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...Bolshevik Juan Marinello, Cuba's Communist Party, which got back into business the day Batista fell, is today at the peak of its influence. Its 24,000 members form the only active political party on the island. Card carriers or sympathizers in key civilian spots include: Carlos Franqui, former proofreader on the Red daily Hoy and now editor of Castro's paper La Revolution (circ. 80,000); David Salvador, chief of the labor federation; Francisco Alonso, head of the National Fine Arts Commission; Vicentina Antuña, chief of the National Institute of Culture...
...votes. His Liberal opponent, Dr. Ricardo Núñnez Portuondo, got 608,000; fiery little Senator "Eddy" Chibas got 318,000. The Communists, recently kicked out of control of Cuban labor, still turned in 142,000 votes (about 80,000 less than in 1944) for Dr. Juan Marinello...
...President Grau's policymaking. Through indirect control of the Ministry of Labor, the party forced the Government to seize Havana's U.S.-owned streetcar lines and a slaughterhouse in order to enforce labor demands. The working arrangement with the Grau regime helped put Communist Party Chief Juan Marinello in the Senate Vice-President's chair, may help the Communists pick up provincial mayorships and congressional seats in the June elections...