and the high salaries of the cor
rupted, tyrant functionaries. The pulse of a
general and widespread revolt was felt on the
island. Port-au-Prince, Aux Cages, Jacmel took
fire. The workers anil peasants marched to-
wards the government buildings demanding the
immediate release of their leaders. Whereupon
the marines fired, killing five and wounding
many. Because of the martial law and the
into of hp a1i eff
press further massacres have not been
ported
All the enemies of the oppressed of Haiti
joined forces to put down the revolt. Mr.
Hoover, Borah, Senator King together with the
reactonary press, rushed to the millions
of dollars invested from the "illiterate and
ignorant Haitians." The Pan American Airway
puts its airplanes at the disposal of the United
States Government. The liberal and socialist
press endorse Hoovers "tmely idea" to send a
Commission to study the problem. Lest Amer
lean imperialism loses the control of the island,
united front of all reactionary forces was
established to drown in blood the "savages"
who dared to challenge the rule of the almighty
dollar
The imperialst propaganda to the effect that
the Negroes in Haiti are 'savages' is merely
the usual irrevelant nonsense to screen the true
Hatians are highly developed people whose
present-day cultural shortcomings are largely
to be trace to the effect of American imperial
list occupation.
War Base for Wall Street.
The Island of Haiti and Santo Domingo con-
stitutes military strategic position and enables
American Imperialism to keep the Panama
Canal free from intervention 1t also serves as
a station from which, marines and battleships
can be sent in case OF an emergency in the
island and other islands Of the Caribbean Sea,
when the slaves rise to obtain their independ-
ence.
The shameful treaty imposed on Haiti by the
United States Government in 1915 virtually
binds the country into an actual colony and
reduces it in a state Of slavery for the peas
ants to turn all the riches of the island to
Wall Street. BY Artivle the collected GUS