The Daily Worker

HAITIAN WORKERS
EXPOSE A SECRET
WALL. ST. PACT
U. S.
Bosses
Direct
Attack on Masses
in Colonies
TERROR SHARP IN HAITI
Arrest Workers Leaders; Ban Organization
PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti.
Jan. 3. - A secret agreement between the United States government and the governments of its colonial countries in the Carribean. Central and South America. "to combat by concerted methods the Communist propaganda in our hemisphere," has been disclosed by the publication here, in support of the reign of terror against the Negro workers of Haiti, of diplomatic correspondence between the Haitian minister to Paris, and President Stenio Vincent. head of the Wall Street puppet government of the Haitian Republic.
Reveal War Preparations.
This correspondence, published in the Haiti Journal, clearly reveals the roles of Vincent and the Wall St. government in Washington, in the preparations for imperialist war.
Haiti, the scene of the latest outbreak of suppression activities against the working class. is an important war-base of the United States government. It has been delivered for exploitation of its workers to the Haiti-Sugar Company (HAS CO). an organization financed by American capital.
The correspondence is published in connection with three-column headlines denouncing William Patterson, national secretary of the International Labor Defense for sending a cablegram demanding the immediate release of arrested workers, to President Stenio, revealing the perturbation of the authorities at the international protest raised by the I.L.D. against the persecution of workers' leaders in Haiti.
This is an indication of the power of mass protest and international solidarity in defense of the rights of the workers.
The following is a translation of the extract from the diplomatic cor-
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correspondence of the Haitian minister in Paris to President Vincent which has been published in the Haitian press:

"And now, my dear President," the minister writes, "I must refer again to a very important question. You must remember that I have already written to you concerning the Communist propaganda which is spreading in a number of Latin-American countries. There is a report current among the group of young Haitians in the Latin Quarter that these new doctrines have gained entrance and are developing in Haiti. Of course, my information is only third-hand, and very vague. It is advisable, however, that your police investigate and discover what is going on in this matter among the young people who are being attracted to these advanced ideas.

"In any case, it seems to me that the government would do well to ask our minister to the United States for information on the agreement which has just been concluded between a large number of Latin-American governments to combat by concerted methods the Communist propaganda in our hemisphere. It must not be forgotten that this doctrine is supported by an organization which has at its disposal widespread and powerful means of action."

The letter is dated Nov. 14, 1932.

Meanwhile, the terror against the workers has continued. Simultaneously with the publication of the diplomatic correspondence mentioned above, R. P. Williams, American military agent in Haiti, and the commander of the Haitian Army, published a circular announcing a military campaign of "Suppression of Bolshevist Activities."

An "unofficial state of siege" has been declared, and is openly admitted by the newspapers, in the open warfare of HASCO, and the Wall Street imperialism government of Vincent against the Negro workers who for the first time have been organizing into unions to resist the repressive measures of these agencies.

Three workers' organizations have been declared illegal. Three more workers' leaders have been arrested, in addition to the five arrested Dec. 23. Those imprisoned are: Max Hudicourt, editor of "Le Centre," working class publication which has been suppressed by the authorities; Henry de Lalue, secretary of the "Society for Propagation of Foreign Languages," which with the "Workers League of Culture and Defense," and the "Workers' League of Haiti," has been declared illegal by the authorities; and Celie Sautier, a Negro woman worker.

The home of Jacques Roumain, the best known of Haitian writers, who has been very close to the workers movement, was raided, with the intention of putting him also in jail, but he was not at home.