The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-31
World Front
: BY HARRY CANNES
Civil War In Uruguay
Against a Dictator
Struggle for Latin America

Nv" " d III Olug udy
Against a Dictator
Struggle for Latin America
OWL WAR RACES in Uru.
- quay, smallest republic. Of
Latin America. An effort ia
being made to GUST President
Gabriel Terra, who is trying
to install himself as a dictator
in the style of Machado,
former president Of Cuba. Details
of the revolt are lacking, as com.
plete censorship has been clannped
down.
But it appears from the reports
available coming through Argen-
tina that various bourgeois opposi-
ton groups, in view of the growing
mass discomfort, have made great
Roadway in seizing various cities in
the interior. They are now opening
up armed attacks in Montevideo, the
capital The government troops are
reported as unreliable.
President Terra wro was elected to
a four-year term on March l, 1881.
had his rump cabinet modify the
constitution so that he could con-
tinue in power for another four
years, which is supposed to expire
in 1888. He was elected for his sec
ond termy by the Constituent AS
sen1bly on March 81. 1884, with only
four dissenting notes.-the votes Of
the Communist deputies.
URUGUAY is an extremely inn
v portant country for the prosecu-
ton of the imperialist-inspired war
between Paraguay and Bolivia over
the Gran Chaco oil region. There
is not the slightest doubt that both
President Terra and his bourgeois
opponents who seek to set up an
other government, basically not diff
ferent from his, are connected with
the forces involved in the Paraguay
Bolivia war.
Most of the British and Amer
| lean arms going to the warning
Latin American countries pass from
Montevideo into the interior and
then to the belligerent countries.
There has been an intense battle
on between British and Ameri-
can imperialism for control in
Uruguay. British capitalism has
5000, 100000 invested in the coun-
try, with s72,730,000 in railroads,
Wall Street has sunk $81 100000 in
the country The Roosevelt regime
has been striving hard to win this
market away from the British
This tussle has been intensified
| particularly as result of the Para
/ quay Bolivia war, mainly a war Of
the Standard Oil and the British
Dutch Shell for the extremely val-
liable oil regions near Fort Bali
van, Bolivia, and for the right-of-
way to the sea along the Pilnico
river
THE civil war in Uruguay is
symptom of the growing instabil-
ity of native landlord apitalist rule
and imperialist domination through
out Latin America. During the past
five years of crisis there have been
similar uprisings in Argentina,
Chile, Peru, while in Cuba, as well
as in Chile, the fight took on more
of mass character against the
whole structure of native capitalist
landlord and imperialist domination.
The rising strike wave in Brazil,
Mexico, Porto Rico and Cuba are
indications of the mounting resist
ance of the toiling masses to the
miserable conditions now being im-
posed on them after nearly six
years of crisis. The economic crash
hit the colonial agrarian countries
much harder and much earlier than
the imperialist metropolis.
These wars, such as in Paraguay
Bolivia, are spearheads of the brew
ing greater imperialist war through
out the world for a re-division Of
!
drive for world markets. The two
chief centers of the world today. in
this respect, are China and Latin
America. The Roosevelt regime,
through its good neighbor' policy,
has been trying to win over the
various puppet regimes in Latin
America on the side of Wall Street.
THE decay of Naz culture is very
1 well Indicated not only by the
PERCEPTIONS decline in the number
OF newspapers published and their
sinking circulation, but in the NUM-
Der of books published under the
Hitler regime. In 1898, $1,000 books
| were published or re-issued in Ger
many as against $4,000 in 1923, be-
fore Hitler took over power. The
number of translations from for
eign languages, in the same period,
dropped from 750 to 235.
J Even the books issued showed a
great increase in military propa-
ganda and in Fascist Party docu-
ments.
Another item on Nazi culture
The two largest photograph record
firms in Germany. "Lindstroem' and
"Deutscfe Gramophon A, c." re-
ported drop of 100000 and
100000 marks, respectively, in their
business last year.