The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-13

worked to smash the tenants strike
and broke the newsboy5' strike. Its
role is to prevent the Panamanian
masses from carrying on antl-war
struggles and struggles against the
imperialists and the native bourgeois
landlord oppressors, and also to as
sure the willing" participation Of
Panamanian toilers in the imperial
list war as cannon fodder.
Finally, hundreds Of British West
Indian workers have been deported
from the Canal Zone and Panama in
recent months.
The Panamanian bourge ois-land-
lord lackey government is trying to
convince the imperialists that the OPP
pressed Panamanian masses are more
docile and less dangerous. But the
growing struggles under the leader
ship of the Communist Party gives
the lie to these ideas.
Quantities of war material pass
constantly through Panama and the
Canal, for Chile. Peru. Bolivia, Co
lombia, japan. Business is business
for Yankee munition makers; even
though the United States knows that
Japan is preparing for war for do
mination in the Pacific. it willingly
sells war material to japan because
this material is being used today
against the Soviet Union A long list
could be given of such shipments
through the Canal.
Grace Line boats bring munitions
on each trip for Colombia. Peru and
Bolivia. During the past spring it
completed its two-year building pro-
gram, begun and finished during the
years of the crisis, having constructed
four fast 1900 ton ships. The Uni
ted States government granted heavy
subsidies for these in the form Of
mail contracts; and in return. the
ships have been equipped for mount
ing light naval guns and machine
guns, and prepared for transporting
troops Their officers are all mem
bers of the U. S. Naval Reserve.
The conclusions are clear. Panama
and the Canal are among the most
important war zones in the world.
The revolutionary movement in the
| imperialist countries, as well as in the
colonial and semi colonial countries
OF the Caribbean. must give greater
attention to the development of anti
war struggles in this sector.
There should be established anti
war action committees on the docks
of Cristobal, Colon, Balboa and Pa
mama City, winning especially the OPP
pressed and exploited Negro work
ers. These anti-war action commit
tees should make known to the mag
ses every instance of war shipments
should prepare demonstrations and
strike actions Reloading of NUM-
lions offers opportunity for strike ac-
ton. Passing of munitions-laden
ships through the Canal must call for
mass protest demonstrations.
\ Contact should be established be-
tween the anti-war action cop,mit-
! tees of Panama and those of the
countries which shin war materials,
especially of the United States. so as
to coordinate the anti-war fight.
The Accion Communal, the press and
the church, the reformists and the
anarcho-syndicalist leaders of Pam
anna are all united in their hatred
for the Soviet Union. Their resist
ance to the revolutionary movement
is 9 fight against the defense of the
workers fatherland. The revolution
airy movement CT Panama must
undertake the task Of popul-
arizing the achievements of the Sow
let Union and of winning the masses
for its defense against the interview
ZIONIST schemes of the imperialist
rCWers