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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-29
Primitive Race, Untouched by Progress,
Lives in Deep Philippine Wilderness

planted orchards, no wells, no irrigated
agriculture. no MILL no herds, no car
penters, no blacksmiths. no brick
makers-and hence no craftsmen.
Their weapons, chiefly for the chase,
not war, are the -and-arrow, the
spear, the blowgun. Metal is SO scarce
that they commonly use arrows without
heads; they do not even use the flint
headed arrow of the primitive American
Indian.
They can shape a bamboo arrow,
however, skillfully enough to penetrate
wild boars hide or a deer's hide. For
enemies they can poison the arrow tip.
Use Herbs for Medicine.
The art of medicine is not known to
them beyond a few herbal remedies.
The primeval barbarity of these w1loel-
ness jewellers is a classic example q.
the westward course of empire. The
civilization cracled so nearby, In Asia,
took the routes of commerce westward
and durin~ the 5000 years of develop
ing empires in the west no one ever had
occasion to MAKE q trading post at
Cotabato or a military road inland.
The people of the dense Cotabato
wilderness do not know the Spaniard
ever held the Philippines, or that the
American has taken his place. Far
lTUIu ever UdVIlg seen OpdnldTQ OF
an American. they have not, the vast
majority of them. ever seen a strange
Malay. Their lives their arts, their
civilization are jungle-bound Vans,
corn and rice are scratched into the
ground with sticks when fire has cleared
away the jungle, and when fields grow
sterile brief move to new fallow lands
Is made.
Build Houses in Air.
Houses. for safety are built in trees:
or, lacking trees, on a multitude of
bamboo poles. Wild Manila hemp
furnishes material for looms and the
women. coloring the yarn with natural
dyes, make the most beautiful hemp
cloth in the world. Pottery, on the
other hand, is crude.
Malaria and smallpox devastate them.
Smallpox has killed entire villages,
leaving none alive to bury the dead.
Yet these tribes make heroic battle
for life; 1t would interest science to
study them closely. Marriage occurs at
the natural age, /. e., among children;
not man marrying child. but boy
marrying a girl There Is strict mon
cgamy, too: but though morals are
clean, deaths especially of infants, keep
pace with births.
(Copyright, 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-29


the called practical the courses that t tor fe
practical But they did learn great deal about history
England and the United States They
schooled the Bible that record OF
political social well as the religious LIE OF
great people A., .,
ode graduates not being constantly thrown
life knew that most Of what happens
happened humanity times before They had
appreciation point of and problems of other peo
pies of the they realized that sort of
takes a long long time. -
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pected to lay down program something mat all the coege
boys could get behind and put over .
Woodrow Wilson president OF Princeton I once
heard him make address the Christian ministry He said
they planning to enter the ministry They say they
want do something when they ought to tell me That they want
to be something" ...
my mother quiet little whose name
papers what she by help
ing in quiet way could became literally in
died received letters about her
from people all the world.
One dangers country think tremendous
do something We ruled by organized minorites They
mobilize they bring Congress- they have programs
Our colleges should eavn the national lump with people
with historical perspective with patience and with open
minds
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-29

COTABATO. Philippine Islands
This town is the capital of the province
of the same name, Cotabato, or Rock
Fort. the largest of all the 40 provinces
Of the Philippines-an area of $500
square miles inhabited by only 211, 489
persons. % to the square mile. The
town itself has 10000 inhabitants. The
province compares in area with Bel
GUM in Europe or Haiti in the West
Indies. Besides a few communities
having harbors on the sea or access
to navigable rivers, Cotabato Is vast
primeval wilderness sheltering four or
five tribes.
Travel is all but impossible between
the barbarian villages and the towns
on the Cotabato River, which empties
into the Celebes Sea, where salt and
steel may be obtained in exchange for
trivial quantities of forest products.
Ruled by Patriarchs.
In number the barbarians seem to
be about 100000 souls, but each viii
lage, a government to itself, if not a
nation, comprises perhaps no more
than o dozen families, ruled by pa
triarch, to whom all the families are
related closely by blood
A people called the Bila-ans, in the
deepest of the wilderness, numbers
about 10000; their neighbors. the
Manobos, about $4,000 The most ad-
vanced of the barbarian tribes are the
Tirurais. They are in closer contact
with the outside world, their territory
being more accessible
The Cotabato wilderness is generally
inaccessible because there are no roads,
no made trails. only paths trod down
from season to season by bare feet.
or only the beds of streams that may
be followed. There are vast prairies,
but they are covered with a rank tropi-
cal grass called talahib. This grass
grows to the height of is feet and SO
thick is it that paths cannot be made
through it except in the outskirts of
the villages. Mountains also form ef-
fective barriers.
Isolated In Wilderness.
As a natural consequence of isolation
in the tropical wilderness. these bar
barian tribes have nothing but the most
primitive civilization. Their benighted-
ness can hardly be imagined. Both
their society and their institutions are
infinitely more primitive than those de-
scribed In the wilderness of the Bible
They have no pillow, no mattock, no
scythe, no wine press, no vineyard, no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-29
Europe Stakes Its Future on Outcome
OF Three International Discussions

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-29
BY CASTOR NERVAL.

w WHILE the State Department IS
A explaining misunderstood
NN ings, mending past errors
and endeavoring to regain
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20

against the National City Bank and
the imperialist lynchers of the Ne
gro masses.
The Executive Committee Of the
Confederation National Obrera de
Cuba, the revolutionary organiza-
ton that'leads the workers in their
struggles against the native and
Yankee xplOiters and the trade
union burocrats drew up a resoIu-
ton on its meeting of the 9th of
this month, protesting against the
murder of the ScottsbOrO boys by
"the bloody yankee imperialism
that Expresses our people in Latin
America as well as the proletariat
Of the United States, that exploits
and Iynches the Negro masses in
the most horrible manner in the
South, and seeks to cynically as
SaSinate the innocent Scottsboro
boys" This resolution also de-
mands the immediate freedom of
the accused boys and pledges the
support of the Cuban workers ito
hold back the criminal hand of
Yankee imperialism and to obtain
the freedom of the victims of capt.
talist frame-ups and class justice"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
ROlph Again Delays
Decision on Mooney

Gov. James Rolph, Jr., Of Cali
tornia, has again postponed his
decision on the demands of the
working class for the release of
Tom Mooney, who has been held
IN Jail for over Is years on a
Iramed-up charge in spite of the
general admission of his limo
cence.
Rolph had promised to an
uounce his decision until tomor-
row. The continued postpone
ments by Rolph are clearly a
vancouver to drag out the case in
the hope that the workers will
relax their vigilance. The CAL
ifornia bosses have declared their
opposition to releasing Mooney on
the grounds that Mooney will be
free to tour the country and help
to rouse the working class to re-
sistance against the bosses hun
ger, war and terror offensive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
GORKY'S "CAIN AND ARTEM"
AT ACME THEATRE TO-DAY

Maxim Gorky's famous story, "Cain
and Artem," screened in the USSR
and enacted by Soviet workers, will
be shown at the Acme Theatre, 14th
Street and Union Square for three
days beginning today and continuing
Thursday and Friday. Thi sis the
well known story of the cobbler and
the peasant, in atown on the Volga.
The screen version of the Gorky novel
presents vivid picture of the life as
it was lived in the small towns. The
Gorky characters, under the direc-
ton OF Petroff-Bitoff seem to live
again.
The "Anti-Ford Demonstration, !"
presented by the w. I. r. will be
shown as an added feature at the
Acme. Also scenes of tht New York
evictions and other items taken by
the w. I. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Cuban Workers Demonstrate
Before National City Bank
Against ScottSbor0 Verdicts

Understanding the growing inn
portance of uniting their struggle
with the struggles of the working
class in other countries, in spite Of
the criminal terror maintained by
the Machado Yankee imperialist
regime, the workers of Cuba are
taking part in the international
protest against the legal murder
of the innocent ScottsbOro boys.
Being unable to hold demon
stration before the American En-
bassy because of the strong and
ell armed guard around 1t, the
workers of Havana held very
successful demonstration on April
in front of the offices of the Ma
tiOnal City Bank branch, stOning
and breaking all the windows of
the greedy imperialist institution
that enslaves the Cuban masses
and sucks their sweat and blood.
The officials of the National City
Bank fired on the workers to ter
rOrize them and break up the DEM
onStratiOn, but the Havana work
ers were firm in their intentions
of expressing their indignation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
4 USHNY'S BLUE BIRD" PLAYERS
OPEN AT CORT THURSDAY

Yascha Yushny's revenue, the
blue Bird" opens at the Cor.
theatre on Thursday night, for an
engagement of two weeks. YushnJ
established his playhouse-YuShny =
Theatre-in the German capital tel
years ago where it has proven very
popular. Yushny's troupe, numbering
nearly fifty artists has played in
$50 cities and given more than 1000
performances before coming to this
country last October. Snce then the
company has made an extensive tour
of the states.
Yushny's production has special
song ensembles, dance features, and
many folksongs of old Russia. A spe-
cial feature of Yushny's program is
called with the Gypsies." lisa Kre-
mer, well known artist, will be heard
in this ensemble.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20

WASHINGTON. 49, With the hear
ngs for advocates" of the bonus
payment concluded and She re-
hainder Of the session given over to
the Wall Street opponents Of the
bonus bill Congress has already
given indication that it will kill the
bill.
Significantly enough the denla-
sogue and "eX-Socialist" La Guar
dia will be among the first to step
forward against he payment of 81
100000 due the world war vet
krans in the form of the bonus. He
Is slated to testify together with
the open reactionary and outright
spokesman for Wall Street, Repre-
sentative Johnson.
The whole course of the hearing
on the bonus has exposed the fake
friends of the veterans such as
Representative Patten. Their whole
argument was not for the bonus but
for a huge currency initiation which
would in effect kill the bonus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Thousands Protest Attempt
to DepOrt Jack Schneider

NEW YORK.-A large protest
meeting was held Monday night at
Irving Plaza to protest against the
attempt of Kaufman, Matthew VOL,
McGrady, together with the immi-
grafton authorities to deport Jack
Schneider, organizer of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union and
the frame-up against the three
dressmakers, Dave Turner, Salvatore
Adachi and Leonard Miller who are
in Bronx County Jail awaiting SEN
tence.
The following speakers addressed
the meeting: Richard B. Moore,
from the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights, June Croll who has
just been released on bail after four
months Imprisonment in Kentucky,
j. Hacker, secretary of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and Ben Gold,
secretary of the Industrial Union.
The speakers explained the motives
of the government of the A. F. of l..
officials in prosecuting militant
workers in an effort to crush the
class struggle unions.
A resolution was adopted con-
demning the treacherous activities of
the A. F. of L. bureaucrats, agents Of
the bosses, and pledging to support
in the organization of a general de-
Tense movement and endorsing the
united front conference called by
the International Labor Defense
and the Trade Union Unity League
against injunctions, deportations and
persecution of militant workers.
kilograms we're sent to Borich, sec
rotary of the National Miners Union,
to Edith Berkman, an organizer of
the National Textile Workers Union,
and other political prisoners.
Schneider Released on Bail
Jack Schneider has peen released
on $4,000 bail. The Union, together
with the International Labor Defense
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
ICKENS HAS
POLICE ATTACK
.SCOTTSBORO MEET
Supports LynchVerdict
Against Negro
Boys

NEW YORK. - William PickenS,
national field organizer of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, called on
police to arrest workers who were
holding a meeting outside church
protesting the Scottsboro frame-up
in San Diego, April 10, where he was
speaking.
Pickens first denied Frank Spector,
International Labor Defense organ
izer, the right to speak at meeting
called in the Calvary Baptist Church
to discuss the Scottsboro case" In
this meeting Pickens attacked the
International Labor Defense, and at
tempted to apologize for the traitor
GUS tactics of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Colored
People in the critical situation caused
by the Scottsboro plot to legally
lynch the eight Negro boys. Pickens
advised his audience to submit to
the boss-class lynch policy, to abide
by the decision of the courts and the
due processes" of capitalist law, and
counseled a cowardly avoidance of
the International Labor Defense, be-
cause of its militancy.
Denied the chance to reply to
Pickens charges in the church, and
denied the opportunity to ask ques-
tons or to tell the truth about the
fight of the International Labor De-
Tense for the release of the Scots
boro boys, Frank Spector and sew
eral hundred Negro and white work
ers began to hold their own meeting
outside the church, and many from
within the church gathered around
to hear. Pickens, enraged that the
workers should thus break up his
peaceful meeting, called the police,
who attacked the meeting outside the
church. This action was taken by
Pickens in spite of his announcement
at the beginning of his talk in the
church that questions would be per-
mitted and would be answered.
The anger of Pickens can be ex-
planned by the fact that a number of
Negro workers had joined the Inter
national Labor Defense, at g. meet
ing addressed by Spector on the
previous night, and a considerable
portion of the crowd we're skeptical
of the promises made by the N.A.A.
C.P. and openly friendly to the In
ternational Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Deepened Crisis
Forces Chile Off
Gold Standard
Is Goth Country to
Leave Gold

SANTIAGO, Chile.-Despite all
the efforts of American imperialism
to keep its virtual colony, Chine on
the gold standard, an official bill de-
claring it's abolition was passed two
days ago.
The abolition of the gold standard
in Chile was merely an official geS-
ture of acknowledgement of con-
dition which has existed since last
July. At that time the government
coin, the peso, began to decline at a
rapid rate until it had lost It's gold
value completely.
An embargo on the export Of GOLD
from the country was passed during
that month. This failed, however,
and the government was forced to
appoint commission Monday to
determine the value of the peso from
day to day on the basis Of supply
and demand.
This action gives of1icial seal to the
complete collapse of the whole Chill
can currency system based on the
peso. The value Of the peso is ex-
pected to fall Immediately from g
rate of for one American dollar
to more than 20 to the dollar.
The collapse of the Chilean cur
rency is measure of the intensifi
cation of the crisis in South America
The depreciation Of the currency has
so lowered the standard of living Of
the masses and produced such mass
revolt that the government was
forced to make the gesture of Off
cially abandoning the gold standard
in an attempt to nislead the workers
and peasants into believing that
something was being done for them
This was admitted by Finance
Minister Luis 1zquierdo who de.
elared that the peso must be taken
off the gold standard or Socialism
or possibly Communism" would re-
suit.
The abandoning of the gold stand
ard by Chile make a total of Is
countries that have dropped the
gold standard officially or actually
The Greek currency system is also
threatened as the bonds of the coun-
try fell yesterday from 8 to 7 points
on the basis of the threatened de-
fault Of the Greek government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Fake ''Friends" of Veterans
Bonus Exposed in Hearing

The House Ways and Means Com
mittee, however, revealed that the
Wall Street government has already
embarked on the path of initiation
and is now looking for a way to
force the tremendous additional
paper money issues into the market
in order to force up prices at the
expense of the masses.
This was clearly indicated in yes
terday's session by Patten himself
who said;
"The Federal Reserve Board
now is expanding the currency to
meet the arguments we are max
ing here. 1t has admitted it has
been wrong for months.
But who knOws-after congress
adjOurns and after the election
that the board won't withdraw this
currency; if we pay the bonus with
treasury notes, the board could not
retire them and the money would
become part of the national cur
rency system"
This statement uncovers the en-
tire maneuver behind the backing of
the bonus by Representative Patten
and his crew. They want. a guar
antee that Congress will not retreat
from its present program of initiation.
In this way the $4,000, 100000 which
Patten wants issued in paper money
tor the bonus will be worth only a
fractional part Of its paper value.
The veterans, according to Patterns
plan, would be receiving the bonus in
paper money only to have it taken
away Immediately by tremendous
fall in the value of the money.
Under pressure of the rank and
file veterans, Patten hopes to cash in
on the popularity following from his
hypocritical support Of the bonus and
at the same time carry out the Wall
st. program by giving the bonus with
one hand and taking it away with
the other by the process of initiation
which will make the bonus practically
worthless. The net result of the plan
of Patten will be to prevent the full
payment of the bonus to the world
war veterans.
In opposition to the hypocritical
support of the bonus by these Wall
st. politicians, the Communist Party
and the Workers ExServicemen's
League demands that the veterans
receive the $2,4OO,OOo,OOO due them
without initiation currency and at the
expense of the government, the mil
Honaires and the huge expenditures
for war preparations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
Cannon or Tractors"
Endorsed by Arteff

NEW YORK. - The Arteff has de-
cided to call off its showing on April
"a In order that all members, friends
and supporters will be free to attend
the mass membership showing Of
"Cannons or Tractors" at the Fifth
Avenue Theatre, 28th Street and
Broadway, it was announced by the
w. I. r.
This action came as a result of the
enthusiastic response of delegates to
a conference representing $50 jew
ish working class organizations at
which two reels Of the film Can
mons or Tractors" were shown.
Speaking before this conference
Michael Burd, district secretary of
the w. I. r. said "You have wrested
the theatre from the Jewish borge-
oisie. We are now attempting to tear
the moving picture from the grasp of
Hollywood. In this great task we ask
your support and active participa-
ton" Enthusiastic response was
shown and blocks of membership
tickets Immediately distributed for
the showing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20

are determined to carry on fight
against the deportation and all
needle trades workers are called upon
to mobilize their ranks to fight
against the deportation Of Jack
Schneider which is the beginning of
a campaign to terrorize the fighting
fur workers and other needle trades
workers with threats of deportation.
Dave Turner, Salvatore Adolchi
and Leonad Mile who wee found
guilty on a frame-up charge cooked
up by Schlessinger with the aid of
the Lovestoneites, will come up for
sentence in Bronx County Court to-
day. Regardless of what the sentence
may be, these frame-ups will not
stop the growing movement of the
dressmakers against the sWeatshop
conditions and for united struggle
of all the workers to secure decent
living conditions and build one class
struggle union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-20
TROOPS FAIL
TO HALT OHIO
COAL MINERS
Masses March Despite
National Guard
Mobilization

CADIZ Ohio.-The state of open
warfare continues throughout the
mining fields. DetachmentS of
troops numbering over 600 remain
concentrated around the SOmmers
mine where three miners may not
congregate within a mile of any
coal mine property.
Miners, however, are mobilizing
their forces planning to picket the
mines despite the armed terror.
Close to Hooking Valley the roads
are black with miners moving in
a Southernly direction. Over their
heads flew military aeroplanes
spying on their movements, but
stu the miners, grim and deter
mined, carched on. They have
pledged to establish a picket line
$4,000 strong-a mass picket line,
the kind the National Miners I'm
ion advocates.
One of the largest outpourings
Of miners ever seen in this region
was at the mass funeral of William
Kimble, the striking miner who
was killed by a member of the
National Guard as he stood on the
picket line. Over 10000 attended
this funeral In a body. Indigna-
ton was high against the brutal
murder.
Out of the tense crowd a miner
shouted: Eve will never go back
until THE wage-cut is taken back"
John Cirque, however, has never
at any time mentioned the wage
cut. All he wants Is the uniform
wage scale and the checkoc,
In the crowd a miner told Of the
battle last Thursday morning, how
the sheriff gathered up scabs and
tried to bring them into the mine.
When a picket with an American
flag stepped out 10 stop him the
sheriff knocked the flag out of
his hand and he and THE scabs
drove over it (the same flag that
the sheriffs and Cirque are so
anxious to defend from the reds
Miners told stories Of being on
the picket line the morning Kim
Bile was shot down. Through the
binding tear gas they saw him
fall With bullet through his heart.
Although the miners were fooled
fer q while by Lewis, Hall and
only way to win the strike is by
taking the struggle into their own
hands through rank and file COM
Rsithes. The influence of the Ma
tionaI Miners Union is gaining
hourly here.