The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-13
On the
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

COul az cOuS
WHATEVER protests"
w come out of Wall Street
over the Seizure" of the
Cuban Telephone Co., affiliate
of Morgan's International
Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
should be regarded as "for
the record" Senior President Men.
dieta and Colonel Fulgencio Batists
are by no means taking over this
$28, 000, 900 property with the slight
est dreams of conf1scation. The
Cuban army is merely moving into
the premises to manage the work.
ers. The Wall Street puppets in
Cuban expect lot of trouble from
tie workers in the Telephone Com
pany, because these workers went
out on a political strike against
the Mendieta fascist DEGREES.
| III would De embarrassing IOr JLem
at this stage of events in Cuba
to shoot down Cuban workers for a
Morgan concern. The trick is to
move the troops in now, under the
guise of Seizure" and then to shoot
workers down under Cuban man
agemeht, which Mendieta thinks is
more iuStifiable. Then, too, Nor
gans property will be preserved,
and will be handed back to the
imperialists intact, plus charge for
mercenary, strikebreaking duties.
For instance, when the property
was taken over" u. S. ambassador
jefferson Gallery stood by amiably,
declaring he was merely disin~
terested observer" Imagine Nor
CANS agent in semi-colony be-
ing only disinterested observer
when property is being conf1scated!
THE Mendieta government Is
L holding Joaquin Ordoqui, leader
of the Cuban National Confedera~
ton of Labor, the revolutionary
trade union center, in prison, IN
an effort to behead the rising stTug~
giles of the workers.
WE must arouse as tremendous
w and deepgoing campaign for
the release of Comrade Ordoqui as
we did for Comrade Angelo Hern-
don. 1t is up to the American
workers to add their might to the
struggles of the Cuban workers for
the release of this valiant leader
of the Cuban toiling masses.
Funds for Ordoquis defense
should be rushed to the Daily
Worker Immediately. All forms Of
mass demonstrations and protests
should be swiftly developed to de-
mand the freedom of Ordoqui. The
Shiny Mendieta should be made to
listen to the powerful voice of the
American workers. Force him to
free Comrade Ordoqui!
COME interesting details of the il
~ legal work of the Communist
Party of Germany is published in a
recent issue of "Allebenda," one of
the largest bourgeois newspapers in
Sweden. This papers corresponds
ent writes from Germany:
THE Reich is inundated daily
with thousands Of newspapers, PEE
riodicals and pamphlets of an il
legal character These are FREE
quently printed abroad and snug
gled into the county in trunks,
with double bottoms. The prohib-
tied material arrives by rail or
water.
Large quantities of propaganda
material are confiscated daily on
the Franco-German and Belgo-
German borders. Sometimes it is
found sewn into the upholstering
| of the seats and in other unex-
pected places in the trains. Some
times it is brought across the FROM
tier by night, at places where there
are few sentries.
"One of the latest methods is to
fill water-t tight casks with material,
and to float these down the Rhine
from the left to the right bank,
where they are f1shed up by people
expecting them = if they are not
stopped beforehand by agents of
the Gestapo (secret state police.
The illegal propaganda in Ger
many appears to have up-to-da5e
printing machinery at its disposal,
for printed newspapers appear
regularly in Germany.
1.-THE Communist 'Rote Fahne'
appears few times a month in
Berlin in national edition of no
fewer than eight pages, but in
pocket size. Hundreds of thousands
of copies of the Brown Book are
snuggled into Germany, in a min
| iature edition of five by seven
| inches.
"a very special form of Illegal
literature is the printed material
distributed II. the Storm Troops and
Guard Corps, and police formations.
Great efforts are also made for il
legal propaganda in the factories.
The so-called factory elections
were preceded by a general often
sive lasting several weeks, resulting
in an ignominous defeat for the off,
cial candidates of the Labor Front.
Another effective field of propa-
ganda is the billboards, which are
covered with small handbills. It
is difficult tc judge what effect il
legal propaganda on such scale
is likely to have. 1t is bound to be
demoralizing in effect in the course
of time. It is easily comprehensive
that the press is not permitted ia
report on the confiscation of illegal