The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-10
GUATEMALA AND ITS TRADE UNION
MOVEMENT
By GUMES


The workers and artisans able organize only mutual aid
and for these only by legal attacking the slightest
degree the constituted social regime
These organizations did not cease to exist during the
despoc regimes the Guaemaan people had suffered During
Y years the bloody tyranny of Estrada Cabrera the organizations
Others practice mutual aid and that deceny
accommodating themselves to the dominant power.
ALWAYS A COLONY
Guatemala has ceased being colony colony
pendnce economically by British Imperialism The
principal economic of the country monopzed by British
British Imperialism by big loans that have never been
paid this day. enough only to nav
the interest these loans
pressure imperialism on the various governments
which have ruled the destiny Guatemala has eliminated
memoerlng of the national territory.
President Cabrera presented the British rich
est regions of the country Belize in exchange for Sword
This zone has been conzd by Negro slaves from
Africa for the exploitation timber and it continues
being actually English colony.
Meanwhile, United States imperialism conqurng little by
little yet exploited by the English and in
manner penetration in Guatemala which has carried
its the struggle between mperams Yankee
imperialism took account of the fact that would be able
triumph without having its hands the political control therefore
aided series of etats led
times by the Conservative national political parties.
u S. IMPERIALISM ENTERS
The movement of 1871 known the Reform than
audaous stroke of North American imperialism supporting the
way by the North American company THE International Railway
of Central America and the fight began for of
struggle directed satisfactorily to North Amer
lean imperialism by the various that followed
Reform Justine Rufno Barrios 1t to establish
the consolidation of American imperialism and the displacement
British imperialism.
Such dictatorship exercised Estrada
Cabrera During the % which
pany and the "Cuyam Company" obtained
eastern banana
Immediately the world war all the resources that had been
in the hands German and British mperam passed automatically
of had
cared Germany and the Central Powers The
American Imperialism and Guatemala actually colony of the United
States.
began with the formation
OF trade unions that proclaim the necessity class by
of direct action
THE FIRST GREAT STRIKE
@ 1921 1924 ten thousand % ss agricultural workers little
Company in 81 of its plantations They wages
the eghthour and better living ske which
lasted Tor y days. crushed by force of of
the lack organization that might have directed
great number of workers killed jailed
ported from the country
year. 1924 thousand railroad workers entered the
struggle defense Of similar demands The direct of
ization and with it, the complete failure of the strike
Imperialism further government
cree law prohibiting all strike movements and declaring leaders of
then the Railway Workers Union has been able
In 1925 1900 bakers of the capital city and of other cities
conditions first points
the strikers accepted The victory due the fact that the
the existence revolutionary
both Of the said and of other
imprisoned and tortured.
CLASS TRADE UNIONS DEvELopING\
Toward the
rapid
and began the struggle directly by of strikes
movements Among the most important of these struggles those
Coffee (women)
(women putting of eight
law and for increased These strikes
fight against the which, closely linked
adopted against the
nhe the organization Of
be by the consolidation