The daily worker

From the original pageDe la página original

This page carries the passage as it was found on the newspaper page, copied with its reading errors and all. The article's fuller presentation is still to come; the original page is linked above.Esta página lleva el pasaje tal como se encontró en la página del periódico, copiado con sus errores de lectura y todo. La presentación completa del artículo aún está por venir; la página original está enlazada arriba.

and violence to prevent it.

revolt and a group of peasants was

marching on the city. A marine

patrol of twenty, with an undis

closed force of the so-called “nation

al guard,” every officer of which

above /second lieutenant is a U. S.

marine, was posted at the roadway

entering the city.

The Haitian peasant forces num

bered only 150, and demanded to

enter the city and join the strike.

They would not believe the strike

was called off, reports state, and

were allowed to send two of their

number into town. When these re

turned with the word that the strike

leaders had called off the strike

(undoubtedly because they had been

facing death at the hands of the

marines), the information was

greeted with curses and jeers.

In spite of the lack of other

weapons than machetes, clubs and

J stones, the reports state that the

peasants took the offensive and

penetrated into the marine positions,

heroically fighting until death.

Peasants Impoverished.

The peasantry, which has been

steadily impoverished during Yan

kee occupation, were recently sub

jected to additional taxes on tobacco

and alcohol, and were being forced

by law to standardize the quality

of the coffee they market, by such

rigid rules that their income, al

j ready miserably low, was cut down

still further. This measure, by

i which American coffee interests

hoped to compete on the world mar

ket with British coffee interests in

Jamaica and Brazil, and Dutch im

perialist coffee interests in Indo

nesia, was enforced with the author

ity of the hated Hatian “govern

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The daily worker. (1929). Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y., 1929-12-09. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020097/1929-12-09/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The daily worker, 1929-12-09.