The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-11
LAW In
CUBA; FIGHTING
BREAKS OUT
Govt Active In Effort
To Smash Strike

To Smash Strike
Severe fighting has broken out in
several parts of Cuba, according 10
cables by capitalist news agencies in
Havana. Bloody Machado, Wall
Street president of Cuba, tool of the
National City Bank and the Wash
ington government, has decreed mar
tial law This permits Machado to
shoot down any worker, student or
member Of the Nationalist opposi-
ton.
There is no detailed news OF the
attempted revoia as Machado, to
cover UP his deeds, has ordered a
strict censorship In this he is ably
assisted by U. S. Ambassador Harry
F. Guggenheim, of the Guggenheim
copper and nitrate trust. Ambassa-
dor Guggenheim refused to say any
thing about the revolt.
Fighting took place in Pinar Del
Rio, Camaguey and Santa Clara
provinces. Many were killed when
the police and soldiers opened fire
with machine gun and rifles against
suspected houses. Machado has at
his command the largest army in the
world, in proportion to the popula-
ton; well armed and well paid mer-
cenaries who live off the fat of the
land while the masses starve.
The revolt, the capitalist news
agencies say, was led by ex-president
Menocal, who is one of the leaders
of the Nationalist. There is nc
doubt that the Nationalist, viewing
the militancy of the workers as ex-
pressed in the street car strike ir
Havana, as well as in the general
strike, attempted to take leadership
Of the growing struggle against Ma
chado and his Wall Street hackers
by half+heartedly starting an armed
insurrection in a few provinces.
In Luyano, a suburb of Havana
three were killed when soldiers at
tackled two factories.
Machado, as is his usual trick, de-
clares everything is quiet But the
New York Times wireless from
Havana states that there is a revo-
lutionary excitement Throughout
Cuba that even Machado's MARTA
law cannot stifle.
BY PEDRO MORALES
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 2 (by malD
This morning, the Havana Electric
Railway Co., began to run stree
cars, manned by inspectors and Of
| flee employees. The company claim
ed to have running 80 cars by clever
O'Clock this morning. There are
large number of cars running thu
streets, but the public does not rid'
on the cars. The public use the bus
ses. Each car has several uniformed
police, and several plain clothe
cops. The Company attempted t.
recruit strike breakers among tn
unemployed Spaniards housed in TIT
flop house "La Purisima," but thes'
refused. None of the strikers ar
scabbing. BY noon, in four differ
ent sections of the city, street car
were stoned by workers, the crow
shouting Down with the strike
breakers (rompe- huelgas)." Numer
Gus arrests were made of striker
and sympathizers. Twenty-six peopl
were arrested today, in connection
with an alleged plot to set fire t
street car. Five conductors an
motormen were arrested, charge
with conspiracy and carrying arms
four of them, Spaniards placed "a
the disposal of the Secretary of tn
Interior, for possible deportation
and the fifth, Cuban, at the dis
4 position of the Military Judge.
The spirit OF the strikers is mil
liant. The opinion of the striker
: was expressed by one OF them
, follows. II have eight children. Be
: tween working for a starvation Wae
e and starving while not WORKING,
: prefer the latter" The constaf
stream of organizations supportir
the Carmen Strike and the 24-hot
i political strike has served to er
y courage, the strikers greatly.
The strikers have consistently n
= fused to see the Secretary of the II
terror, and the National Chief of Pr
lice, since this will result in the Al
rest of the leaders. A struggle
the masses is the line followed, with
y out government arbitration. An al
:, peal to the solidarity and strengt
= of the masses of workers
The Rational Workers Confede
e alton is working in close connectic
It with the Street Carme Strike Con
n mittee, having a representative wit
it them constantly.