Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-12-20
COMMUNISTS ACTIVE IN CUBAN TROUBLE

Some of the recent trouble III Cuba was due to COM
munist influence, according to Walter L. Reynolds, secre-
tary to Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr, who writes in
terestingly on the subject in the current issue of the Ma
tional Republic, under the caption, 'Moscow's Hand in
Cuba BY way of beginning his article, Mr.. Reynolds
says:
"A year ago the drive of the Communist International
for world revolution was centered in Germany. Most of
its best trained available revolutionary forces were then
concentrated there in an effort to win Germany to COM
munism and add that nation to the World Union of Sow
let Socialist Republics under the control of Moscow. But
for the patriotism of the vast majority of the German peo-I
pie, who finally became fully aroused to the situation with
which they were confronted, it is possible the Reds would
have succeeded. Communism, which had grown to a force
of over five million in Germany, was repulsed, however,
and has since been stamped out or driven underground in
considerable disorder, many of its agents taking refuge in
France, Moscow and Great Britain.
"A new front of the so-caled proletarian revolution
has now developed-in Cuba-where the communists, or
ganized and led chiefly by their Anti-Imperialist League,
with headquarters in New York City, a branch of the Red
international, have begun another desperate struggle to
carry on In Cuba from where they were forced to leave off
In Germany. The communist revolutionary movement al
ways thrives where conditions such as exist in Cuba per-
NIT them to stir up discomfort, leading to strikes, riots
and bloodshed. The Anti-Imperialist League has been
preparing the way for the active revolutionary movement
over the past five years, in accordance with instructions
from Moscow, illustrated by the following extract from
the program of the Communist International adopted at
its Sixth World Congress:
go When the ruling classes are disorganized, the
masses in a state of revolutionary ferment, when the mid
Gle classes incline to join the proletariat and the masses
have shown themselves ready to fight and make sacri-
fices, it is the task Of the proletarian party to lead the
masses in a frontal attack against the bourgeois state
This will be attained by the propagation Of gradually in
tensified slogans and by the organization of mass action.
"'Such mass action includes strikes, strikes in connec-
ton with demonstrations, strikes in connection with
armed demonstrations, and finally, the general strike
combined with the armed rising against the government
authority OF the bourgeoisie. This highest form of the
struggle follows the rules of warfare, and necessitates, as
a preliminary plan of campaign, an offensive character in
the fighting and unlimited devotion and heroism on the
part Of the proletariat.
''In Cuba the unsettled conditions, unstable govern
ment and fractional discomfort have afforded a fertile
ground for the fermentation Of revolution, and the com
munists have seized the opportunity afforded to ply their
trade of murder, sabotage and civil war. The strike stage
was passed during the Machado regime, and the highest
form of the struggle is ready to follow. Since their re-
cent decisive defeat in Germany, the communists cannot
afford another such failure in Cuba. The workers of the
world have been promised by the soviets ever since the
Russian revolution some definite accomplishment to-
ward the establishment of a World Union of Soviet Soc
ialst Republics and Cuba, they believe, now offers the
best immediate opportunity. Then, too, sovietizing Cuba
would permit the establishment of a perfect base on the
Western Hemisphere for the dissemination of their revo-
lutionary propaganda in the United States, Panama and
all Latin America"
Remember the good old days when the average farmer
was too busy in the fall cleaning up his fence rows to go
on a strike?
There are a lot of comedians on the radio now but none
of them are as funny as the fellows who recite the radio
advertising.
A woman writing to the editor Of a Washington paper
wants to know how she can escape being hit by automo-
bnes. That's an easy one. Stay at home on the front
porch.
Maybe, if other remedies fail, the Brain Trust will
come around to the idea that after all what Uncle Sam
needs is the gold cure.