The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-29
PEASANT REvOLTS
in PHILIP PIN S
CRUELTY CRUSHED
Natives Hail Report of
Wood Resignation"
By HARVEY o'CoNNoR

WASHINGTON, June %. OPP
"The day General Wood resigns as
governor of the Philippines will be
celebrated as a national Filipino holt
day second only to independence Day
when we get it."
So commented Vicente G. Bunuan,
director of the Washington office of
the Philippine Commission for hide
pendence on reports that Wood is
about to resign after six years OF
what Filipino papers describe as a
dictatorship.
Political conditions in the Islands
are bound to be improved" Bunuan
added, "for they could hardly be
worse. The Filipino people have beer
given a lesson in despotism, but they
like democracy better than ever
When will the American Congress re-
deem its promise and give it to us?"
Poor Health Bunk.
General Wood is scheduled to con-
fer with President Coolidge in the
Black Hills and may at that time offer
his resignation, pleading poor health
The administration will be relieved if
the resignation is preferred, because
Woods removal will take the sting
out Of the attacks Senator Burton K.
Wheeler and other congressman who
have visited the Philippines this
spring are expected to make on
Woods regime in the next Congress.
The only fly in the ointment the
Filipinos perceive in Woods with
drawal is the annual pension of 50,-
600 pesos ($25,000) which they will
have to pay out of their taxes to him.
Senator Wheeler was given ova-
tons in Manila and other Island
ports during his recent visits, accord
ing to Manila papers. He won en-
thusiastic Filipino support when he
withdrew from dinner given in his
honor by Eugene A. Gilmore, vice.
encouragement, when attacks were
made on the capacity of the people to
govern themselves. "We are always
hearing" he declared later, "of the
need of educating the Filipinos. Evil
IDENTIFY they are not the only ones who
need education. There are Americans
here who have been away from home
so long they have forgotten the spirit
of the Declaration of independence
and the American Constitution"
Wheeler hit vigorously at Woods
proposal to sell the publicly-owned
sugar centrals in the province of
Negroes to Hallgarten G. Co., New
York bankers. The centrals' debts to
the Philippine National Bank can be
paid off in five years, he said, and
then the refineries will be the prop
erty Of the people, instead of foreign
exploiters.
Java is a lesson for the Filipinos, .
President Manuel Quezon Of the
Philippine Senate told audiences as
he escorted Wheeler on his swing
through the islands. Manila papers
took up the significant utterance to
use in headlines. Java has been the
scene of recent agrarian revolts
against the Dutch rulers.
Sugar Starts Revolt.
That the revolt of Flor Intrench-
erado, the mad emperor Of the pro-
vince Of Negroes, was no mere fana-
tical religious outbreak is attested in
reports in native papers. The up
rising had all the characteristics Of a
peasants revolt, with landlords
logged, plantations taken over and
administered by the workers and
crude councils hastily organized. Four
hundred workers were arrested on
charges of sedition.
The revolt occurred in the middle
of the rich Negro sugar district, to-
ward which American capitalists arc
looking with eager expectation of inn
niense profits. With an annual out
put expected within few years Of
100000 tons, sugar is seen as even
more important than the prospective
rubber development. Cuban planters
allied with New York banking firms
are already using their influence to
have Congress raise d tariff arainst