The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
On the
World Front
Cuban Storm
Double Barbed Policy
Marines and History
We Made a Pledge
By HARRY CANNES
president Mendieta of
i Cuba has taken over the

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1 Cuba has taken over the
Machado curriculum for the
Cuban universities. Soldiers
become the political profess
sors, and bullets the textbooks. Fol-
lowing May Day, AIendieta's troops.
closely obeying orders from the
American embassy, fired at students
demonstrations in Havana, Santa
Clara and the extreme eastern prov
inve in Oriente. Many students and
workers have been slaughtered by
the Mendieta regime.
Since Sumner Welles, acting for
Roosevelt, the National City Bank
and the Chase National Bank, en-
gineered the presidency of Mem
dieta. the students have been NOV
ing leftward. Ala Izquierda, the
revolutionary students organization,
is rapidly gaining leadership over
the majority of the students. Re-
cent events are driving the students
along the path of the revolutionary
way out for Cuba.
TO block the united front of the
L students with the revolutionary
workers and peasants, under the
leadership of the Communist Party
of Cuba, two forces act sinultane-
ously.
Secretary of Education Jorge Ma
mach threatens more shootings,
greater terror against the students:
I'VE regret" he says, that II
has been necessary to fire on stu
dents. But it is necessary to use
force to preserve public order.
Left wing elements are melting
the students. We shall continue
to use force to cope with any dis
turbances."
Machado filed the graveyards and
fed the sharks with revolutionary
workers and students, to preserve
the public order" which is the
Cuban landlord capitalists way OF
saving the preservation of Wall
Streets investments, netting Amer
lean parasite bankers, bondholders
and landlords a juicy profit of at
least $9O,OoOOOO every year.
DUT the Cuban lackeys Of Wall
ID Street have more than one
arrow to their bow.
DR.. Antonio Guiteras has crawled
from the hole of his retirement since
/ he was busted as Minister of War
and the Interibf 'tast winter in the
short-lived Grau San Martin regime.
He wants to be the insurance policy
of Wall Street by heading any rev.
dictionary uprising in order to be-
head it.
Up to now the slippery Guiteras
/ has been silent. When after May
Day, under the hegemony of the
Cuban proletariat, the Cuban stu
dents marched the road of revolu-
ton, Guiteras suddenly finds his
tongue. He begins to talk blood and
thunder revolution, in order to split
the ranks of the students, workers,
peasants and soldiers.
1--WE are being ruled by the United
States government now through a
weak government" walls Guiteras
who while in power crawled on his
belly before Roosevelt offering his
services against the Communist
Party of Cuba.
What do you want, Antonio, 3
strong government, one that can
successfully end the revolutionary
threat of the exploited Cuban
masses?
At the same time, Guiteras issued
a moutl1ful of slogans for an armed
uprising. Lest anyone misunder-
stand, he added: 1--WE are not COM
munistic in our aims but national
| iStic.'
81 am for depression rather than
American rule" he declares, "and
for armed Intervention if it must
come to that. At least with Amer
lean marines in our streets respon-
sibility in history will not be
shared by Cubans themselves for
whatever happens"
I HAD occasion to speak with Mr..
Guiteras at the Office of the min
istery of the interior in Havana one
night last fall. I think 1 can there
fore take the liberty of continuing
the conversation, in answer to his
latests declarations
DR.. Guiteras, the question is not
prosperity with American imperial
ism or crisis without it. It is either
prosperity, a new life for the great
majority Of the Cuban masses
through a workers and peasants
government, or perpetual crisis with
the continued domination by Wall
Street.
You may be ready to welcome the
American marines SO that historical
responsibility for ruling Cuba can
be more accurately written in the
textbooks of the future, but the
Communist Party of the United
States, as well as their brother par
ties throughout Latin and Central
America, will fight to the last ditch
to keep the armed forces of yankee
imperialist from ever setting foot on
Cuba soil.
You may wish the American ma
rines to land to prevent the red
flag from flying over Cuba with its
guarantee of the end forever of
Wall Street slavery, but all your rev.
. dictionary phrases will not prevent
. the growing united front of all eX-