The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-24
BY I AMTER.

TIE demonstration of 100000 workers In Manila
L was stab at the heart OF American imperial
ism This is the first time, on major scale,
that the Filtpinos have demonstrated for indie
pendeace. True, after the Spanish-Anaerican
war the movement for Independence was strong,
but was misled and betras ed by the national
bourgeois leaders. There have been revoltS OF
the mountain tribes, but these were put down
by the Philippine constabulary. These were
called 'crevolts of backward, savage" people, but
it is clear that the Chinese Revolution has in
spired the Philippine workers and peasants, and
the crisis has driven them to action. The Manila
demonstration, therefore, must not be regarded
as a machination on the part Of the national
lists, not even to please an American senator,
who plays "revoutionist" This demonstration
is the result of mass movement caused by the
desperation of the masses Of workers and peas
ants, who, for the present, are being led by the
national bourgeoise. This revolt will turn into
a revolutionary movement, led by the Commu-
mist Party which is being organized through
out the country
In Cuba, the revolutionary movement is SUI
fering the horrors of hell. Machado the butcher
and tool of American imperialism, is trying to
crush the revolutionary organizations of the
workers and peasants. Many hundreds of reVo-
lutionists have been murdered The Communist
Party is illegal, and the revolutionary unions
face suppression at all times But, despite the
terror, the crisis in the country due to the sugar
over production, is driving the workers and
peasants forward Despite butchery and mas
sacre, the Communist Party carries on its work.
IN Nicaragua, the revolt Of the outlaws" can
not be put down, and the marines know that
their task cannot be ended. The situation in
Nicaragua and Panama continues to grow more
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down on the shoulders Of the workers and poor
peasants.
Mexico, South and Central America are going
through the world crisis. This is being put on
the shoulders of the workers and peasants. The
world coffee crisis affecting Brazil; the slash
ing drop in the price of copper and potash in
Chile. the closing down of production, both agri
cultural and industrial throughout South Amer
ica have driven the South American country
into bankruptcy This has caused alarm in
Washington, just the threatening collapse Of
German capitalism shocked the imperialist cap
itals of the world And Just as Hoover proposed
debt holiday" for Germany, with stake of
about three billion dollars In Germany, so, too,
IN South America, where close to six billion dol
lars of American money is invested, with trade
AMOUNTING to hundreds Of millions (Which has
,een seriously hit by the crisis, a moratorium"
of the South and Central American capitalists
who think that in this way the crisis will be
overcome, just as Hoover, Bruening, MacDon-
aid and Laval think it will be overcome in Eu-
rope. This will be In vain. The crisis will only
break with greater severity, and the crash will
be complete
To avoid revolution the imperialsts who see
runation for their system, are heading toward
war. This is being intensified every day by
the growing success in fulfilling the Five Year
Plan in the Soviet Union. No more can the
capitalists speak of the breakdown" of Soviet
economy They see the menace to their system,
with starvation misery over-production, wage
cuts speed-up in their own countries while the
new system of Socialism grows with gigantic
steps in the Soviet Union. Therefore, war is
being prepared with intense haste against the
Soviet Union. the most energetic proponents of
it being the fascist leaders of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor. the socialist party and the
Musteites.
10, the duty of the American workf to sup