The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1933, Page 6

Beste WEA. “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 Comprodaiiy rk, ¥, ¥. Published daily, except Sunday, b; Publishing Ca., Inc., 50 Rast 19th Street, New ¥ Telephone: Algonquin 4-7985 Gable Address “Datwork,” New York, MT. reau: Room 984, National Press y Washington, D.C Subseription Rates By Mail (except M hattan and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00, 6 mont! $3.50; Q tha, $2.00; 1 month, 75 cents. Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 38 cents; monthly, % cents, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1933 Deliberate Suppression ELIBERATE, coki-blooded suppression of vital working-class news. This characterizes the faiure of New York City newspapers to publish a single word on the dastardly murder plot of the Nazis brought to light in Sa The New Yo Times boasts that it gives space to “All the news that’s fit to print The World-Telegram parades as a liberal paper. pledged to uphold fundamental democratic principles. Yet these papers, as well as every other big capi- talist newspaper in New York, completely ignored. the exposure of the astounding Nazi murder plot carried in Saturday’s Daily Worker. Was it because they did not have the story? They had it! The Daily Worker sent its story and photo- static reproductions of the ‘Nazi letters to every New York City paper and news agency They had all the information before them, and yet they deliberately suppressed a story which exposed the murderous activity of Hitler's agents in the. United States and which proved beyond further argument the innocence of Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff, and Taneff, the Communists now on trial for their lives in Leipzig. IS again proves the need for such a paper as the Daily Worker—a paper that speaks for the workers, that fearlessly carries on the fight of the workers against fascist intrigue and terror. At the meeting to be held at the New Star Casino, | next Wednesday evening, the workers of New York City should add to their vigorous protest against the murder schemes of the Nazis an equally vigorous pro- test against the support of the fascists by the Ameri- can capitalist newspapers. Just As in 1917 HE gun-powder atmosphere of war mobilization hovered unmistakably over the speech that Roose- 't made Saturday at the unveiling of the memorial to Samuel Gompers. There is more than Just sentimental attachment to account for the sudden interest of the President of the United States in the memorial to a dead labor lieuten- ant of the capitalist class. Roosevelt is so eager to perpetuate the honor of the | dead Gompers because men of the type of Gompers are $0 badly needed today by the ruling class employers to cripple the enormous ¢oal and steel strikes now raging against the intensified wage slavery of the hated Roose- velt N. R. A. codes. Roosevelt, above all, is eager to spread the teachings of Gompers because the Roosevelt government needs men like Gompers to bind the American working class to the Wall Street imperialist war machine, which is now preparing more feverishly than ever for WAR! _ What is it that Roosevelt found so admirable in Gompers, the man who built up the most reactionary trade union bureaucracy in the world? It was Gompers’ service to the Wall Street impe- rialist Morgan bankers during the last World War slaughter that endeared Gompers to Roosevelt! Roosevelt is especially thrilled by what he calls: “the splendid co-operation which Gompers gave at all times to... the subject of the relationship of labor to the government at the outbreak of the World War.” What was the nature of this “splendid co-operation” for which the Wall Street agent, Roosevelt, eulogizes the dead Gompers? it consisted in the fact that Gompers was a mem- ber of the Council of National Defense, side by side | with the military machinery of the Army and Navy, ‘side by side with the hard-eyed agents of the Morgan- Rockefeller-Mellon Wall Street clique who were there to see that the investments of their financial masters were adequately protected. Gom-pers’ “splendid co-operation” in 1917 consisted in the fact that he issued vile, hysterical appeals to the American workers to submit meekly to the capi- talist wage slavery at home, and to being led to the imperialist slaughter on the battlefields of Europe. OM his eulogy of Gompers Roosevelt then passes on to the problems of the present, And what lesson does h> draw? He declares that the kind of service that Gompers gave is “just as necessary today as in 1917.” And then Roosevelt, the smiling darling of the “lib- erals,’ bares the ruling class violence that awaits those Who dare to stand in the way of the oppressive machin- ery of Wall Street “Just as in 1917, we are seeking to pull in harness; Just as in 1917, horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral... in those years a few, happily a very few, horses had to be lassooed. . . and teday conditions are very. similar,” he says. Behind these allusions to the last war, there is sin- ister meaning. There is thé promise of lynch hysteria, murder, and the machine guns of State and Federal troops. é The workers of this country will remember what happened to those “horses” who refused to be yoked to “the chariot of imperialist war, who refused to obey the whip of the Wall Street war drivers. Is it to the jailing of Eugene Victor Debs that the smiling Roosevelt refers with such satisfaction? Ts it to the insane man hunt against the leaders of the Communist Party and all revolutionary workers, that Roosevelt refers with such happy reminiscence? Is it to the savage Palmer raids, to the murder of the worker Salsedo, to the shooting down of the Cen- tralia victims, the shooting down of strikers, that Roosevelt refers, when he talks so lightly of “lassooing” the disobedient horses, and “putting them tm a corral”? i * . 2 AYS Roosevelt: “The sitnation ts the same today. “This ts mo time to seek special privilege . . . insidious volces seek to instill methods or principles foreign to the American form of democratic government , , , we are pitting unselfish patriotism first... .” *» These words of Roosevelt smell of powder. They are an ominous echo of the 1917 betfayal, anf a promise ‘pf what is soon to come again. In the massing of State troops, sheriffs, deputies, against the steel and coal strikers today in Pennsylva- Tifa, the workers can see the “democracy” that Roose- velt gives to those “horses” who refuse to be ground for the profit of the capitalist bosses. Roosevelt's call to the A. F. of L. officialdom Is a Signal to them to be ready to do again the work that Gompers did in 1917, it is a signal of approaching war, of increasing Government violence against the working enfLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, ucrupmn 9, 1983 sidious principles,” is a warning that he is prepared to mobilize the fult military force of the capitalist Gov- ernment against the revolutionary working class move ment against the fight of the working class to seize political power in order to re-open the closed factories for the use of the toiling masses of the people Mobilization for war labor slavery! Threats against those who dare to resist the starvation wages of the N. R. A. machine! That is what lurks in Roosevelt's latest speech. OOSEVELT has drawn the lines, He declares to the American working class that it must’endure not only starvation and increased exploitation of the N. R. A codes, but also the militarization of labor in prepara- tlon for the coming imperialist war. It is a challenge that must be answered by in- creased organization in the factories against the inten- sified robbery of the employers, against rising prices, wage cuts, speed-up. It must be answered by the most resolute organiza- tion against the starvation Roosevelt program for the 17,000,000 jobless whom Roosevelt intends to hurl into the shambles of another imperialist slaughter It must be answered by uniting all the forces of the | American working class against the billion-dollar Roosevelt war building program, against the N. R. A war preparations. Roosevelt Promises Terror HREE points stand out glaringly in President Roose- 2 statement issued Saturday after his confer- ence with the steel operators on the question of the “captive” coal mines owned by the steel companies. Among the demagogic phrases about “collective bargaining,” there are these three points: 1, Rooseve!t orders the striking miners back to work, without a single concession to the demands for which they came out. 2. The wages and working conditions. in. the mines will be settled between Roosevelt and the steel bosses and handed down to the workers as an executive order from the White House. 3. “The President will put into effect such gov- ernment assistance as may be necessary to carry out the decisions.” No amount of sugar-coated phrases about “fair- ness to the workers” and-the “good faith” of the own- ers can change this clear statement of fact. . 'TS meaning is equally clear. Working with the steel bosses and with John L. Lewis, president of the U.1 W.A., who like the mines is also a willing “captiv of the steel bosses, Roosevelt is preparing a new series of maneuvers to smash the strike of the coal workers. But the most sinister part of these cynical three points is the last, the threat of “government assist- ance” to carry out such decisions. Two steel workers are dead; two others are near death; scores of men, women and children lie wounded by gunfire and blackjacks in Ambridge alone—this is the “government assistance” brought into play to smash the steel workers’ fight for the right to live and to or- ganize. Roosevelt's announcement is an open proclama- tion that the fight of the mine workers will be met with armed terror, officially sanctioned by the “liberal” President of the United States, 1 lane strike of the miners in the “captive” mines of the steel companies is a strike against the most powerfully intrenched forces ploitation in all American industry. The maneuvers of Roosevelt and Lewis line them up on the side of the blackest and most ruthless reaction in America, Workers of all unions, organized workers and un- organized, and all honest friends of labor! Take up the challenge which Roosevelt flings in your face! Support the struggles of the coal miners for the right to organize, and to make a genuine, effective struggle for all their demands. Raise the sharpest protest vicious strike-breaking role! Buy Now--With What? NOTHER mountain of Rooseveltian ballyhoo will descend today upon the workers of America. This time it is the second “Buy Now” campaign. The first attempt of the Roosevelt government to frighten, bully, coax, wheedle, cajole, or’ bulldoze Amer- ican workers to spend whatever they were supposed to have was a dismal failure. It is a fact that has been carefully played down in the capitalist press that during the months of August and September retail purchases of food, clothes, and general articles dropped 10 per cent below last year! And this was in the face of the most terrific bally- hoo seen in a long time! And why was that? Because the poverty of the workers is getting greater all the time. Marx declared in his immortal analysis of capital- ist society, “Capital,” that the “pasic cause of capitalist crises is the poverty of the masses.” Will the Roosevelt plan to lift the capitalist class out of the crisis by the bootstraps of a “BUY NOW” campaign succeed? It cannot because the poverty of the masses is growing not less, but greater! In the face of a steadily declining REAL wage, CAUSED BY N.R.A. RISING PRICES AND A CHEAP- ENED CURRENCY, the workers listen to the implor- against Roosevelt's ing cries of Roosevelt to “buy now,” and they answer—" “With what?” e Silent on Hunger ISTEN as carefully as you may to the speeches of LaGuardia, McKee, O’Brien, you will not hear one word of discussion on the basic, crying needs of the city’s vast masses of toling workers, ‘What do the workers of the city need at once? They need immediate relief, immediate cash payment to provide against the coming winter. They need lower rents, lower water rates. What does O'Brien say on these subjects? Nothing. What does McKee say on this subject? Not a word. And La Guardia, the “friend of the people?” All he has to say is that he will not increase the O’Brien starvation relief appropriations, but that he will ad- minster them “more scientifically.” ~ About taxing the Morgan bankers, neither of these candidates has a word to say. About relieving the small home-owners—not a word. About wage cuts—only ominous hints about the “necessity” for economy. Behind all these candidates, for all their seemingly roughhouse attacks on one, another, stand leading representatives of millionaire Wall Street cliques. ‘That's why on the fundamental Issue of relief for the starving jobless city's workers, these candidates are one in their silence, Because they are all united, despite their minor dif- ferences about the division of the rich graft and plunder of the city treasury, on one fundamental issue—pro- tecting the Wall Street bankers against the working class. Robert Minor, the Confmunist candidate for Mayor, alone of all the candidates, demands the immediate transferring of the huge Wall Street funds for the re- lief of the starving jobless workers. He alone, speak= ing in the interests of the working class, fights for the stopping of all payments to Wall Street in order that Roosevelt's veiled “red-batting” reference to “in- | the city may be able to feed the jobless. of oppression and ex- | THE EAGLE’S NEST 1934”—Morgenthau, US.DiplomatAdmits All Europe Feverishly Arming as Geneva Farce. Goes On NEW YORK.—War in Edrope in 1934 is inevitable, according to Ex- | Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, New York financier and Chairman of the | American delegation to the World Wheat Conference. “It is foreshadowed by signs ominously -similar to those which were clearly visible in Europe in 1913,” he added. “War would have come during recent months but for two facts: “First—The nations wanted this year’s crops. in before facing the inevitable. test. “Seconds-Dominant leaders want to avoid the stigma of ‘aggression.’ They have sought what might be made to appear as ‘just’ cause for a war of ‘defense.’ “The disarmament discussions at Geneva até a fine example of hypoc- risy or farce; The economic burden of armaments is increasing, and with it ‘war pressure.’ At some point, over an incident,.some nation will decide to risk all.dt one fling—preferring that andthe “‘long-odds chance of gain to the ‘prolonged agony of a hopeless economic outlook,’ Morgen- thau admitted. o. 8) 8 LONDON, Oct. 8—Greai Britain will include an additional 100 high- speed attack planes in the coming | air budget, and many thousands of | New sailors are to be recruited for the navy, it was announced today. Fifty new warships are to be con- structed during the coming year, re- ports added. Navy spokesmen re- fused to comment on these reports. The Belgian War Ministry is ask- ing’ over $31,000,000 for the construc- tion of concrete machine gun “pill- boxes” along the German frontier, So ws PARIS, Oct. 8—France will not disarm unless a definite arms reduc- tion program were formally accepted by the big powers, Premier Daladier announced today in a speech at. Vichy. on. ate GENEVA, Oct. 8.—Nothing will be done during the coming week in the disarmament farce now being played at Geneva, while the major imperi- alist powers jockey for advantage, “War Inevitable By Soviet Industry | i} | ets | Locomotive Production { - By VER! }or 95 more: than during the cor- responding period of 1932. The output of coal for the first nine months of 1933 totalled 51.713,000 tons, fulfilling the program by 14.8 percent more than during the cor- responding period of 1932. The coke outnut for the same nine months was 19.4 percent over. the production from January 1 to October 1, 1932. . The output of iron ore mines rove 5.9 percent during September over the August’ figures, and over the total for September, 1933. Pig Iron Rise 122 Percen During the first three quar of the current year 5,135,009 tons of pig iron were smelted, a 13.4 percent in- crease over the same period in 1932. Pig iron outnut rose 7.8 percent in September over\the Augus! figures, ‘and were 122.4 percent over the Sep- tember 1932 level. Jump in Steel 110 Percent. Steel output during the past nine months was 110 percent higher than in the same period in 1932. Output in. September was 39.2 percent over September last year. Rolling mill production in Septem- ber 1933 was 35.4 percent higher than @ year ago. During September copper output rose 7.4 percent over last month and 24.4 percent over September 1932. Average daily production of oil ir September increased 10.3 percent over August and 26.2 percent over Sep- tember a year ago. The output of the Azerbaidjan oil fields rose 14.1 percent in September over August and was 167.5 percent over the level one year ago. ~ following Germany’s recent re-arm- ing ultimatum. The French hope that the brusque German refusal to disarm may draw Italy away from the German-Italian front, while the delegations of Britain and the United States were feverishly trying to keep Shows Steady ras 34.2 percent | the Conference from giving up the ghost altogether. By Burek y Output Rapid Rise Up 19 Per Cent As Oil Steel and Pig Iron Rise More Than (Moscow Correspondent of the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Oct. 8.—Statictics of production in the basic branches of in- dustry in the Soviet Union show a stea the first year of the second Five-Year Plan. Transportation in the Soviet Union received further impetus during the first three quarters of 1933 with locomotive plants turning out 694 locomotives, dy rise from month to month during | | | | | | | | | DIMITROFF RIDICULES NAZI POLICE BUNGLING IN LEIPZIG FIRE TRIAL Torgler Rips Nazi Shreds; Exposes Prosecution Fabrice to Police Lies About His “Attempted Flight” (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) German Communist leader. “I never knew Stoecker,” he ad- ded, “All the ciphers were different. Your police officials must learn to do a better job of deciphering. “The court must know that differ- ent cipher systems exist, since the Nazis are working illegally in Aus- tria and Czechoslovakia,” Dimitrofft declared bitingly. Judge Buenger interrupted him, and did not allow him to finish his| ‘statement. When arrested, Dimitroff had fifty marks and ten dollars in his pockets, while Taneff had seventy dollars and twenty marks. The police then testified on the circumstances of the Bulgarians’ ar- rest, They received a tip on March 7 from headwaiter Hellmer, of the Bayerischer Hof Restaurant on Pots damerplatz in Berlin. Hellmer claimed that Van der Lubbe was also a patron of the Bay- erischer Hof, where Dimitroff, Popoft and Taneff were actually arrested, but other waiters failed to corrobo- rate his’ testimony. No Connection With Van der Lubbe Van der Lubbe testified, “I never was in the Bayerischer Hof.” It is impossible for a man in Van der Lubbe's disreputable clothing to en- ter this fine restaurant. Dimitroff interrupted, saying: “I was in Munich on the day of the fire, but this pet witness says he saw me in Berlin. I have a witness, the Austrian writer Jacobus Rosner, who can testify as to my presence in Munich.” Judge Buenger asked: “Where is this witness?” Assistant Prosecutor Parisius: “His address is unknown.” Dimitroff replied: “The court must 1,000,000 Petitions te Demand U.S. Keep lis Hands Off Cuba NEW YORK.—One million _ peti- tions are being distributed by the Anti-Imperialist League, 33 E. 20th St., New York, addressed to President Roosevelt and protesting vigorously against the presence of American warships in Cuban waters as an act of war against the Cuban people. The petitions demand that “the United States cease its policy of intervention in Cuban affairs, that the Platt Amendment be immediately termi- nated, and the Guantanamo naval base be evacuated.” It is of extremely great importance that the signatures of the entire working population of the United States be gotten for these petitions, which will mobilize mass sentiment in America against the interventionist policy of the Wall Street lords of fi- nance. , Red Flag Flying Over Boston Common Urges “Hands Off Cuba!” BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 7.—A big red flag flew from the 200-foot flagpole high over Boston Common yesterday with the inscription, “Hands Off Cuba!” The halyards had been cut and it took! hours before a_ steeplejack climbed the pole and hauled down the flag. The »workers of Boston demonstrated against American in- tervention in Cuba on the Common at 2 p.m. today. National Committee Meets for Drive on Hitler Fascism Here NEW YORK.—Plans for a nation- wide drive against German Fascism were laid at an enlarged meeting of the National Committee to Aid Vic- tims of German Fascism, held in the main auditorium of the New School for Social Research, with Henri Bar- busse and Professor Alfons Gold- schmidt leading the discussion. Walter Orloff, a student impris- oned in Germany by the Nazis; Her- bert Klein, a correspondent residing in Berlin at the time of the Reichstag fire, and David Levinson, attorney for the LL.D., who has just returned from an unsuccessful attempt to help defend the Leipzig prisoners, also spoke. Both Barbusse and Goldschmidt told about the situation in Germany, the growing fascist movement in Eu- rope, the spreading movement under the leadership of the Comite Inter- national d’Aide aux Victims du Fas- cisme Hitlerien, with which the na- tional committee here is affiliated. Valuable suggestions for broaden- ing the work of the national commit- tee were made in the discussion. Es- tablishing committees in the neigh- borhoods, a stronger movement among Jewish people, a greater num- ber of pamphlets and larger collec- tions of funds to aid the victims, de- manding asylum for victims in this country, and spreading the boycott, were matters discussed. Henri Barbusse closed by saying that special attention should be paid to collecting funds and that “every contributor is a fighter against Hitler fascism and its atrocities.” be able to find him, even if he’s i a concentration camp.” Both Popoff and Taneff declared that they had never seen Van der Lubbe in the Bayerischer Hof, : Judge Buenger then read some more affidavits, alleging that Dimi- troff had other unknown confeder- ates, ’ Dimitroff exclaimed: “Fairy tales, out.of the Arabian Nights!” He also pointed out that, although he_had five or six picture postcards in his pocket when he was arrested, the police had used only two, show- ing. views of the Reichstag and the Imperial Palace. Dimitroff Hits Prosecution Dimitroff scored again against the prosecution, when he proved that up to the end of March the police had based their case on a woman wit- ness who claimed to have seen Van der Lubbe with him in the restau- tant the day before the fire, but when they couldn't deny that he had been in Munich at the time, the wo 'man had disappeared. . * 8 Torgler Establishes Alibi AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER et; 7 (Via Zurich, Switzerland).— Attorney General Werner continued his attack on the “Brown Book” and the London counter-trial in Friday’s afternoon session, He declared: “The commission of inquiry had the im- | pudence to send a protest telegram to the Supreme Court.” Werner pro- 4ested against this “in the name*of German justice.” Torgler, again on the stand, was asked where he went on the night of the fire after leaving Stavitzki's restaurant. He replied that he spent the night at Kuehne’s home, which was proof that he was not afraid of being arrested, since Kuehne was a well-known Communist. 4 Goes To Headquarters On the morning of February 28, Torgler went to Berlin Police Head- quarters together with two lawyers, Rosenfeld and Kirchensteiner, to , refute rumors accusing the Commu- 7 nist Party of having burned the | Reichstag. ‘The testimony of several / police witnesses show their imprés- * sion that Torgler made no effort te avoid arrest. _ ‘Testimony was then introduced against Popoff, including receipts for sums of money. Popoff replied that the money was for books and news- ber it for distribution to Bulgarian refugees abroad, especially in France. Judge Buenger insinuated that Popoff had expended large sums of money without giving any account of ‘har. + Popoff refuted this lie, ‘stressing that receipts , stating the exact amounts had been sent to the Bul- garian Communist Party. : “The prosecution then attempted te connect Popoff with the fire, pointing - out the sums were paid out to ® certain Peter and Bruno before | fire. Popoff said that these two men + had no connection with the fire. General Strike Threat If Reactionary Forms Spanish Government MADRID, Oct. 8.—Formation of the new Spanish cabinet was turned over to Martinez Barrios, reaction- ary leader, by President Alcala Za~ mora yesterday, who gave Barrios power to dissolve the Cortes if he | failed to obtain a majority vote. ‘The Spanish labor unions have threatened to call a general strike if Barrios forms a government, while Cortes’ deputies are planning to de- clare themselves in permanent ses- sion and defy the dissolution order. In a stirring appeal for the sup- port of the American masses, the representative of the Communist Party of Cuba outlined the program of the revolutionary Cuban’ workers and peasants and called for “Hands Off Cuba!” in his address before the United States Congress Against War, held in New York City a week ago. “Any attempt at. military inter- vention will'be met by the bitterest, mass resistance,” the Cuban repre- sentative declared. “We appeal to you to prevent the destruction of our cities and villages. Prevent the war of your bankers against the Cuban people! “In the name of the workers, pea- sants, soldiers and sailors, students’ and anti-imperialists of Cuba, who are engaged in a revolutionary life and death battle against the whole system of feudal and colonial op- pression, who are engaged in an his- toric fight for bread, land and free~ dom, the Communist Party of Cuba warmly greets this Congress of anti- war fighters. “Brothers, Sisters, Comrades! “The Cuban Revolution is on the march! 'The Cuban people is awake- ning with lightning rapidity from their century-old existence of misery and want, to achieve an independent, happy existence. They are breaking the chains which keep them bound to the enslaving chariot of exploi~ tation and oppression. “The horrible regime of Machado has crumbled before the revolution- which carried out the general of the August days, has stood in very center of this struggle. Communist Party of Cuba has the working class in this great movement which resulted in~ Cuban Co $ Delegate at U. 8. Congress Again st War Urges American Masses to ’ Fight Intervention and Prevent Landing of Marines in Cuba ror. “But the end of Machado is not the end of misery and starvation in Cuba. The railroad and tobacco workers, the workers of the sugar mills and plantations, the .Negro toilers, native and West Indian, live under conditions of semi-serfdom, they are downtrodden, exploited and oppressed. The peasants ‘are still deprived of their land. They toil under a barbarous, feudal system, bound hand and foot through the |} taxation of the bourgeois-landlord government. The fall of Machado has not given and cannot give work to the half million unemployed. Cuba 48 not free from foreign domination. “These are the underlying reasons ‘for the onward march of’ the Revo- lution.” This is why we see today, before our very eyes, mounting strikes in the sugar mills and plantations, in“the tobacco factories and fields, among the railroad workers, port workers and seamen, among the tex- tile and shoe workers. This is why the workers, in their desperation, are even seizing mills and factories. “The peasants are fighting for land and against the millstone of debt, texation and other feudal tributes which weigh on them. In the Oriente Province. the Negroes are rising against national oppression. “Ours is a historic gle, against feudal slavery, for the radival better- ment of our economic conditions and for freedom. Ours is a fight against the native capitalists and landlords and their government of Grau San Martin, and the domination of Amer- AB.C., the Union Nacionalista, the| representing the interests and as- Menocal faction, the Directorio Estu-|pirations of all toilers. diantil and its San Martin Govern- ment, cringe before the rising tide of the revolution. Terror-stricken, they strive to check its onward march and will call upon Wall Street to land its marines in order to defeat the revolutionary aspirations of the masses. They are auickly gathering the forces of counter-revolution in order to crush the rising revolutionary wave headed by the National Con- federation of Labor and the Commu- nist Party of Cuba, “The Grau San Martin Government represents the Cuban classes. It crawls before American imperialism and is preparing: a mili- tary bloodbath for the Cuban people in order to safeguard these vested in- terests. “The Roosevelt government has sent thirty warships to Cuban waters. They have been sent not to “protect American lives,” but rather to crush our revolutionary movement and safeguard the huge investments of Wall Street. Not a single American in ‘Cuba has suffered injury. No one will suffer injury who d not take the lives of the Cuban lers, who does not actively stand in their way in the battle against hunger and for freedom. “The Communist Party of Cuba offers the only solution to the anarchy and ruin brought about by the native and foreign exploiters. It shows the way*to bread, land and freedot m. “But this solution will only be by the revolutionary overthrow of the propertied | bourgeois-landlord government which handful of) Only the power in the hands of the workers, peasants and soldiers can be a guar- antee against the revival of the bloody rule of the Machados and their like. “The workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment of Cuba will radically better the conditions of the workers, peas- ants and the toiling masses. It will guarantee the 8-hour day to all workers on the plantations as well as in the cities, it will give land to the peasants and sweep away feudalism in the countryside. It will give work to the unemployed... It will establish a system of social insurance. “The workers’ and peasants’ gov~ ernment of Cuba, knowing itself the pangs of colonial oppression, will un- hesitatingly give the right to self- determination to the point of sep- aration to the Oriente Province where the Negroes are in the vast majority, at the same time guaranteeing full social, political and economic equality to all Negroes throughout the island. | fight for ‘and real independence for Cuba, the age- long dream of the masses, large to foreign capitalists for free dis- It will nat banking, transport takings in possession of the imperial-} ists. mmunist Party Asks for U.S. Workers’ Support - artd sailors’ committees. “We appeal to you, and through you,-to the workers and farmers of the United States, to all honest men and women, for. support at this decisive Hime Remember the fight you waged against British rule in 1776. Outs, too; is a fight for independence. Do not-believe that we are “anti-Amer- icans.” We know that the overwhelms ing mass of the people in your coun- try are toilers, our brothers and sisters who suffer under the rule of the same exploiters as we. strike wave and the farmers’ country, this very gathering representing tens of thousands of anti-war fighters prove.this to. us ‘conelusively, s “The. Communist Party of Cut, ‘Warns all enemies of the Cuba masses that any attempt at Yhtervention at this time or when the power of the oe -peas- H - i He ‘worl is established, will be met Lagi bitterest mass resistance. We put every man into the the will find allies among the toflers of South and Central ‘We will stand our ground to fm’ the face of all of the and the menace of bit not cede an inch of our soil, our freedom. =v tion, with every resource nd we wil fight to ¥