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Though he denied it, Cuba's ambitious young (41) Ambassador to the U.S., Guillermo Belt, looked more & more as if he were going to be a candidate to succeed President Ramón Grau San Martín next year...
America. Toledano claims that he is not a Communist, but he seldom deviates from the Party line. In Cuba, 75 miles from the U.S., a Communist was First Vice President, Communists provided the votes by which President Ramon Grau San Martin controls Congress, Communists also held all key posts in the Cuban Confederation of Labor. There were few Latin American countries in which Communists could not point to gains...
...that unloads the Seatrain stood stark and still. The Seatrain itself, a seagoing ferry that brings 105 loaded U.S. freight cars to Cuba weekly and returns them packed with Cuban freight, languished at its home berth in New Orleans. Cuba's belligerent dock workers, backed by the compliant Grau San Martin Government, had decided that the Seatrain was cutting them out of jobs...
...Workers. But most stevedores, the braceros (day laborers) handling imports after they reached the docks, were not so lucky; Grau's Government has fixed a daily...
...dance hall. More often lately he has hurried away to a union meeting. But, though Catalino is a good unionist, forking up 30? a day for dues and the benefit fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite so often as Violeta. Although he reads the Communist Hoy for its detailed waterfront news coverage, Catalino does not yet share with the Communist leaders of his union their hatred...