The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-21
The Haitian Masses I'm Motion

significant turning points in the history of the
Haitian people.
Every worker conscious of his class and it's
historic mission to destroy capitalist imperial
ism, every worker who is an nternationalist,
will give deep and responsive welcome to the
first steps, however fatering and Grant, of
the oppressed workers and peasants of Haiti
on the path of class struggle Every worker
who sees mirrored in the miseries of the Hal
tian workers, his own class sufferings and
his own complaints, will feel tug at his heart
strings as he reads such simple tragedy as the
following paragraph on the sufferings of the
Negro toilers of Haiti:
"Since 1915 each year is worse than the
preceding one. Today, we are reduced TO
such state of suffering and privation that
laughter and joy have deserted our work
shops where, even during our most sanguin-
airy revolutions, workers song stimulated
our ar1or and rendered agreeable the labor
begun. Today our places are occupied by
foreigners. Tricked, despised, without work
and bread, the working class, which consti-
tutes the life force of the nation, langushes
in the darkest misery, having before it no
perspective of amelioration."
Every American worker must moreover,
feel a sense of responsibility for tearing away
the hand of American imperialism which is
choking the life out of the Haitian. worker.
American imperialism which under the hypo-
critical pretense of bringing progress, culture
and peace" to the Haitian people, is robbing,
cheating and numbering them.
The revolutionary workers of America fully
acknowledge this responsibility and led by
the Communist Party, only a few days ago
turned out by thousands in the streets of New
York to protest the crimes of the American
government, proving, when they met the same
sort of brutal attacks as are visited upon the
Haitian workers, that they stand ready to sac
rifice their blood and freedom for the oppressed
tolers of Haiti, for the fighting solidarity of
the international proletariat of which they are
part.
Every revolutionary worker of the United
States, therefore, will be glad to know that the
toilers of Haiti, isolated from international
contact by the watchdogs of Imperialism and
its vile native lackeys led by Borne, have been
touched by the tremendous tide of history and
have awakened to their interests as class of
political importance in society, as a class dis
tinct from other classes.
True the realization of distinct class inter
ests, in the of the sgners of the letter
(the officials of the National Workers Party) ,
ideas which it sets forth. Because class
distinct from other classes must also have
program distinct from other classes, and from
this basic division must foreswear organic de-
pendence upon other classes, must forge from
its own blood and snew the only leadership
upon which it can and must depend to direct
its struggles
Hence it is serious error for the Haitian
Workers Party to have limited it's program
perspective to the same demand as that the
bourgeois opposition, a mere restoration of
imperialist capitalist government by native
capitalist government. Thus the letter speaks
for "the restoration of our institutions" the
mere turning over "little by little as the Amer
lean element leaves the place, in the different
branches of public administration, to the Hal
: tian elements which will have been trained to
assume the functions now occupied by Amer
lean officials"
The function of American officials is to rob
and Cypress the Haitian workers and peasants,
whose inteXests cannot be advanced by "resto-
ration of" present governmental institutions,
but by their destruction and replacement by
government of workers and peasants only. The
formation of Workers Party is the symbol
of an historic advance. hence by a program of