Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1927 — Page 5

MARCH 2, 1927

SPECIFIC MURDER CASES CUED IN CUBANCAMPAIGN Labor Leader Shot With Child in His Arms—Slayers Never Arrested. Editor's Note: For more tlian two months protests from Cubans have been lodged with representatives of the American labor movement and the Pan-Amer-ican labor movement. They have come from workers and Irom men holding high position in Cuba, fntimationa of a seriouß situation have appeared over a period of several months, in leading; Spanish language newspapers outside of Cuba. Finally. Chester M. Wright English language secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, formerly on the personal staff of Samuel Gompers and a tabor writer of long standing, went to Cuba to investigate. He has returned with ail amazing story of terrorism, assassination. imprisonment and exile, nis findings, following a report to President William Green of the American federation of Labor, are presented in a senes of articles, of which this is the aecond The third article will appear tomonow. By Chester M. Wright English Language Secretary Pan-American Federation of Labor ■Washington, March 2. —Pursuing allegations of wholesale murder, deportation, imprisonment and exile in Cuba under the Machado regime, I shall set forth here some.of the more amazing cases involving outstanding leaders of the labor movement and others who fell under the ban. Here are cases: On July 23, 1926—just last summer—Alfredo Lopez was reported missing. A brief note In the Heraldo de Cuba said he “disappeared in a mysterious manner.” It continued to say: “Some people believe that he was assassinated, but some others think that he is imprisoned in Altarez castle, together with many other workers.” The following day the same paper reported Alfredo Lopez still missing and said his wife had asked the papers to help locate him. She had four children, the paper said* Father of Four Shot I talked with Mrs. Lopez in her bare two-room home. She is not a wife. She is a widow. She does

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not know it, but her husband was shot and the location of his grave is known. Alfred Lopez was as important in the Cuban labor movement as Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, is in the American labor movement. Lopez had just been elected secretary of the newly formed Cuban Federation of Labor. The Cuban Federation of Labor was organized for the specific purpose of affiliating all Cuban labor to the Pan-American Federation of Labor. The assassination of Alfredo Lopez stopped that movement for the time being. The Cuban authorities do not admit that Lopez was shot. They do not say anything about him. Officially, his fate remains a mystery. His wife saw him leave him home to go to the union hall, two blocks away, the evening of July 22. He did not arrive at the union hall. He vanished, as so many others have done. A few weeks prior to the disappearance of Alfredo Lopez, Enrique

Varona, president of one of the divisions of the railroad brotherhood, on the Cuba railroad, was slain in his home town of Moron. Varona was an outstanding leader among railroad men. He was arrested, as were seventeen other brotherhood officials. He spent three months in jail in Camaguey. Finally orders came “from Havana" to turn him free. He returned to his home town. The local movie house arranged a celebration. Varona went, with his wife and baby, to receive the acclaim of his fellow workers. Police Ignored Slaying Coming out of the theater, with his child in his arms, he was shot. The assassin was followed to the headquarters of the rural guards, his friends told me. A slgihtly different version was given in the brief and cautious report of the murder in Heraldo de Cuba: ‘A witness, by name Villafuerte, told the judge and the police that he was present §it the time of the murder qnd that he himself asked the rural police officer, who was very near, to arrest the man who killed Varona, but the rural police did not pay ar y attention and let the murderer escape.” The rural guards, or rural police, are part of the national army. So strongly entrenched are they as a part of the politico-military machine of today that Colonel Rangel, in command at Camaguey, has at his disposal a private railroad car for his travel. He lives at the Hotel Camaguey, a railroad-owned hotel of the first class. Thomas Grant, an American, was a railroad brotherhood officer at the little town of Ciego de Avila. He was a brakeman. In broad daylight he was shot while returhing to his caboose after having had a cup of coffee at a nearby lunchroom. Two brakeman, who were with him when he was shot were advised by the judge at the subsequent hearing that “they hadn’t seen anything.” The military captain announced at the same time that he had orders to “clean things up.” Domingo Dumanigo, treasurer of the railroad brotherhood at Clenfugos, a man of exceptional standing, was among the railroad workers arrested. He was released on $5,000 bail. While thus at liberty, he was shot through the head when returning to his home from a drugstore with medicine for his sick boy, Augustin Perez, who was general president of the Railroad Brotherhood, before the organization was destroyed and reorganized on what were intended to be more tractable lines, is today at liberty on bail. It was not possible for me to -see him, though he lives in Camaguey, where I went to get at the story of these bases—fourteen hours from Havana by train. It was conveyed to me many times that if it were later discovered that I had come to Cuba to make inquiry Into these matters, those seen with me might also disappear. So I did not see former President Perez —nor could I blame him. Authorities In Fear Salvadore Torres, a young brakeman at Camaguey, was discharged when he reported back to work after the strike was broken. He went to find out why. He was refused a reason. Again he set out to get the reason. He told friends he was “go ing to find out why.” He was shot while on the way home in the evening. His father is a high Mason with strong friends and for a time, it was said, the authorities feared the Maying of young Torres had carried natters a little too far. I have records of other assassinabns of labor leaders. There is todesto H. Wilson (perhaps an merieank who was hanged; Carlos L’adro, slain on the railroad tracks of the Sugar Central (refinery). Saguanias, near Santiago do Cuba; Cecilio Sanche, railroad worker, killed near La Esmeralda Aurelia Ferrer, killed near Cabaiguan— and so on. All workers; no murderer punished, none even arrested and tried. La Discusion, Havana newspaper, was so moved that it exclaimed, “His majesty, the death, is ruling. The blue sky of our country has been transformed into a red tragedy, in which there is no struggle for ideals or ideas. Dut Instead only hatred cowardice, dishonor and crimes, that are perpetrated in the darkness of night.” La Discusion was suspended by the Government!

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