гской эпохи archives ДОКУМЕНТЫ СОВЕТСКОЙ ЭПОХИ httu: sovdoc. rusarchives. 67 This is the richest and on in Cuba. They have their own houses, they have capital, they have their own paper. forgot to say that in one city one of the locals of the railroad union is under our control. They have 200 members, and they have their om paper) About the Tobacco Workers, these leaders represent themselves as the followers of Marti. Another thing, the entire production of the tobacco workers is hand work, the same as 200 years. All of the processes of the work are hand processes. Thereis Ro machinery. We have among the Pobacco Workers three former general secretaries of the Party and we have a fraction of seven comrades, Everything which we have initiated to dato bas resulted in failure, because our contrados say how can to come with such revolutionary 11 terature to the worlars, it is impossible, and the workers will road it only if the lecturers w211 read it. When arrived the General Secretary of the Party was a Tobacco Worloer. He told me he was the Cicero of the workers an excellent speaker. also me Victim of his nice speeches at the meetings, and when we attempted to criticize the leaders of the Tobacco workers, exposing them as Tobacco workers, pointing out that although they talk about Merti, nevertheless they are traitors, and that our left wings maast issue an appeal to the workers, the Mexican Party Secretary happened to be present at that meeting and we tried to impress on these corrades that much an appeal is necessary, but the fraction decided tot to issue the appeal because at the time we were Isming to the workers of all Industries statement as to why we were fighting Machado and the Nationalists, but at the next meeting this comrede, the General Secretary of the Party, or to thomoeting and said that this is not a Communist Party, that the Communist Party is a party of the masses, that you cannot decide on the top what is to be done, that It must be decided below, and because we decided to issue the appeat, he sent a statement that he was 111 and therefore resiging from the Party. This was the General Secretary of the Party. He was the one who negotiated with the listionaliste. This is the second large division of the worlars and these were the weaknesses which we had there.
These Tobacco Workers include only those workers who are doing the finishing processos.
Among the tobacco worloors there are 40 or 50 separate unions. The women putting the rink on the cigars LED have a separate union, and the women who paste the sticloers on the boxes have another, all on a craft basis. None of the tobacco workers are organ ized. The cigar makers are organized, but not the tobacco workers.
The third classification is the Cuban Confederation. The Railroad wion is affiliated to the Pan American Confederation of Labor, the Torcedores are independents, No have a Confederation, a Federation, and thon a Federation of Harbor Worloers, The Jederation of Harbor Workers is part of the Confederation, or these three organizations the Confoder tion is national, the Fedoration is the linyana Federation of Labor, and then the Federation of Harbor Worlcers. In all of these we have a majority. In all three there are about 20, 000 workers organised. Our strength consists in this that it is the only live organi zation that has taken part in the daily struggle. Good or bad. It is the only organization that is reacting to the struggle. In the sontederation we have a majority, dhex anotheca But the mass organizations, the tramway morkers, printers and the shops of the Fayana Electric, these and ons are not ours, They are affiliated to the Confederation, but if you analyze them outside of the Confederation, these are Social Yaseist. le cannot say that the o Contoderation is an organization of red unions. There is no other political workers organisation except the Communist Party. The molitionl party of the workers is the Communist Party.
You see now the division of forces In Caba. You can see how serious wes the error of the Party which participated in the united front committee. That was this united front about? This unit od front In Cabe rou above has creatly demoralized the masses in Cuba. Throuch a period of years the workers were impressed with the idea that you can do nothing unless you get together the leaders of the organisatione. don want to minimize the value of the mass struggles carried through by the Cuban Party, but believe that the vive and deorge will confirmy statement that all of these great strulles, including the general strike were always a result of an agreement on top.
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