The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-11
Statement of Central Committee
Communist Party, U. s. Al

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Communist Party, U. S. A.
Soon after Roosevelt concluded
his conference on Haiti recently
with President Stenio Vincent OF
Haiti the whole American battle
fleet carried on secret naneuvers
for nine days in the Caribbean Sea
The Negro island Republic of Haiti
was used as one of the war bases
in these maneuvers.
This fact shows the hypocritical
nature of the recent Roosevelt pro-
nouncements about the agreement
to withdraw U. S. marines from
Haiti and to grant Haiti political
and financial independence"
The Roosevelt Vincent agree
ment, which provides for the with
drawal of American marines next
October and intimates that finan-
cial control by Washington will also
end on that date. retains Wall
Street control in an entirely new
and more vicious form.
According to the joint statement
issued by Roosevelt and Vincent at
the conclusion of the conference
Haiti will now be able to look for
ward to it's future with the greatest
confidence"
What is the real meaning behind
these flowery phrases? 1t is clear
that this agreement represents a
continuation of the policy of plum
der and rape of the Haitian masses
by American imperialism. But this
robbery will now be carried through
in a more disguised form.
The Wall Street pirates control the
customs and external revenues of
the country on the basis of the
slave loan forced upon the Haitian
masses in 1915 at the point of the
bayonets of the u. S. marines. This
enables them to exercise a strangle-
hold on the financial and economic
resources of the country. The agree
ment provides that the National
Bank of Haiti, subsidiary OF the
National City Bank of New York
which up to now has handled its
customs-shall now be sold to the
Haitian government.
Thus it would appear that this
bank, an open symbol of imperialist
domination in the country, will no
longer be the property Of Wall
Street, but the property of the
Haitian people.
Adequate Protection"
But Wall Street pirates need have
no fear. The agreement provides
adequate protection for the hold
ers of the $11,000000 of Haitian
bonds still outstanding This means
the continued footing of the Haitian
masses by the bandits of Wall
Street is guaranteed.
1t is clear that the purpose of this
outrageous and disgusting swindle
is to cloak the open robbery of the
Haitian people by American i'm
perialism behind its native bour-
geois puppets-the reactionary Vim
cent government.
The agreement further guaran-
tees the privileged position of Amer
lean Imperialism in its monopoly of
Haiti's economic and financial re-
sources and the continued rape of
the country, under the guise of the
proposed commercial agreement
(which would increase the flow of
goods between the two countries. y
With these guarantees it is clear
that the removal of the marines is
but an empty gesture. The ma
rines have become unnecessary as
the Vincent government of Wall
Street lackeys have proved beyond
doubt their loyalty and utter sub
serviency to the Wall Street mas
tiers. This is shown in the cam
paign of bloody terror carried
through by the reactionary Vincent
government against the rising mass
movement for national indie
pendence. The least expression of
resistance to the imperialist masters
is brutally suppressed. A state OF
siege is still maintained through
out the country. The revolutionary
and oppositional press has been
suppressed. The right of free