The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1933, Page 6

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Recognition and the Socialist Party of the Sovie ugh the United States, as throughout th when it became known that the United States reco; . and mo one feels more sincerely happy than the Social- atest cause to doubt pt on your “sincerity,” Union, You sup- jon the intervention- ts, Dan and Abra- nee that you printed rvation and cannibalism in your straining at put- r the fact that you now han ever before spread your lying t the Soviet Government. deepest enthusiasm and joy the Socialist Party for this joviet Union, led by the Com- nd Stalin. This joy you share , but fight against vith more hatr yrovocatio’ ng unburdened the es of this lip-service they p ed to yeoman service for those vho want war against the Soviet Union, or dread this ~ ‘feat victory of the arian Dictatorship. The Jewish Daily “Forward” vituperates on reeog- tition conditions as follows: “With these words (referring to section 4 of the Tecognition terms) that are underlined here nothing + else is meant than the Communist International and nething couki be meant. The Washington news- Paper correspondents have specifically declared, and Mot out of their own sleeves, that for the first time G the Soviet Government pledged itself to ourb the Communist International.” = The Daily Worker, in its leading editorial yester- dy answered the root of all these dis- emphasis which the Socialist “Forward” misinterpretations by saying that cer- adents “have specifically declaréd” that | \t the capitalists desire to cover up the unpalatable 6 of having been forced to reverse their policy. | Zt is an open defense of American capitalism’s teat in reversing its recognition policy through the idest distortion of the facts amd of the recognition -onditions, eee ee we HAT is the purpose of it for the Socialist leaders? They must cover up the bankruptcy of the Second # nternational, of the failure of the which they jupported to s y must cover .§iD the success of the proletarian revolution in the WieS Union. And the manner in which they seek ed counter-revolutionary deeds i$ More extreme than the most vicious of the capitalist aress, Just as the Fishes, Wolls, and Easleys try to dis- Pupt the established relations on the basis of trying Po identify the Soviet Government and the Communist ist “Forward” rushes forward on-existent identity. They ack the Communist Party of the wurden their venom against the s at tt hammer and tongs, n in order to make its point. efers to V ni g” of the meaning of the recog- jnition terms with reference to the Communist Inter- However, the “Forward” slinks when it tomes to taking credit for own Washington cor- *espondent who questioned Litvinoff in an éffort to <ead things into the recognition terms that do not here exist. HY is the “Forward” hi categorical answer? i) “The Thi } the documen eowas intended. ~ But such r answers do not satisfy those bent | War provocations. It does not satisfy those who Maye so much to hide in their past and in their present. the capitalist pr which made the same ar- ment, did not dare to come to such conclusions, from Socialist leaders. ‘This is open and unabashed war provocation by Socialist leaders in the United States. It lays the logical basis for a rupture of relations with the the American exploiters how enever they want to take it. silent on Litvinoff's clear -and Litvinoff declared: ‘'d International is not mentioned in fou must not read into it more than B MUST remember and impress indelibly on the S of all workers that it was the Socialist lead- ty, who through the use of the forged “Zinoviev let- that helped British imperialism to break relations Pefore with the Soviet Union. It was the very Socialist leaders in Germany, who later paved ay for Hitler, who themselves raided the offices Soviet trade organizations in Germany in 1925 Tifled the safes of the Soviet Embassy in Berlin the same cry that the Socialist “Forward” uths today in the United States. Nothing irks the Socialist leaders more than the whelming and tremendous support of the American Masses for the establishment of relations. They could brush aside the deep feeling for the Soviet Union among the American masses. They hate, with all the Sounter-revolutionary yenom in their heart, to admit dbvious facts. IAT do the Am #7) Ehey see a land workers see in recognition? by the workers and peasants 1ey see the growing economic, 4 litical and military strength of the Soviet Union, ting its bitterest enemies in the camp of capital- 4 @nd the Second Inte remember your support | with your is Communist International will be curbed, is exactly | Donald and Henderson, of the British Labor | of the Green-Lewis strikebreaking bureaucracy, bound up with the N.R.A., see the wider ser ion between the working masses and their A. F. of L. and Socialist leaders. They know that the warm support t: gave to the N.R.A. as @ solution 1 t crisis is causing deep questioning and file of the Socialist Party. These me Sock workers look with more and more sym- pathy to the revolutionary way out of the crisis, sym- bolized in flaming letters by the victory of the Five- Year an and Socialist construction im the Soviet Union. | Hence we find the Socialist “Forward,” answering the Daily Worker editorial on “Soviet Recognition and the Ame an Workers” with the following He out of whole cloth “And this is written at a time when everyone knows that the organized workingmass in the United States were the ONLY ones who consistently fought | bitterly against recognition.” ° * . ES, Socialist leaders, you are bound up with Messrs. Green, Woll and Lewis, who broke the strike of the coal miners and stee] workers, fought against any steps towards recognition of the Soviet Union. You lost no | occasion to slander the Soviet Union and its alms, You, | Socialist leaders, are still continuing your support for | Dan and Abramovitch, proved tools of the Deterdings and Hugenbergs, working for armed intervention in the | Soviet Union to restore capitalism. | On this question you never spoke for the rank and | file of the American Federation of Labor. | Need we mention the hundreds of resolutions en- dorsed by local unions of the A. F. of L. during all the years when American capitalism resisted recognition to re this fact? It is true that by your deeds, you have “consistently fought bitterly against recognition,” as you, Green and Lewis have fought bitterly and consistently against | the efforts of the American workers to beat back the | bosses’ attack throughout the whole period of crisis, The entire provocation of the Socialist leaders, es- | pecially as expressed by Mr. Lee and the Socialist | “Forward,” centres about two basic points: 1) In the interest of American capitalism they seek to identify | the Soviet Union with the Communist International, | and “warn” American capitalism about this danger; | | giving it a platform for further intrigugs; and war agaiunst the Workers’ Fatherland. 2) They want to confuse the masses on the meaning of recognition to cover up the bankruptcy of the program of the Second International which hailed the N.R.A. and its Fascist | deeds; with its policy of the “lesser” evil paving the way for Fascism in all capitalist countries: with its treacher- | ous program of collaboration with tH ruling class | parties as a “peaceful” road to Socialism. Out of the filth and mud with which the Socialists | Seek to surround the significance of this great historical victory of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republies certain facts stand out with impelling boldness, | * . . IN THE Soviet Union, under the leadership of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party, the party of Lenin and Stalin, a classless society is being constructed. In the capitalist countries, the workers are being driven to deeper misery and war. Only under the leadership of the Communist Party can they achieve their libera- t only through the revolutionary way, through the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of their own Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Every wo. in following and studying the experi- nce of the Russian proletariat and its party in over- throwing capitalism and building’ Socialism, will find in it the greatest lessons and inspiration. 'VERY section of the Communist International, lead- ing the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism the world over, grows out of the class struggle in its own country. that country and is the vanguard of the revolutionary proletariat in the struggle for the overthrow of capital- ism, | These parties, fighting their own capitalism, recog- | nize that their most important weapon in the world, in the fight against their own exploiters and world capitalism, is the revolutionary teachings of Lenin and Stalin, builders of the Workers’ Fatherland, leaders of the world proletariat for the final victory of the world revolution. These war provocations of the Socialist leaders, under the Judas cloak of “joy,” will not keep the work- | ers from seeing the victory for the Sovtet Union; it will not becloud the main issue—the victory of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union and the decay of world capitalism. And against the war provocation and counter-revolutionary propaganda of the Socialist leaders, the Communist Party of the United States will carry on the sharpest struggles, winning the Broad masses of toilers and especially the honest Socialist workers for the overthrow of capitalism and the build- ing of a classless so : The Unemployed Convention id SCARCELY seven weeks, on Jan. 13, 14, 15, the mass national unemployed convention will be held in Washington, D. C. The preparations for this con- vention come at a time when President Roosevelt 1s engaged in the most far reaching attack on the un- employed workers, removing two million workers with- in the month from relief rolls. The Roosevelt program, now being put into effect, would nullify the militant battles of the unemployed workers of past months, who, through mass action, have forced the government to give at least a small part of the jobless workers inadequate relief. In- stead, Roosevelt’s plan condemns the unemployed to forced labor, The entire preparations for the National Unemployed Convention should center around a fight against the Roosevelt forced labor scheme. The call printed in the Daily Worker on Nov, 11 demands the immediate development of struggles for the local demands of the unemployed workers, and the working out of Workers Relief budgets. The local relief struggles are to be linked up with the national struggle for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The plan includes the immediate calling of local and county united front unemployed conferences, to take place in the middle of December. The national convention preparations are an answer to the N.R.A. Public Works program, which gave the unemployed nothing. They are an answer to Roosevelt's forced labor program, which is already removing the un- employed from the relief rolls. The convention, to meet, the attacks of the Roosevelt government, must be a broad unity convention, including representatives of unemployed organizations additional to the Unem- ployed Councils, particularly A. F. of L. locals; T.U.U.L. and independent unions; veterans; Negroes; youth and women; farmers and small homeowners. But the campaign for the convention has not gone forward quickly enough. Only a few cities, such as Detroit and Pittsburgh, and the West Coast, report in- tensified unemployment struggles or the calling of local conferences, The campaign for the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill is still lagging. The intensified crisis, the renewed attacks of- Roosevelt on the unemployed, calls for a change in the method of preparing this convention of the un- employed. The preparations must not be left for hur- ried and superficial emergency measures in the last two weeks, The convention must be based on the struggles of the unemployed, must be based on a broad struggle for unity of all unemployed workers, regardless of organization and on unity of the em- ployed and unemployed, The directives of the Unem- ployed Councils should at once be put into action in all districts and all cities, It is composed of the exploited workers of | neni aa oT NESDAY, Pei enn hey NOVEMBER 22, 1933 ‘Financial Panic | Grips Canton As Chiang Rule Splits |Ten Banks Close; War Lords Grab Money for Escape CANTON, China, Noy. 20,—A finan- cial panic has gripped this city on the report that Fukien province has seceded from Nanking today. Ten banks have already failed and most of the others are closing up. Currency notes of the General Chen Chi Tang government are worthless. General Chen Chi Tang has been co- operating with Nanking in attacking the Central Soviet District in Kiangsi. There is a run on all banks in Can- ton. Rumors are that government leaders, fearing a new uprising and militarist war as a result of the Fu- kien separation, are collecting all the funds they can in silver and gold for @ quick departure. | _ In Fukien the new government, in- dependent of Nanking has already been formed. It is designated the “Chinese National Great Allied Rev- olutionary Government,” and con-| sists of a hodge-podge of Chinese} landlord-capitalist politicians, rang- ing from extreme rights to left phrase mongers. The new government, backed by British and Japanese imperialism, leading to the further dismember- ment of China, is headed by General Chen Ming Shu, who formerly was minister of post and communications in the Nanking regime; General Tsai Ting Kai, head of the 19th Route Army, also a ciose friend of Chiang | Kai Shek and participant in the Anti- | Soviet war; Li Chai Sam, former | British-supported general in Kwang- tung province, and Eugene Chen, |man of many alliances, especially | those most profitable, 1696 Workers Jailed by Japanese Police ‘in New “Red” Raids TOKIO, Nov. 22—In a series of} |sudden raids under the Japanese | | “Dangerous Thoughts” law, Tokio| | police yesterday arrested. 1,696 mem- | bers of labor unions, affiliated with |the National Council of Labor | Unions. | The police charged that the | Council and its members oppose imperialist wars, support the na- | tional liberation struggles of the Korean and Formossan masses against Japanese imperialism, and oppose war against the Soviet Union, } | The round-up of suspected Com- munists began last January with the | | arrest of over 7,000 persons, suspected | | with membership in, or sympathy | with, the illegal Japanese Communist | Party, which, despite the most brutal | | fascist terror, is carrying on an he-| | roic struggle against Japanese robber | | war on China and the increasing war provocations against the Soviet | Union. | eS aN UE 'U. S. Contacts Soviet /Ambassador in Turkey | ISTAUMBUL, Nov. 21.—Establish-') jing contact with the Soviet Embassy | for the first time, Robert F. Skinner, | U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, made a| courtesy call yesterday on the Soviet Ambassador, Jacques Souritch. The latter immediately returned the call, The fact that Turkey has long en- joyed amiable relations with the So- viet Government, which, from the very first repudiated the Tsarist im- perialist designs on the Dardanelles, and that Souritch is the dean of the diplomatic corps at Ankara, enjoying the fullest confidence of the Turkish people, gives particular importance to the creation of Soviet-American con- tacts here. U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Military Training in School WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. — The United States Supreme Court today upheld the right of the University of Maryland to enforce a ruling provid- ing for compulsory military training. One of the students of the Univer- sity had demanded exemption from the compulsory training required by the University on the grounds that he was a conscientious objector. The Court denied his plea, Editor's Note: —The following urgent appeal from the heroic Com- munist Party of Cuba has just been received by the American Commu- nist Party. It emphasizes the necessity for renewing the struggle against Wall Street imperialist in- tervention and against exploitation of the Cuban Masses. Communist Party of Cuba (Section of the Communist Interna- tional) Central Committee To the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U. S. Comrades: We urgently appeal to the Com- munist Party of the United States, and through it to the workers and farmers of the United States, to in- tensify its actions of solidarity with the revolutionary movement which is developing in Cuba under the leader- ship of the Communist Party and the National Confederation of Labor. More Murder ‘The wave of terror which the Grau San Martin-Batista government has unleashed against the working mas- ses who are struggling for bread and land, is without precedent in the bloody history of the bourgeois-land- RELIEF A-LA-ROOSEVELT! * Helping the Daily Worker throug! original Wrawings of Burck’s cartoons: th bidding for the | —By Burck B. Bert House Party wins yesterday's cartoon with a bid of $15. Other bids, F. Frey, $1. Total to date, $239. (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Noy. 21 (By Radio).— In a leading article on the renewal) of relations between the U. S. A. and the U. 8. S. R., “Izvestia” writes: “If we disregard the contradictions in principle between the system in| the U. S. S. R. and the regime of all) capitalist countries, and then _be-/| tween the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A,, the latter contradictions are less than between the U. S. 8. R, and any other capitalist power. Precisely | because the U. S, A. 1s the biggest | capitalist country, it emphasizes most clearly the difference between two social systems, and attempts to act as the representative of general capi- talist interests. Position of U. S. “The U.S.A. was aided in this by its territorial size and great relative importance, permitting it to cherish the hope that it could manage with- out establishing normal relations with the U. S. S. R. Its geographic situation, the tremendous distances separating the U. S. A. from the U. S. S. R., strengthened its convic- tion that collaboration with the U. S. S. R. was not required, and that the absence of normal relations would not cause serious harm to this big transatlantic country. The Eu- ropean powers, without American re- sources, raw materials and without wide home markets on the American scale, needed us as buyer and as sup- plier of raw material. The European powers were in daily contact with us in solving European and Near East problems. They could not refuse to establish normal diplomatic relations with the U. S. S. R. merely for the sake of non-recognition of the So- cialist system. Therefore, they rec- ognized the U. 8. S. R. earlier. Crisis Forced Recognition “But the exceptional situation of the United States, which permitted the leaders of American capitalism to conduct a policy of refusal to establish normal diplomatic relations with the U. S. S. R. proved to be a product of the imagination in the light of historic experience. “The world economic crisis shook the whole world, and no capitalist power, even the strongest, could say that it could solve its own economic problerns isolated from the others. The picture of exceptional growth of productive forces in the USSR. inevitably compelled even the most stubborn representatives of capital- ism to think whether they could re~ main outside economic relations with such an enormous and increasing economic power as the Soviet Union. “The convulsions caused by the crisis in the U. S. A—the most pow- Reasons for U. §. Recognition of the U.S.S.R. Discussed by “Tevestia”’ a wide and deep unrest in the minds of that country. “The tremendous interest in which the capitalist world calls ‘The Soviet Experiment, and the efforts to find a planned basis in the organization of economy, at- tempts to regulate the contradic- tory forces of monopolist capital- ism now being tried in the U.S.A. formed the component parts of a complex which compelled the White House to remove the juridical bar- rier between the U. S. A. and the U.S. S. R. Connections Existed “In the first interview given by Litvinoff to the American press he very correctly mentioned that non-| recognition of the U. S&S. S. R. did not change the fact that between the U. S. S. R. and the U.S. A. in reality there was already established very close economic, cultural and po- litical connections, finding their ex- pression in the visits of a large num- ber of Americans to the U.S. S. R., their work in the U. S. S. R,, and also the visits of a Jarge number of Soviet citizens to the U. S. A. Sim- ilarly it was an illusion that in po- litical matters the U. S. A. could avoid contacts with the U. S. S. R. The Disarmament Conference was the best proof of this. Land and sea armaments are closely connected. The problem of the European debts to the U. S. A. are connected with the question of armaments. But this question is impossible to solve with- out the participation of the U. S. S. R. The U. S. A. had to collaborate at the Disarmament Conference with the Soviet Union which it had not recognized. The U. S. S. R. is not only a great European power, but also a great Asiatic power. The U. S. A. as a Pacific country is a part- ner in all Asiatic questions, inter- ested in the maintenance of peace in Asia. Without detriment to itself and to the cause of world peace, it was impossible for the U, 8S. A. to continue its former policy of refusal to establish normal relations with the U.S. S. R. Enormous Importance .-“The establishment of normal dip- lomatic relations between the U, S. R. and the U, S, A. is thus of enormous historic importance as an act terminating the struggle of the capitalist world against recognition of the fact that the present day world consists of two systems—cani- talist and socialist—terminates the struggle against recognition of the juridical equality of the socialist system, “Establishment of normal diplo- matic relations between the U.S.S.R. erful capitalist power—gave rise to and the U. S. A. is of tremendous practical importance for the solu- tion of the political questions now facing the whole world. It forms the legal basis for economic relations be- tween both countries which must in- evitably lead to widening and devel- oping these relations. The realiza- tion of their mutual interests in mu- tual relations by both great powers was undoubtedly a stimulus in mak- ing it possible for the government of the U. S. A. to overcome not only its traditional objections on_ principle against recognition of the U. 8. S. R., but also difficulties consisting in the existence of a certain number of un- solved problems for the regulation of which normal diplomatic relations create the best grounds and provide the best means. Public Opinion “The decision of President Frank- lin D. Roosevelt was not improvised in the White House. It was the re- sult of the development of relations between two countries and a lengthy struggle for the recognition of the U. S. S. R. carried on by progressive elements of the American bour- geoisie, not to mention strata of the American nation sympathizing with the Soviet Union in prifi€iple. Peace Policy “The Soviet Government and pub- lic opinion in our country tried in every way to draw the U.S.A. nearer. They did this on the basis of their peace policy, their daily struggle for the preservation of peace. Collabora- tion with the U. S. A. was undoubi- edly one of the most powerful means of assuring peace. The fact of estab- lishment of normal diplomatic rela- tions between the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A. should be regarded as a great victory for our peace policy. In addition, public opinion in the Soviet Union expects from Soviet- America rapprochment an extension and development of business connec- tions for both countries. Public opinion in the Soviet Union highly values American business sense. Even in 1924 Stalin considered it necessary to say to the Russian workers: ‘American business sense is antidote against ‘revolutionary’ day- 8.| dreaming and fantastic imaginations. American business sense is an un- tameable force knowing no barriers, sweeping away all obstacles by its practical insistence, which cannot help completing matters once. they are begun, even if they are small mat- ters, and without which serious con-. struction work would be impossible.’ | American Business “Pointing out the danger of de- terioration of American business sense into unprincipled ‘practicality,’ he appealed to unite it with Russian Cuban Communists Send Call for Aid to U. S. Cuban Soldiers Jail 80 in Raid on Tobacco Union 2 SHOT FOR PROTEST ON WAGE CUT Conference Arranges Greetings to U. S. Workers’ Groups NEW YORK—The American workers’ delegation of the Anti- Imperialist League will leave New York Thursday for Havana. Sate HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 21— Police and soldiers raided the center of the Tobacco Workers Union after five o’clock yester- day: afternoon. Over 80 workers were arrested among them Cesarr Vilar, secretary of the National Labor Confederation, all printing press workers, the youth secretary of the Confederation, who was later released. The soldiers burned all papers of the union and wrecked the print shop, Loret de Mola, Secretary of Labor, made a speech over the smouldering ashes of the print shop, saying that he is a Socialist of the extreme left. Guiteras, the Secretary of State, arrived late to assist in identifying the prisoners. The cause of the raid was the preparation of a general strike of tobacco workers against a Jock-out declared by the companies in reply to a powerful united front organization movement of the work~ ers led by the Confederation. The situation calls for action by the Trade Union Unity League and all other workers’ organizations in the United States against the terror, All factories here are mobilizing for protest. Sunday morning, soldiers raided the district conference of youth organiza- tions in Matanzas, arresting 21 dele- gates, and later occupying the whole city in response to “an emergency | situation.” The terror is being increased as the date for the arrival of the American Workers’ Delegation comes near. The landlords, capitalists and im- perialist government tries to prevent any effective show of strength of the Cuban proletariat in greeting the American representatives. This will fail as is assured by the Confederation and other leading or | ganizations. Conference for Greeting - Today a conference takes place for arranging the greetings to the dele- gation. The most outstanding act of ter= |ror is the assassination of two work- ers in Central Senado, as a result of their refusal to accept a wage cut of the company. Eye-witnesses report the attack on the workers by soldiers was an open, cold-blooded | murder. Latest news received indicates that Cesar Vilar was badly beaten when detained. Welles Returns WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—U. 5. Ambassador Welles, who has just con- ferred with Roosevelt on the Cuban situation, and received the full sup- | port of the president for his counter- l revolutionary decds, will leave this week for Havana to continue his acts against the Cuban masses. Machado Wants to Feel “Safe” POUGHKEEPSIE.—Gerardo Mach- ado, former bloody dictator of Cuba, declared through his chief aide that he will not return to Cuba until he is assured that he can live quietly as a private citizen. revolutionary scope. In an interview with the German writer, Emil Lud- wig, Comrade Stalin pointed out that jt is the absence among representa- tives of American capitalism and technical world of the semi-feudal psychology which is still strong” among representatives of the same circles in European capitalism, which makes it easier for Soviet business~ men to maintain business relations with the American business world, ‘The growing interest in both coun- tries in the struggle for peace which recently took definite form with special clearness made a Soviet- American rapprochment especially popular in the broadest circles of the Soviet public. 5 “President Roosevelt and Comrade Litvinoff, Peoples’ Commissar of Foreign Affairs, completed a matter which undoubtedly will strengthen peace and assist in solving numerous. tasks which now become urgent.” ~ Workers of September 29—day on which tens of thousands of workers and peasants came out to bury the remains of their leader, Julio Antonio Mella, murdered in Mexico by Machado—when various workers were murdered and more than 150 injured, has been followed by a wave of governmental persecu- tions and assassinations against the militant revolutionary workers and by assaults on and the sacking of their organizations. The prisons filled with workers under the Machado govern- ment which were violently emptied by the mass actions of the workers and peasants. have been filled anew with militant workers by the new government of the bourgeois-landlord class, Defend Wail Street On the 26th of October the gov- ernment fired on 7,000 sugar workers who were carrying on a heroic strug- gle in Central Jaronu, the largest sugar central in the world, a strong- hold of Yankee imperialism. Our comrades were raked with bullets. ‘Two workers murdered, 120 injured and 215 arrested, is the bloody toll of this new massacre of the govern- ment which Calls itself that of the “real revolution.” In the city of Bayamo, the army lord colonial regime. The massacre the Student Directory) fired on our comrades and then tortured in the most savage manner one of the lead- ers of the Party in that region. Revolution Grows But in spite of the jailing of hun- dreds of workers and peasants, of persecutions and unheard-of terror, the working class and peasantry are fighting—under the leadership of the Communist Party and the National Confederation of Labor—with heroic spirit, and in many parts of the coun- try are gaining victories. ‘The ter- ror and gun fire of the native bour- geois-landlord class and imperialism is not stopping the powerful revolu- tionary movement of the workers and peasants. In the sugar mills and plantations tens of thousands of workers are carrying on _ intense struggles against their native and Yankee imperialist exploiters, and these struggles are beginning to ac- quire the character of a real insur- rection in many parts of the country. Terror Against Communists ‘The present government is trying through every means to break these heroic struggles, but the pressure of the masses makes more evident every day its failure and the disintegration of this same government has already and the Army of the Caribbean (of begun (the withdrawal of the ra- dical-ABC, the For Law and Justice group, the OCRR, etc.) in view of its inability before the bourgeois- landlord class to crush the revolu- tionary movement. But the persecu- tions and the massacres of workers continue. Recently large detachments of the army, armed with machine guns and munitions, were dispatched to try to “annihilate the Commu- nists” of Oriente and Camaguey. In the present situation, the me- nace of armed intervention by Yankee imperialism in Cuba is exceedingly great. Both the government and the different factions of the bourgeois- landlord class which are in opposi- tion, are carrying on a wide cam- paign of demagogy around this danger of intervention. The Communist Party of Cuba, in the name of the workers and peas- ants of Cuba and all other exploited and oppressed sections of the Cuban population, makes an urgent appeal to the workers and farmers of the United States, through its revolution- ary vanguard, the Communist Party, to struggle through every means (meetings, demonstrations and mass actions) against the dispatch of war- ships by Yankee imperialism to Cuba which would mean the bloody smash- ing of the struggles which thousands of workers and peasants are carry- ing on in Cuba for their emancipae_ tion and complete national liberation.” Comrades: each victory and each ° step forward of the proletariat and peasantry of Cuba, attained through heroic sacrifices, is a victory for the workers and farmers of the United States who suffer equally” from imperialist exploitation and ~ oppression. The victory of our - struggles, besides dealing a heavy blow at Yankee imperialism in its major fortress in the Caribbean, _ would be a living example for the rest of the colonial-bonrgeois-land- — lord world and a powerful stimulus to the revolutionary movement of © the other countries of the Carib-~ bean and South America, Each worker, each farmer, intel- lectual and student, each revolution< ary sailor and soldier in the United States must consider himself our brother in this struggle and respond” immediately to the appeal of the workers and peasants of Cuba. Comrades: Stop the sending of warships! Heip us in the struggle against the. intervention of Yankee imperialism! Workers of the world unite! CENTRAL COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA £ RR AAS ESRI AE TAME A PETE BES