The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-10
The Revolt Against the Gomez Puppet
Government

sympathizer of the Venezuelan Revolutionary
Party. He was fugitive in Curacao from
the talons of the bloody Gomez. When the
puppet Detch authorities attempted to deport
him to miserable death at the hands of
Gomez, the oil workers called a general strike.
The action of the workers was successful in
preventing Urbnas murder"
Machado was very modest in mentioning his
part in the active fighting, but he and Urbna
were the leaders of the rebellion.
"On arriving at La Leila Coro in Venezuela"
continued Machado, "we met by detach-
INIT of government forces led by General Lacle,
vice-president of the State of Falcon, and
tool of Gomez"
battle was fought in which Lace was
killed. Ramon Torres, refinery worker, who
was leader of the vanguard in the fighting was
killed, and Gustavo Ponte revolutionary
student was severely wounded Gen. Urbina,
head of the revolutionary forces, decided not
to take Coro. The peasants in Falcon, who
Fundamentally supported the revolutionary
move, could be of little help because they were
unarmed.
"It is the strategy of the dictator Gomez
to arm his soldiers lightly because he does
not trust his troops and takes every measure
to prevent arms from falling into the hands
of revoutionists when his soldiers are killed.
He prefers using large numbers and having
them killed than supplying them with suffi-
cient arms that may fall in the hands of the
rebellious workers and peasants
"Our ammunition dwindled after one month
of guerilla fighting" explained Machado, "and
we were forced to take to the mountains where
were given the protection of the peasants.
Many of the peasants in Coro have been oil
refinery workers, and are thoroughly in SYM
pathy with the revolutionary forces"
A reward of $4,000 each was put the
heads of Gustavo Machado, the secretary of
the Venezuela Revolutionary Party, and Gen.
Urbina, the military leader of the revolt. yet
in spite of this tempting sum to starving peas
ants" Machado said "We were hidden and
protested by the peasants
''At the same time the Venezuelan Revou
tionary Party was preparing attempted over
throw of the Gomez regime of terror de-
clared Machado, "an expedition financed and
engineered by the British Dutch Shell outfit,
who oppose Gomez because of his leanings
toward American imperialism, set out from
Germany on the steamer Fake This petty
bourgeois adventurist pack was led by the
Cumana military chief, Gen. Roman del Gado
Chalbaud. One of his main announcements
was that he would murder all Communists
he could lay his hands on in Venezuela. Chal-
baud lost his life in his futile attack on the
Gomez government.
sour failure to establish workers and
peasants government does not mean defeat of
the revolutionary forces led by the Venezuelan
Revolutionary Party. We have the support of
the masses in Venezuela The workers are
with us and in spite of the reign of assassin
alton and white terror we will triumph. Suf-
.ficent arms in the hands of the workers and
peasants will spell the doom of the Gomez
regime, and we call upon the American work
ers to fight our common enemy, who in large
measure is responsible for the perpetuation of
the Gomez regime in Observation-Disclosures inn
perialism!"