The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-21
Digging Out the History of Crime; u. S.
Imperialism Killed Mella


Machado infamous cksptte of American Imperialism
and assassin of hundreds of other workers and labor leaders
of Cuba, deliberately planned the murder of Julio A. ea
at Mexico City, and shortly before that murder launched
campaign of propaganda designed with shred
of justification before the Cuban people, is shown by
dispatch from Havana dated January and published in the
Mexican newspaper Excelsior January 8, which the
Daily Worker reproduces in this issue
1t is to be remembered that Mella was shot down in the
streets of Mexico City the night of January TO- that he
lay bleeding he said to his comrades: Il victim of
Machado!"
AS may be seen by the translation of the dispatch from
Havana the Machado regime definitely attacking Mela
and in particular trying the Cuban people hos
ty against him that would shelter his murderers Cuban
patriots To accomplish this they charged that at meeting
of Cuban immigrants in Mexico Mela and others "had in
suited the Cuban flag counting upon the fact that the Cuban
flag remains fetish to many Cubans who regard
symbol of lost national independence while they hate the
Cuban government which has made Cuba "a Yankee pana
ton
We publish also letter written by Mella which still
further shows that the Wall Street ackey Machado,
gagged in campaign se the voice of Mela and his
utonary comrades in Mexico The letter demonstrates that
Mea himself recognized the dispatch of January part
of that campaign Writing in the of the Cuban Emf
association of which he secretary he attacked and
exposed the Cuban the of his assassina
ton This letter addressed to the editor of the
paper Excelsior of clerical reaction which had
published the Havana dispatch 1t reply to the Havana
report of the fictitious flag incident exposing its nvd
nature and denying in the of the Emgrees asoca
ton that any incident such that characterized Sin
suit had occurred in relation the Cuban flag stated
the dispatch.
In his letter. Mella not only demonstrates the falsty of
the report of the mythical alag incident behind which the
white of Cuba striving obtain the
exradon of Cuban immgrantsn this Mella himself
from Mexico back to Cuba where the Machado
could murder him in prison they have of Others
but he shows well that the butcher Machado trying
Ito extend his despoc jurisdiction to the soil of the Mexican
republic 1t is clear that Meas words had reference just
such activities of Machados agents in Mexico have cu
minated in Mella's murder.
Mella wrote that letter January g. answering the
dispatch published that day. only days before Machados
agents murdered him. 1t published in Excelsior"
January r. after Mella's death
The Daily Worker gives these documents as positive
proof of the murdrous hand of the serve Machado
ment covered with the blood of comrade Julio Mea But
above and beyond all ee the Daily Worker Macha
dos masters the mperaist of the United States
headed by Coolidge and be headed by Hoover
with murder of revolutionary Comrade Julio Mea Not
the cowardy who fired the shot not Machado the
miserable funkey of Coolidge particular in
terest of the United States the United States capitalist
class whoe-the United States ITSELF the
supreme instrument and final organized expression of the
Yankee capitalist classis the principal in this murder.
This is the enemy of the Cuban masses the Mexican
masses-the peoples of all Latn-America!
Down with the murderous Yankee imperialism!
And add--no persecution no terrorism and
snaons for moment halt the onward march of the
world proetarat which, led by the Communist international
and in alliance with the oppressed colonial and semcoonia
peoples will sweep away imperialism with all its filthy crimes
with the iron fist of the proetarian dictatorship.