The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-13

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Hawaiian Communist League, and at
tributed his lack of greater success TO
the fact that the Hawaiians are so
much afraid of the U. S. uniform.
The U. S. government, he said, stole
these islands from the Hawaiians-a
plain, matter-of-fact robbery.
That is why the Hawaiians refuse
to work. Filipinos are herded up and
imported by the sugar trust to get
slaves for the plantations. Wives are
procured for them by a contractor so
the employers can have a native class
Of slaves. The Filipino is driven to
work under the blazing Hawaiian sun
for $1.05 a day. The highest pay he
can get by law is $1.5O, because his
skin is black. The white man gets
$40. The living conditions are degrad-
ing. Twenty Filipino families live in
a four-room house with straw-thatch
roof. If the roof is washed of in a
tropical downpour the Filipino has to
replace it out of his wages"
Why does the Filipino live under
these conditions? Because the u. s.
government makes it impossible for
him to live in the Philippines. All the
money you hear about spent in edu-
eating the Filipinos has not built a
school. The money goes into some
body's pocket, which every Filipino
knows.
Filipinos Suffer Misery.
The U. S. governments drunken
health inspectors, the crooked con-
tracts handed out to the Filipino
slaves, were exposed.
The speaker emphasized that he
found out these things thru contact
with native workers. One of his pals
was a black man named Pablo Marn-
apt, who organized these men and
got them out on strike. The character
of the U. S. policy was clearly brot
out when forty strikers were muir
dered. A sugar mill was blown up
and cane field was burned. Pablo
Marnapit, altho he proved that he
was % miles away when that hap
pened, was sentenced to ten years in
Jail. He is there now.
Hawaiian Communist League.
Crouch and Trumbull failed to or
ganize the natives because they were
rightly afraid of Uncle Sans uniform.
They had more success inside the
army, and on February II, 1925, they
openly organized the Hawaiian Com
munist League. The lieutenant of the
9th infantry corps published their
Communist Bulletin on the army
press, which bore at the top Hawaii
for the Hawaiians and the world for
the zonal workers." They had ap-
piled for afflliation with the third in
ternational and would have succeeded,
but for the fact that spy told lying
story about them, which resulted in
their arrest and trial.
They had rs U. S. army soldiers
ready to join when 1000 men arrested
them. Crouch got 40 years and Trum-
bull 26. 1t was only when the work.
ers of the whole world demonstrated
their solidarity with these class fight
lers that the government reduced their
sentences to three and one years.
They were held unjustly under the
statute, "No secret society can be
formed in Hawaii" Their paper was
published by the army press and their
meetings were public. Their only
crime was organizing in behalf Of the
working class.
Crouch Stands Fast.
What kind of a fellow is Paul
Crouch? Well when the bosses came
to him, saying: "Here, sign this. You
will not fight any more for your class"
Crouch told them, Il will spend my
whole life in this hell-hole on Frisco
Bay rather than do anything detri-
mental to the working class"
There is a great field for Commune
list propaganda in the colonial field,
where Imperialism makes the workers
like brutes. No worker should join
the army unless he intends to fight
for the working class. All workers
should join the Workers Party OF
America and the Young Workers
League in order to find out how to
effectively fight imperialist domina-
ton.
Comrade Trumbull ended his talk
by an appeal for the Young Worker,
which he said was the great mouth
piece OF class-conscious thot among
/ the Young workers