The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-11

the liberal party, which he
controls, asked him to do so.
HAVANA, Aug. 10. = De-
spite martial law and shoot
ings the general strike in Cuba
is spreading, entering a stage
of violent resistance to Mach
ADDS bloody rule.
In this situation Wall Street Am
bassador Welles has insisted on a
meeting of the National Executive
Committee of Machado's Liberal Par
ty to consider Machado's withdrawal.
Ambassador Welles proposes that
Machado, together with the landlord
bourgeois opposition, choose q pres
ident to succeed Machado in order to
allay revolutionary struggles in Cuba.
Meanwhile Roosevelt is preparing
armed intervention to insure Wall
Streets policy and to smash the
strike.
Welles is attempting to split the
forces in Machado's ranks, drawing
them over to the support Of the OPP
position and setting up a president
little different from Machado. With
this accomplished, Yankee imperial
ism would then proceed to attempt
to crush the general strike where
Machado failed
Meanwhile, the few workers who
still remained at work up until today
are out.
Several bombs exploded in Havana
today In Santiago the military au-
thorities failed in their efforts to
force shopkeepers to reopen their
stores.
The general strike has cut off the
city's supply of food. Army trucks
are beginning to bring in food sup
plying only the supporters of Ma
chado and to feed Machado's gun
men.
NEW YORK. - War vets, many
who fought in Cuba In the Spanish
American war. today sent a protest
to Machado and President Roosevelt
against the slaughter of Cuban work
ers, and against Wall Street inter-
vention.
A letter signed by H. Hickerson,
for the National Executive Commit
tee, Of the Workers Ex-Servicemens
League, addressed to Machado and
Roosevelt. readc, in part, as follows:
TN the name of thousands of ex-
servicemen In the United States. and
especially in the name Of the Span
ish-American War Veterans, who
fought for the freedom of Cuba from
Spanish oppression, but who now see
that Cuba is under an intensified OPP
preston of both the Cuban exploit
ing-class and the American impe-
rialists, the Workers Ex-Seryicemeu's
League strenuously protests the mas
sacre of scores of Cubans, who were
celebrating the premature report OF
the resignation of President Ma
chado, thereby demonstrating their
long-suppressed opposition to his
brutal regime.
NEW YORK.-The New York Dis
trict Committee of the Communist
Party has issued the following state
ment today in support of the Cuban
Conference called by the Anti-Im-
perialist League for Webster Hall
Wednesday, August Is, at 8 pm.
The general strike of the Cuban
working class is of tremendous Sig
nificance for the workers Of the Uni
ted States and particularly for the
workers OF New York City.
1--WE should help the revolution.
airy movement in Cuba in their at
tempt to develop and deepen the
present struggle. We call on all or
CARNATIONS. Of workers, farmers
students and intellectuals TO be re-
presented at the Cuban Conferences
on August 16 We invite individuals
also.
The national provisional commit
tee of Jewish Workers Clubs has IS
sued call to all its members to
participate in the conference, and for
an It's afnliated organizations to
sleot Delegates.