The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10
SOCIALIST HEADS
IN URUGUAY FOR
BOSS STABILITY
Answer Them at Anti
War Congress on
Feb. 18th


Sharp fighting between
workers and police took place
yesterday in Lima, capital of
Peru, as the tOiling masses stiff
fen their revolutionary resist
ance to being used as cannon
fodder in the governments
drive for a resumption of hos
tilities with Colombia. Similar anti
war demonstrations are occurring on
an increasingly large scale thruout
the country. The government has
clamped down a censorship aimed at
concealing the deep hostility of the
masses to its war plans, and the muir
derous terror with which it is trying
to crush the mass resistance to i'm
perialist war.
5000 Are Jailed.
Over 5000 workers are known to
be in jail, as result of mass arrests
by the police and military during pre-
Ylous anti-war demonstrations.
Among these political prisoners are
the secretary of the Communist
Party of Peru and Is members of its
Central Committee.
The anti-War sentiments are
spreading to the urban petty-bour-
geois masses who are most affected,
next to the starving workers and i'm
poyerished farmers, by the deyastat-
ing crisis and the chaos it has eff
fected in the national economy. Sew
eral groups are reported to have
served notice on President Louis M.
Sanchez Cerror that they will not
tolerate a renewal of the special
levies.
Reached Armed Forces.
Disaffection is also spreading in
the armed forces of Colombia, espe-
cially among the seamen on the huge
flotilla of warships and transports
assembled at Leticia and commanded.
in the main, by officers recruited in
the U. S. with the knowledge and
consent of the Wall st. Government.
The camp of the Uruguayan bour-
geoisie, which has been preparing to
side with Paraguay in the war with
Bolivia, is now split as a result of the
diminishing national receipts and in
creasingly bitter rivalry for control
OF the spoils Of bourgeois govern
ment. The fiercest fight is in the
government camp itself, with the
president leading one group, and the
Senate the other. Preparations are
already under way for civil war, with
the assembling of a force of guerilla
fighters, evidently under the Spon-
Sorship of President Terra.
Socialists for Boss Stability
The Urugayan Socialist leaders are
planning a demonstration at an early
date, but not against the bourgeois
government but for the protection of
capitalist rule; the Socialist leaders
declaring that the quarrel in the
bourgeois camp is threatening the
stability OF the (bomgeois) govern
ment.
Meanwhile, the U. S. and British
imperialistS, who are the main in
stigators of the two undeclared wars
in South America, are manouvering
behind the scenes with sham peace"
proposals; the u. S. operating
through the so-caiied Commission of
Neutral Nations, and the British
through the governments of Chile
and Argentina.
Sharpen War Situation.
The peace" nanouvers are further
sharpening the war situation and
threatening a rapid transition to
eontinent-wide war, with the U. S.
attempting to impose its peace terms
on Peru and Paraguay, and the gov
ernments OF Chile and Argentina pre-
pairing to establish an arms and food
embargo against Bolivia to enforce
the British peace" terms.
The toiling masses of South Amer
lea are answering the war mongers
with revolutionary anti-war actions
and preparations for the South
American anti-War Congress to be
held in Montevideo, Uruguay, begin
ming Feb. %.