The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-07

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can Secretary of the Navy, Is
on his way to Cuba on board
the cruiser Indianapolis, after
comforting with President
Roosevelt. Almost all the At
lantic naval forces are converg-
ing on the island.
Twelve hundred marines are
concentrated at Quantico, Va, 1,000
at Haiti and warships in Cuban
waters or on the way carry 745 more.
The destroyer Mcfarland is in
Havana harbor, the destroyer Sturte-
want is at Santiago harbor, the de-
stroyer cambridge is due in Cuban
waters at noon and the cruiser Rich
mond at pm. tomorrow.
The battleship Mississippi and the
destroyer j. Fred Talbot are on their
way.
Marines Ready to Go
All last night, u S. marines were
conVerging on Quantdco from New
York, Philadelphia, Washington,
Portsmouth, Norfolk, Paris Island.
Admiral STANDBY, in command, said
they could reach Cuba in six hours
by air, or in twenty-four hours by
water. The transport Henderson
is ready at Quantico.
This was President Roosevelt's an
sWer to the mass demand of the
Cuban workers and peasants for re-
lief from the crushing oppression Of
the capitalists and Landlords, which
the De Cespedes regime supported.
under orders of U. S. Ambassador
Sumner Welles.
The revolutionary" junta, which
was placed in power by the revolt
of the enlisted men and non-com-
missioned officers of the Cuban
army and navy, is no threat to Wall
Street imperialism.
In one of his first statements,
Sergio Carlo, spokesman for the
junta of five, acting as secretary of
the interior, war, and communica-
tons, announced that his first prob
lem was to restore order.
The mass pressure to which the
coup d'etat was a response, however,
continues to manifest itself in mass
demonstrations throughout the island,
and may be beyond the ability OF
the new leaders to head off. Groups
of workers in many centers have
broken into stores and seized arms.
In Cienfeugos and Cruces, where
Joint Committees of Action have
taken over virtual municipal powers,
workers and peasants have organized
relief for the storm victims, and are
enforcing their demands for wage in
creases and the payment of back pay
to the sugar plantation workers.
While striving to please Ambassa-
dor Welles, and having promised TO
pay all debts to Wall Street, the new
junta issued a demagogic proclama-
ton declaring that it wished to rep
resent all elements in the island.
The capitalist-landlord ABC party,
which was the most powerful els-
ment in the De Cespedes regime, has
declared itself ''yigilantly neutral"
The new junta has promised TO
call an early constituent assembly to
draft a new constitution for the is
land. This will bring to the fore
again the question of recognizing
the Platt amendment, under which
Cuba recognizes the right of the U.
S. government to control its foreign
borrowings, and to intervene as it
sees fit in its domestic affairs.
The junta has divided the admin
istrative functions among its mem
hers ne follows.
War, interior, communications.
Sergio Carlo; secretary of state and
Of Justice, Guillermo Portela: finance,
Porfirio Franco, banker; public works
and agriculture. Jose Irisarri; public
instruction and sanitation, Ramon
Grau San Martin.
Although they declared themselves
sharply opposed to the landing CT
American armed forces, it was made
clear that this opposition would not
take any form of genuine resistance.
There were many indications, how
ever, that certain sections of the
rank and file of the army, and of the
armed workers, particularly in the
interior, we're determined to meet
American armed forces with armed
resistance.
EDITORS NOTE: Through an
accident one word was dropped
from a headline in yesterdays
Daily Worker, so that the state
ment de Cespedes Out; Junta
Takes Power, was made TO read.
incorrectly, de Ccspeies Junta
Takes Power