The Daily Worker

Chile Workers in Bloody Street Clashes

Workers Storm Arsenal in Effort to Arm Against Fascist-Militarist Dictatorship

Burn Street Cars, Fight Troops in Santiago; U. S. Workers Must Support Chilean Brothers

Revolutionary Chilean workers yesterday stormed the government arsenal on the outskirts of Santiago in an effort to arm themselves against the brutal fascist-dictatorship headed by Carlos G. Davila, Wall Street agent and former Chilean Ambassador to the United States.

Workers clashed repeatedly with the troops of the dictatorship, but were finally repulsed. At the same time sharp fighting was occurring in the streets of Santiago and Valparaiso, the two principal Chilean cities. Thousands of Chilean workers are rallying to the revolutionary fight against the dictatorship. Its program is to further starve the toiling masses in the interest of foreign capitalism and the native feudal landowners.

Twenty-five persons were killed and 75 wounded in the street fighting in Santiago, according to capitalist press reports. No information has been received of the results of the fighting in Valparaiso.

Organized workers came out on strike in many cities. In Santiago, the bakers and street car workers went on strike. The workers attacked several cars and burned them in the streets. Cavalry and infantry patrols were hurled in repeated charges against the workers. This is the bloody fascist-dictatorship hailed by the American Socialist Party as a true expression of socialist government! This bloody dictatorship is being actively supported by Chilean "socialists!"

The fascist-dictatorship has clamped down martial law on all sections of the country. It is threatening with military trial and summary execution all striking workers unless they return to work immediately. It has issued a decree outlawing the Chilean Communist Party and establishing drastic penalties for the revolutionary leaders of the toiling masses.

The dictatorship yesterday arrested 32 members of the Buin regiment, most of them non-commissioned officers, on charges of "conspiring against the government." The revolutionary movement against the dictatorship is supported by large sections of the rank and file and petty officers of the army.

United States Ambassador Culbertson has called upon the dictatorship to suppress the strike of the employees of the Braden copper mine, owned by the American Guggenheim interests.

The Journal of Commerce, Wall Street organ, yesterday announced Wall Street's approval of the Davila fascist-militarist dictatorship.