The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-08
CUBA'S PROLETARIAT BAT
TIES ON MAY DAY

ed and one worker killed Almost all the
workers wounded were injured by police fire,
of them dying later.
The great crowd again taking boats back to
Havana, met by troops and police at the
wharf The troops this time however, had
learned something and were under orders not
to attack. The workers went their way to their
homes, with the exception of 600, who march
ed to the newspaper office to voice their pro-
test at the savage brutality of the government
Some of the banners borne by the marchers
in their march show the militant character of
the Cuban workers: Down with Yankee i'm
peralism and its national allies! Down with
imperialist war! Against wage cuts and for
wage increases! Down with the imperialist
Pan-American Federation of Labor! Long live
the government of workers and peasants!
Enough of starvation! Down with the white
terror in Cuba! Work or wages for the unem-
ployed!" and many others. And great red
banners with the hammer and sickle and the
slogan workers of all countries, unite!"
Of course, the police in Cuba as in all coun-
tries, ascrlbe their own crimes to foreigners"
and many of those arrested on May Day were
the next day being deported-without trial, as
is usual in Cuba, ruled by American imperial
ism through its servile and murderous lackey,
Butcher" Machado.
u,
Negro building trades worker, and Juan Mon
tergo, will not be deported. They lie in the
cemetery where they buried on May 2,
while thousands of workers. with quiet but
determined steps, followed them to their
graves, the hotel workers letting the fat Yam
kee tourists get their own meals if they could,
while they attended the last farewell to their
dead comrades.
While hundred soldiers armed with rifles
surrounded the Workers Center and another
brigade of cavalry and infantry watched at
the cemetery, the Havana proletariat marched
again, five thousand strong, to the cemetery,
each bearing flower to lay upon the graves
of their dead. Among the dozens of floral
wreaths which covered the collins of the fallen
was one saying:
"As a reply to those sacrificed to the
cause, the proletariat will fortify its rev.
dictionary ranks"
Around the graves thousands gathered and
again-in farewell-the thousands sang the
song of the 'Internationale"-wit clinched
fists raised, warning for their oppressors
The reactionary daily "Diario de la Marina"
telling of the May Day battle, drops crocodile
tears at the event-"whose memory" it SAYS,
has to last in the history of the Cuban pro-
letarat as one of its most painful pages"
The memory of Perez and Montergo will
last, yes. But not painful page' as the
bourgeois journal thinks. 1t will last, yes, as
memory to cherish deep in the hearts of the
Cuban proletariat as a page of heroic class
struggle. 1t will last as an ember of undying
hatred for the imperalst murderer who sits
in the National Palace and orders death and
deportation to the workers who rebel against
American imperialism.
And eventually-not in the distant but in
the near future--that ember will flame forth
in open revolutionary struggle led by the
Communist Party of Cuba. And when it does,
and when the fights grow sharper in the
struggle for Soviet Cuba the workers of the
United States will have-nay-they even now
have the duty of giving every aid to the pro-
letariat of Cuba in the lion-hearted fight it
is waging against Wall Street imperialism and
native despotsm.