Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1927 — Page 2

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U. S. ENVOY IN CUBA FRIENDLY WITHJACHADO Whether or Not Washington Knows of Murderous Labor War Not Revealed. Editor's Note: For more than 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 from men holding high positions in Cuba Intimations of a serious situation have appeared over a period of several months, m leading Spanish language newspapers outside of Cuba. Finally. Chester M. Wright. English language secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, formerly on the liersonal staff of Samuel Gompers and a abor writer of long standing, went to Cuba to investigate. He has .returned with an amazing story of terrorism, assassination. Imprisonment and exile. His findings, following a report to President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, are presented in a series of articles, of which this is the fourth. The fifth article will appear tomorrow. By Chester M. Wright English Language Secretary Pan-American Federation of Labor WASHINGTON, March 4.—Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, American ambassador to Cuba, is, I found in Havana, an ardent admirer of President Machado. Whether Ambassador Crowder has reported to the American Government the crimes against working men and against opponents of the Machado regime generally, I do not know. One of two things must have happened; either these crimes were reported

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kept the story to itself, or else the crimes were not reported and until now the American Government has had no knowledge of the situation. There are not only the crimes to report, however. There is a most extraordinary political situation. President Machado was practically the dictator of Cuba during the reign of terror described ir. previous articles. Carried “Joker” Clause Dec. 23, 1926, there was introduced in the Cuban House of Representatives a bill calculated to legalize and perpetuate this dictatorship. Jan. Sos this year the bill was passed by both houses and it is now a law. The measure was ostensibly mtended to give the president power to regulate taxes. Os itself this was an abdication of the power by the Congress. But the bill went far beyond that, in what the Cubans know as the joker section which, with the enacting clause, is as follows: “4. The executive power is authorized to adopt at any moment, all arrangements (powers or authorities) which it considers necessary for the better administration or economic management of the State, and any others of this kind, which the bill (or) the public necessities or the cir- J cumstances require. “This law shall be in force from the fourth day of its publication in the Official'Gazette of the Republic.” There are 18,000 men in the army, the rural guard and the secret police of Cuba, all under direct orders of the president. On the law just quoted and in the military and police strength rests the power of dictatorship. , Through the use of this power the 124 trade unions which existed a. year and half ago, federated into the Cuban Federation of Labor and looking hopefully to association with I

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their fellows in the United States, either have been destroyed entirely, • reorganized into -acceptable instruments, or driven to a semi-secret, shadowy existence. This destruction was facilitated by the Cuban law which requires that all such organizations be registered with the government. The enactment of this law followed the last election, equivalent to our off-year election of Congressmen, in November, 1926. It is concurrently reported in Cuba that in that election and in the campaign preceding it about 100 men were killed. , Like Oppressors Dec. 6, a month after the election, Dr. Enrique Jose Verona, perhaps Cuba’s foremost philosopher, a man not in politics, man to whom many European universities have paid tribute, wrote this: “The rapid descent of the republic to the early days of the colony have caused me great consternation. The ominous spirit of Tacon and O’Donalls seems to hover over the island.” Tacon' and O’Donalls were the Spanish generals held principally responsible for the Spanish terror and i bloodshed prior to the Cuban revolution. In the Cuban House of Representa- j tives, Telidoro Gil (prouonced Hill) j is the one man to raise a consistent voice in opposition to the j Machado policies. I have talked with Representative | Gil in his office in the daytime; in his home at night. He, too, has been warned that his life may be termiFOR COLDS. GRIP OR INFLUENZA i and as a preventive, take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets. A Safe and rroven Remedy. The box bears the signature of E. IV. Grove. SOc. — I Advertisement. -

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