The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-09
Still MORE
SHIPS SENT
TO ISLAND
Cuban Masses to Re-
sist Landing of U. S.
Marines

NEW YOkk.-WOrkers OF
America swung into organized
action in struggle againsf
American interventiOn~n Cubs
yesterday, as news came that
the American fleet is being dis
tributed to six centers of struey
gle along the Cuban shore.
A mass meeting Of protest WIS
called for tonight, at p. m, IA
Fifth Ave, at 10th ST. Robert Minsr,
j. w. Ford, william Simons and OF =
ers will speak.
A meeting will be held in Brooklyn
tomorrow, Sunday, at 8 pm, at 1s2
Myrtle Ave.
A mass demonstration and picket
line will gather in front of the Fed
eral Building, Broadway at Park
Row, at noon Monday, led by Robert
Minor, Communist Party candidate
for mayor. The Anti-Imperialist
League, and the National Student
League, and the Communist Parry
were the first three organizations %
take leadership Of this demonstra-
ton. An appeal was made that work-
ers pour out In thousands
The -Imperialist League called
a special meeting TO- Monday night,
pm. in it's headquarters, 80 Eass
10th St.
The National Student League cal d
a special meeting for Friday night,
Sept. Is, in its headquarters, 583 9th
Ave. Mike Gold, William Simons,
Frank Ibanez and others will speak.
Hundreds of kilograms of prot. .
have been sent to President Rooss
welt by mass meetings, workers or
CARNATIONS and individuals. An APP
peal was made that thousands m IRE
be sent.
HAVANA, Sept. avail Streets
intervention to crush the Cuban rev.
olution took on still more menacing
aspect tonight as word was received
that warships are being concentrated
at six Cuban ports-Hayana, San
tiago, Puerto Padre, Matanzas, Car
denas andn Antilla.
Secretary of the Navy Claude A.
Swanson arrived in Havana tonight
on the cruiser Indianapolis, and con-
ferred with Ambassador Sumner
Welles.
Blue jackets were reported to have
landed in Santiago and Cienfuegos,
but Immediately went back to their
ships.
Sugar Workers Promise Resistance
The revolutionary sugar workers
union, representing $4,000 workers,
announced that it would take up arms
against any landing of American
troops.
The junta Of five forming tenn
porary government announced It
would form a coalition administra-
ton, taking back certain liberal
members of the De Cespedes govern
ment, through Sergio Carlo, its
spokesman.
The government of Mexico, recog-
nized the new regime. through its
ambassador to Cuba 1t is the only
foreign government which has so lar
recognized it.
Communists Demonstrate
Led by the Communist Party. the
revolutionary unions, the Young Com
munist League and the youth sections
called a two-hour general strike and
paraded through the center of
Havana last night, to mass meet
ing in two parks, where thousands of
workers cheered speakers who de-
nounced the new regime as another
puppet of Wall Street imperialism,
called for continued struggles for the
workers and soldiers economic de-
mands, and raised the slogan of set
ting up workers, peasants, soldiers,
and sailors councils, and working to-.
ward the councils taking power, as
the only force ready to fight Amer
lean Imperialism.
Disarming Attempt Fails
The new governments attempt to
disarm the Cuban workers failed
completely, and it was forced to with
draw it.
Sergeant Fulgencio Bautista, leader
of the soldiers rank and file COM
mittees, was appointed colonel ami
made chief Of staff of the Cub,rs
army, by order of the junta.
Socialists Support Junta
The Socialist Party and the Aprista
(agrarianD Party of Cuba, the latter
led by renegades from the Commu-
mist Party, issued blanket appeals
for support of the new government,
despite the fact that its machine guns
are still mounted to face the head
quarters Of the Havana workers, ami
that it has ordered the arrest Of
workers leaders, and promised 70
pay all Cuba's debts to Wall Strest.
Sergio Carlo, spokesman and lead
er Of the junta. gained his support IN
Cuba by using his paper La Soma ~
to praise the Soviet Union. He has
also written book praising the
Soviet Union.
This is his means of gaining the
sympathy of the Cuban workers who
see in the Soviet Union the example
OF how they can Succeed In their
fight against American imperislfarA