The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-06

my and navy, who TOOK contfol
of Havana late last night.
President Carlos de Cespedes re-
signed late yesterday afternoon.
The U. S destroyer MacFaeland
has reached Hpvara harbor, and two
destroyers and a cruiser are on Their
way.
A1p,td Intervention by American
forces appeared imminent as An
bassador Sumner Welles telepaoned
to washington that he exposed
trouble
ARC Reported Resisting
The soldiers, who took control
after dicarming their officers, we're
reported ready to resist lnterfef.C.oll
by force. Members of the Abe, the
apitalist-landlord party, were ic-
ported preparing to attack Camp
Columbia. one of the headquarters Of
the soldiers who seized power. The
ma ority of the Abe is opposed to the
coup. while a radical left wing o.
the ABC is supporting it.
This new stage in the development
of the Cuban revolution reflects the
constantly growing pressure OF the
Cuban masses, whose discomfort
spread to the army after the over
threw of Machado and the coming
to power of de Cespedes brought 10
relief from the sharp exploitation
under which they were suffering.
Strikes and peasant struggles have
been increasing, and the workers
have been raising ever more inSis-
tently the demand for struggle
against American imperialism ana
fer the division of land among the
peasants, white the de Cespedes goy-
crn!nert played the role of p1ppet
to the Wall Street ambassador, Sum-
ner Welles, and attempted to break
the strikes and to use the army
against the workers and peasants.
Make Peace With WeIles
The new regime, however, made its
peace at once with Sumner Welles.
declared that it did not represent
tcThe workers alone" and in its first
proclamation declared for the strict
payment of all Cuba's obligations 10
Wal Street.
The Junta placed in provisional
control by the soldiers and sailors III
cludes Jose Marzarri, a lawyer, who
had drafted plan for the division
of lana among the peasants: Sergio
Calbo, a magazine editor with reyo-
lutionary pretensions; Ramon Grau
san Martin, professor of Havana
University, who had represented the
professor opponents of Machado ia
the United States; Guillermo Poftcla.
a professor of penal law at Havana
University, and Porflrio Franco, a
banker.
The new uprising began at 10 PM
yesterday when the rank and file Of
The garrison at Camp Columbia dis
placed all its officers. imprisoning
some, and then took armed control
of Havana. The soldiers used the
military radio to call on army and
navy detachments in other parts OF
the is.and to follow their lead, and
today the whole of Cuba's armed
forces had displaced its officers and
set up rank and file committees.
The seizure of power was reported
to have been accomplished without
bloodshed, but just before it &C.
Cured soldiers fired into demon
stration of workers, wounding several
children at Santiago de Cuba, after
an army secret service man had killed
Francisco Borde. who had attempted
to arrest him. Three men. one a prl-
vste. were killed when group de-
manded the surrender of Alemsn
victoriano, the secret service man
The new regime has put forward
a program which is an attempt to
satisfy the revolutionary and anti
imperialist demands of the Cuban
masses without carrying through a
revolutionary change in Cuaa. While
pretending to attack American im~
parialism in statements issued as 1t
took power. 1t at the same time PROM
ises to respect obligations to Amer
lean banks. While declaring itself
prepared to settle" the strikes which
have spreSd to every corner of the
island. involving many thousands OF
workers and peasants, it declares IT.
self not to be representative of the
wc"Sers alcre.'
NEW YORK. = the Communi-t
Party hes icsusd call to all Amer
lean workers to lombard President
Roosevelt with protests against thc
sending of warships to CUB, and to
demand that Wall Street imperial-
ism take its hands of Cuba