Parte del informe sobre la situación del PCC y del movimiento obrero de Cuba hecho por el representante del PC de EEUU George 1930 08 16 PARTE DEL INFORME SOBRE LA SITUACIÓN DEL PCC DEL MOVIMIENTO OBRERO DE CUBA 1175HECHO POR EL REPRESE NTANTE DEL PCEU GEORGE 117, 1930 THE WORKING CLASS AND ITS MOVEMENT The rather vague statistics of the census of 1919, gave a return of 948, 000 employed. but so far as can be understood, this incl udes other than proletarians. However, out of these, an estimate of the city population gives at least 250, 000 city proletarians of all categories. There are an estimated number of 350, 000 wage labourers and employees working in the sugar plantations and mills. most conservative estimate of other agrarian wage workers in coffee, tobacco, etc. is 50, 000. We thus have at the least 650, 000 purely wage workers in a population of 3, 500, 000. In any event Cuba is highly proletarian, and while the comrade (Hugo 1177) in charge of peasant work of the CPC states that there remain some 400, 000 peasants, he adds that nearly all of these are semi proletarians, working for wages half the year on plantations with the complete proletarians.
The CP of Cuba could not gather n the short time was there, a documented statement on the trade union movement. But the following, pending the receipt of a special report on the gives an idea of the situation.
Aside from the sugar workers, treated above, the majority of the worke rs are not organized. The unions, before 1925, were not organized nationally except in some cases by trade. But they were quite militant. In 1925 the National Confederation was formed at the congress of Camaguey.
The Communist Party was formed at the ame time as the Confederation.
Since that time it has no congress a fact which accounts for much of its confusion. Its affiliation to the Comintern was officially approved at the VI CI Congress. Continually robbed by the terror of its best members, it ha s, at present only some 200 members. 80 of these are in Havana District. There are five districts and locals. Cut off by the censorship from access to needed literature, and isolated from the world movement, the ideological level is very low even among the Central Committee. Yet the CPC is thoroughly proletarian and its membership is rooted in the mass movement of the trade unions. From this it has extracted not only strength, but a syndicalist weak117Recibido en Moscú el 16 de agosto de 1930.
117Véase la nota 128.
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