The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
-. Imperialists Out
of Philippines!
I)riiv
"You, who have tears


Prepare to shed them with the New Times question
of Philippine independence.
Question course is not difficult to resolve The limited
States cody and calmly took the Philippines
several years killing and torturing Fnos until they sufficiently
convinced of u s. superiority that Fpnos preface
their request for Independence by Apologize
ude for all the benefits American rule alleged brought
Outside of jazz movies and municipal
represents tax burden weighed with graft
bondhoders any tangible benefits hard find the lives of
the great of Philippine To bourg
eo is true the American the wonderful oppor
.unty OF using the latest harp studying law in training be
loyal ackey of the Governor General in Island politics.
undrng for Yankee plantation But there
ton of lackeys and the market price is way down.
As for the masses Manila second only Calcutta deaths
toll The in deeper misery The peasanry being
robbed of of land Labor paid
long hours and brutay beaten down by police cnabuay
dares strike But all this the New Times bh
With the armed forces of America sitting the Fpnos neck the
Times that they independent they would be dfnseles
How so more than at present? The Times tells u.s.
Fipino the international of Philippine indpend
at this time always will be fine other but
nowEd Daily Worker) can only be viewed with profound
prhension The Javane would feel they and other Malay
peoples should be freed from European control In India like
Philippine independence by local
agaos as new reason for attempting to throw out the Eng
the japanese The Chinese would at begin to into
for Britain by American Imperialism India to be pred loose from
services are busy right now web Yankee influence around
india against England though is that both together against
Local Eastern agitators Of the Communist movement
But the effort of the Times few for other
mpsts who might feel gieved if the United States retired from
question by saying that;
Philippines
They integral of the Far East inextricab
Asiatic So long he
the peace and stability that
region of the Pacific assured"
Oh, it? The fact is that far from the United States being
factor for peace present ncment to in the Far
Which is World War Much truthful the
Times when it coyly mentions
potentially rich but yet but little
They have large deposits of coal and other
erals
why Times bashu about
mentioning the possibilities of rubber fiber and
enough start objectng with
and military Whee then, would be
peace of the Pacific?' it asks.
indeed reo, is it today? Is it peace when the
the thousands and exile tens of thousands
when England slaughters
millions of ndians Is it peace when Japan punges
countless Koreans? Is it peace when the
buchered noncanty by mpast
peace" almost wiped out
Northern uzn and holds down 12
100000 Fpnos lives ended only by disease and sava
when day the mperiast anng
feverishly against each other in the Far East?
the symbols of peace for Imperialism perhaps but
proetarat the oppressed OF the orient
will only when the mperiass driven out OF
Philippines rising workers and peasants aided by
the American revolutionary working To this coupled with their
the American workers must direct their efforts II
they would either in the Far East in America ITSELF