The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-03
By p. L.

THE general crisis of capitalism
and the deepening of inter-
imperialist rivalries, which increase
tremendously the oppression and
exploitation Of colonial and semi
colonial peoples, are becoming
sharper each day in the Negro Re
public Of the Caribbean, Haiti.
The intervention of the United
States through the armed force of
American Marines (June IA, 1879,
and the rapid penetration of
Yankee commercial enterprises and
OF the National City Bank. bear
witness to the increasing exploit
alton Of the masses; to the growth
OF the plantation system and the
theft of the soil from the poor and
middle farmers by imperialist en-
terprises. Agriculture in Haiti
mainstay of the colony's economy
- has dropped very much since
1929
SEVERE EFFECTS OF CRISIS
The sharp drop in the price of
coffee, cotton and other principal
products of the country, has re-
suited in deficit after deficit in the
budget. An exceptionally sudden
decline in customs receipts has
brought the total national income,
from all sources, to figure con-
siderably below the corresponding
figure of 1930-31.
IMPERIALIST REPRISALs
In April, 1882, there was an
enormous drop in exports, which
was the chief factor in the drop
IN income, directly traceable to the
fact that France, Italy and Eng
land have ceased buying from
Haiti as an act of reprisal against
the policy of American imperial
ism, which raised the Haitian tariff
sky-high in order to maintain it
self as complete master of the do
nestle market.
YANKEE PLUMBER
Besides the $1,559,735 paid to the
National City Bank during the first
seven months of 1881 as annortiza-
ton and interest on a $4,000 900
loan forced OH the Haitian gov
eminent with the connivance of
eX-president Borno, Haiti pays
monthly the sum of 84,7o2.38
gourdeS Ga gourde is equivalent to
20 cents in American currency for
the upkeep of the General Finan-
cial Receiver, an American, and
also pays numerous Yankee Off
cials.
YANKEE TAX LOOT
In order to assure the principal
and interest on loans by the Ma
tional City Bank, the Yankee i'm
perialists, using as a mouthpiece
their Financial Adviser and Gem
eral Customs Receiver of Haiti,
Sidney D. Larue, continue to raise
taxes, thus putting greater burdens
on the masses.
This policy of banditry by Yankee
imperialism, which throws all the
weight Of the crisis on the ex-
plotted masses, is not only sup
ported but carried out by the
bourgeois-iandlord government of
Stenio Vincent, who has served as
President of Haiti since November
1S, 1880.
Vincent rose to power in Haiti
with the direct help Of Yankee
imperialism acting through the
Forbes Senatorial Commission and
the reformist leaders who, headed
by Morton, visited Haiti. This
Morton Commission was supported
by the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
the League for Industrial Demo-
cracy and other organizations of
similar character.
MARINES AND
NATIONAL CITY BANK.
In view Of the fact that the
treaty signed between Haiti and
the United States in 1915 was to
expire in 1896, the imperialists
presented to the Vincent govern
ment another agreement known as
the New Treaty" In it, Wash
ington promised to withdraw it's
marines in December 1884 on con-
dition that peace be maintained
and that regular payments be made
to the National City Bank. But
another article of the New Treaty
provides, despite the promised re-
tirement Of the U. S. Marines, that
they may be reshipped to Haiti at