The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-13
IGNORE APPEAL
OF PERUvIANS
Pluto Press Silent on
Wall Street Rule
(Anti-ImperiaIist News service)


the United States government has re.
ceived information regard the road
building CONSUMPTION law Of Peru, ex-
posed by the AIl-America Anti-lm-
perialist League last week in series
Of news releases, as a conspiracy of
United States imperiaist interests for
the enslavement Of the Peruvian
workers.
What prevented a single line of his
unprecedented scandal of Imperialism
from appearing in any American cap
italist daily will now have to be ex-
plained-unless the kept press intends
to continue brazenly ignoring the
whole affair.
Government Gets Report.
It can no longer be explained on the
basis Of lack of reliable information. I"
The official government report was
made to the department of commerce
by J. D. Smith, assistant United States
trade commissioned at Lima, Peru.
The All-America Anti Imperialist
League has sent out its releases on
the basis of direct communications
from Lima.
The fact that report had been
made to the government came to light
inadvertently last Friday, four days
after the stories of the anti-imperial-
sst league had begun to appear, when
brief notice of it slipped into the
columns of the United States Daily,
a Washington newspaper devoted to
government official actions, hearings
and documents.
Following is the notice as it appears
in Fridays issue of the United States
Daily:
Compulsory Registration.
"The Peruvian government has en-
acted a law for Lima and Callao re-
quiring compulsory service of all male
Inhabitants, natives and foreigners, be-
tween the age of Is and so in the
construction and repair of roads and
other public works, states report to
the department of commerce from As
sistant Trade Commissioner ]. D.
Smith at Lima.
"The annual schedule of duties for
the persons affected by the law are:
individuals from IS to 81 years of
age, days of service; from q to so
years of age, IL days, and from so to
so years of age, days. In lieu of
working each man has the option of
paying the value of the corresponding
daily wage or of employing sub
stitute."
To Launch Protest.
Requests are still being received
by the All-America Anti-Imperialist
League for action to bring pressure
against the United States imperialist
interests responsible for the law, in
whose hands President Leguia is a
corrupt tool. The league is demand
ing an investigation by the United
States senate. 1t points out, however,
that this is merely measure to rouse
the attention of the American work
ers. It will also ask the American
trade unions to pass resolutions con-
demning American imperialism in
Peru, as elsewhere, and insisting on
the release of Larrea and Sierra
leaders of the Federation of Printing
Trades Workers of Lima, who arc now
being held prisoners because they re-
fuse to sign statement in favor of
the road-building transcription law.
The Lima printing trades workers
have appealed directly to the anti
imperialist league.
The league now has ten national
branches in Latin-America and the
United States. Information from the
Peruvian section indicates that its
headquarters have been closed by the
government and that It is not allowed
to meet openly. President Leguia is
being denounced as a creature of
American Imperialism from one end
of Latin America to another
Cfnned Railway Coneeaaion