The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-28
L. 4. Imperialism
ReTSeCuteS Chinese
Workers

Chinese workers here in danger deporta
ton hands Kuomintang hangmen because
May First demonstrations. Stop Launch
campaign solidarity protest Stop.
PrOetarian Labor Congress-
2S Hasan, Manila Shanghai
To the Trade Union Unity League. U. s
Dear Comrades:
we wish to call your most serious and urgent
attention to she developments taking place in
the tonary labor movement in the Pbi1in-
pines. The class struggle Of the workers and
peasants against the combined forces ~ the
native bourgeoisie and landlords and American
imperialism, is taking on unprecedented pro
portions and depth. The recent armed Peasant
Uprising OF the Colorums in Tayug, the recent
SCrlKeS IN Negros and Iloilo and in Manila the
huge demonstration of 10000 workers and peas
ants IN Manila recently cat Conirade Ora's finn
eraD, the use of the Red Flag despite prohibi
ton, the growing popularity of the Proetarian
Labor Congress affiliated to the Pan-Pacific
IU Secretariat), the staging by the capitalist
landlord-imperialist courts of the first Com
munlst Trials" with % of our leading trade
union and peasant comrades arrested and
charged with "sedition' according to the good
OLD American formula)-all these are events
winch no revolutionary trade union organiza-
ton may view with indifference, especially anv
section of the PPTUS and particularly the
TUUL which has special revolutionary duties
in relation to the revolutionary labor movement
OF the Philippines Zone of the most important
colonial possessions of American imperialism.
Briefly and concretely, the PPTUS proposes
TO It's American Section the following measures:
10 start Immediately campaign of solidar-
lty and defense with the object not only of
1NSC CJyNcr AIY,ks1
Filipino comrades in other more tangible and
practical ways. They need funds to bail out
our leading comrades, whose imprisonment at
the present time-in view of the approaching
general elections in which the CP is to come
cut for the first time as an independent poll
teal party Of the workers and peasants-also
in view of the approaching Congresses of the
Proletarlan Labor Congress and of our revolu-
tonary Peasants Confederation Grip
ping our trade unions and our movement gen.
orally. They need people, experienced and re-
liable comrades to go there, to the P. T. and
help them for as long a period as possible in
their organizational and theological work They
need practical help with literature, the most
elementary things, the most important resolu-
tons and decisions of the RILU the most ele-
mentary pamphlets and booklets on trade
union organization. etc; they are completely
lSOldCeu, bley leel J1at the American reVOlu-
tionary trade unions neglect them, are not in
terested in their struggles and activities They
are not even in touch and receive no help what
ever from the Anti-Imperiast League of Amer
lea Send them all possible literature il only
possible get some of the more important docr-
ments like the resolutions of the Fifth RIIU
Congress translated into Tagalog language 1--WE
understand there are several Filipino COM
rades at your end who could help achieve this)
to our comrades in the P l. this means a great
DEAL And-the most important thing at the
present moment-you must help them in every
possible way against the White Terror, persecu-
lions, imprisonment. The situation is ripe for
the widest possible campaign in the u. S. A. in
support of the Filipino comrades and revolu-
tionary trade union movement. From the vast
experience of American comrades in the
matter of Communist trials, you can help them
immensely with advice, with counsel On the
conduct of these trials with funds collected in
their defense, end with a wel-organzed cam
paign against American imperialism and its
White Terror in the Philippines We also sug-
gest that the Executive of the TUUL give SER
ious consideration to the problem and posi-
bilities OF establishing some permanent contacts
with the revolutionary trade unions in the
Executives Of the two leading centers). Also
the possibility Of training groups of PHILIPPINE
comrades undre the TUUL for cadres in the
Philippines; Of establishing permanent good