The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25

And here American imperialism follows the
"good old traditions" of British imperialism,
in driving off the peasants from the land, and
establishing large plantations for the cultiva-
ton of raw materials. This is the course fol-
lowed now by American capitalism in Haiti,
Philippine Islands, Santo Domingo, the Virgin
Islands, etc. American imperialism is especially
desperate to develop in her colonies rubber
plantations.
In the December Is issue of the Chicago
Tribune in dispatch from Manila, its cor
respondent states "What chiefly impressed
Governor General Davis was the enormous diff
ficulty of encouraging wise land settlement
and cultivation (read-to establish large plan
tation for the cultivation of raw materials
SD in face of inability to gain title to
piece of land once the Filipino farmer had
started to put it under cultivation" The Philip
pine peasants resist stubbornly the imperialist
"wise cultivation" which means being deprived
of his piece of land. And in speaking of the
resistance of Philippines peasantry to the rob-
ber's "wise cultivation" the correspondent let's
the cat out of the bag when he states ut kept,
Iarvey Firestone (America's rubber magnate)
from going into the rubber business in the
southern islands and has kept many similar
investments from entering"
And American imperialism is clearing the
road, by brutally and forcefully evctng peas
ants and enslaving them on the plantations.
The correspondent admits it when he winds up
his dispatch by saying "The discomfort caused
now by difficulties over land ownership (read
resistance of the Philippine peasants to be
evicted off their land) is recognized major
factor in sending thousands of Filipinos to
Hawaii and the west coast of the U. S. in
vast emigration movement that has gained
alarming momentum in the last five years."
MEANING OF HAITI REVOLT.
The brutal process of evicting the peasants
in the Philippine Islands and enslaving them
on the capitalist plantations, is also being car
riel out by American imperialism in Haiti.
And precisely this explains the present mass
revolt in Haiti. The crushing of the revolt
in Haiti means the eviction of the Haitian
peasants at the point of the marines bayonet.
American Imperialism makes the American
worker pay her tribute to foreign imperialism
for their monopoly over the sources of the raw
materials This takes place in the form of
intensified naturalization. The American auto
manufacturers make the auto workers pay the
capitalist tribute to Great Brtain's owner
ship of the rubber plantations
Especially now, in view of the crisis in the
country the Hoover slogan is Stimulate ex-
port" and therefore hand in hand with the
growing brutal naturalization at home, will
go on a growing brutal exploitation of the
toiling masses in the Latin American coun-
tries The American working class must sup
port the Latin American toiling masses OPP
pressed principally by American imperialists,
in decisive struggles against their common
enemy-American imperialism.
UNITE U. s. AND LATIN AMERICAN
WORKERS.
Our Party, the Communist Party, jointly
with the brother parties in Latin America, must
now, around the campaign to support the Hal
tian masses in their struggle against American
Imperialism, unite the workers in this country
with the toiling masses of Latin America. We
must especially help in the building of the
Communist Parties in the various American
colonies Then anti-imperast work of the
Party must be broadened and strengthened
Communist leadership INST he established in
a broad anti-mperialist front, as only Com
munist leadership is guaranty in the struggle
against the petty bourgeois elements who are
the main brake on the development of broad
militant anti-imperialist movement and against
their inevitable betrayals. The Haitian masses
must be warned against the petty bourgeois
elements who will try to gain the leadership
in the movement in order to betray it.
In face of the growing struggles of the
Latin American masses the Party must take
to heart the sharp criticisms contained in the
thesis of the Sixth World Congress with re-
CARDS to our struggle against American i'm
perialism in Latin America namely. the
fact that it falls to carry on a sufficiently
impressionable struggle against the predatory
policy of the United States in Latin America"