The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-27
The Overthrow OF Wall Street
in Peru
in Peru

rich in silver, lead and petroleum; produces
sugar, cotton and alpaca wool.
An Oppressed Nation.
Only two per cent of the people are white"
(Spanish), over so per cent are full-blood In
dams, descendants Of the Incas, and 40 per
cent more are part Indian. Yet the Indians
are brutally, barbarously oppressed and ex-
plotted, kicked about like dogs and are clearly
an oppressed nation under the savage heel of
foreign oppressors, fully entitled to self-de-
termination
Leguia took power with Wall Streets in
vasion of Latin America following the world
war, and since then American investments have
grown to exceed all other imperialisms. The
customs, the Reserve Bank, the navy and
education are Administrations were until yes
terday-by Americans.
Two American naval officers, resigned"
from the U. S. Navy to take charge of Peru's
navy and aviation, captured by the re-
being troops while trying to aid Leguia by
dropping leaflets to the troops. The insidious
Kemmerer Commission, the auditors of Amer
lean imperialism in all parts of the world
has been keeping Leguia's books since 1926
Religion and Fascism.
Leguia, as Wall Streets lackey, built his
power on black reaction. The catholic church
is the government religion, and Peru broke
with Mexico when that country fell out with
the church. Legua imported fascist black
shirts from Italy to build up force of strike
breakers and assassins of the workers. The
army, which has revolted, was under control
of French mission-take notice. The police
were ruled by Spanish mission. The British
run the postal business, telegraphs and 80 per
cent of the railways. The Indian inhabitants
do the work and get the kicks. But American
Imperialism had, until yesterday, the dominant
power.
Leguia, to give Wall st. investments room
started enormous improvements" in 81 cities,
light, power, paving, sewage, street cars, any
thing which, however nice, was set down in
the midst of desperate mass poverty to fur
nish dividends for New York bankers and not
to build colonial manufacturing industry.
Only last month Leguia granted concession
of 100000 square miles to Yankee capitalists
headed by w. r. Davis, for railway and COL
onization' in Eastern Peru, but it is admitted
that great petroleum fields are in the area"
Rule of Blood and Plumber.
Repeatedly the workers of the cities and in
the mines have struck, only to be shot down
by the savage mercenaries of Leguia com
manded by American officers. Year after
year the workers have fought, trying to form
class struggle trade unions, unable yet to
form but the beginnings of a Communist
Party.
Terrorist Government.
Against them Leguia threw every weapon
Of murder AMI darkness. Torture assassina-
ton, Imprisonment, exile, were their portion.
Joined with vile demagogy which inspired the
founding of mutual aid societies" as counter
organization against revolutionary unions. In
1928, shortly before Hoover visited Peru,
hailed by Leguia and his cohorts as their best
friend, Leguia officially announcing that he
regarded the Monroe Doctrine as the charter
Of liberty" for Latin America Leguia decreed
an outrageous claw"
According to this "law," anyone who "prop-
agates ideas against the social order and the
established policy of the republic, or who tries
to change them"-was subject to rs years in
prison. There was, besides, 'aw" which
compelled the poor to work without pay what
ever on public works, and practically all labor
was and remains forced labor, though of course
Matthew VOL will not demand that Peruvian
copper be barred from the u. S. A.
American Press Lies.
One thing all workers should note: that the
capitalist press, which has been filled with
praise for Legua, which has lied endlessly
about how he was slowed" by the people, kept
up lying till the last minute. The N. Y. Times
on Monday morning had an Associated Press
| dsratch headed: Peru Cutbs Revolt; Legua
! at Races with fairy tale beginning Lin !,