The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 14, 1933, Page 6

| i 5 i i aE MO Page Six 19th St, New York Clty, N. ¥. Telephone Weurshed by the GemprodaRy Papishing 6o., Inc,, daily except Sunday, at 58 B. ‘DAIWORK.” ALgonquin 4-7985, Cal Address and mail chacks to the Dally Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. ¥. BY Michael Gold | Demonstrations Planned in NewYork, Chicago, Our Own Flesh and Biood. on Day of Torgler I described briefly yesterday the first page of the New York Times for last Saturday, September th. LONDON, Sept. 13.—The internat | Reichstag fire, will begin its public sessions here tomorrow. Trial; Other Cities Have Not Yet Announced Plans investigating the Evidence of | jional committee, Tt was a picture of tax-fights, graft | 445 guilt for the fire, and proof of the innocence of Ernst Torgler, George | war threats and revolutions in Cuba | | and Spain. In reporting this capt- | talist ince one prejudice was obvious: the New York Times reporters de- | plored change, and hoped to preserve capitalist law and order, the status quo and a safe 8 per cent on invest- ments. They avoided direct state- ments of this prejudice, but that is ohe of the techniques of capitalist journalism. : Going through the foreign reports, | one finds so much reading matter | that any description here would fill | several columns, The New York Times has resources and wealth to girdle} the globe. But there is no unity in| these reports. More chaos, conflict- | ing nationalism, ea ch reporter detini- | committed only to) tely, of course, | Seeerican imperialism and its inter- | ests. | : Na PSS. ‘Times Take the Nazi business. The | is owned by an old German-Jewish | family, and quite Brown Syphilis naturally, hates the | that has attacked | y. But only in spots and| os There is no consistency. | Words of romantic praise haye ap-| peared for Hitler—the most sicken- | ing sentimental word-painting by sob- | sisters, male and female, It is hard | to know what to think about such | inconsistency, until one recalls that | the Times must appear “neutral,” an ‘6bjective” record of daily history. | What's Good in the Daily Worker | I have begun on an essay that Lives easily become a book; yes, one copy of the New York Times seems to con- tain the modern world. One could the beer advertisements, ng nt store bulletins, the births, pages, personals, But it’s a bOOK,| veview departme: i , editorial ete. pages, 4 who would read a book woven | = i araund a copy of the New York) ‘Times? | Tt is easier to go through the eight | of the Daily Worker. Side by | ES the pompous Times, our peper looks like an amateur effort. Ou ss is antiquated, and the make-up problem is too much for everyone. The ads are unskillfully| cemposed, the news display is spotty, | there is no style of any sort, and yet. | and yet Reading the Daily Worker for a| month, one would come either to hate : love this new world, Here on| Saturday's page, an average day, one| finds the same facts as in the Times. | But the slant is frank and powerful. | No hypocrisy; the banner headline} says it, U. S. Workers Demand Hands | Off Cuba. The news columns gives | the story, and editorials buttress the | appeal against imperialism. ‘The news in the N. ¥ .Times made | one feel that Cuba was in » senseless | Chaos, a bloody meaningless primitive | outburst of savage workers and peas- ants. The Times news would make éne approve American intervention. But the Daily Worker would really enlighten a virgin mind as to the) meaning of Cuban events much more than would all the shoals and reams of hypocritical news in the Times. For the Daily Worker explains why the Cuban masses have staged this revolt; the forces pushing them to- ward it, and why workers here must help them. | Tf, is a clue to the troubled modern world, and every worker can be help- ed to understand himself on reading such a news story. There is also other news, tremendously important news to the nation within a nation, | the 40,000,000 wage earners and their families. Bread prices are rising} rapidly, one headline says, a 16 per cent increase; the Times might have printed such a fact, but it would not slant it so that a worker would feel the injury done him. ‘The Paterson silk strike; unreported | in the Times for that day. The fight against the shoe workers strike side with ward higher taxes; the Times faintly deplores, but the Daily starts arous- the masses, and more; making | declares that the Reichstag fire was Dimitroff, Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff, who will be tried in Leipzig, Sept. 21, will be presented. ~ ~ At the opening session former Pre- | mier Francesco Nitti of Italy, Rudolph | | French Send Air Fleet to Moscow Air Minister in Trip to| Demonstrate Planes | Breitscheid of Germany, Sir Stafford Cripps, of England, and Georg Bran- ting, of Sweden, will speak. Nazis Publish Anti-Red Book BERLIN, Sept. 13—Attempting to counteract the world-wide knowledge that the Nazis fired the Reichstag | last February, the “Associated Anti- Communists of Germany” have is- e | sued a book which was presented yes-| STRASSBOURG, Alcase, Sept. 13.— | terday to 100 foreign correspondents | Three of the latest model French | at a meeting here, in which “evi-| airplanes, carrying Pierre Cot, | dence” of a widespread Communist | yinister of Aviation, eleven associ- Ce aes | ates and a crew of 14, left here today Even the capitalist correspondents. | On their way to the ‘Soviet Union. however, refused to be taken in, and| ‘The expedition is intended to be a Pointed out that although the book | demonstration of French commercial | planes, in connection with the trade | agreement which is now being nego- | tiated between France and the Soviet | Union. They will be foliowed by Paul Codos | “evidence” the Nazi prosecutors pro- pings Ton tear oul Pose to produce at the trial of the|» new distance record, flying 5,857 Communist leqders on September 21.| miles from New York to Rayak, 8 & | yak, | Syria. New York Demonstration Sept. 21 | . NEW YORK.—On Thursday, Sep-| PARIS, Sept. 13—French royalists tember 21, when the trial of the four} greeted Edouard Herriot with boos Communist leaders charged with set-|and jeers as he returned to Paris ting the Reichstag fire begins, in line | 2fter his visit to the Soviet Union. monstration will take place tery | ull Fascism Is | Near in Austria, to be the signal for a nation-wide Communist uprising, no signs were shown anywhere of the alleged “up- rising.” ‘The book contains no details of the the German Consulate at 17 Battery Place under the joint auspices of the bor Defense, New York Committee To Aid Victims of German Fascism, German and Jewish Anti-Fascist es hprmers Committees. Dictatorship by Three In preparations for the demonstra- tion, various sections of the New Men Is Forecast bor Defense will conduct a series of VIENNA, Sept. 13—A complete rallies and elect delegations to see) Fascist dictatorship, led by Chancel- the German Consulate. Resolutions | lor Dollfuss, Prince Ernst von Stahr- will be adopted to be sent to Hans emberg, leader of the Christian So- Luther, German Ambassador in| cial Heimwehr, a private Fascist Washington. ‘, military organization of 100,000 mem- the Downtown Section will rally at| of Security, is forecast by the Vien- 7th Street and Avenue A at 10 a. m,| nese press today. sharp. They will then march to} «Austria will go Fascist sooner or Whitehall Street and South Ferry. later,” Stahremberg said yesterday. All workers, mass organizations,) “Better sooner than later, and better workers clubs, and friends are urged Consulate on Sept. 19 and 20 to de- mand the release of the four Commu- nist leaders. Millions Grafted of | Anti-Japanese Fund, General Ma Charges (silver) contributed by hundreds of thousands of Chinese, some of whom sold all their belongings, to finance | the defense of Manchuria against Japan two years ago, only $1,713,000 (silver) was ever turned over to the This is the charge made here by General Ma Chan-shan, who led what | anti-Japanese actions were made. While his charges are obviously true, their main purpose is to excuse his failure at the Nonni bridge and his ‘The charges have aroused such a} furor among the masses of Chinese | who contributed that an investigation has been ordered. South African Negro Court Forces British SEROWE, Bechuanaland, South | Africa, Sept. 13—The native Negro) court of this remote part of. British | South Africa won a victory over the | British imperialists’ arrogant rule of | New York District International La- York District of the International La- nasil Workers and mass organizations of | bers, and Emil Fey, Austrian Minister to send delegations to the German} PEIPING, Sept. 13—Of $20,000,000 Chinese forces. full retreat before the Japanese. to Uphold Its Edict) discrimination, when it forced ap- adopt it ourselves than have it forced on us by the Nazis,” Stahremberg has been for several years one of the most active organ- izers of international action toward an armed invasion of the Soviet Union, . . BINGEN, Germany, Sept. 13.—Wil- helm Mehrling, commander of the Rhineland Storm Troops, killed him- self with a shot in the head yester- day, after having shot and killed Reinhold Muchow, a high official of the German Labor Front, in a tavern at Bacharach. The police said the first shooting was accidental. Polish Plane Crashes Near Kazan, USSR. | MOSCOW, U. S. S. R..—The plane | of Colonel Filipowics, chief of the} Polish Civil Aviation Department, | and his pilot crashed at Cheboksar, near Kazan, yesterday. The pilot was | injured in the crash, but the official escaped injury by taking to his para- chute as the plane fell, 3 TRIAL OF NAZIS FOR FIRE IN REICHSTAG TOMORROW SUBSCRIPTION RATES: of Manhattan One year, $9; Canada: —By Burek | i | | | | | | Barbusse Arrives ‘Locked Ome Ree Gudrd September 29 for Anti-War ( Congress Workers’ Organiza- tions Slow to Respond, Says Committee Holds Cuba Sugar Plant | (Special to the Daily Worker.) | HAVANA (By Mail).—One of the reasons given for the threatened | tho Unemployed Council and the | landing of U. S. troops is the taking of the Hormiguero sugar central by | Relief Workers Action Committee. NEW YORK, — A cable received! the workers and peasants. In that region, all other centrals accepted the |The purpose of the meeting was from Herirl Barbusse by the Arrange- | demands of the workers and then locked them out. When the workers | to consolidate the organization. | Armed Workers Defeat Attempt to Hang Their Leaders After Seizure of Mill | ment Committee of the United States! ©2™¢ to the Hormiguero office and were told that it will shut down, they | Congress Against. War announced that he will arrive in New York City on the S.S. Berengaria, the morning of Sept. 29th in time to attend the open- ing mass session of the Congress held that evening at Mecca Temple and St. Nicholas Arena, where he will be one of the principal speakers. Bar- busse will be met at the boat by workers and a committee of outstand- ing American writers who are sup- porting the Congress. Tt was also announced yesterday by the anti-war Congress that workers’ organizations and. many militant groups, Whose sympathy to the anti- war movement is beyond question, have been the slowest‘In electing dele- gates and are therefore requested to make that the special order of busi- ness at their next meeting and im- mediately forward ‘the’ credentials to the Congress. Among the workers’ organizations who have elected delegates, the lat- est to join are the Display Fixture & Figure Workers Union affiliated to the Steel & Metal Industrial Union, and a shop at New Rochelle repre- senting 117 workers’ The. Tobacco Workers Industrial Union has called a meeting to elect a delegate. NEW YORK. — The Arrangement Committee of the United States Con- gress Against War announced yester- day that its work is greatly hampered through lack of funds and requests all organizations and individuals who have collection lists to return them immediately to the offices of the Con- gress, 104 Fifth Ave., and also to make Public collections at all meetings. To keep up a six-page “Daily Work- er,” the circulation-must be ddubled. pied share by getting new sub- | stated “all right, but we stay.” Moreo— than 1,000 armed workers and peas- ants camped on the company prop- erty. Guards were posted in all parts of the plantations.” A certain amount of sheep was slaughtered every day for the “army.” A Red Guard was or- ganized, armed with shotguns and revolvers, and composed in its ma- jority of members of the Young Com- munist League and young workers. This Red Guard stopped all cars and busses going past and confiscated all arms which were then given to the workers. It raided all houses of the managements and confiscated thou- sands of rounds of ammunition and many guns. Try to Hang Workers ” However, with the aid of the gov- ernment and the rural guard, the company was able to buy off a few men and taking opportunity of the absence of the organizers, organized @ coup d'etat. When the organizers came back they were seized and led to be hung. One of them, the local organizer of the Y.C.L., declared that if-they were killed, the workers from the city of Cienfuegos would come and wipe the murderers off the face of the earth. This worked and they | Were released. When they were leay- ing the Central, the workers, who had already seen through the treachery, cheered them, and promised to con- tinue the struggle. Workers, Students, Arm In the meantime in the neighbor- hood city of Cienfuegos, workers and students raided all hardware stores and seized arms. ors sent delegations to the workers, asking what to do. However, the Committee of Action was not suffi- ciently decisive and lacked initiative to seize power and organize the So- viet. The delay in action was suf- ficient to allow delegates from the Soldiers and sail-/ central government to reach the city | and win over the soldiers and sailors. | At the time this is being written, hundreds of armed workers are guarding the workers’ center against an expected atiack led by the bour- geois politicians and the ABC rad- | | icals. Latest reports indicate that} two U. S. warships were sent to Cien- | fuegos. ‘Workers Prote Intervention in Meets Thru Nation PHILADELPHIA.—A_ meeting of | protest against American interven- | tion in Cuba wil be held under the | |leadership of the Communist Party | | Saturday, Sept. 16, at 12 noon on the | | Rayburn Plaza opposite the City Hail. e 8 | NEW YORK. —American interven- tion in Cuba has called forth a na- | tion-wide wave of protest from | workers organizations and meetings. | Last week, 100 workers in an open | air meeting at Bleeker and Thomp- son Streets, New York, voted to send | cerian intervention, The Polish workers of New York at | tional Home added their protest to | these flooding Roosevelt, The Bosco Workers’ and Farmers’ Association in Hueysville, Kentucky, has joined other organizations in pro- testing intervention. The District Convention of the International La- ber Defense, meeting in Philadelphia demanded that all armed forces be withdrawn from Cuba and passed re- | solutions, pledging solidarity with the ne year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 months, $3; 1 month, 75a, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933 Bronx, New York City. months, $5; 3 months, $8. NORTHWESTERN CONGRESS DECIDES ON DRIVE FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE 3 UM.W.A. Locals Support Program; Decide to Affiliate With Unemployed Councils; Vote Support to Anti-War Congress Foreign and SEATTLE, Wash.—The Workers’ Congress voted unanimously to launch an initiative drive in the state for the adoption of the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. In a resolution it urges that a special session of legts- lature be convened to adopt the insurance bill, to be in effect umtil the pas- 500 in Staten Island) Demonstrate for. More Work Relief 18 Jobs, 8 Dept., Repre- sented at Mass Meet | Held Same Day NEW YORK. Staten Island relief workers who for the second time received a wage cut demonstrated at the Bor-| ough Offices recently, demanding a 12 days a month work at $5 a day. A delegation of 12 workers were elected to see Borough President | Lynch who promised, with his eye on the coming elections, that he would vote in the Board of Esti- mate for this demand. Recognizing his promise as just a political gesture for votes, a mass meeting was called for the same evening (Sept. 6) by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, Five hundred | Fighteen different relief jobs and 8 departments, from the Docks to the Health Dept. were repre- sented at the meeting. The South Shore Action Committee was elected with 2 organizers and a secretary to give leadership to the work in that section. A mass mecting on the South Shore will be held in Eltingville on Sept. 13, | Wednesday, at Bamburger Hall on) Amboy Road. ‘ Speakers addressed the meeting, stressing the need for a strong or- ganization to carry forward the demands of the relief workers for free transportation to the jobs, cash paid on time, and enough | ork to keep a family alive. | bor. ~® sage of the Federal Bill. The congress-was a representative body of 314 delegates from trade unions, unemployed and farmers’ or- ganizations in the state. It was held over the Lebor Day week-end. The Unemployed Citizens League was rep- resented by 75, the largest group at the congress, and the Unemployed Council had 45 delegates. Locals of the National Lumber Workers Union sent 19 workers with many from lo- cals of the ‘Trade Union Unity League and the American Federation of La- Nine worker, representing three of the largest. United Mine Workers | locals in the state, pledged support to the congres& decisions. They repre- sented 900 miners who are on strike in the Roslyn-Cle Elum fields in de- fiance of Igywis and the NRA. The gathering also went on record to fight forslecal ordinances in every community astfing immediate relict to all jobless. To support the vet- erans in their.fight for the bonus and to patticipate in the national anti-war congress to be held in New York, Sept, 29, To strengthen the, unemployed movement it was decided to affiliate with the National Unemployed Coun- ceils and build the “Voice of Action,” the state labor paper. A few weeks prior to the Workers Congress the socialists had called to- gether the Continental Congress. Al} militant organizations representing some of the largest organizations in the state were kept out. Preparations for the socialist meeting was made by N. P. Atkinson, who operates a non-union printing shop in this city. It was only on the initiative of three militant workers, Bradley, Harington and Didweel, who came to the ses- sions that @ measure supporting un- employment insurance was passed by a vote of 42 in favor, to 37 against. The Workers Congress elected a state committee of 72 members with | four state officers. Richard C. Har- rington was elected state chairman; | vice-chairman, William Dobbins; or- ganizer, George Bradley; and secre- tary, Mervin Cole. September Relief Fight High Prices’ Conference Sunday in Brownsville NEW YORK.— Vigorous house to | Not Made by City NEW YORK: — As in previous months the Board of Estimate has not yet made any appropriations for |a protest to Roosevelt against Am-| |a mass meeting at the Polish Na-| ihouse canvassing has been going on} | for the past two weeks to get Browns- | ville workers to elect delegates to the | Conference to Fight the High Cost} lof Living to be held Sunday, 1 pm., |at the Hoffman's Mansion, 142 Wat- |kins St., Brooklyn. ‘The conference |has been called by the United Wo- | men’s Council of Brawnsville. | Forty-eight houses have already | elected delegates and many organi- | | zations have promised to send repre- | | sentatives to give guidance to the conference. Any group of 10 work- |ers in a house or block may elect a | delegate. struggle for liberation carried on by | the Cuban workers. The Tobacco Workers- Industrial | Union in New York wired the pro- | test of its members to Roosevelt and | ers’ Ct with the Cuban workers, | moved from the lists. September relief affecting one mil- lion jobless. The only funds on hand are $1,140,000. granted by the State Temporary Emergency Relief Admini- stration and $1,00,000 advanced by the same body. It is uncertain whether the total of $2,140,000 will even be sufficient for the 80,000 heads of famiNes who are on work relief. The 125,000 feimi- lies who are on home relief are leit entirely in’ the cold, At least one- third on home relief were already re- The rest havé been put on a stagger plan whereb) relief checks are issued ‘aGvis.z alter- nating weeks to: these families. At the same time the Home Reliet Bureaus are informing their investi- gators that many of them will be fired by the end of the month. In the Home Relief Bureau on Spring and Elizabeth Streets alone it is ex- pected that about 40 investigators will lose their jobs. Platt Amendment Is America’s Charter of Slavery for Cuban Masses Forced on Cuban People by U. S. Bayonets, ’ Amendment Has No Validity Except Might of Wall St. Government’s Armed Forces of proval by a military expedition of its having ordered the flogging of a white man. Vice-Admiral E. R. Evans, who ar- rived with 200 British troops and two field guns, was compelled to uphold the decision of the native court against Phineas McIntosh, a British subject, found guilty of assaulting native women. Evans further or- dered him banished from all native territories. ‘Until after the hearing, however, Chief Tshekedi of Serowe was held under open arrest. N. J. Winter Relief Acute As Last Year State Official Says ' ‘TRENTON, N. J. Sept. 13—With 400,000 people on the relief rolls, John Colt, state director of emergency re- Hef, informed Governor Moore that relief this winter will be as serious as the previous one. According to Colt, the increase will be caused by the rise in prices. At least 450,000 will need relief this winter, the state director estimated. is a truer picture than the other; it is the picture the future will cherish and study the most. Yes, let me make a brash state- ment; for all its expensive attempt at faithful historicity the New York Times will not be corfsulted as often by the historians of the future as our own battered little Daily Worker. The Times pictures the end of a Daily Worker there breathes a|It is better to be a shal Ritendvellaat spin: « pokes o¢|athinte nn enn aioe America fighting for ite Evens corpse with 30 pages and a against the heaviest odds. It| swelled quota of paid ads, By WILLIAM SIMONS. Intervention in Cuba ts “justified” (of course “only as @ last resort”) by President Roosevelt, on the basis of the duty imposed on the United States by the Platt Amendment. What is this Platt Amendment? The eight clauses of the Platt Amendment make Cuba a semi- colony of American Imperialism. The United States receives the “consent” of Cuba in clause 3, “to exercise the right to intervene for the preserva- tion of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government ade- quate for the protection of life, prop- \erty, and individual liberty.” Clause |7 provides that to enable the United | States to “maintain the independence of Cuba and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own de- fense, the Cuban Government will sell or lease to the United States the lands necessary for coaling or naval stations.” And so the United States Govern- ment “acquired” the Guantanamo naval base, where there are now many American war vessels. To keep other |imperialist powers away, Cuba was forbidden to make any treaty with any foreign power “which will im- pair or tend to impair the inde- pendence of Cuba” (as much as was left after the United States got through with it). Foreign powers were also prevented from getting in Cuba any naval or army bases, or any land for colonization. Forced on the Cuban People. The Platt Amendment became a | United States law on March 2, 1901, authorizing the President of the United States “to leave Cuba to her .|people when @ government had been set up under a constitution which -| contained as a pest of it, the eight definite provisions known as the Platt Amendment.” The American army of occupation was to remain in Cuba until the Cuban Constitu- tional Convention included these eight provisions in the Cuban Con- stitution. On June 12, 1901, they were appended to the Cuban consti- tution, and included two years later, on May 22, 1903, in a permanent treaty between the two “equal” coun- tries. The Platt Amendment was thus forced on the Cuban people at the point of a bayonet; its only val- cals 4s the might of American armed force. To ® special commission sent to Washington by the Cuban Conven- tion at the end of April, 1901, to have the American Government speak @ little more plainly, the corporation lawyer Elihu Root, Secretary of State, explained that the interven- tion clause 3 “does not impair the sovereignty of Cuba; it leaves Cuba independent and sovereign under her own flag. It only will help the United States in extreme cases to assist Cuba in preserving her abso- lute independence. And pray God that case may never arise,” said the oe contin le continued: “The spirit, the tendency, the substance of the Platt Amendment is to establish in Cuba an independent and sovereign na- tion, But the United States go beyond that in favor of Cuba; they seek to guarantee the subsistence of Cuba as a free and independent re- public.” “Intervention,” added the slippery secretary, “is incompatible with the existence of a Cuban gov- ernment, and will take place only in case that Cuba is left in a state of anarchy which will signify the | groes. absence of all government, and in| The third intervention took place| Caribbean peoples.” In order to es- case of a fot menace.” in 1917, when Ame’ marines} tablish a government in Cuba that United States Is the “Foreign drove Liberal Party revolutionaries | will protect American investments Menace.” out of the town of Santiago, and| and suppress the revolution- ‘Well, what is the present interven- | backed President Menocal, re-| ary mass movement, it is not excluded tion? So-called visiting parties of \ sailors have landed on Cuban soil. American warships He in Cuban har- bors, backing up Ambassador Welles’ intervention in Cuban affairs. Is there a foreign menace? Yes, but that foreign menace is the United States Government, whose warships menace Cuba. American warships inducted De Cespedes into office as president. American warships are now menacing Cuba, because the Cespedes Government was over- thrown by a popular uprising. Amer- ican warships compelled the Revo- lutionary Junta (although it offered to protect American property) to draw in many more conservative ele- ments, because the Junta was con- sidered by Roosevelt to be too weak to suppress the rising anti-imperialist workers’ and peasants’ movement. American warships will try to in- sure a Cuban government safe for American imperialist interests. Amer- ican warships will impose on the Cuban people a “government cf their | own choosing,” “their own” mean- ing of the choosing of Wall Street, and not of the Cuban people's. Fourth Intervention Under the Platt Amendment. The present intervention is not the first in the history of Cuba. Since the first occupation following the Spanish-American War, “to make Cuba safe for the American sugar corporations” and to be the United States military key to the Caribbean, three military interventions have taken place. The first, in 1906, lasted three years, during which American companies received many rich con- cessions from General Magoon. The second was in 1912, “to protect property,” until the Cuban secure political rights for the Ne- elepted up by fraud; the same Menoval, that American imperialism may make incidentally, who now is spoken of Amendment Called “Protection Against For- as the leader of a new coup d'etat more in line with the wishes of Roose- velt and Welles. did not all get out of Cuba until 1922, All of these interventions were un- dertaken under the provisions of the Platt Amendment. And now the Platt Amendment is being again in- voked. Communist Party Raises Demands The Communist Party and the Anti-Imperialist League of the United States are demanding of the Roose- velt Administration the abrogation of the Platt Amendment. But this is accompanied with demands for cancellation of Wait Street loans, tor the evacuation of the Guantanamo nayal base, for withdrawal of Amer- ican warships from Cuban waters; and with a campaign for support to | the revolutionary workers and peas- ants of Cuba who have already seized several American sugar mills, who arc extendirs their siruggle to take over the property and lands of the imper- jalists and the lands of the large native landowners, and who are suc- ceeding in rollying mass support for tance to the Yankee invaders. It is not enough to call for the abrogation of the Platt Amendment, as is done by libersis and the leaders of the Socialist Party (who, however, do not carry on any mass campaign for even this demand). As pointed out by D.R.D. in “A ‘Model’ Colony of American Imperialism” (Commu- nist, July, 1931), “It is not excluded that, in particular instances, under certain conditions, American imper- ialism may give up a part of its po- litical privileges in the Caribbean, re- lying on its tremendous economic power, bribes, underhand machina~ tions, ev., for the exploitation of the And these troops the concession of abrogation of the Platt Amendment, relying on the Monroe Doctrine; but this would not “undermine the hold of American im~ perialism on Cuba.” It is therefore ail the more necessary to link up the demand for the abrogation of the jatt Amendment with the other basic demands already mentioned. Atmosphere Prepared for Landing of Marines American imperialism is warring on the masses of Cuba. The reac- tionary ex-generals of the Cuban army justify their refusal to recognize the present government, by “the growing unrest and Communist agi- tation,” and by the fact that “the sugar mills are being seized by the workers in the interior.” Ameri*an imperialism wishes to keep the sugar workers in Cuba in serfdom. A war hysteria is being worked up in the United States. The “patient, neighborly” attitude of Roosevelt is combined with glaring headlines of “American women being driven from their homes, of being spattered wiih mud by ‘hoodlum Communists.” The “sinking of the Maine in 1898” will be duplicated by atrocity stories as the 1933 pretext for intervention. The sending of Secretary of Navy Swanson to Cuba was no mere accident. It recalls President Theodore Roosevelt’s send- ing of Secretary of War William H. Taft to Havana in 1906, who insti- tuted the military occupation that lasted until 1909. Only the loud pub- lic protest caused Stvanson to con- tinue on to other American “posses- sions” in Central America, Make This a National Campaign American workers! In whose in- terests are American warships sent x to Cuba? Surely not in yours. Police and troops take the part of the bosses eign Menace”; But America Is Main Foreign Menace to Independence of Cuban Masses when we go out on s .. American warships take the part-of the Amer- ican sugar owners and bankers in Cuba against the long suffering, bit- terly exploited Guban tofling masses. ‘Together wth the Cuban workers, let us fight against police, troops and warships, lst:the “state power” of the capit class, American.wotkers! Let us in our factories and shops, in our organiza- tions, at every meeting, raise the question of Cliba. Send telegrams to President Roosevelt, demanding im- mediate withdrawal of warships from Cuban waters, Arrange open air and mass meetings, and demonstrations. Send telegrams of greeting to the revolutionary-masses in Cuba. The addresses are Partido Communista de Cuba, He ratoga, Havana; Con- federacion Obrera de Cuba, Prado 123, Havana; Liga Anti-Im- perialista de.Cuba, San Rafael 112, Altos, Havana: American® workers! Our Cuban brothers and: sisters are looking to us for effaztive support. Already in New York City, a picket line paraded before the Federal Building. Many mass meetings took place, A delega- tion from New York City protested at the White House, But what of the rest of the country? Chicago, Detroit, ey id, and California’ Solidarity the workers in the colonies is. an.elementary: duty on the part of the working class in the oppressing country. The fight against U, S, intervention must be a central task ef the U.S. Congress Against ae which opens in New York Sept. The entire ‘working class of the United States, from coast to coast,