The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-11


cheap labor be (Which will incidentally
have the effect of forcing down labor home
The Filipino laws which limit landholdngs $500
each and thus protect the small farmer must be changed
to make way for big U. S. corporation-owned plantations
Pine resources must be putt at the disposal OF Wall
Street. The Filipino Legislature must be deprived of all
power; the remaining liberties of the Filipino people
be destroyed American imperiaist rule must be
frightened and perpetuated
Wall Street Demands.
1t is therefore not strange to hear American CAPT
talists declaring all sides that they invest
their ambitious dollars in the Philippines without being
guaranteed colonial conditions there The Jones Law
passed by Congress in 1914 promised independence
the Philippines 1t is demanded that the Jones Law
be repealed. gEG ols@
Now we can understand President Coolidges famous
"Roxas letter." declaring that the Filipnos mot
ready independence" Now we can understand the
presidents last to congress- urging powers
for the American governor-geneEa in the Philippines
We understand the Kiess bills and the Bacon bill
which will before the next session of congress
And understand why Carm Thompson sent
to the Philippines 70 Q5sa3-a
Why Thompson Travels.
The purpose of the Thompson Mission Dis plain
First of all it is to lay the basis for repeal the
Jones law or its conversion into a dead letter.
Secondly, it is to destroy the Filipino Legislature
effective instrument and to the governor general
with powers This is expected to result in laws
favorable to American capital 1t is also expected to
lead to the crushing of the Filipino independence move
memt.
Finally, the purpose of the Thompson Mission is to
the way for of the rubber-heeed" Bacon
ate new Ulster in the Philippines.
Not Wall Streets Business
We do not deny that the Moros 100000 out of popu
laon of IL 50O000) entitled special consideration
Their present status fixed by the United States
gress. 1t should be changed to give them full
voting rights in the Philippine commonwealth with
system Of local autonomy. What the Bacon bill pro
is their segregation under the absolute rule of
American directorate appointed from Washington In
any case the status of 'Moroland" is the business
the inhabitants Philippine Islands and not of the
United States.
American labor the necessary enemy of Wall Street
in the United States has nothing gain from American
imperialism. For the great of the American peo
pie, continued domination of the Philippine Islands
only dangers, sacrifices, hardships
Abraham Lincoln said: mo nation that ensaves
another be itself free!"
Hands Across the Pacific.
American labor must rally around itself all antiim-
peralist and take the lead in carrying
ward this mighty principle. @1e sbsg1t
We stretch out hands to the Filpinos strug
Cling liberty and prepare fight shoulder Shout
der with them.
We must pierce the hypocritcal pretensions of de-
mocracy masking Wall Street rule and imperialism
We the elaborate program outrage
that is summed up in the Thompson Mission.
the face of imperialist to tighten the of
oppression about the Philippine Islands let
out the demand:
Immediate, complete and absolute independence for
the Philippines! SFags -
The Fdlipinos want their independence. American Ia
Dor must demand it. 1928 iae-
We propose the calling Of nationwide conference to
be participated by all those standing for Filipino
dependence.
ALL1ANIERICA ANTGINIPERIAIIST LEAGUE
Omitted States section)
Manuel Gomez, Secretary