The daily worker., 1933-12-16

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demonstrators, killing a member Of
the Young Pioneers.
Scores of union leaders and strik-
ers were arrested, jailed and tortured.
The Communist Party was forced
into illegality.
Still, Welles did not consider the
Grau regime powerful enough to stop
the rising wave of revolutionary
struggle of the toiling masses.
LIE favored Batista. Colonel Bats
II ta," he writes, "is reliable and
shows a strong hand to put stop
to the situation of unrestricted class
agitation which has existed in Cuba
for weeks, However, he has only made
beginning, and it is not possible for
him to try to do more now, as he is
not supported by the extreme radical
clement III the Grau San Martin gov
ernment in his endeavorS."
He says that the main reason he
supports Batista is that Batista Is the
most determined enemy Of Comnu-
nism.
The fact is, Batista was doing this
little murderous service for the Grau
regime.
In the latter part OF September,
some 300 Machado officers moved
into the National Hotel in Havana,
just as Welles moved out. With the
support of Welles, they were prepar-
ing a counter-revolution to oust the
Grau-Batista regime, and establish
one more desirable TO Roosevelt,
Welles and the American bankers. To
obtain this regime which could more
promptly put stop to the situa-
ton of unrestricted class agitation"
welles helped the Machado officers
and the ABC plot an armed uprising.
Defeat Officers
The Grau regime. however, was able
TO defeat the Machado officers.
Again the ABC attempted to seize
power. They captured Atares Fortress
in Havana. They were well armed and
financed. Here we can see the con-
nection between the AItares fortress
uprising and WelleS letter in which
he says:
They (the landlord capitalist
groups opposing the Grau regime)
had SUFFICIENT money or other means.
II they had sufficient arms and am
munition, they would be adequately
prepared to overthrow the present
government. Not for an instant do
they believe that our government Is
supporting in any way the present
! government. At the same time they
know that q revolutionary overthrow
of the present regime would not bring
intervention from US"
The Bankers Scheme
Here We have the scheme of the
whole diabolical maneuyers OF the
bloodthirsty American bankers, repre-
sented by the Roosevelt regime and
its agent Welles, in attempting to re-
| establish another Machado regime
We know that the ABC counter-reyo-
luton finally did get sufficient arms
and finances to begin an uprising.
Where did they get the arms and fl
nances, Mr.. Welles? Isn't 1t a fact,
Mr.. Welles, that you informed them
not only that you are not lending
your moral support" to the Grau
regime, but would use the whole pow
er Of American imperialism to help
the counter-revolutionists should they
seize power?
THE letter by Welles published in
today's Daily Worker Is one of
those rare documents that seldom fall
into the hands Of the workers show
ing up the murderous lengths to
which Imperialism goes in order TO
maintain its colonial domination and
exploitation.
Welles' criticism of the Grau regime
Is based mainly on its weakness in
crushing the working class revolu-
tionary movement. At the same time,
he feels uneasy because Of Grau's left
demagogy. But Grau Is showing in
deeds that he Is worthy successor
Of Machado. He Is mobilizing the un-
employed on the dcrlagogic demand
of 80 per cent Cubans In all places
Of employment, in order to split the
united front of the workers. He uses
the army without hesitation to shoot
down strikers. He Is an implacahlc
enemy of the Communist Party,
bounding and falling It's leaders. Grau
favors capitalist Landlord concen-
tration government, acceptable to
Roosevelt. He favors paying the swol-
len, pilfered American loans. He
promises the American imperialists all
the guarantees they ask for.
Grsu and Marxism
Graus knowledge Of Marxisnn, re-
ferrcd to by Welles, consists in writ
ing scurrilous articles against it.
The Grau regimes attacks against
Welles are only political blackmail.
to force him into negotiations with
them with view to recognition.
Welles was permitted to land In Cuba
after the Grau regime threatened a
demonstration against him. They
never hesitate to answer the call OF
Welles when he talks about mediation
and q concentration government with
the very ABC leaders who led the
counter-revolts.
BY replacing the old Machado off,
GERS and wedding out the rank and
file, tainted with revolutionary lean
ings, 1t is the aim OF Wall Street and
the Roosevelt regime to establish Z
new dictatorship TO replace the pres
ent Grau regime, or to include some
OF its elements in the new govern
ment. To back up this Dictatorship,
Roosevelt Gas he has publicly and
unequtvocally announced his support
Of the Welles policy would Officer
such government military assist
ance."
BY these means, Yankee imperial
ism hopes to stave off the impending
agrarian anti-imperialist revolution in