An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

Author:Paul Ortiz [Ortiz, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780807013908
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2017-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

Ralph Matthews, a Cleveland Call and Post columnist, launched a devastatingly sarcastic attack on US crimes in Guatemala.

This new government, headed by a very wicked man by the name of Jacob Arbenz, set out to confiscate the land not being cultivated by the Boston people, and divided it up among the peons who had never owned a foot of earth in all their lives or the lives of their fathers before them. He compounded this rascality by offering to pay the Boston people not what the land was actually worth, but the value the owners themselves had place[d] upon it when paying taxes to the Guatemalan government. This was no way to treat the stockholders. By encouraging the formation of labor unions, [Arbenz] satanically and with malice aforethought, forced the bleeding company to pay excessive wages which increased things to the point where workers who formerly earned the tidy sum of around $185 a year were now carrying home as much as a thousand dollars per annum.33

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