Nota del diario del emisario de la Komintern 1933 08 12 My opinion and also that of Paul was that in principle that was OK but masses have left our influence and were already under influence of ABC as far as the main political slogan of the masses Out with Machado which of course was given to them by the ABC. In such a situation we had to examine situation very carefull1205 see what were the element involved and the relation of forces. Reu made a big speech in which he proved that Machado would not fall and that intervention would come in 58 hours and that therefore we should get the workers to work to avoid excuse for intervention since Machado is better for masses than Yankee intervention. big argument started with Paul and me fighting against such a formulation which seemed to be one of lesser evil. Furthermore it was my opinion which seemed if we tell workers to go back they will no do so br ing already under ABC influence and we shall isolate the CP and therefore we must include slogan of out with Mach as on of ours linking it up with work and peas gov. This was not accepted! decision was made to tell workers to go back.
That as done. NOT ONE WORKER WENT TO WORK. meeting was held to win workers for this. My original proposal was that we are to hold dozens of meetings to convince workers of such a move since we had no press, leaflets etc. But the ONE that was held was packed with our peop le and was taken to mean that workers are enthusiastically in favour.
We met again. Here the arguments of the day before were again refuted.
This showed the vacillating character of leadership. It was decided to go to workers explain that going back to wor with all demands won was good that we could not have armed insurrection now, that we were also against Machado and that it was our strike that weakened him. Just as we got to that point news came that he is resigning. Then it was decided to immediately organize demonstrations in sections under our slogans and slogans of full democratic rights under new government. In case of Machado resigning to organize mass demonstrations to centre of city under our slogans trying to direct the masses in our channels. To prepare slogans, leaflets etc. To tell workers that if new government does not comply with demands to continue fight. Your cable reached us then as this was yesterday afternoon (Aug 11. Rumours spread thick and fast. In morning it became definitely kno wn that Machado resigned. also found out that NONE of decisions were applied. At 12 Noon the population already knew of Machado resignation.
Tens of thousands of workers launched into the streets under slogans of the 1205Jorge Abilio Vivó Escoto. Véase la nota 175.
Rubén Martínez Villena. Véase la nota 1153.