ой эпохи 20 ДОКУМЕНТЫ СОВЕТСкой охи atud sovdoc. rusarcluluosa eition of the Central Committee is a tailor, a building worker, a metal worker, a shoemaker. None of these comrades knows how to write. They are literate, but they cannot write for publication. All of riting is done by this young student, or by Oomrade Nova in Yiddish hd 10 13 Translated into Spanish. My own Soanish Is fer from Certantes.
Thie is the situation in respect to writing propaganda, Te prepared for the first of Ray a paper, and these were all translations. The paper was published in the print bhoy of social fascist, and they out out some of the most important slogans, etc. This is the situation, a Central Conmittee of workers that 18 ready to do anything. It is necessary to work with them to know what splendid Tevolutionary material they are. But the Ideological level 18 80 low that they must be watched every second, other1ee you can never tell what w111 happen. received today a letter from Hove. It is very unhappy. In organizing the Way First Committee, the comTades have elected a social fascist from the Harbor Forkers Federation.
This is the same fellow who told the police about our appeal to the Amerioan workers.
To be the Secretary of union or a Confederation in Cuba means to be continually in the greatest danger. One of our comrades was sent to Santiago de Cuba. As soon as he left the railroad station he was arrested, and at night he was taken to a field and was almost murdered. But the next time He told him to go to another place, he went without any hesitation. This same comrade declared at a meeting that he was not interested in someone in Moscow writing resolutions that we have to darry out. On the other hand he is one of the best fighters and one of the best comrades for carrying out work. It is naturally very easy to dras euch comrades into all kinds of deviations.
We have no shop nuclei, Shen Comrade Gonzales made a report to the youth that there are so many sbop nuclei it was also a typographical error. Our nuolei were organized as trade union nuclei. There are no shop nuclei and no street nucleid It is very difficult to differentiate between the funotions of the trade union traotion and a trade union nucleus. This is a weakness of the Party. Another weakness is the composition we have Spaniards, Jews and Cubane. When say we have many Spaniards and many Jewe, It is not that we have too many, but we have too ren Cubans. This is one of the createst difficulties. The best comrades, the leader of the Party are being deported. When Cuban worker 1e arrested, he is either assassinated or released. Aforeigner is always deported. It is clear that when our Party active 18 foreign, the basis of the Party is uncertain and weak.
of the greatest we have too many, but was ve many Spaniards and The Party has made no investigation of the sgrarian conditions. Nevertheless it has very much influence, being the only working class party. The workers know that this party will not betray them, Despite the very big mietakes made last October, the Party has not been destroyed. In Favana fe have about 15 nuclei. We have about 150 members. We never have less than 300 people on the streets responding to our calls. The masses know that these demonstrations are Party demonstrations and when we consider that not all of the 150 Party members come to the demonstratione, measured by the street demonstrations we can say that the Party carrying along with it non Perty elements. Speaking about the influence of the Party. 17 you include the workers organized in the Confedesation, we must bey that its influence is larger than its membership.
while terror prevails everywhere in Cuba, in some parts of Cube It is inpossible to work, In one of theprovinces there are copoermines where we could organize the workers. Every time we send someone there he is arrestsexxhe Ox Документы советской этоми VOS http: sovdoc. rusarchives. ru