The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-19

The following is the Joint Mani
festo of the Communist Parties of
China, Japan and the United
States addressed to the workers
and toiIing peasants of the Philip
pine Islands and their revolution
airy leader, the Communist Party
of the Philippine Islands:
ITO the workers and toiling
Il peasants of the Philip
pines and to their revolu-
tionary leader, the Commu-
mist Party of the Philippine
Islands, we. the Communist
Parties Of China, Japan and the
United States send comradely
greetings.
Besides being an object of eco
nomic exploitation for American
imperialism, which manages to
cover with a veil of hypocritical
"altrulsm" its imperialist loot
wrung by force from the enslaVed
masses of Philippine workers and
peasants, the Philippine Islands
constitute an invaluable military
and naval outpost for American mn
perialism in the Far East.
NEED PHILIPPINES
AS WAR BASE.
American imperialists require
more than sugar, hemp and copra,
They require a military secure base
for armed struggle against imper-
ialist rivals for domination of the
Far East, for the hogs share III
the dismemberment and redivision
OF China now being initiated by all
the imperialiSt powers. More pres
sing still, America requires the
Philippines as a base for attempts
to crush the growing power
and expansion of the Chinese Sow
lets, the suppression of the Chinese
agrarian and anti-imperialist revo-
luton and for an advantageous
position among the imperialist
bandits for the planned war of in
tervention against the S. u, the
land of triumphant socialist con-
Struction.
THESE considerations outWeight
i all the philiStine arguments of
certain sections of the American
bourgeoisie. the "beet sugar liberia
tionists" the Dairy Products Trust
and others responsible for the vari-
GUS proposals in the American, con-
gress to grant" freedom to the
Philippines. These are the conSid-
erations, which have caused both the
making and breaking of such pro-
misses from the days of 1898 to the
present day. With the election of
Roosevelt and a Democratic Party
majority in the American congress,
a fresh illusion of independence to
be granted" will arise in the minds
of sections of the Philippine mas
ses. But nothing can be more false
than such illusions.
If the Philippine masses accept
such an illusion, American rule
will continue. Deception and force
are both used and will be used. If
and when the Philippine people no
longer can be deluded by vague
promises, then the brutal heel of
military subsection will be used
openly, even as it was used thirty
years ago.
One of the means used by Yankee
Hen, n mo t,toi,1 iEcolf ie
the frightening of the Philippine
people with the possibility OF the is
lands being seized by Japan"if
America Withdraws". On its part,
japanese imperialism, that reac-
tionary power which aspires to be
the gendarn1e and hanglnan Of
Asia, counters with q lying promise
Gas though It's imperialist promises
were not to be discounted even
more than it's silver Yen), that it
would respect" Philippine indie
pendence "if'' America grants it.
But meanwhile Japan prepares its
fleet
1t is clear that, to hold the
Philippines, American imperialism
is ready to make it another slaugh-
ter-house of colonial slaves as Nj
caragua. 1t is also clear that jap
anese imperialism is itching TO
make of the Philippines another
Manchuria.
The Communist Party Of the U.
S. and the Communist Party Of
Japan, in the name OF the toiling
masses of America and Japan, wish