WALL STREET'S SUGAR BABY - FULGENCIO BATISTA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 19, 2000
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• Publication Date: December 23, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

DAILY wol>exs>IS DEC 2 3 1956
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ART SHIELDS
ulgenclo Batista
e,
ionalre fflZe news that the money is yo ring in. ' And Secretary of State John Foster
by news that the prices of NICKEL - the jet plane metal -- and
S GAR were booming. They were booming during the Suez war crisis. For, NICKEL and SUGAR are choice tid-bits
dollar International Nickel Corp. He was member of "Nick-
~! s eaeeuttve committee fore 23'
I e:us.... the Cubayl-Wall Street magnates
And Dulles is deep in SUGAR as, got before the Anglo-French-Israeli
a Wall Street 'banker and Iawyer, haggression began. And this rise will
1-11 -
The Schroder banking house of course.
Now York City controls two of the THE MANATI Sugar Co. and
bii;gest sugar plantation firms, the Francisco Sugar Co. will profit
w itli 450,000 acres in tuba. Dulles immensely. These are the Cuban
tt'us an agent of this Angle-G6r- sugar giants that the Schroder
bankers control, and that the law
saran-American bank for decades. firni. of Sullivan & Cromwell repre-
And the Secretary's law firm of sents.
Iairllran :,i ,was the Dulles's Rockefeller backers will
bank's chief counsel and its go-l profit immensely too. For Avery
between in international deals.
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THE SE(;RETARY's brother-
Cie gi al.dJaat~;xsa.. ,r y (proj-
act X)-was In Cuban Sugar too.
For Allan Dulles was a director of
the Schroder bank, and a partner of
Sullivan & Cromwell many years.
The SUGAR war. boom was
fantastic. The price of raw Cubari
sugar, in which the Dulles broth-
ers were interested, went up more
than 50 percent onthe island after
the shooting began. The jump was
from $3.23 ~rer 100 pounds on Oc-
tober 30 (before the shots began to
fly) to a peak of $$4.95 on Novem-
ber 29.
The price has dropped a bit
sh-te the powers moved back from
the war brink. It is $4.70 per 100
pounds as l'in writing today. Bute
ft is still,46 percent above the price)
WORLD OF LABOR
'Rebellions' Spreading
I Ar
nmeicas Unions
By G
M
ers who
concern o
Sly mounting
can dispose of
i it f I Itration"
charge.
To name a
few of these
rebellions. In
the 1,200,000
member steel-
workers a Dues
Protest Move-
ment against a
raise of dues
3 to $5 month-
ly, is sweep-
lug through many locals with
a rank and file opposition .slate
for union office on the filed. In
the auto union the leaders, their
eyes on the situation in the
steel union, are moving more
cautiously for a raise of only 50
cents a month, but even they
are encountering opposition in
the locals.
The much stabilized century-
old International Typographical
Union just carried out a referen-
dum vote in which a 50-cent
per capita hike was voted down.
fu other unions the rebellion is
over dissatisfaction with un-
ion handling of grievances that
are steadily piling up, or resent-
ment over official union "soft-
ness' towards employers.
ICAN labor lead-
isplay great con-
events in Hun-
irit of rebel-
bellion they
Rockefeller is the chief American
investor in the Schroder bank that
controls the two firms. And Avery's
cousin, David Rockefeller-a son of
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.-is a di- COL. F :'LGENCIO BATISTA
rector of another sugar giant. This
is the Punta Alegra Sugar Co.,
with nearly 2001 nn ares on faster this fall and winter. T.
THE CUBAN sugar cane cut- must belaughing cynically as
ters and grinders don't get thist'd
Batisasnrbassador to the Unite gravy, however. For the Cuban Nations-Nunez Portuondo-makes
masses are terribly oppressed by vneecher .J,out .alleged "Cerro
closely resembles Franco's. This
These speeches divert attention;
with the help of Wall Street sugar Cabinet's Sugar colony today,
planters. And hundreds of workers These massacres reached a new
have been arrested and scores of Hile
,trite quality when Batista
patriots murdered since General police broke into the Haitian Em-
Batista came back to
bassy power four years ago. bossy in Havana on October 29.
* The cops were shooting as they
THESE MURDERS are going
broke in. In several minutes the
apparent to many labor officials
that the tranquil life many pf
them have led for some years in
coming to an end: There is a
growing trend of opposition to
the "cultof' personality''Jn many
of our unions.
The pall of McC hyism and
cold war spirit no longer
strong eough t sntiff out dis-
enough
eral Electric local `of that city Sent or ive opposition.
since the thirties-through the But there a ? also some very
entire history of United Ele?- dangerous i nences in the pic-
trical Radio and Macliigj Work_ tune that rely takes a "rank
ers as a'left-winger and recently and file rover and needs the
as a right-winger in association attentio f the labor movement.
with James B. Carey of the IUE. ~?
A "little man s" slate %fl the T RE ARE two main trends
loc F. elections last ...web In a rebellions we witness in
with only Jandreau himself sur- trees diametrically opposed to
ch other but they are fed by
viving-with a majority of only a
Z
didn't change the result). Ba exploitation of anon once and
of this rebellion has been a y r do-nothiitgism.
or more during which bar a One tendency stems from
week passed without "w' cat" progressive rank and filism that
stoppages over grievance narl- has been traditional in Ameri-
ed up in red tape, withdreau can unionism for generations
kept more busy puffin ut fires arid. has always been a dyna-
than arguing over tl issues. mio element of every big ad-
Schenectady is a ample of vance by the labor movement.
i end for demo
they a olle ng, and rate..cutting; opposition to
the fantastically high salaries
MIK L, too, has been for officers, like the $50,000 a
having re n trouble for some year for David J. McDonald,
time in York, main base president of the steelworkers;
for the - ort Workers Un- rejection of the concept that
sense tat unio have it in
? , But there is atrend that echoes
wor `s vote with it feet- The influence of anti-union pro-
by )king out of the " ion and paganda should not be under-
res riding dues checkol uthor- estimated? Large numbers of
':Neglect of union pro ms for years rave had no more rela-
find a callousness towards the tion to their union than the dues-
tifeelings of the members, li checkoff on their enevelopes and
IN SOME CASES the swivel " also provided much ammunitionreceipt of a copy of the union's
under officials who have con some of which are more than they absorbed a tremendous
to regard their positions as lff splinters-and the union's author- amount of poison through numer-
long. We have the interest' g ity and bargaining right in the out channels, spread by the
Schenectady story. Leo an- field Is threatened more serious-. NAM and other employer outfits,
dreau has had an unterr )ted ly than ever. picturing the union as a "mon-
aareer as head of flue siaast' G/llpprovVd*dWRa1igs yaftyyla/05 C 0RV&tMQ6fl~0001
I;ftl . 'nut iy i ll~bfi }t;r l' fart :f`ti .t o 90?; C d"1 r.. 3' t r } { qt'E G ,r+,
2 5 rd i:Y~ :..,lsltnsa:.?
who had 'sought asylum in the Em-
bassy under the international cus-
tom of diplomatic sanction.
The victims werevoutlis in their ~ Aral. the Cn-ban Confederation of
twenties. Burt their families could! Labor, with the Party behind it.
hardly recognize some of tlrern the
next day. For the cops fired bullet
after bullet into their bodies until
they were mutiliated, almost be-
yond recognition.
.
*
PICTURES of these mutilated
bodies were published in the
Cuban Magazine "Bohemia" on
sufficient to drive Batista's Govern But when he returned to power
ment out of the family of nat ions, in March, 1952. it was in a fascist-
had it been used. But not one word like coup. He seized power by
of protest came from Secretary armed force from President Pricy
Dulles or Under Secretary of State Sacarras, who had defeated his
Herbert Hoover, Jr., the two im- stooge Nunez-Portuondo in the
Aerialist exploiters who run the election of 1948. And he followed
State Department today. Nor did the coup by raids on workers head-
Henry Cabot Lodge pay any atten- quarters and by mass arrests of
tion to this murderous violation of workers' leaders. The Communist
the right of diplomatic asylum Party was outlawed soon after.
lien he addressed the UN. The coup was hailed by Wall
He was too busy crying out Street at once. And Barron's finan-
against those 16,000 Ilun,rarian cial weekly applauded the General
deportations," which didn't take in a cross-the-page headline which
place. said: "Batista's Cuban Coup Sweet-
The killings went on. The United ens Outlook for Sugar Industry."
Press reported on December 2 ghat
40 anti-Batistas were slaughtered BATISTA. would put labor in its
when they landed from a Mexican place, the Wall Street paper went
,yacht on the Southern Cuban coasts on to say.
"It is suspected," said Barron's.
"that the coup, though highly il-
legal, was not entirely repugnant
to the U. S. State Department...
"It is an open secret that the
sugar industry is pleased with the
latest turn of events. The industry
has lived with Batista before... .
f-1e is friendly to the United States,
Perhaps, most of all, he can be ex-
pected to do somethin about the
local labor unions... .
Barron's then expressed its pleas-
ore at Batista's first actions after
the coup:
"The top labor leaders were
ousted almost immediately. All
civil rights were suspended for a
period of 45 days, including the
right to strike." Cuba was again
in the hands of the planters' chief
goon.
*
monist Party, either. The Party's
foots were deep in the toiling
became the biggest mass move-
ment in Cuba in the late 1930',-1
and early .1940's.
BATISTA spread 'his sails to this
popular breeze for awhile. He had
been out of office several years.
And when he came-back he pre.
tended to he a New Dealer at first.
Manzanillo. They were literally
blown to bits by bombing planes
obtained from the United States.
Survivors fought back in two
battles. Twenty-five' more were
said to have been killed. And a
manhunt is on for the rest in the
woods and hills of Eastern Cuba.
But the outcome of this latest
people's movement, which is di-
rected by Fidel Castro, the well-
known anti-Batista leader, is still
uncertain.
BATISTA first took power as a
"liberal" itt 1933. The butcher
Machado-the darling of the sugar
pplanters, who used to feed workers'
leacArs to the sharks in Havana
Bay-had been ousted in a popular
rising. His successor, a weak con-
servative named Cespedes, fell
quiokly. And Sergeant Batista, al AND file are
former 'court stenographer, occu-1happy in the sugar boo
in. But the
pied the Presidential palace with a Cuban people are not. And several
bold Cuban Americans demon.
strated in the gallery of the United
Nations December 10 with banners
denouncing Batista's Genocide.
Hundreds more carried their pro-
test to the doors of the Cubart
Consulate in New York.
The fight for freedom in Wall
Street's sugar colony cannot be
crushed.
group of rebel army men behind
him.
But Batista quickly proved to
}fie another stooge of the sugar
planters. He raided upon head-
quarters in ruthless fashion. The
planters' money began et9ning in.
And Batista is said to be ,j. million-
aire many times over today.
The labor movement could not
peachment trial of former President Miguel Gomez, his political
opponent. Batista was' In control of the House and Senate, and
1"6Qas7facing an impeachment trial.