The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-02

Their working day. which by legislation usually
plantation in two shifeday night
despite the fact that according to official data the work
ing lasts 9s louisville low
era mbme resof the family work. their earnings not suffice for
less toerable existence The official living minimum in
the provinces peso 81 ntavo peso is about shngs while
the adult according official
In reality the wages received are far lower
All available Investigations into the history the Philippines from
the 80 American reign are full of peasant uprng the
inevitable position peasanry
Last century alone numbered over 100 uprisngs.
At the beginning of the exhausted by the arb
dealt out by the Americans the participants the
ment down. However, revival of the 1916
1917 and from 1917 1925 there 81 instances of soaed
agraran disorders which involved $4,000 participants
During period peasant acquired more organ
lied forms In 1917 the first Peasant Union organized which
the field at the height the Of it needs
saying that all upposabe fell the share the strikers
they eviced from the houses arrested tn accusation of
supposed spelling stealing the property of the landowners
thrown into prison for long deprvaons
unanmy increased the authority the organization
peasant confress of the PHILIPPINES the National of
Peasants and Agricultural Workers Philippines fnude
uniting the fmey dunited having membership
of 10000 AS formerly conference
however covered far larger number of agricultural
workers.
devoted the bratng Filipino peasantry develop
the labor movement of the Philippines The Confederation affiliated
to the largest workers organization of the Philippines Workers
Trade Union Secretariat and thus drawn the orbit the labor
national
countries the Pacific Since the the
has likewise been member of the League Against Imperialism
revival of the peasant taking place in
the Philippines.
The intensified offensive of capital agriculture growing
partially of native but chiefly of American capital in
the big plantations accompanied by all sorts of evasions of the
agricultural the
of thousands of renters
ants being deprived of the plots of cultivated
by the labor of have been transformed
and wild lands of former days to Towering fields
The eviction of renters of which already spoken
taking unprecedented dimensions.
The of this policy already being
the growth of urban unemployment the
OF both urban and agricultural workers.
This policy naturally provokes indignation peasantry
which expressed the growing the peasant
The in united movement of
the Philippines this protest and the intensified
ploatn of the oing by
perialism and native capital
The demonstrations pro-
test the eviction of peaantry
participants
The Confederation Agricultural Workers.
leads the peasant of the Philippines Congress
drew militant of action the organizations
This which has become the watchword hegrowng
struggle
% national independence Of the Philippines 2) improving
position OF the Matchmaking the
astery ands (3) the position
creasng the rent prohibiting evcns discounts being provided
of natural caames prohibiting compulsory labor peon
age freedom of coalition word strike and pkets az
with the
adults weekly for the
recognition of the unions collective
Of the workers at the expense
pensions and for the immediate factory gsaon
'ne agricultural worker. -