The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-13

became part of them very few intellectuals
have done. He yielded his whole life to the
revolutionary movement of the proletariat, and
especially to the native Indian.
Perus "Whalens' Mortified
From this, when the Communist Interna-
tional dealt first with Peru the responsibility
of organization fell upon Comrade Mariategui.
And the attacks began: "The Communists want
to socialize women and pervert the youth, and
this Moscow novelty has entered Peru thanks
to the beclouded brain of Jose Carlos Mari
ategu!" This thunderclap struck the Peru
Wan workers between the eyes. They were not
easily convinced to burn that which they had
previously adored But this condemnation was
in harmony with the semi-feudal situation of
Peru and its clerical influence.
But to the continuous spontaneous strikes
were added studies and criticisms in accord
with international revolutionary theology.
This closely followed the road which, objec-
lively, Peruvian economy, more and more
bound up with Yankee imperialism, was TAX
ing.
In these conditions, Peru, like the rest of
Latin-Amerca, and especially those countries
having least relations with Europe was fer
tile field for anarchism, for revolutionary sym
dicalism hence it follows that the struggles of
the proletariat were thus isolated Peru was,
for the international toilers, as distant from
the proletarian political development of Eu-
rope, from the world struggles of the prole-
tariat, as are the indigenous Indian peoples of
the mountains from the life of the Peruvian
capital.
Mariategui began his work In his book,
ola Escena Contemporaries" (The Contempt
raneous Scene), were gathered series Of art;-
cles published in the workers press of Peru,
and these constituted the first serious studies
of the fundamental problems which the Latin
American workers had to face Few Commit
mist leaders of Latin-America had the COM
prehension, the intuition and the feminist solu-
tic1. And Mariategui was one of the few in
tellectual Communist leaders that knew we'll
the problems of the LatinAmercan proletariat
From these abilities he was able to be leader
and applier of Leninism in Peru.
His Tremendous Tasks.
He gave special attention to the trade union
movement. This movement was not centralized
in Peru, and in few months, with the aid of
the Latin American Trade Union Confedera
tio@, he succeeded in forming the General Con-
federation of Labor of Peru.
Through the columns of the review CANA
uta'' and of the trade union journal, Labor
he was creating in spite of all the difficulties
of the environment, in a country for IA years
under tyrannous dictator, class conscious
HESS, d IeNOiuIlOHdIy iueOlOpy WITHOUT winch
it is not possible to speak of proetarian revo-
luton His deep understanding of this postu-
late of Lenin made him bend every effort to
maintain these periodicals at whatever cost,
and to keep them within the political line Of
the Communist international and the Red In
ternational of Labor Unions
These two papers, one trade unionist and one
political, had their individuality as such, but
both were Communist papers for the workers
of city and country, for the native Indian of
Peru. Hence these two papers were widely
distributed not only in Peru but in all Latin
America.
To the trade union congress Of Montevideo,
which formed the Latin-Amercan Trade Union
Confederation, he sent his thesis upon the
problem of the native Indian. The congress
made his thesis it's own, accepting the general
lines he established on this very important
problem
Gave His Utmost to Gastonia.
BY that time Mariategui had carried out
an intense campaign in Peru for the Gas
tonia prisoners, this agitation in behalf of