The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

sions on the Eastern slopes of the Andes and
is striving to penetrate Paraguay.
a serious blow was delivered to the influence
of England by the putsch carried out by the
leaders TO the party of Conservatives General
Uriburu. The English agent, the Radical In
goyen, was overthrown. Iigoyen had refused
to accept loans from the United States and sab
otaged all conferences of the an-American I'm
ion as envisaged by the Kellogg Pact. He tried
to disturb the activities of the STANDARD Oil"
The government had already submitted to the
Chamber bill for the naturalization of prod
uction and trade in naphtha; the naphtha trust,
however, succeeded in shelving this bill in the
Senate where the radicals were in minority.
Uriburu easily yielded to American influence.
He suddenly declared that he would work to-
gether with the United States and the Pan
American Union He had the director of the
Argentine naphtha industry, General Mosconi
arrested.
The change Of dictators, of course did not in
any way tend to aneliorate the economic crisis.
The total capital of the firms which went bank
rupt in the year 1880 amounted to 81 million
dollars as compared with So million dollars In
the year 1928. Up to July 1881, the price Of
wheat dropped As American cents buShel Dur
ing the first six months OF 1881 the value Of
Argentine exports amounted to 800 million gold
pesos as compared with $50 million gold pesos in
1880, and in weight amounted to 81 million tons,
as compared with So million tons in 1880, that
Is to say, the price Of exported products fell
by so per cent. In the same period the income
from customs duties showed a decline of IS mil
lion paper peso. Customs duties represent the
main source of State revenue and their decline
Immediately led to reduction of the wages and
salaries Of civil servants. In order to reduce
1911
ployees the latter declared themselves prepared
to work only 10 days a month. In addition,
they also agreed to so per cent cut in their
already reduced salaries. In spite of this, 10000
civil servants were dismissed.
Uriburu established regime Of white terror.
The Communist Party is prohibited, the Com
munist papers also are destroyed and prohibited,
In the whole of the country arrests and shoot
ings of workers functionaries are on the order
of the day. Communists are being exiled to the
icy dungeons of Terra del Fuego and to the
sWampS of Chaco.
The resistance on the part of workers to the
action of the government is assuming ever
sharper forms. A number of powerful demon
STATIONS Of unemployed have been carried out
In July last RoSsaSco, head of the police in
the Avellaneda district, working class suburb
in Buenos Aires, who took prominent part in
the wholesale Punishment and attacks upon the
workers, was shot down in restaurant. In or
der to cast the responsibility on the Commun-
lists, the reactionary "Prensa" served up afresh
a whole series of old forgeres bearing the sign
allure, the Revolutionary Organization Of Com
munist Soviet in the territory of Argentina
The petty bourgeois organizations which sup
ported Uriburu at the time of the putsch have
in the meantime gone over to the opposition
who helped the dictator to come into power
are now talking of the necessity Of his resign
ing. The fer1nent among the ruined small farm
ers is increasing. Fights between the police and
students are common occurrence. An officers
conspiracy has been discovered in the army
Uriburu, who can no longer trust his troops, has
set up his own private army. "the Argentnian
civil LEGION" numbering $4,000.
The Argentine big landowners encouraged by
outside forces, made an attempt to attribute to
the U.S.S.R. the responsibility for the general
misery and the economic crisis. In the raid on
the "Jush -Amtorg' Uriburu proved himself to
be an apt pupil Of the international gang of
rascals and forgers of the type of Hicks, Hamil-
ton, Fish and their like. Since January the
newspapers and the big landowners organza
tons spread their calumnies about Soviet dump
ing The government rendered every possible
aid in this respect by collecting through its En-
bassies all kinds Of inventions regarding the
"Red Trade Menace"
Nearly 100 employees of the Jush-Amtorg,
among them many women, were thrown into
prison; some Of them we're even beaten. Since
their arrest they have been compelled TO sleep
on the floor, without being able to undress. The
safes in the Jush-Amtorg we're broken open and
the account books we're gone through. OF course
no proof was or could be found OF dumping"