The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1929, Page 2

, aa UST 10, 1 Page Two oa LABOR The S MUNITION order to understand the split in he Congreso Obrero de Filipinas (Philippine Labor Congress) which occurred at the May Ist Congress, we must under: d the character of the Philippine Islands and the na- eir relations to American m: this doubly because of the insular ind of the American working c who should be the first with ass *\tance to the Filipino workers and peasants, and that, gene little is known Philippines in the nternatio le union movement. he Philip- mall islands of ance, we 11 ANSWERED CALL ». ON INT'L RED DAY Halted Work to Attend Big Rallies 1 le call of the ¢ feat the Po: fend the main fe: strations Ins pines as do: pict group fe more 1,000 square miles each. The Island of zon is as big as Holland, Den- rk and Belgium combined, and island of Mindano as large Portugal. The total population approximately 12,000,000, while ,000 live in d_ provocat kers demon with the pro- s of the Party in es before and on iitio! with a p: amr meeti rth to South of the n here the 1 the nd open air reside some tes. the prole were part Red Day the pr e pre fleet is abre tch of A few mile Authorities ited, g from within a S Much to the discomfort of the|of Japanese territory, in Formos local bourgeoisie the workers of the |in the North, to within a few miles Winchester Arms and Ammunition of British Borneo in the South; and plant were the first to openly pre-| Will no doubt play an important part pare to mobilize for Red Day. Dis-|in the next world war centered in the regarding the increased intimidation | Pacific. 4 : the bosses practiced since the re-| Like all other colonial countries, the Philippines are agricultural can imperia predominantly The aim of the Ameri- of course, is the control of the basic products and raw materials, and to utilize the Philippines as a market for U. S. manufactured goods. The Philip- pines rank first in the production of cocoanut, furnishing more than one- third of the world’s supply of copra, and hold a natural monopoly abaca, which produces an unequalled hemp for rope manufacture. gether with tobacco and sugar, these products form the basic exports of the country. In recent years, however, much at- tention is given to rubber and cocoa production, because of a monopoly in the former by the British; and re- cent Communist raid upon the city council meeting following the fata explosions in the plant, hundreds of workers attended the noon hour meetings of the Party held in the very heart of the factory. Two days before Red Day, Peter Chaunt, D: trict organizer of the Communist Party, was arrested while speaking to hundreds of Winchester workers in the center of the factory plant. The ammunition workers resented emphatically the cops’ pulling Chaunt down from the truck from which he addressed the noon mass meeting. Thousands of Winchester workers welcomed and cheered the special six page edition of the “Winchester in} To- | AGENTS OF U.S. IMPERIALISTS AND FAIL TO CAPTURE CON it neces the Philippines. This is being done by utilizing the same brutal methods ,/as is practiced by every other im- perialist Amer | suppr |and gestures about “ultimate inde- | pendence.” ower, while, in typical nouflaging their This democratic mask is intended to serve two purposes; first, to fool he so-called liberals and the w the United States, who may ll s f/believe that colonial suppression is u merican,” and to enable the |native bourgeoisie in the Philippines to co-operate with U. S. Imperialism, in return for which they will receive a few extra crumbs that drop from the imperialist table. In this way the American capitalists, with the co-operation of the native bour- geoisie, hopes to deepen the exploi-| tation of the protesting workers and peasants by centralizing the control | of the land and developing new pro- es for extracting wealth from} agricultural products. | The degree to which the U. S. im- |perialists try to preserve their sole right to exploit the Filipino work- lers and peasants is shown by the fact that out of the total value of ‘exports from the Philippines in 1928, amounting to Pesos 310,112,092, America took a total amounting t Pesos 231,171,751, and out of the! Philippine imports valued at 269,- 318,796 Pesos, imports coming from | {U, S. A. amounted to 167,716,135 | Pesos. Thus we see the “beneficial | results” of economic and political en- slavement of the Filipino workers /and peasants, which is being carried |out with the assistance of the na- tive bourgeoisie and American armed | forces, A Great Leader—of Betrayal. How far the native bourgeoisie | has capitulated can be judged by Senator Manuel Quezon’s state- ments. He is the President of the| Senate and erstwhile leader of the} Philippine independence movement, | as well as leader of the Nationalist or DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUG xRESS self-governing community’... If the United States really meant to adopt the policy of exploiting the Filipinos, there would be no power that would stop her from doing it.” This is a complete abandonment of the struggle for independence on the part of Quezon and his follow- ers, and represents the capitula- tion the native bourgeoisie to {American imperialists together with their guaranteed assistance in further suppression of the workers and peas of Robbery of the Peasantry. This process of development goes on side by side with the evictions of thousands of peasants from pub- lic lands, who had inherited their small farms from their fathers’ fore-| - fathers who cleared and improved these lands, which are now being sold in large tracts to rich land- owners. And lest anyone should think these poor peasants should have become rich enough to com- pete in the open market for owner- ship, let them not forget that all the methods of usury practiced in China, India, Africa, etc., are all prevalent in the Philippines, and after paying 50 per cent of the crops as rent in |kind, together with exorbitant in- terest on loans, the poor peasants | have not enough left to support their families. Kept in poverty, many of them often find their homes and tools sold by the grafting usurers and cruel landlords who are backed by the United States Constabulary. This is causing a differentiation in the social life of the Philippines which is growing, and is sharpen- ing the class struggle. This ac- counts for 50,000 workers and pea- sants marching in the demonstra- tion which was organized by Com- rade Evangelista and his colleagues on May 1st, primarily in protest against the evictions and arrests of the struggling peasantry. This class differentiation has been noticeable during the last two years and since the C. O. F. affiliated to the Pan- ry to completely subjugate! pose of establishing here a free {the latter being a feature still linger-| ier days of the C. dership of the ing from the O. F, Under the F, Per, U progressive and revolutio s have shown determi n to make a change.| They have developed their Marxian theories and propounded new organi- \zational measures in opposition to the reformist and bourgeois theories and tactics. Reorganization and Revival. During recent months the mili- have led partially successful kes, and completed a Unity Pact between the organized Chinese work- Jers in the Philippines and the C. 0. |F.; they advocated the building of |factory committees and a basis for | building industrial unions; they took demands of the unemployed s whose meml re incre they issued th manifestoes declaring for complete independence, and for a workers’ political party; they denounced the polit old parties and announ them- selves in favor of the class strug- gle—all of which is but a reflex of \the changing economic and political |situation which is correctly influ- | enced by the events arising from} jthe Chinese revolution and its be- | trayal by the Kuomintang, and also by the work of the P. P. T. U.S. | The above constructive proposals |together with others, made an ac-| |eurate political perspective em- | bodied in a theses to be submitted to Congress on May 1st. The reformists |and political agents of the old par- |ties found themselves too weak to joppose the militants in the Exec- utive of the C. O. F., so they re- sorted-to cunning maneuvers, At jthe Executive meetings before con- gress, they even accepted the draft jtheses which included a proposal for a collective leadership to replace the | old system of a president with exec- utive powers. At the same time they were preparing to “pack” the con- gress in violation of the rules and constitution of the C. O. F. The Reactionary Plot. Tejada, the leader of the Tobacco} ATIVE BOURGEOISIE plit in the Labor Congress of the Philippine Islands |declared for national isolation by a |demagogic statement to the press |that they are for the Filipinos and against alliances with workers of other countries, a Stevedores’ Union of only 250/imperialism, which seeks to isolate member: In this way Tejada and)the Filipino workers and peasants: his clique claimed a majority vote|it is also seen in the fact that the of the congre: every progress ive measure, It is no accident that the struggle developed on the question of the election of a Secretariat to control the congress, for this was an issue upon which the bourgebis politicians and hoped to defeat capitalist (American) press of the |Philippines reports this struggle was brought about by a desire to maintain the A. F. of L. Presidential form as against the “Soviet methods.” However, this should not carry much influence as it is clearly chose to split the C. 0. F. Comrade |Shown already why the imperialists Evangelista was in duty bound to challenge the number of delegates {and their agents oppose collective \leadership in favor of individual entitled to vote, which he did. The |Control of the unions. Credentials Committee expressed their doubt as to the legitimate num- ber, and thereupon Tejada, (who was chairman of the congress), in- | sisted upon putting the question to the “packed” congress, when the delegates belonging to the militant section led by Comrade Evangelista, left the congr This is the third time, in its 27 years ofsexistence, the disruption of the Philippine trade union movement has been caused by bourgeois politicians and _ their agents who seek to control the move- ment for selfish motives, and to aid their imperialist masters, Militants Expose Reactionaries. Apparently this time the damage will not be so great. The militant leaders have the accumulated ex- perience gained by contact with the P.P.T.U.S. The political awaken- ing of the masses is also seen in the response made to the call to hold a separate conference immediately after the split. The capitalist news- papers also reported more than half the delegates left the congress, and out of 35 unions representing a total membership of approximately 80,000 members, 27 are reported by them to have attended the provi- sional conference, This provisional conference launched the Congreso Obrero de Filipinas (proletariat), and decided to issue a manifesto explaining the splitting, fraudulent and disruptive tactics of these agents of Filipino capitalists. They also decided to call another full congress on May 12th, Worker,” the acknowledged spokes- man and organizer of the workers’ struggles in the Winchester plant. Arms Workers Cheer. The ammunition workers consti- tuted-a great part of the big demon- stration;on Red Day at the Central Green’ and cheered enthusiastically as numerous revolutionary banners | were jraised around the platform. Powers, Nina Raskin, Bene- Geotgh dict Kroll, Helen Spector and Robert | S. Kling, chairman and Communist candidate for mayor in the coming munitipal elections, were the speak- ers. Scores of police and plain- clothes agent provocateurs=mingled with “the crowd but dared not to challenge the enthusiastic and de- termined workers. In full military dress, Judge S. Whitaker, major in .the National Guard, scored the police and City Party, which originally stood for in- ‘dependence. But previous to the} | departure of Governor Stimson from | garding the latter, the U. S. A. does not possess other colonies with climatic conditions favorable for | the islands, Quezon said: growing cocoa. The country has “The United States are in the fairly rich mineral resources, but Philippines, not for the purpose of exploiting the Filipinos, but to help or develop our country for our own benefit and-for the pur- with the exception of gold, these are undeveloped, as the United States is not concerned in developing native | industry to compete with her own manufactures, x Pacific Trade Union Secretariat. It! Workers’ Union, member of the; The policies of the two groups are is especially noticeable during the | Democratic (Conservative) Party, | well-defined, for Tejada’s pro-capi- last few months; the native capi-/ and tool of the wealthy native bour-|talist faction rejected the Pact of | talist, politicians once more began to/ geoisie and American imperialists, | Unity with the Chinese by declaring mobilize their henchmen and re- was selected to lead the attack, and it “illegal” to admit them to the C. actionaries for a definite challerze instead of 54 delegates being legally |. F., but the Proletarian C. 0. F. to the militant workers. jelected from the Tobacco Workers’ | admits them. The reactionaries also The C. O. F. has been traditionally | Union with a ‘membership of 12,000, | voted to ask for the co-operation of class collaborationist and mutualist,! he sent 188; while 65 appeared from|the government Bureau of Labor, Imperialist Economic Policy. To intensify the exploitation of ‘Fa sc 1s t Dicta tor the Filipino workers and peasants) Grabs U.S. Youth as and to ecgnomically and politically | enslave them, the American capi-| talists develop their policy in ~har- | mony with their own requirements. The tendency is towards larger) WASHINGTON, D, C., Aug. 9.— farms and towards large planta-|A 20-year-old Sandusky, Ohio, ttions. This is an attempt by U. S. | youth, has appealed to friends in| financiers to obtain a monopoly of | tn United States to get him out of the basic products. The latter are |Mussolini’s black-shirt army in develogea’convtas curly: ea nilatee aie By OSMORE EATON. Fodder for War Use, Attorney French for arresting Comrade Chaunt “merely for illegal distribution of leaflets,” at the trial last Saturday. Enraged by the revo- lutionary appeal to the ammunition workers of the Red Day leaflet, read in the court, Judge Whitaker openly recommended more vicious | tion, the chief food product of dom- charges against Chaunt, but regret-|estic consumption, by constructing fully freed him because of lack of |/arge irrigation schemes in rice dis- evidence that he actually distributed |tricts. In this way American im- basis: large corporations own the plantations, the factories, transport jand warehous and control the products that make up the chief exports of the country. They are also aiming to control rice produc- the circulars. Hartford Workers Mobilize. Nearly a thousand workers par- ticipated in the Red Day demonstra- tion at Park Street, the proletarian avenue of the state capital. Workers from the Underwood and Royal typewriter, Whitney Air-craft, U. S. perialism tightens its grip on the Philippines. This development already tends to change the character of agricultural life, although farming, carried on by primitive methods, is dominated by very small ownership, and only a few hundred native landowners own 100 hectares or more. However, al- Rubber and Colt’s Arms plants re-| | Italy. | Giacomo Magi, son of Antonio} |Magi, was born in Sandusky March |15, 1909. When 13 years old he re- turned to Italy. Recently he de- cided that, between the bloody dic- |tatorship of fascism and the camou- |flaged dictatorship of the United States, he would like to try living |here again, so he prepared to return. |As he was about to set sail, he was ‘arrested at Rome and railroaded linto the fascist army. He is still |there—in the air force. | Magi and his family have ap- jpealed to Representative James T. Begg of Ohio to take the matter up with the state department. | Begg is doing so and the two gov- [Pioneers of Cleveland \Defy Police, Take Part In Huge Aug. 1 Rally CLEVELAND, (By Mail).—The | Young Pioneers of Cleveland were an important feature in the Inter- national Red Day Demonstration on August 1. The Pioneers marched down Euclid Ave. bearing slogans and singing their Pioneer songs. All went well until the Young Pioneers |were a block away from the Public Square. They were ready to cross the street when “the law” stepped before them and blocked the road. Ask for the birth of my power— Back to the back-bent slaves, back to the dusky Pyramid-builders, and serfs of sad Russia: There will I take you, for there is the answer. Chant Proletarian By ALEXANDER SACKS Out of the dark I come singing, Sledge at my side and exhaling defiance. Long in the lairs of despair and deep darkness, Long in the loathing of kings having suffered, Knout-lashed and fettered by sword to the soil—now Come I emerging with head to the sun, fists Raised high to the skies in power exulting.... While the officer bellowed ques- tions at the Pioneer leader who was leading the march, the Pioneers kept their signs up high, and workers came running from all directions. Look ‘at the grim-gnarled muscles of labor \ Leaping in anger from tired, dumb shoulders, Look at the massive-wide sweep of my arms—then Tell me you marvel at my power. | Look at my shoulders fierce strength exuding, The policeman asked why the chil- dren were there. He was told that they represented the Young Pioneers of America and must be at the meet- ing to bring the message of the Pioneers to the workers’ children of Cleveland. His eyes popped when he read the banners. sponded to the Red Day call. “The ready this new tendency has the ef-|ernments are shortly to begin dic» fect of driving the peasants from | kering as to which dictatorship the Workers’ Gun,” shop bulletin of the Colt workers, and thousands of Red Day leaflets were distributed at the | the land and adding to the unem- ployed in the towns. factories before Red Day. Comrade development” Mary Sachs’ was arrested and fined|by the for “illegal” distribution of hand-| Stimson (now bills. Emma Schlossberg, principal | State), the U. speaker of the mass meeting and a fiery Pioneer speaker received tre- mendous applause. Thousands of special edition of leaflets “The and a Workers’ Shot,” the factory paper of the| workers | (the latter produces big amounts of jincident is illustrative of the swift | Remington ammunition carried the Red Day mobilization ap- peal to the factories. Provocation Fails in Bridgeport. A gang of organized provoca- teurs, evidently from the General Electric and Remington Arms Com- panies and some Legionaires, made a vain attempt at the end of the huge, and successful demonstration in Bridgeport They failed. Hundreds of workers meeting. Spreading along Main Street, ‘practically stopping traffic, the mass meeting cheered ently listening to the revolu- Chaunt and Edward Mrasco, jan. At the end of the demon- ‘ation, the provocateurs started to shout. The snappy answers of the speakers, and the disciplined but itant ‘attitude of all the workers om silenced the bosses’ agents. ford Town Hall “Turns Red” eds of workers participated e Red Day parade, and mass led by the Party around the} Hall of Stamford. Two big| te ecorated the main pillars of ‘own Hall, calling for the “De-| of the Imperialist Wars” and _the “Defense of the Soviet while the speakers addressed 4 To carry through this “economic so much emphasized former Governor-General U. S. Secretary of S. imperialists find | Sandusky boy shall remain under. | Under Italian law, a la Mussolini, Italian citizenship, lasts for two generations, so the fact that Magi |was born in another country does |not help him. His parents were na- itives of Italy and that, according ie fascism, makes the boy an Italian as mush as his parents are. There was a large crowd of work- ers around the Young Pioneers by |this time and the officer noticed | this. One worker handed the leader |a contribution telling her that he Writ with the toil of uncountable eons, See the great answer! “Behold the hard and wan | Sledge that has reared you in comfort and pleasure Leaping with fury, destroying and smashing Earthward, to dust, the stern structure that . | mocks it!” would stick to them. The officer eyed the gathering crowd and eyed the Pioneers. “Well,” he said, “if any of you were 18 years or older, you would all go to the can. The Pioneers not only participated Red Day th" throw the meeting into confusion. demon- | strated solidarity with the Party at | _ the ry speeches of Jhn Vincent, | the mass meeting from the steps of |the city’s “pride.” The workers,| Magi will not be a great deal bet- gathered chiefly from the Yale|ter or worse off, whether the result Lock and Richards Leather plants |is one way or the other. But the war materials) applauded the revo- | and ruthless tactics employed by |lutionary speeches of the Commu- Mussolini to seize at trac tive nist speakers. material for his war machine. |in the cheering and singing at the | demonstration, but also in the speak- |ing. Hyman Chessin, nine years old, | Bertha Salva, 13 years old, and | Steve Marochka, 11 years old, spoke about the children and the war, child jlabor, and the workers’ children’s | delegation to the U.S. 8. R. Out of the dark I come singing, Sledge at my side and exhaling defiance,— Come I emerging with head to the sun, fists Raised high to the skies, in power exulting. China Imperialism’s Three Main Tools in ° =i The three who carried out the imperialist instigated seizure of the Chinese Eastrn Railway, to provoke war with the USSR, are shown above. Left to right, Yen Hsi-shan, Shansi commander; Chiang Kai-shek, leader in the butchery of tens of thousands of Chinese workers and peasants, and Chang Heiao-liang, war lord of Manchuria, whose troops seized the railway and aré concentrated on the Siberian A Best Bet for German Imperialism IMPERIALISTS IN CLASH FOR LOOT British Ask for Body to Control Rhineland THE HAGUE, Aug. 9 — In the clash which developed between Eng- land on the one side, and France, Italy and Belgium on the other, for the lion’s share of the war loot, the first session of the financial co mission of the International Repa: tions Conference adjourned, until Saturday morning. England de- mands a larger share of uncondi- tional reparations payments from Germany than the Young plan pro- vides for, At the first meeting of the po- litical commission, also held today, Arthur Henderson, foreign secre- tary of England’s “labor” govern- ment, proposed a plan to evacuate the Rhineland but retain control in the hands of a commission to con- tinue squeezing the German work- Captain Eckener, commanier of the Graf -Zeppelin on its trans- atlantic flights, is shown above at the vight, planning the proposed world flight of the Zeppelin, which will be converted to Voth workers border, prevented from invading Soviet territory by the Red Army. i f PU Ts E ‘Seale noe ers to pay for the war debt. pha ‘in the imperialist war, This shows the hands of American | MASS RALLIES — IN FRISCO TO AID GASTONIA Other Bay Cities Also in Big Meets SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.— Mass rallies will be held in the Bay District for the defense and relief of the Gastonia strikers and to pro- test the recent arrests of the work- ers because of the demonstration in front of the Chines? Consul in San Francisco. Ten ecmrades are faced |with felonies which carry with them Reactionaries Cannot Win Masses. Sentences from one to five years. There are some indications that file of those unions they were able to retain, for they have created a “Conciliation Committee” to make a “treaty of peace.” However, to re- gard this otherwise than an offen- sive measure would be a tactical mistake. oe But the C. O. F. (proletariat) will accept the overtures, and lay down their conditions: there can- not be any unity except that the unions remaining with the old C. O. F., controlled by capitalist agents, agree to abide by the constitution and rules, elect new delegates to attend an Extraordinary Congress, and proceed to deal with all propo- sals submitted in the theses and agree to new elections. In this way the militant C. 0, F. will ex- pose the hollow proposals of these reactionary tools who resorted to dishonest and unconstitutional ac- tion, The leaders of the Proletarian C. 0. F. will prove to the masses that this attempt was made in order to bind the workers and peasants more firmly in the slave pens o: imperialism. In this way it will be made clear as day that the reaction- aries do the dirty work of the native bourgeoisie and the American Cham- ber of Commerce. Peasants Support Proletarian C.0.F. The future progress of the Fili- pino workers and peasants lay in supporting the C. O. F. (proletariat), and already Jacinto Manahan, the leader of the Peasants’ Confedera- tion, who also participated in the Provisional Conference, declares his allegiance to the militant policy of the Proletarian C. O. F. ‘here is also discontent among the tobacco workers as indicated above, and one union engaged in the cigar making industry joined with the new organization. The direct appeal which will be made to every branch tute a complete exposure of Tejada’s clique. It will set forth the policy of the proletariat as against the policy of co-operation with im- perialism in the exploitation of the workers and peasants, The new C. O. F. will show the ultimate result of this uneven “eco- nomie development” which develops talist-owned plantations which drive the peasants from their land. This | policy can have only disastrous ef- | fects upon the peasantry and the working class, and cannot be com-| pared with development in capitalist | countries, for without a correspond- | ing development of industrial enter- prises (which will be prevented by American imperialism), the evicted peasants can only increase in num- ber, with growing unemployment in the towns and ultimate papuerization of the countryside. To the Masses! With Class Policy! Already there are nearly three and 600,000 are included as migra- of the tobacco workers will consti-| farms on a large scale and capi-| | I the reactionaries are doubtful as to| 17, their ability to control the rank and/1:yo Sons Hall, 11th and Clay Sts, The mass rally in Oakland will held on Saturday evening, Aug. 1929, at 8:00 o’clock, at the Na+ A movie of the Gastonia strikers and tent colony will be shown, “Mother” Bloor and one of the | strikers will tell the story of the jheroic struggle of the Southern textile stirkers, and participants in [the demonstration in front of the |Chinese Consul will tell the story of their arrests. The workers in.the Bay Dis‘ rict |are carrying on an intensive house |to house collection and collections |are being held in front of shops and | factories. Teams of workers are \distributing the Gastonia leaflets jand are obtaining signatures pro- |testing against the frame-up and | | | | million wage-earning farm laborers | | | |the attempted murder of the Gas- tonia strikers. NEW WALL ST, $0. AMERICA AIR LINE Backed By Bankers; Is Move Against Britain American imperialism, fighting Britain for control in Argentine, has taken an important step towards strengthening its commercial posi- tion and at the same time prepar- ing for the future with the an- nouncement that a seven-day air |line between New York and Buenos Aires has been organized by a group of Wall Street bankers and capital- | ists. The future that Wall Street is thoughtfully preparing for is its next war, which may be with Bri- tain, in which case the new air line will prove decidedly handy. The company will be known as the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Air Line, Inc. It will oper- ate a passenger, express and air mail transport service between'New York and Buenos Aires, along the Atlantic coast of North and South America, a distance of 8,000 miles. * * $5,000,000 Air Merger. DAYTON, 0., Aug. 9.—Details of a new $5,000,000 aviation supply merger were to be worked out at a conference scheduled to be held in Cincinnati today. The Johnson Air- plane Supply Company, of this city, is involved in the merger, as well as Powell Crosley, Jr., radio manu- facturer of Cincinnati, and the Fleischmann interests of Cincinnati. This latest merger comes on the heels of an announcement by John J. Raskob of General Motors and the democratic party, that he would initiate a consolidation of several big airplane accessory firms. These mergers, in addition to increasing rationalization, that is, speed up, firing of workers and wage cuts, have for their ultimate object * jgreater efficiency in preparations tory workers, while the urban work-|for the next imperialist slaughter. ers only amount to 300,000 with about 112,000 organized into the} cf =| CBee SR) much divided and scattered trade| Wet Wins in Virginia unions and mutualist organizations. | The C. O. F. (Proletariat) will not neglect to organize the unorganized and consolidate its forces, while making an energetic fight against the ranks of the workers. The 10,- 000 unemployed workers in Manila and the tens of thousands more in the provincial capitals and towns must be organized for their own protection. Factory committees must be or- ganized even in unorganized fac- tories to become the basis of form- ing industrial unions. And with the preparations for founding a real workers’ political party to lead the independence struggle which will de- yelop the political consciousness of of Quezon and his henchmen will no longer fool the masses. The class struggle has been lifted on to a higher plane. The C. 0. F. (Proletariat) is now the center of real trade unionism and prepared to cope with all the problems of the workers and those arising from the evictions of the peasants with the of the masses, peasants’ organization to fight usury imho i en and extortionate rents and demand governmental financial relief for the poor farmers to develop farming on @ co-operative basis as against the policy of capitalist exploitation. This is the alternative to selling public lands to foreign imperialists and rich landlords resulting in evic- tions to make way for capitalist en- terprise and large farms, The shorter working day and higher wages for all wage workers will also be demanded. This will be the proletarian answer to the splitting tactics of the united class enemies of the workers and peasants, the agents of capitalism infesting | the masses, the demagogic appeals | consequent intensified exploitation | Tt will assist the | Democratic Primary; Split in His Party RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 9, — The wet candidate, John G. Pollard, won the democratic nomination fer gov- ernor by three to one over G. Wal- ter Mapp, who drew up the Virginia prohibition statute. Pollard will be opposed by Dr. William Mosley Brown, endorsed both by the repub- lican party and the Bishop Cannon branch of the democratic party, who have split off from the regular dem- ocratic party on the question of pro- hibition. Both are viciously anti- labor. WATCH This Space for Further Announcements