The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 5, 1930, Page 1

— —-* A> Wh — A Sits RO <vete - Kins Set TLL tnt Dressmakers! The Bosses Are Locking You Out to Drive You Into the ILGW Company Union and Wage Cuts and Speed-Up! Elect Rank and File Committees; Take Over the Struggle and Fight! Baily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act o f March 3, 1879. Worker EDI FINAL CITY TION Vol. VI., No. 286 Company. Inc, 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y. Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing —=®: NEW YORK, WEDNES SUBSCRIPTION RATE) In New York by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside New York, by mail $6.00 per year. Price 3 Cent: Capitalists Revive War | “Emergency” Measures Against Workers The unemployed workers’, demonstration at Pontiac, Mich., is met by the revival of the so-called “criminal syndicalist” law. The “criminal syndicalist” laws were originally passed in Michigan and many other states as a so-called “emergency” measure for the pe- riod of the world war. its intent was to act as a means of suppression of the working class in war time with more bestial cruelty than was provided for under the ordinary, non-emergency laws. The revival of this law now and the arrest of a number of workers under it is an in- dication of the general trend of the capitalist class’ efforts to suppress the revolutionary movement throughout, not only Michigan, but the whole’ United States, in the immediate future. Again it is in prepara- tion for the conving imperalist war. Why the revival-of these emergency measures? Because the cap- italist class recognizes that thee present colossal crisis in American cap- italist economy, with more than six million workers unemployed, con- stitutes an emergency for the capitalist system which can very well have consequences as deep as the results of the crisis of 1914-1918. The | capitalist class wishes to throw the burden of ¢he erisis onto the shoul- | ders of the working class. It knows it will need,such measures to sup- press the workers, so as to feel secure in precipitating the new im- perialist war that Hoover and Stimson are preparing for. | i} | | The American workers can not lie down under this vicious pro- cedure under which workers can be given long sentences in prison with no further proof than their opinions or membership in a militant labor organization. The six million and more unemployed workers are not going to lie down and starve because of any brutal laws that the cap- italist class may undertake to apply. Every honest, class-conscious worker in the United States must answer this reactionary move with more militancy, more activity, more organization of the revolutionary trade unions and of the unemployed masses. The fact that the law is directed in the first place against the Communist Party, which leads the workers in these struggles, is a guarantee that the law is intended to crush the unemployed movement and whip the workers back into helpless, disorganized starvation outside of the shops with unbearable speed-up and wage-cuts within the shops. Fight the criminal syndicalist laws in Michigan and everywhere else! Fight every inch of the way against all efforts to suppress the workers in this. economic crisis! Answer this attack by joining the Communist Party upon which the workers depend to lead the struggle. x | | { Bosses Get Billions---Workers Get Unemployment and Starvation The figures of the internal revenue bureau of the United States government disclose the fact that during the year ending with August 1, 1929, the taxable income of American capitalism increased by $2,- 053,000,000. This gigantic rise in the income of American capitalism during the.last year took place simultaneously with the growth of un- employment, speed-up and increased wage-cuts and the general worsen- ing of the conditions of the American workers. In cqmparing the con- tinuous worsening conditions of the American workers with the rise of income of American capitalism, the workers must remember that this report deals only with the taxable income of American capitalism. The reat income of American capitalism is much larger than is reported in government statistics, and the real income is not being disclosed: The bosses do not report their full profits—the wealth they Squeeze out of the labor of the workers. However, even those figures reported present an interesting picture about which every worker should-think and draw the proper conclusions. The report informs us that the number of capitalists. with an in- come of one million dollars a year and above that sum, increased to 496. This represents 206 persons receiving $1,000,000 per year (and above) more than in the preceding year, 1928, Twenty-four capi- talists reported an income of $6,000,000 each, compared with eleven in the*year before. From its parasitic existence, frem clipping cou- pons and speculating on the stock market, capitalism derived a profit of four thousand seven hundred eight-six million dollars, which repre- sents nearly two billion dollars above the preceding year. The question every workereshould consider now is, how do the bosses succeed in making so many billions of dollars in profit; who created this wealth for the bosses? While we see the wealth of the bosses,growing, what did the workers gain during last year? The an- | swer to this is simple. The workers during last year gained nothing. On the contrary, they were heavy losers. More workers today than | ever before are walking the streets looking for jobs. Millions of work- ers and their families are starving. Those who are working, are forced to speed up, to produce many times more than before for less wages. They are forced to accept more wage cuts and more capitalist ra- tionalization. Millions of workers today are thrown out of their jobs becau8e they are unable to stand the strain of the speed-up system. Factories, mines and mills, and the civil service, announce “Workers above forty need not apply.” In other words, when a worker reaches forty, he is no longer a useful member of capitalist society and thrown on the scrap-heap of the capitalist system of exploitation and op- Pression, It is from exploitation that the bosses derive their income. It is from the unpaid labor of the workers that the bosses make their billions of dollars. It is on the misery, starvation and unemployment of the millions of workers that the bosses live in wealth and luxury. In the past year of prosperity for the bosses, every attempt of the workers to resist the capitalist attack and figat for better conditions ‘Was met with an iron fist on the part of the bgsses, the government, and their allies, the socialist party and the American Federation of Labor. This year of increased billions of dollars of wealth created by the labor of workers was also a year of sharp offensive attack upon the working class, an offensive which is definitely manifesting tendencies to fascism, as exemplified by the Gastonia struggle, the Illinois miners’ strike, ete. At the same time, while the government is doing everything in its power to help the bosses to get out of the crisis, millions of unem- ployed are starving without receiving any unemployment relief. Be- sides the. $160,000,000 cut in taxes which the government gave as a | present to the bosses, we also see that in New York City the bosses’ courts decided to refund to the Public National Bank $13,000,000 of taxes paid in the last three or four years, The workers here must re- member that the group of capitalists litted in the report of the In- ternal Revenue Bureau who had an income of $1,000,000 and more each, paid in taxes only 18 per cent of the amount they reported, not considering the millions they concealed. The net income, of corpora- tions for last year, which represented $1,469,000,000 above the preced- ‘ing year, paid in taxes only 11 per cent of, the income reported. - Here again the workers must remember that while the unem- ployed are starving without any relief, the government is spending 7§.cents out of every dollar it appropriated in its budget fér the year 1930-1931 for war purposes, For the unemployed and employed workers there is no other evay out but to take up the unemployed demands of the Trade Union Unity League—for unemployed relief to be paid for by the bosses and the government and administered by the workers. The figures of the In- ternal Revenue Bureau disclosed the long-known truth that the bulk of the taxes and the burden of the government expenses is not paid through the taxes of American capitalism but by the American masses, We must fight against the speed-up system and capitalist rationaliza- tion, In order to fight for these demands more effectively, the Ameri- can workers must prepare energetically for the unemployed demon- strations which should reach their climax toward the end of this \ month. Through these demonstrations the American workers, together | with the workers of the entire world, will bring out the destitute con- dition of the unemployed and mobilising in the struggle against capi- | | | | i | | | { ' | '5 East Indians’ On Bail; They Saw Alli Killed PATERSON, N. J., Feb. 4.—Five | East Indian workers held as mate- | CZARIST GEN, KOUTEPOFF OFF AY, FEBRUARY 5, 1930 “TAKE CONTROL 5,000 DEMONSTRATE AT CLEVELAND FOR OF STRUGGLE” WORK OR WAGES: DETROIT MEETINGS TO SAYS NAT.WALU, TO SO, AMERICA Izvestia Says White Guard Fled With Money sts Want War Red Army, Workers Everywhere Are Ready (Wireless By Inprecorr) MOSCOW, Feb. 4.—The organ of the Soviet Government, the “Izves- tia,’ reports that it has reliable in- formation from Czarist White Guard circles showing that General Koutie- poff, who disappeared from Paris recently and whose disappearance has been used by enemies of the Soviet in France particularly to at- tack the Soviet Union and demand a break of Franco-Soviet relations, is not “kidnapped,” but retired. vol- untarily from the political arena, because he realized that his replace- ment as head of the White Guard military organization was inevitable. Koutiepoff left»Paris on Jan. 26 for South America, taking with him a large sum of money. . The sole aim Imperiali | of the present campaign of the capi- talist and “socialist” press, is to make a big anti-Soviet propaganda out of the incident. * * French Imperialists Cry For Break. PARIS, Feb. 4.—As part ofethe plans for an attack on the Soviet Union actively being prepared by (Continued on Page Two) INDIAN RAIL ° WORKERS STRIKE Demand More Wages; Less Hours BOMBAY, India, Feb. 4.—Work- ers on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway struck this morning de- manding increaséd wages, a reduc- tion in hours, abolition of race dis- crimination and non-victimization of union officials. A large number of the 125,000 workers struck. Originally the | strike was arranged for one day, but the union officials stated that the strike would last until the demands are granted. This is one of a series of militant strikes that have been swéeping through India. “Hasten Frame-Up of Potash, Winogradsky;” Is Plea of Right Wing ‘She frame up trial of Potash and Winogradsky, Needle Trades Work- jers Industrial Union militants, was postponed yesterday until Monday, against the best judgment of the In- ternational Ladies Garment Work- ers’ officials, and because. of a dif- ference over tactics with the prose- cutor. A company union agent named Plitt was heard arguing with Assist- ‘ant District Attorney Alexander in the court room, Alexander was always a tool of the right wing. Plitt was saying the trial must be speeded. He doesn’t want Potash and Winogradsky telling the locked out workers the facts about the LL.G.W. “Alexander said, “Alright, you’re thinking of your strike, but you also ought to be interested in win- ning this case. If it is’ postponed I got it fixed so I’ll try the case.” Wants Higher Pay for | Auburn Prison Thugs) AUBURN, N. Y., Feb. 4.—John L. Hoffman, new Warden of the rotten Auburn pen, discussing the jail conditions today, after testify- ing to help the legal murder of six of the prisoners *who revolted in December, said thas the guards rial witnesses in the murder of John Alli, member of the National Textile Workers Union and the In- tern&tional Labor Defense, killed by agents instigated by the British ; government in co-operation with United States authorities, were bailed out today at a preliminary hearing in Paterson, by the New York district of the International Labor Defense. They are Abdul Wakid, secretary of the Hindu LL.D. branch here; Mohammed who chased the murderers with a hammer, and one other. and $1,000. bail. These workers, workers, were, of course, the first to be arrested by the authorities. The murderers are still free and are being “sought” by the Paterson authorities who refuse to arrest Abdul Tahid, leader of a gang of detectives, murderers and black- mailers working directly under the British consulate and. in co-opera- tiow with the Paterson dye house employers and the U. S. Department (Continued on Page Two) LONDON NAVAL " MEET SECRET Conspiracy Aided By Capitalist Press «LONDON, Feb. 4.—The first thing to hammer home about the so-called Naval Conference, is that —after the first session opened by King George—the whole conference “went underground” at Secretary Stimson’s suggestion, and has since been ‘hidden completely from public eye and ear, There are no “cpnfer- ence meetings” such as the whole world conceivés are being held, with the delegates of the five nations parked arourid a hall open to the press and public. Far from it! Secretary Stimson, day he left New York against “se- cret diplomacy” and “intrigue” was the very chap who proposed it and is simply wallowing in secret dip- lomacy, using the prostitute capi- talist press of the United States to keep the papers filled with inter- views with this or that diplomat, and skillful propaganda such as that put over by Edwin James of the N. Y. Times who ought to be on the State Department payroll if he isn’t fow. But as for a conference, there isn’t any! There are delegations, and the heads of the delegations hurry here and there holding “pri- vate conversations” with one another behind locked doors, and each dele- gation has a “spokesman” who ladles out carefully worded “inter- views” as to what his particular gang thinks ought to be done—but there is no,“conference,” though it might be and should be called a “conspiracy.” The American delegation put out @ propaganda blast Monday, against the proposal, made in secret of course, that there be “political guar- antees” to back up the Kellogg Pact. France, particularly, it is said, wants all the five nations present, to sign a pledge to oppose—or not to aid—any “aggressor” which vio- lates the Kellogg Pact. This is pwtting America in a hole, since the demands of its imperialist interests will’ probably compel it to assume the aggressive, most likely, in the coming war between the im- perialist powers, as America wants the colonies: and markets held by others, especially England. And while America has no hesitation in being aggressive, it does not want to appear so openly. ~ Thus also, the rejection of the tricky proposal of England to “abol- ish” battleships, finds American im- periflism decidedly unwilling and embarrassed; England of course, de- (Continued on Page Three) Alli; Figel Alli; and Abdul Karin, | They were released under $500; fridhds of Alli and militant textile } who made such a lovely speech the| Industrial Union Hope} of Locked Out Needle Trades Workers Mass Meet Thursday | All Militants Called to) 181 W. 28th St. Today BULLETIN Governor Roosevelt yesterday rushed to do his part in the fake strike. He called a meeting of the heads of the three employers or- ganizations and Schlesinger, with |. Lieut.-Governor Lehman to take the chairmanship, for Friday | afternoon. This meeting provides | the official seal of the state for the agreement to company union- ize the dressmaking trade—an | agreement already written by | bosses and fakers before the “strike” was called. “On the street as a result of the Schlesinger - employers’ - police fake strike! Elect a rank and file com- mittee on the basis of the shops and take control of your struggle! Fight for’shop settlements on the basis of the demands of the Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union and under its leadership!” says a statement of | the Industrial Union to the locked out dressmakers here. The statement calls on all the dressmakers to repudiate the leader- ship of the International Ladies Garment Workers, the bureaucratic agents of the bosses who are trying | to inflict their company union on the dressmakers. The Industrial Union is fighting and calling on the locked out workers to assist in spreading the campaign to organize the unorganized in every shop in | the dress industry—and to organize them in their own union, the ‘Needle Trades Workers Industrial. Union, not in the company union called the (Continued on Page Two) 'HOOVER PRAISES | | RULE IN HAITI Only Mass Uprising Will Free Haiti WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Presi- dent Hoover took the occasion of the passage of the $50,000 approp- riation for a Commission to “inves- tigate” the Haitian situation, to praise the murderous activity of the U. S. marines in Haiti. . Hoover glorified the imperialist service of the American high com- missioner in Haiti, General John H. Russell. Russell was responsible for the murder of over 200 Haitians in the revolt which took place sev- eral months ago. 4 While hypocritically stating that “certainly we shall withdraw our marines and officials sometime,” Hoover declared. “I am informed that every group in Haiti considers that such action would result in dis- aster to the Haitian people,” and therefore that U. S. imperialism proposed to maintain its military dictatorship. “Every group” in Hooverian lan- guage means none other than the group controlled by the ‘American high commissioner, which includes President Louis Borno and his offi- cial family of parasites. American marines will leave Haiti only when forced to do so by the masses of Haitian peope. Ufider the 1915 treaty which was forced on the Haitian masses after the mur- der -of over 2,500 Haitian’ rebels, Wall Street is given virtual control of that country until 1936, The Hoover commission has for its pur- poses the working out means of re- taining Haiti under marine rule after 1936. | CRISIS COMPELS | not accept this as final, but with the} RALLY WORKERS AGAINST BOSS ATTACKS | | | WORKERS’ UNITY Join War on Speed-Up,) Wage-Cuts, Discharge From all sources reports flock in that unemployment is continuing to} grow. A dispatch to the Journal of} Commerce from (Feb. 2 says that thera is “an increased number of* jobless workers on the} streets.” Workers laid off should} Chicago aid of the Unemployed Councils} Gastonia Defendant Again Ar formed by the Trade Union Unity! jested for Leading Unemployed at League, should return to the factory) pontiac Mich., and With Others Be ee Pay stucnes On) toa) OD OOt indeed ayaini Crna Opnat- common demands against the speed- Be ete ea ee up, wage cuts and for unemployment| célism,” With Possible Sentence of relief. Ten Yea % Even though the steel bosses are|7 raising their production somewhat, they are introducing new speed up methods and are employing less workers for their increased output. The same issue of the Journal of Commerce says: “While the output in the Chicago steel mills has in-| creased more than 7 per cent in the! past ten days, the number of work- and Talk Everywhere About “Revolution” While Washington officials of the Treasury Department remind, the | over workers in the Soviet Union.” The importance of an understand- jing of this plan, which has set the '40,000 Millionaires |nomic Plan of Socialist Construction | ers has only moved up 3 percent.” 6,000,000 jobless The outlook for the workers in the|tramping the streets, that there are building and automobile industry! two billionaires and about 40,000 foresees more unemployment. Build-| mijlionaires, according to the statis- Beisciaaranae tciew Pe ygoa,|tics on incomes for 1928, the mile The automobile industry is running, lions of unemployed are left to at less than 50 per cent of the aver-| starve by the government of cap- age capacity of Jast year. itali by capitali8ts and for cap- An indication of the severe c itali of American capitalism is given by| An instance of how the workers, the large number of business fail-| hitherto untouched by “dangerous ares for January. | thoughts” are beginning to speak in The number was 2,759 with a total terms of revolution, is seen in the (Continued on Page Three) following letter from A. S., who has —_—_— * \been trying to make a living can- vassing from house to house in Jack- BUILDING BOSSES sonville, Florida: | “Enclosed find my last dollar |from the $16.82 I made by can- vassing in the last three months, and just lost my job at that. | “Kindly mail me some pamphlets yey prery Worker Should Join the cee: ommunist Party’ The times here Plasterers Demand Not 7: hard, no work whatsoever’ and Aided by Council _ prospects are for the worst. Every- ¢ ° where I go, people say: ‘What are The building trades employers| We going to do? Something will have, rejected the very mild demand happen! We will sure have a revo- of Plasterers’ Local 60 of the Oper- | lution! . I am astonished to hear ative Plasterers and Cement Finish- | Such things from people you would ers’ International Association for a| ever think know anything about six hour day as a temporary relief | '¢volution. for the more than 50 per cent unem- ployed workers in the industry. {Foster to Speak on Last December, the rank and file) guys - of the union, shocked at the terrific) “Five - Year Plan”; unemployment, won the unanimous | approval of the local membership to | Back from U.S. S. R. Wiens the contrattons “and.” (ke William Z. Foster, general’ secre- Building Trades Council with a six- itt of the Trade Union Unity hour day proposal. (ceenes suet pare trom at exienied Cbunedl ‘Betrave: trip in the Union of Socialist Soviet The Building Trades Council, anx.| Republics, will’ speak at Central jous to cooperate with the bosses, is | VPeT ones ay 8p Mm. Wednesday, leaving the whole fight up to the Feb. 12, on “the Five Year Eco- plasterers. The demands, very meek indeed, for those making them were willing even to take a wage cut amounting to what they would have received in the extra two hours, were rejected by the employers. These bosses proved that they want to work the full eight hours and keep plenty of men without jobs, as a whip for the employed to com- an unemployed army. They prefer! knowing that the jobless can be used | |whole capitalist world green with | jealousy, fear and hatred, should be | evident to all American workers. ‘Discontent Against Spanish Monarchy Is Unemployment Grows With Crisis; Latin American ‘Masses Jobless: The World Working Class Prepares For Demonstration February 26€ Cleveland City Council Calls Police Against Workers; Buffalo Meet Continues Fight; Newark T.U.U L. Organizing the Unemployed Fred Beal ‘CLEVELAND THE SCENE OF FIGHT Jobless Everywhere to Refuse to Starve CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 4.—The Unemployed Council organized by the Tr: Union Unity League held a mass meeting of five thousand workers on the public square here last night, and then marched to the City Hall and jammed, the City Council chamber to demand “Work or Wages” for the 80,000 unem- ployed of Cleveland. Without even reading the demands of the Council of Unemployed, the City “Council calle on the police to eject the workers from the hall with force. The ejected “workers, however, reassembled at the City Hall steps and were joined by four thousand workers who could not get into the crowded hall. A militant demonstration was made against the action of the capitalist government, The police attacked the jobless, us- ing both clubs and fists. John Adams, organizer of the Communist Party, was among those ) Slugged by the police. On next Monday, another demonstration is planned of the workless to bring forward the demands of the Unem- | ployed Council for “work or wages” jand to unite the employed with the jobless on a fight against the speed- up and wage-cuts and for unem- ployment insurance. Preparations are going on, by factory gate meetings under aus- pices of the T-U.U.L., rallying the workers discharged from the actories with those left on the job, for com- (Continued on Page Three) LATIN AMERICA JOBLESS FIGHT Hundreds of Thousands Starving to Death By ALBERT MOREAU. The workers of Latin-America are suffering terribly from capitalism’s chronic disease, unemployment From Mexico to Argentina the toil- ing masses in factory and fields are being daily thrown out .* work and are rapidly swelling the army of the unemployed. The grgwing world crisis particu- larly + strikes the Latin-American colonies and semi-colonial countries, subjected either t American or British imperialism. In the agrarian countries, such as Argentina and Uruguay, the crisis is already so acute that the peasantry is taking a rebellious attitude toward their reactionary governments. In Argentina, the country of cere- jals and meats, virtual starvation is |facing the toiling peasant masses. |The export of grain has fallen con- iderably, with the result that huge stocks accumulating in the villages are on the verge of rotting, unless (Continued on Page Three) $80,000,900 TO | BLOODY MACHADO Increasing in Spain pel more extensive exploitation in a trade which already has slave con- MADRID, Feb. 5.—Rumblings of | Neither the employers who profit discontent of the magses, forcing! lought to be better paid so that they Many Trades Partake wilt shoot down revolting prisoners | with more enthusiasm. | SUBMARINE CREW IN DANGER. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Feb, 4.—- The submarine C-3 has run aground near Whale Back Light. Lives,of her whole crew are thought to be endangered as these war craft are themselves very fragile. Miniature - printing shops, repre- | sentatives of all branches of New} York's multitude of industrial work | ers, will feature the annual bazar of the International Labor Defense to be held in New Star Casino, Feb. 26, 27, 28, March 1 and 2, 2 talism, which breeds une®ployment. Fight for unemployment relief to be paid by the bosses and the | government and administered bythe workers! Prepare fer the unemployed demonstration on February 26th! Fight for the demands put forth in the program of the Trade Union Unity League! : Organize the unorganized; build the revolutionary unions! Join the Communist Party. in the Defense Bazaar: |attended by General Hoffman of | where. o International ditions. Wireless | by unemployment, nor the Building : News | Trades Council, which fattens any- | way on the high salaries it has M | voted to its members will do any- Pate | thing to lighten the burden on the | jobless. (Wireless By Inprecorr) igarleae Workers Must Act. BERLIN, Feb. 4.—Today’s “Vos-| The militants point out that this sische Zeitung” publishes the agenda | whole affair should be a lesson to of the anti-Soviet conference held| workers that meekly asking for in London inthe first half of 1926,! anything will not get them any- Nor will leaving their fate the German army, Sir Henry De-| to a handful of misleaders help any. terding of the Royal Dutch Shell! The solution is to organize and Qil Co., and a power in British gov- | fight for both employed and unem- son, of Britain, and Keyta. The henchmen. schéme provided for Anglo-German The Trade Union Unity program cooperation against the Soviet! on unemployment calls for work or Union, with subsequent division of | wages, for unemployment relief, the spoils of war, including Ukrain- ian land and the oil fieldry of Cau- and administered by the workers, ernment circles, Sir Locker Lamp-| ployed against the bosses and their | paid for by the bosses or the state| it will not continue the search fur- the “left” bourgeoisie who are mak- | ing overtures with the fascist “so- | cialist” party, are coming from | Samalangreo, where the “republican union” issues a manifesto calling for | united action of “left” groups j against the dynasty, Moreover, | though “liberty” was officially de- | ‘clared, there are political prisoners | | remaining in the prisons, and at Va- | lencia they declared a hunger strike (in protest at the rotten food given | them, SAY EIELSON fs DEAD. American press agencies repogt from Moscow that the Arctic Com-| mission of the Soviet Government} has so much proof that tle aviators Ison and Borland are dead that ther, oauutiag Chan $1,250,000,000, Cuban Bosses Get Big Loan from Wall St. HAVANA, Feb. 4.—The bloody dictatorship of Machado, which is responsible for the murder of thou- sands of Cuban workers is soon to get a loan of $80,000,000 ffom the Chase National Bank of New York. Previously a loan of $100,000,000 was given to the Cuban imperialist punbets by Wall Street bankers. The contract for the $80,000,000 was revealed yesterday by the an- nouncement of Dr. Mario Ruiz Mesa, secretary of the treasury. It is ex- pected that the contract between the Chase National Bank, which holds a large share of the sugar proper- ties in Cuba, as well as imperialist holdings in almost all of the U. S. colonies, will be signed the latter part of February. Total U. S. in- vestments in Cuba now total more