The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-11
WHAT PRICE RUBBER?
The Facts About the Thompson Mission.
STATEMENT OF THE ALL-AMERlcA ANrIMpERIALIsr Lea

NoL. CARNI A. THOMPSON the business manpoliti-
- clan whom President Coolidge selected his per
sona representative to investigate conditions in the
Philippine Islands, will be back in the United States
ready to make the report that already written for
him when he started his heralded journey to the Far
East
The Thompson Mission is no idle pleasure trip For
weeks and even months, the newspapers have been
full Of it. Why is it that find ourselves reading so
much about the distant Philippines? Important develop
ments taking place which American workers and
farmers afford to ignore. Indeed the of
the American people in general will find their interests
directly affected.
When the Thompson Mission was appointed last April
naive Filipnos assumed it going to investi
gate the brutalities of GovGen. Woods regime Moth
ing of the sort happened The presidents representa-
tive has not really investigated anything This is
parent from the speeches made by him to Fipnos who
focked around him to demand independence from u S.
mperalist rule. These speeches exactly the
those he made in the United States before leaving
Praises Reserves; Forsets Independence.
Col Thompson has had much to of the tremendous
iron, coal and other resources Of the Philippineses
pecialy rubber.
He has had not word to say of Philippine indepen-
dence altho the correspondent the Chicago Tribune
wrote back to his Aug 90 that the longing for
independence is the most distinct impression received
by Col. Thompson and his party"
In the midst of the Thompson tour Gov-Gen. Wood We
toed for the second time bill passed by both houses
of the Filipino legislature calling for referendum vote
of the Filipino people on the question of Independence
The Moro MeIodrama
Meantime some theatrical demonstrations have been
staged at Jolo and other places in "Moroland for the
purpose giving the impression that the MOrOS nate
the rest of the Fipnos and love American imperialism
oroand embraces all of the acreage suitable for
rubber growing. Newspapermen the ground declared
unanimously that the Moro "antFilipno" demonstra-
tons planned by appoinees of GovGen. Wood The
whole business is plainly to the for separation
of the valuable Moro provinces from the of the
Philippines under rigid dictatorship of American officials
appointed from Washington This is in line with the
provisions of the Bacon Bill now before congress.
What is really ait the bottom Of all this maneuvering
in the Philippines? The American masses who together
with the natives of faro lands, always eventually
called to ntO and blood for the dazzling for
dersand what is going Every serious foe of i'm
perialsm-whether he be worker, farmer student or
even small business man-must consider the situation
with misgvings
The Urge to Empire.
American capital has made huge profits in foreign in
vestment under colonial conditions Thanks big bust
ness and speedup production in the United States Wall
Street has capital eager for export than be-
fore. Also markets wanted and of
raw materials for American industry.
The Philippines which take in 100000 acres of the
finest rubbergrowing land in the world, loom UP
natural field for intense exploitation
The Philippine Islands only $50 miles from the
mainland of China, Sudden attention Philippines
of the greatest potential houses the world
there is between the United States and Japan
will not be due to the immigration problem,
told by clever propaganda. 1t will be because of the
struggle for imperiaist domination in China.
America in the Philippines is rifle pointed directly
at the heart of the Orient.
Rubber Makes Difference
The Philippines have been American colony since
1898 Rubber and the general advance of American i'm
periasm have made the islands key position of
empire. Everywhere signs that Wall Street
and Washington are preparing to exploit their Pacific
colony up the h1t
But this implies the dnplantaton of an outand-out