The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-26
JAIL Is UNION
LEADERS,; SEIZE
ALL DOCUMENTS
AAAIL Pushes Fight
Against Arrests

of Java has called forth the fol-
lowing protest from the United
States Section of the All-America
Anti-Imperialist League: eve have
just receive word from the World
League Against Imperialist that the
government of Java has recently
taken steps to break up the trade
union federation in Java, the 'Sari-
kat Kaoem Boeroeh Indonesia.'
twenty-five of the leaders have
been arrsted, and all union docu-
ments have been seized; the main
charge appears to be that the or
ganization had entered into rela-
tons with the League Against I'M
perialism Git affiliated in May 1920
1t is clear that this is an attempt
to suppress the trade union move
nlent which is once more beginning
TO develop after the terrible repres-
sion of 1926 and 1927"
This is another evidence of the
inlperialist attack upon the revolu-
tionary working class organizations,
especially in the colonies. The U.
S. Section of the AAAIL joins with
the .Anti-Imperialist Leagues thru
out the world in protesting against
this brutal attack by the Dutch gov
eminent, and in unfolding the right
of the labor and peasant organiza-
tions to form their class organiza-
tions. The League is sending a pro-
test resolution to the Dutch EN-
bassy, and is asking its affiliated
and sympathetic organizations to do
the same.
Down with Dutch Imperialism!
For the Freedom of the Java Trade
Unions! Statement by the ALI
America Anti Imperialist League
u S Section).
Mr.. J. H. Van Royen,
Minister from Holland,
Washington, D. c.
The All-America Anti-Imperialist
League (U. S. Section Uniforms you
herewith that it protests vigorously
against the brutal attack of your
government upon the trade union
movement of Java, a Dutch colony
We have received information from
the World League Against I'M
perialism and for National indie
pendence that twenty-five leaders of
the Java trade union federation
the "Sarikat Kaoem Boeroeh In
donesia" have been arrested, and all
union documents seized; that the
main charge against them is that
this organization affiliated in May
1929 with the World League Against
Imperialism.
We hold Dutch imperialism re-
sponsible for the miserable condi-
tons of the working class in Java,
where the workday is twelve and
fourteen hours, and the daily wage
from 35 to 40 cents. According to
your government report of 1928, a
male worker on the Java sugar
plantation received daily wage of
421a cents~ woman worker 30
cents, and a child Is to- 20 cents.
Officially the working day is 10
hours, but this is violated on all
sides. Oppression and misery is the
lot of the Java worker under the
heel of Dutch imperialism.
The trade union federation you
are trying to crush is a real, fight
ing force for the interests of the op-
pressed masses. 1t raised the slo-
gan of the 6 hour day, which met
with enthusiastic response from the
masses of workers, the machinists.
the miners, etc. To crush them, and
the other revolutionary organiza-
tions the Dutch government has in
stituted a whole string Of anti
Labor laws.
Your government suppressed with
blood the workers uprising in 1926
which aimed at throwing off the
shackles of Dutch imperialism. The
trade union movement was again
taking on great momentum, and the
arrest of the leaders is aimed to
crash it. We declare that these eff
forts will not succeed. The .ex-
plotted masses of Java and the other
sections of the Dutch East Indies
will know how to rally their forces
fpr the defense of their labor or
limitations for the release of their
imprisoned leaders and for the over
throw of Dutch Imperialism.
THE All-America Anti-Imperialist
League ~. S. Section) protests
theoretically against this brutal at
tack of Dutch imperialism against
our comrades and fellow workers of
Java. We demand the immediate
reelase of the twenty-five i'm
prisoned trade union leaders. We
demand the cessation of the attack
upon the Java trade union fedora
tion-the "Sarikat Kaoem Boeroeh
Indonesia"; we demand that the
right of the workers and peasants
of Java to form their class organi-
zations be not interfered with. We
support wholeheartedly the struggle
Of the Java masses of workers and
peasants for a radical improvement
in their Ling and working condi-
tons, for the complete economic and
political independence Of Java and
the Dutch colonies from Dutch i'm
perialism, and for genuine national