Evening star., 1933-09-17
Americans Behind
Strikes, Cabinet
Member Says.
MOB SHOUTS FURY
AGAINST WELLES
U. S. Citizens Prepare
to Evacuate Island
in Emergency.

(Copyright, 1888. by the Associated Presso
HAVANA, September 16.-Whlle
thousands marched Havana S
streets late today shouting against
the United States Government
and its Ambassador, Sumner
Welles, the secretary of war and
interior in the Grau San Martin
cabinet accused American business
interests here of seeking the new
governments overthrow.
The secretary, Antonio Guiteras,
charged American and foreign
business interests "are reducing
wages, turning workmen loose and
provoked them to strike"
in a statement urging the work
ing masses" to back the new ad-
ministration
"Workmen induced by American
enterprises are unWisely lending
themselves to the overthrow of
the government" Guiteras' state
ment said.
Mob Shouts Defiance.
Meantime shouts of down with Sum-
ner Welles," down with American in
tervention" and down with Yankee i'm
perialism' were resounding at Havana S
malecon as 5000 Cubans paraded in
tribute to Mexico's recognition of the
Grau San Martin regime.
This demonstration was staged in
front of the Hotel Presidente, where MT.
Welles has resided since moving from
the Hotel National. in which several
hundred former army officers have as
sembled to back their demand that
President Grau San Martin resign
The Ambassador was not in the hotel
at the time.
Guiteras issued his statement just be-
fore leaving the interior department for
the Mexican embassy He warned Cuba's
National Confederation of Labor that
it would be responsible in history for
the backward step the working masses
would take in their battle If America Is
given the pretext to declare interven-
ton" in Cuba.
Asks Aid of Workers.
He urged workers to collaborate with
the new regime so as not to be an IN
strument in the service OF lmperlallst
enterprises" His statement was the
first of an official nature directly charg-
ing American interests with working
against the government.
Interest centered at the same time
on a gathering of Cuba'S important
business interests assembled to consider
resolutions urging the Grau San Martln
regime to step aside in favor OF con
centration government"
This Joint commission Of economic
interests also was reported to be con-
sidering suspending all busines actlVl-
ties to protest acts OF violence oy tne
laboring classes which are competing
employers Ito accept agreements i'm
possible of execution"
Declaring themselves opposed to In
tervention, the business men condemned
the propaganda of enmlty toward the
Government of the United States which
now goes beyond that and is interpreted
as an attack on the American people
They condemned the present admins
tration's appeal for national solidarity,
for which the only reason given was
the possibility of United States inter-
vention.''
Meanwhile Americans in Cuba TOOK
added precautions tonight in the face OF
continued unsettled conditions as the
government of President Grau San
Martin finished its first full week, ha-
rassed by labor conditions and de-
mands for its abdication.
Speculation was rife as to the new
regimes stability or the lack of it.:
The seriousness of the strike situa-
ton throughout the island, in which a
number of Americans were concerned,
occupied official attention. Reports
from the interior were not encouraging.
AT Santiago, where conditions have
been disturbed for some time, American
women left the city and took refuge
across the bay at Puerta Del Sui. The
situation at Cristo, where II Americans
were held virtual prisoners OF striking
Manganese miners for several days, still
was reported tense Cristo is few
miles from Santiago.
It was reliably learned that Ameri-
cans in the Santiago area have worked
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