The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-16
The Fighting
Vets
BY H. E. BRIGGS
HANDS OFF CUBA!

The high spot in the news Iol
veterans this week is the situation IN
Cuba. Tt seems that once on a time
Cuba had an army, whose purpose
was TO terrorize workers and peas
ants, shoot strikers and parade before
Machado. Well, that was long ago,
revolutionary students got rid OF the
butcher Machado, and spoke to the
soldiers and sailors about a thing
called the Glass Struggle. To make
a short story shorter, when the SOL
diers and sailors found out they too
we're workers, strange thing hap
pened. The soldiers kicked out the
generals, the sailors kicked out the
admirals.
And here's where we come in, COM
rades. Every one Of us must get
behind and support the revolutionary
workers of Cuba. We must join some
organization to fight our exploiters.
We must convince the comrades IN
the army and navy they too are
workers and exploited. We must
flood Roosevelt with .telegrams-De-
handing the notification OF the Plat
Amendment, cancellation Of debts to
Wall st. and Hands Off Cuba!
Telling Roosevelt, and Howe,
When the anti-intervention group
went to washington to see Roosevelt
and get his views on Cuba, they were
refused because he was in conference
with MIRA, "the Queen Of Hokum."
When Roosevelt's secretary, Howe,
was asked about the warships IN
Havana harbor, he said, you don't
call those bathtubs dangerous" To
which someone replied, "bathtubs
with ID inch guns make a bloody
splash"
ANY government of the people
that maintains order will be recog-
nized." To the question-what II the
workers seize power? Howe blandiy
remarked that intervention will only
be used to protect illegal" contracts
But the workers will not be. fooled
by this evasive demagogy of protect
ing '1egaT' contracts or American lives
and property. The only legal con-
tracts, lives and property that VIII De
protected. are those belonging to the
parasites and Wall st.
William Patterson asked Howe
why he didn't protect Negro lives
and property in Alabama? Harold
Hickerson, W.ESL. secretary, said
"How about the disabled veterans
their lives and homes are not pro-
tected." Stutterings and vain prom
ises were the only reply to thesi
questions as the delegation left. But
the only way the Negro and white
workers and farmers of the South
, can win protection is through organ
lied mass action, against the cottor
barons and mill bosses. We veterans
are in the same boat. If we 81
around waiting for the American LIE
f gion, THE Veterans of Foreign Wars
{ and the Disabled American Veterans
: to get things done for us we'll p'
5 out of luck. Organize, vets Joir
: the Workers -Servicemen's League
' Fight for the three point program.
Staten Island goes over the TOT
/ again-this time for a new borough
= president. And Harold G.. Keithline
: ex-marine, has the situation well il
. hand. A former member of the VIEW
! his record reads like who's whit
! in the war. 1t starts in Mexico will
the Punitive Expedition Of 1915
! In 1918 we find him with the It'll
U. S. Railway Engineers-the frs
t volunteer outfit to leave N. Y. Ccor'
rect me if I'm wrong. He know!
what fighting means, having beer
2 through the hell Of st. Mihiel
, Muese- Argonne, Cambria and Arras
!, And he is still fighting-this tim'
with the WESL. for the three-poin
program and local relief of $50
month for the two-day a week men
E This includes vets and non-vets
huff said, he gets our vote.
i Blow the bugle, beat the drum
Let the workers know we come
To ioin them in their struggle for
The fight against Imperialist War
Post 1911, WE,SL. is organizing
new bugle and drum corps. All vet
+ are invited to join up. Real in
structors will be on hand to teach
) those who would like to learn how tt
play. This is a very important par
of a veterans outfit, SO join RICH
away. 1 understand Post No. l j
also lining up vets for this work
Their star bugler has returned from
cross country trip and will sool
be instructing again. Alta boy, Tom
The first reunion since armistlc
will soon be held by the psychologist
: of the A.E.F.. in Chicago. The EN-
inent doctors who insulted the in
telligence of two million vets b
rating them an average of a 12-yea
child will find the ex-servicenae
have learned q lot about war and tn
: tricks of capitalists since the las
. slaughter. DR.. Paynter heads tn
group who worked at raising tn
&c morale" of the soldiers with choru
: girls. Y.MCA. pansies and tearfl
) songs about home and mother. TIL
q next time the rank and file vets al
I asked to shoulder arms to fight fc
!. Wall Street they'll raise hell with tn
tnhoney psychologists.