The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

The government was providing spe-
ctal trains to bring demonstrators
from the interior, he declared.
Especial to the Daily Worker
HAVANA, Dec. 20.--On the day the
American workers delegation to Cuba
was arrested, the government an
nounced that there had occurred q
change" in policy Of the govern
nent. Guiteras, its present spokes-
men, said, "the revolution begins to-
day" Welles mad left, and Caffery
was coming.
The outward gIlise OF the govern
ment's policy has changed. Welles.
on his return from Washington had
worked hard to build coalition bloc
of the Cuban landlord capitalists to
take over the government. Guiteras
realized that such change would
Immediately unmask the government
before the masses. He knew the
workers and peasants struggles would
increase. He feared the onward march
OF the agrarian anti-imperialist revo-
luton.
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More conscious than Welles of this
real relation of class forces In Cuba,
he decided on policy of apparent
hostility to imperialism, the moro
easily to carry on reactionary deeds
behind this policy.
With the declaration that "the rev.
olution begins today" he signed an
amnesty for more than 400 inpris-
oned workers. At the same time,
more troops were sent into the in
terror to quell a wave Of sugar plan
tation strikes.
In Santiago de Cuba soldiers broke
the strike of the 5-and-10-cent store
girls. In Havana they helped the
American electric light company shut
off electricity of those who refused
to pay the exhorbitant bills.
Mills Throw Thousands Out OF Work
Side by side with the government
preparations against the workers goes
on the intensification of the strug-
gle Of the sugar companies. The
Cuban Cane Co, to take just one
example, has shut down the Chaparra
and Delicias Centrals, throwing thou
sands~out of work, closing hospitals.
light and water plants,
Such is the "leftward' turn. More
and more OF the methods of Hitler
are being used. More have b. en-
Jailed and killed already by this gov
eminent than under Machado. Be-
ginning with the arrest of workers
and peasants, the police and army are
now going over to the arrest OF STU
dents as well.
Borrows Hitler's Methods
The compulsory urionization laws,
the Contamination employment laws,
prohibition Of strikes, and compul-
sorry arbitration, the 8-hour day law
with teeth In it which prohibits
strikes, the laws prohibiting attacks
on scabs-even the law against usury
all have been borrowed from Hit
ler's handbook.
Among the peasants, Guiteras is be-.
ginning to stir. He has announced
plan for 10000 caballerias Of govern
ment land for collective cultivation
Gas the Soviet Union has found it
more advantageous among 10000
PCcodlAU ldlllllCc, WILL HOVCIuIlGllU
support for a period. Many other
schemes are being talked of. But all
the government has actually achieved
is the handing of jobs to few hum
dred petty officials, thus increasing
the government bureaucracy, swelling
the government payroll, driving the
whole financial system of Cuba to q
crash. These jobs, however. bring it e
measure Of petty-bourgeois support,
but loads heavier burdens on the
workers.
Recruiting Fascists from Unemployed
However, the government has made
the best OF its opportunities among the
unemployed. Here the activities of the
revolutionary working class movement
has been nil. In the general strike
movement, and the following strug-
giles, all workers gained something ex-
cept the unemployed. Workers gained
pay increases. Soldiers rid themselves
of tyrani1ical officers. Students forced
schools to open. But the unemployed
were left without work or relief The
Grau regime jumped into the situa-
ton, and with the chauvinistic de-
mand of SO to 80 per cent Cubans III
al Jobs, won over the native Cuban
unemployed.
Moves 10 Initiate Currency
Meanwhile, the position of the gov
eminent grows more unstable and the
perspective of increased economic and
financial crisis greater. Wages for De-
cember cannot be paid. The govern
ment proposes issuing 100000 In
inflated currency opening the way for
lowering the already miserable living
standards of the Cuban masses.
The question OF. the stability of the
government. also depends on the work
of the Communist Party, the Young
Communist, League. and the revolu-
tionary trade unions. If these Sue
coed in intensifying their work, the
government will not be able to con-
solidate its position and fasten a new
capitalist-landlord dictatorship over
the workers.
The so-called "Bolshevik- feminist,
Party of Cuba, made up of cliques ex-
PEELED, from the Communist Party as
renegades, led by Junco, has stated
thet the government is a government
of the petty -bourgeoisie combating
imperialism, with the only alternative
a government by the ABC, which will
be a fascist one. This position, which
leads the renegades to support the
Grau- Guiteras- Batista government, Is
analogous to the support of the Hin
denburg- Won Papen government by
the German Social Democrats.
1t is the position Of the Communist
Party Of Cuba that both this govern