The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-09
N. Y. WORKERS
PLEDGE AID TO
FREE FILIPINOS
Parties of Wall Street
Are Denounced

NEW IOhA, April Alt one of
the most enthusiastic meetings held
in New York City, close to 500 work
lngmen and women pledged their
solidarity with the Filipino people in
their struggle for complete national
independence and for freedom from
the domination of the present Amer
lean imperialist rule of Wall Street.
The republican and democratic
parties were denounced scathingly for
their devotion to the cause of i'm
perialism and all the energies and re-
sources of the Workers (Communist)
Party of America were pledged to
the Filipino masses to help them con-
clude their victorious fight against
the capitalist exploiters, the common
enemy of the workers of the world.
Antonio Viterbo, professor Of the
university of Manila, the first speak
er, told the interested audience of the
great progress made by the Filipinos
in education and industry. Prof.
Viterbo emphasized that considerable
industrial progress achieved by the
Filipino people and made a fervent
plea for their national independence.
Scott Nearing followed Prof.
Viterbo and told how the American
imperialists got their first foothold in
the Philippines and gradually ex-
tended their control and influence I'M
til they now have invested more than
one-quarter of a billion dollars in the
Islands
American Imperiaiistie Investments
Scott Nearing gave an enlightan-
ing as well as interesting talk on tba
growing investments in patriotism
made by the American capitalists in
the philippines. These investments
In rubber, cocoanut oil, hemp. copra.
sugar and tobacco are the invest
ments in patriotism made bv the
American capitalists and ere respon-
slble for the present imperialist
policy of the Washington government
towards the Philippines. Washington
IS the last place on earth where the
t1lpinos will get their national free
dom and liberty. 1t is only by estab-
fishing thenS economic freedom in the
philippines that the Filipinos will
ever be able to get their freedom, y
said Scott Nearing.
Jay Lovestone told how the Ameri-
can capitalist class is employing its
control of the United States govern
ment to enslave the Filipino people in
the same way that it exploits and on
presses the workers and farmers at
home. He told the story of the ap-
polntment of General Wood as Gov
ernor General and the policy pursued
by Wood in his campaign to force the
Filipino nation to hand over valuable
concessions to the Standard Oil.
Proctor & Gamble and Firestone
Rubber Co., interests which were
among the big business groups that
invested closeSto two billion dollars in
the presidential primary campaign of
General Wood in 1920.
Workers and Farmers Government.
1t is in the interests of our own
working class at least as much as in
the interests of the Filipino masses
that we must get into the fight for the
national freedom of the Philippines.
Today, the only organization of all
peoples oppressed by the capitalist
imperialist the world over is the
Communist International of which
the Workers Party is the American
section. It is only a Workers and
Farmers government of, by, and for
the American working class that can
guarantee political and economic
freedom to the brave Filipino people
that has resisted tyranny for four
hundred years"
Vicente Bunman director of the
Philippine Press Bureau and member
of the official Filipino Independence
Mission, followed with a thoro an
alysis and a complete annibilation of
the various arguments usually put uB
against Philippine independence by
the capitalist newspapers. Mr.. Bun
man drew tremendous applause when
he told of how the Workers Party
was thanked by the Philippine Con-
federation of Labor at its recent ma
tional congress and how the Filipino
workers and farmers are responding
to the call for international solidarity
issued by the Workers Party of
America.
Resolution Proposed.
At the close of the meeting jay
Lovestone proposed the following
resolution which was adopted unani-
mously and with great enthusiasm by
rising vote of the hundreds of work
ers who filed the Webster Hall
eve the workers of New York,
in mass meeting assembled under the
auspices Of the Workers Party of
America, Local Greater New York
unanimously pledge our solidarity
with the Filipino people in their
struggle for complete national free
dom from the domination of Wall
Street.
"The demand that Congress i'm
mediately recall General Wood and
HE military cabinet from the Phi
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