The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-14
The Hoover Era" Is Baptized In Blood.


tries is open for the Hoover Eraw
Julio Mela beloved Communist leader of the Cuban
workers and of the workers of Mexico is shot
the back in the streets of Mexico by agent of the United
States imperialist government
An agent of Machado, president of Cuba-you might
But Machado himself is nothing but the hired funkey
of United States Imperialism the Cuban under
his presidency but of clerks for the mperalist
at Washington which rules and beds the Cuban
people through Machado and of police thugs under
him.
The unvarnshed methods of direct violence against
the working class and the plantation slaves of United States
investors and native landed arstocrats the methods
Machado applies under orders from his masters at Washing
ton few months when the socaled "Pan-American
Conference staged in Havana by United States i'm
peras to facilitate the ropng of the whole of the Latin
American peoples into the corral subjects of Wall Street
rule Maehados government ruthessy imprisoned hundreds
of the best of the working class prevent the slightest word
of objection to the surrender of the national independence
of LatnAmerean republics. Representatives of antiim
peralst views from other LatinAmercan republics
forcby prevented from landing Cuban soil during the
conference
Hoovers recent tour in the style of Emperor through
through conquered provinces intended
by the Yankee mperalsts dramatizaon of the new
relations of slave between Wall Street govern
ment and the peoples whom it claims subjects And
but mind parayzed with mperialist patriotism
slave psychology imagine that this program of i'm
perasm be attempted without resulting the release
of violent social eruptions from the LatnAmerican
Necessarily the front line of resistance will and does
from the revolutionary working class and its Pary-the
Communist Party Wall Street imperialism knows whom it
has to fight first of ALL in the effort to conquer Latin
America! The Communist Party! Wall Streets murderers
know against what leaders their assassns daggers and
voers must be turned if the leadership of the anmperast
struggle is to be weakened And Comrad Julio Mela
one of the foremost.
1t is inevitable that the brun of this imperiaist pro-
violence is put upon the Communists country
Three years the whole world of labor stirred to
protest by the Cuban Imprisonment Com
rade Julio Mea His release forced solely by the activity
of the of workers in his behalf behalf of the
he represented All LatnAmerica rang with the pro-
test until he released His work resumed this time
Mexican SOIL Comrade Mella's qualities of leadership
tested and proven to the working throughout
Mexico, Central and South America
Now he dead by the method which has become fixed
the historic method of capitalist reaction in this period
assassination.
Murder has already become the classic method of i'm,
perat reaction for this period both Europe and every
where.
But the murder of Comrade Mela nevertheless marks
with dripping red blood newly turned page the history
of LatnAmercan peoples 1t is the period of Hoover.
In this period will come the severest test of the fight
ing qualities and the political integrity of all elements of the
Latin American countries that have classified themselves as
opposed to Yankee Imperialism. There will be deserton by
the weak waverng and shifting from side by the
petty bourgeois classes in the republics south
but out of all changes due to the of Yankee
peraist corruption will emerge the hegemony the work.
ing class of these countries in the leadership the anti
mperialist struggle
simultaneously the pressure of the United States
capitalists the living standards and political rights
the working class this country will bring its own conse
in sharp class struggles and awakening class con-
scousnes further of the getting
rid of the mperat trade union bureaucras the building
of cass-conscious unions.
Each of these phenomena will bring closer the mass
solidarity OF the United States workers with the working
class and the anmperiaist cause of the Latin American
republics The fake n-Amercansm of Hoover Coolidge
Gompers and Greenwhich means the slavery of
all Latin America to the United Statesw be asunder
to be displaced by the solidarity of the working class in the
United States with the LatnAmercan struggle against our
common enemy-the imperast United States government
The pain that strikes through the hearts of all class
conscious workers at the of the brutal murder of our
comrade Julio Mea softened by the knowledge that he
did not die in vain.
The Hoover Era" already places the brand of "mur-
deer four times upon the face Wall Street Imperial
for the crimes in Nicaragua again for the shoot
Of Columbian workers enaved by the United Fruit Co.,
third for the Wall Street between Bolivia and Paraguay
and the fourth time for the murder of our comrade
MALL