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 lyzing all cities. The sugar plantation workers, however, did not respond supposedly being too difficult to reach with registration due to their illiteracy and lack of all organization. referendum forced the reformist Streetcar Union leaders to permit the tramway men to st rike in Havana. The Tobacco Workers leaders, pressed from below, decided to leave it to members ind ividual wish as to joining the strike.
The RR Hermandad refused to join the strike and victimized those who struck of its members.
When before the st rike the Chief of Police told some rank and file workers he was preparing, they declared We, too, will prepare. and in a packed meeting at the Workers Center they stayed from the night of he 19th through that of the 20th, with hundreds of arms spontan eously carried. Further, through the Center was isolated by soldiery with rifles, twice groups of workers escorted in and out the secretary of the CP, Comrade Villena 118 who spoke to them and emerged without harm although he had been threatened with death. In my opinion, the pacifist nature of the strike encouraged the government to reprisals, and 30 strike leaders were arrested the next day though the government, on March 20th itself, did not dare to attack.
Following this movement of March 20, the CPC sen to the CP of the a lengthy report dated March 29, containing among other information, the statement that a Joint Committee of Workers Collectivities had been formed with the purpose of winning the legality of the dissolved unions by calling the workers to Be disposed to the permanent movement meanwhile the enemy attack is not withdrawn. At the same time the CPC solicited financial aid from the movement in the to successfully carry out this permanent strike. It was also learned that he reformist leaders of the Tobacco workers were participating in this Joint Committee. After discussion in a sub committee of the CC of the CPUSA, and a discussion in the Polcom, the Secretariat instructed me to proceed at once to Cuba since the permanent general strike was scheduled to begin an April 15, and to consult in a fraternal capacity with the CC of the CP of Cuba in a determination of the line being followed. established contact with the CC of the CPC on April 15 and at once took up the matter, first, of the permanent general strike. which under the conditions of lack of basic preparation and led by a united front from above including reformists, could only result ruinous failure. There seemed to have Rubén Martínez Villena. Véase la nota 1153.