THE MILITANT Weekly Organ of the Communist League of America Opposition)
Vol. III, No. 13 Telephone: DRY dock 1656 NEW YORK, Saturday, March 29, 1930 PRICE CENTS Continues TROTSKY SERIOUSLY ILL United States marines and the National CUBANS STRIKE HAITI STRUGGLES Dzly Machado Rule. Demand Demands Independence From Unemployment Relief Wall Street Rule Growing out of the acute unemployment situation evalent throughout Cuba The killing of Gve Haitians on December by a detatchment of United States marand which has thrown 200, 000 out of Jobs, Cuban workers struck on March 20 in ines, forced into the open the serious naReports from throughout the country protest against unemployment and against the national welfare. that is for the b08808.
ture of the protest of the Haltian masdes give the lle to the propaganda of the the suppression of the labor unlops and Not all workers who still have jobs take against United States occupation, and also bosses and the government that unemother organizations of the workers by the this advice. By a vote of four to one, to against its puppet president, Borno. Since Machado government The strike, called ployment is on the decrease. The employ the surprise of the reactionary officials of then the movement for Haitian indepenment service of the Department of by the National Federation of Labor of the United Textile Workers Union, the dence, although cuftalled and misguided Labor itself is forced to acknowledge, in its Cuba, was widely supported, despite the company union workers employed in the by bourgeols and liberal leadership, intimidation and terror of Machado sples, report for the month of February, that notorious Amoskeag Manufacturing firm of showed the increased temper of the mass Industry made no substantial gains durpolice and troops. It indicates the readiManchester, In the manufacture of of Haitian peasants, whose protests were ing the month, while in some industries a ness of the masses to struggle against their printhcloth refused to accept a 10 per cent set forth under such slogans as, Long Blight recession was noted. Yet but a severe exploitation by native and American reduction in wages. Here and there (Pittslive Independent Haltl. Down with thọ capitalists. The strike, among others, few days prior President Hoover had de( Continued on Page 3)
Council of State. They culminated during clared that the recovery from Industrial the past number of weeks in a demand for brought out the workers of the streetcars, depression had been the most rapid in omnibuses, breweries, cigar factories, cafe an end to the occupation of Halti by the American history!
employees, bakeries printshops, longshoreBefore the Senate Committee, Senator City Bank of New York.
men, etc.
Wagner of New York declared that the The Militant is informed of the serious Delegates representing the Workers unemployment situation is the worst that The past history of the occupation of Association called upon President Machado, illness of comrade Trotsky, the leader Haiti by the United States, is a record of has ever existed in the United States. Inthe Dictator of Cuba, and among other deof the International Opposition of the Left vestigations and statistical reports from all bloody extermination of the peasant mands called for: Recognition of the right Bolsheviks.
sections of the country confirm the fact Exiled to Constantinople by masses. From a period of the occupation to organize and strike; an end to police Stalin, Trotsky has suflered from many of mass unemployment. For the millions In July, 1915, the peaceful guardianship intervention in the unions and labor strugmaladies, engendered during his years of of working men and women it has brought by the marines has resulted in the Blaughter gles; free speech and press; seven hour service to the Bolshevik Revolution in the most dire need and acute misery.
of over 3, 000 Haitians, who dared to pre day; payment of wages to the unemployed Russia and the international revolutionary There is nothing to indicate any substantest against the military dictatorship and by the employers and the State; no evicmovement. Now his condition is exceptial improvement in the moonomic situation exploitation of United States capitallam.
tion of unemployed from their homes for tionally aggravated by heart trcuble, fol. The state of affairs brought about by Amer.
in the near future. Every city and hamlet non payment of rent; free transportation lowing recent illnesses. Trotsky has made in the country counts its toll of mployed ican occupation finds the Haltian masses for the unemployed and their families efforts to be permitted to go to one of the in a virtual state of peonage.
and misery. To mention any is to describe The old while seeking work and free night resall. Distress from unemployment in ChiWest European countries for medical atten. Haltian laws against the ownership of taurants and shelter for the unemployed.
tion and treatment, cago, states Protessor B, Squires of the But the imperialist land by foreigners resulted, since 1915, nations have apparently accepted University of Chicago and who is also wholeThe Bloody Rule of Machado in the dispossession of the peasantry and heartedly the desire of Stalin that Trotsky Under President Machado, the willing director of the Illinois State employment shall remain isolated in Constantinople allowed for large holdings by the United States and other foreign imperialists. Dr.
tickspittle of Wall Street, the labot and agency, has beon the most acute in ten where lack of proper medical attention can Dalencour, head of the Haltian Medical revolutionary movement in Cuba has been years.
easily result in his death. Stalin and the Journal, characterizes the situation in the Viciously suppressed. The bloody Machado Iron and Steel Production Slow Imperialists are as one in their enmity The stoel industry, the barometer of following manner: has been responsible for the murder, ImThe Haitian peasant of Trotsky, the organizer and leader of prisonment and deportation o thousands of industry in general, remains low, according sees his future endangered by the entry of the Rea Army and the co worker and Cuban labor leaders and revolutionaries, to iron and steel publications which report American capitalism. This necessarily recomrade of Lentu.
that no definite upturn is yet apparent, sults from the creation of large estates among them, Julio Mella, the Cuban Comand that this situation prevalls also in the We have spoken before of the fluess munist, who was murdered in Mexico which would cause the subjugation of the foreign markets. The Iron Trade Review of comrade Trotsky. In the past months, after his exile by Machado from his napeasants into a servile peon class. The an unfavorable change has set in. He and tive country.
comments that Continental and Brilish iron peasantry of Haiti are actually in such a and steel markets generally are dull, some his wife and son are located on Prinkipo Now the acute conditions of misery state today, which accounts for the vigorIsland in the Sea of Marmora. The climate British plants having gone on short time ous struggle they are making for an inand starvation of the Cuban masses is as a result. World trade in iron and steel there is unsatisfactory for one of his con dependent republic of Haiti.
bringing forth their resistance despite Is low, and restricted inquiry forecasts dition and a different climate is needed in (Continued on Page every terror of the Wall Street controlled continuation of this condition. In virtuaddition to special treatment that is not government.
available there nor in the country at large.
ally all trades, manutactures, industry and American capital has invaded entire agriculture fields there is described a con The arch bureaucrat Stalin is to be Cuba and has particularly gained control of dition of wide spread unemployment. Hoo held fully responsible for the exile of comthe sugar plantations and refineries and ver and the employing class continue to rade Trotsky from the Soviet Union and St. Louis Bus Drivers on has subjugated the workers to long hours hand out hokum for consumption by the for his connivance with the bourgeois gorof toil at low wages. The acute economic jobless, but they themselves know the real ernment to prevent Trotsky from obtaining Strike For Union conditions give the background to the ity and find no capitalist remedy for the access to a West European country. The strike. Sugar forms the main base for the situation, Any other kind of solution is proletariat of the Soviet Union and the ST. LOUIS (FP Five days aiter prosperity of the American investors and of course to them unthinkable.
whole world will yet deal with Stalin, who their first meeting to unionize and 48 hours the starvation and degradation of the CuAs never before, public and charitable persecutes, imprisons, exiles and even after their demand for union recognition ban masses. The price of raw sugar is institutions have been utilized as a sop, but shoots Bolsheviks and undermines the cause had been tossed in the wastebasket by the now 59 cents a pound, compared with the breadlines grow longer and increase of Communism.
traction monopoly, organized bus drivers 40 cents in 1928 and 82 in 1927.
in number. The government has deand couductors of St. Louis walked out Semi starvation and destitution pre.
clined to do anything directly to provide in a spontaneous unexpected strike.
Bus (Continued on Page 7)
work or compensation for the unemployed, operation has been completely tied up.
but instead continues to talk of industrial KANSAS CITY BUILDING TRADES WIN revival, while Jobs become scarcer each FIVE DAY WEEK The company, with an ugly anti union background, was taken completely unaday. All sorts of proposals have been forth KANSAS CITY, MO. FP) Building wares. The meeting, held at a. aucoming from capitalist politicians for pub trades of Kansas City have won the day thorized the strike by unanimous vote and on lic works, etc. but all remain on paper. week and an increase as a result of a the nevt morning not a bus rolled out of Bosses Catting Wages weeks strike which tied up construction the big barns.
Communism The bosses have naturally ignored activity. The struggle was a bitter and Syndicalism These raw recruits to unionism are Hoovers request at the conference con for a time, but the backbone of the Bulldby sisting of Hoover, the employers and the ers Assn. opposition was broken when picketing the garages like seasoned veterJAMES CANNON of bureaucrats, not to reduce wages, severai independent employers signed the ans and intended strikebreakers have been Henry Ford, the high wage boss and new agreement and resumed work.
enrolled in the union about as rapidly as Saturday, March 29, 1930 at P. philanthropist has been outstanding in According to the peace pact, the 44 the company has been able to hire them.
LABOR TEMPLE speeding men out of work and then cutting hour week will continue until July 1, when Not even the skleeton ot a crew has been rewages still further on one pretext or another. the day week becomes effective, sup cruited. The strikers belong to the street 242 EAST FOURTEENTH STREET On the other hand, Wm. Green, the labor plemented by wage increases ranging from carmen union and the fight bears the enAuspices: New York Branch faker and agent of the bosses in the ranks 22 2 to 50 cents a day. On Jan. 1, 1931, dorsement of the St. Louis central body Communist League of America (Opposition)
of labor, continues to advise the workers another wage boost, a fiat 50 cents a day, and the Missouri Federation of Labor. Admiesion 15 cents not to resist the attacks of the bosses is ordered. The agreement expires March sympathetic strike by 5, 000 unlon street through strikes, etc. all in the name of 1, 1932.
car men is not considered unlikely. LECTURE