The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
We Must Break the New Chains
Roosevelt Has Forged around Haiti!

speech and assemblage, as well as
the right to strike, has been pro-
hibited The dungeons of the Vim
cent government are filled with
revolutionary fighters and members
of the bourgeois liberal opposition.
But this is not ALL The Vincent
government of the big landlords,
and native exploiters, as if to prove
beyond all doubt it's loyalty to Wall
Street, has even gone to the extent
Of denying the Haitian United Front
Scottsboro Committee the right to
collect subscriptions and hold meet
ings in defense of the Scottsboro
boys.
Faithful Henchmen
1t is clear that American i'm
p2rialism can we'll dispense with
the open military dictatorship of
the marines, knowing that its in
terests will be well guarded by its
faithful native henchmen. And to
help its loyal henchmen in carry
ing through the bloody work of
suppression of the masses in the
interests of U. S. imperialism,
Roosevelt has cynically declared his
intention of requesting authority
from the Congress of the U. s. "to
make a gift to Haiti of a portion of
the Marine Corps material which
the Haitian government feels would
be useful to it,"
In addition, while talking Of the
removal of all armed forces from
the island republic, the U. S. gov
eminent will maintain military adj
visers to the reactionary Vincent
government, and naval and air bases
in the country. This is not only
directed against the Haitian peo-
pie, but expresses the aggressive
policy of U. S. Imperialism in South
America and its war moves against
its imperialist rivals, England,
Japan, etc.
Such is the reactionary essence of
this agreement between American
imperialism and its Haitian vassals,
which is hailed as step toward
Ha1tlan independence.
1t is clear that this agreement
will in no way alleviate the misery
and sufferings of the masses of the
Haitian people. American imperial
ism still retains its robber grip upon
the country and its people. The
agreement is a demagogic maneu-
yer by the American imperialist
government and its Seryile native
bourgeois agents to throttle the ris-
ing anti-imperialist movement of
the Haitian people with seeming
concessions, while at the same time
fortifying the position of U. S. i'm
perialism in the country. American
imperialism also hopes by this ges-
ture of "neighborly good will" to
quiet the rising Indignation of the
masses of Caribbean and South
America against its imperialist ag-
gressions and thus to strengthen
its position against its chief i'm
perialist rivals, Great Britain and
Japan. Thus the capitalist press
admits:
IF today's conference bears the
fruit which is expected of it, one
of the last remaining sources of bad
feeling against this country in
Latin America will have been re-
moved, officials here believe"
New Deal SwindIe
Such is the disgusting swindle
which American imperialism and its
Haitian bourgeois lackeys are at
tempting to put over on the Haitian
masses. Against this robbery,
masked as independence, the Cen
trail Committee of the Communist
Party of the U. S. A. calls upon the
Negro and white toilers and all
anti-imperialist elements in the
United States to rally to the de-
Tense of the Haitian masses. The
Roosevelt New DEAL government
of Wall Street bankers, which Is
pillaging and torturing the Haitian
masses, is the same pirate outfit
which under the New Deal pro-
gram is carrying out vicious at
tack on the living standards of the
American masses, cutting wages. de-
nying the right of workers to strike