Below is a dossier of notices, articles, and editorials from the Daily Worker on January, 1930’s racist riots, bombings, and assaults on Filipinos in and around Watsonville, California that would see agricultural worker Fermin Tobera murdered. The immediate ‘instigation’ was interracial dancing, but the larger background was the recently fought, Communist-led, Imperial Valley strike of native white, Japanese, South Asian, Mexican and many Filipino farm workers that signaled a rising wave of California labor struggles just months into the Great Depression. The aftermath of the riots which nearly became a pogrom, saw mass demonstrations from Manila to New York, a new attention on work among Filipinos in the U.S. by militant labor and the Communist Party, and the sense of a combined struggle of Filipinos in the U.S. and under U.S. rule in the Philippines.

Watsonville’s Anti-Filipino Race Riots and the Murder of Fermin Tobera from The Daily Worker. January–April, 1930.

California Packers Work Up Race Riots; One Filipino Killed. January 25, 1930.

WATSONVILLE, Cal., Jan. 24. A gang of anti-Filipino rioters killed one Filipino worker today and wounded several more. The attack began with the discharge of a rifle last night and has raged intermittently ever since. The dead man is Fermin Tobera. The fact that American girls accompanied Filipino men to a dance, and that there was a Filipino owned night club with American girls hired as entertainers was the reason given for the assaults. The California employers are anxious to keep alive race prejudice as a means of disuniting labor. Watsonville is a fruit packing center.

FRUIT BOSSES SEND GANGS TO KILL FILIPINOES. January 29, 1930.

American Legion Gunmen Patrol Cal. Roads

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 28. “Race riots” deliberately fomented by the fruit and vegetable ranch owners of California are spreading throughout the entire Pajaro and Santa Clara valleys. Starting in Watsonville with assaults on Filipino and Oriental workers, and the murder of one Filipino worker in his cabin by riflemen, they have been further stimulated by the patrolling of the highways by armed American Legionnaires, deputized by the sheriffs. Governor Young authorizes the Legion to “maintain law and order”–thus sanctioning the attacks, as legionnaires make up the lynch gangs sent against the Filipinoes. Many Filipinoes defended themselves heroically and the casualties are not all on one side.

THREATEN MASS ARRESTS IN CAL. OF FILIPINOES. January 30, 1930.

Major Concocts Weird Tale of Plot to Burn To Jail TUUL Officials–American Legion Leads Attack on Workers

BULLETIN.

STOCKTON, Cal., Jan. 29. The murder and terrorization campaign of California fruit ranchers against Filipino workers has reached here. Today the Filipino workers’ club house and rooming house was blown up by a bomb thrown from a blue sedan.

MONTEREY, Cal, Jan. 29. The ranch owners of California have chosen this combination summer resort and army post to spring a frame up on the Filipino agricultural workers. In a tale that sounds like a dime novel thriller, the press solemnly assures the world that a “Filipino house boy,” has “revealed to his master,” Captain John Bird provost marshal of the Presidio (army post) here that “there is a plot of Filipinoes, led by Los Angeles and Salinas agitators, to steal the rifles from the Presidio and conduct a revolution against the U.S.A.”

The details of this fantastic tale are that the plot was worked out in secret meetings held in Salinas (a vegetable and fruit center) which the house boy attended. He is supposed to have heard the “desperate leaders’’ of the Imperial Valley strike plan to set fire to the soldiers’ barracks, break into the arsenal and get the guns.

To Get the Organizers.

The connection with the Imperial Valley Filipinoes, who waged a strike under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League for shorter hours, better housing, and more wages recently, shows the basis of the whole thing. It is given a certain color by the fact that the capitalist press represents as “riots led by Communists,” the series of struggles the Filipino workers in Santa Clara and Pajaro Valleys have had to wage against murder gangs of American Legionnaires and deputies for over a week, with 60 Filipinoes arrested, one killed in his cabin by rifle fire and many arrests.

Mass Arrests.

The present plan is evidently, under cover of this colorful story of an attempted attack on the arsenal, to make wide-spread arrests of Filipino workers, and of T.U.U.L. organizers who are building the Imperial, Saline, Santa Clara and Pajaro workers into a powerful agricultural workers industrial league, to wage a real struggle this year for improved conditions. Charges, under California law could he made under the California criminal syndicalism law, or the murder or sedition laws could be used in the frame up. The Filipino workers are coming more and more to see that they must organize and struggle, and the arrests and frame up will not stop them.

MANILA WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST ATTACK IN CALIF. February 1, 1930.

Mass Meet Today As Reinforced Police Hound Workers Call California Militia Artillery Ordered To Be Held Ready

MANILA, Jan. 31. The entire working class, and the students are much aroused over the murder and hounding of Filipino workers in California, and the Ku Klux Klan and American Legion attacks on them at the order of the fruit and vegetable ranchers. Manila is placarded with posters calling on all to come to Luneta public square tomorrow to protest.

A thousand students adopted a resolution of protest at a meeting on the university campus yesterday, with U.S. armed forces stationed all around to prevent their parading through the town, as they had at first considered doing.

Police Watch Workers.

Petty bourgeois and reactionary labor leaders are hurrying to give the demonstrations as much of a “pink tea” character as possible, in order to mislead the masses. They are trying to popularize the slogan, “Protest Peaceably.” They refer to the demonstrations as “National Humiliation Services.” But the newspapers announce, significantly enough: “Police vigilance is increased, especially in the Tondo district of Manila, where many of the native laboring class live.”

Call Out Artillery.

SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 31. National Guard troops may be sent to communities with Filipino populations. Orders have been received by battery commanders of the 143rd field artillery of the California National Guard to stand by so that a large group of men will be available.

American legionnaires, armed, are still patrolling the roads in the Pajaro and Santa Clara valleys, to break up any attempt of the Filipino ranch workers to organize or protect themselves against gangs sent by ranch owners. During two weeks while the employers tried to stimulate race war, to divide the workers, one Filipino worker was shot to death with rifle bullets, a Filipino lodging house in Stockton was bombed, and many were injured.

An attempt is being made to frame up the Trade Union Unity League organizers extending the Agricultural Workers League from the Imperial Valley strike area into central California.

It was unofficially announced here that the troops will be used to prevent the Filipino workers from holding demonstrations tomorrow in conjunction with the Manila meetings, protesting the murder of Fermin Tobera, the worker killed near Watsonville.

Arrest 2 Communists Urging Filipino, U.S. Workers Unite. February 3, 1930.

American Legion Gunners Killed Filipino; Prepare to Send Militia to Imperial Valley

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 2. The American Legion attacks on the Filipino and Oriental workers continue, after the Watsonville assault of a week ago has spread to the entire Pajaro and Santa Clara Valley, and into the San Joaquin Valley. The latest reports show that attacks on Filipinos took place in Watsonville, Salinas, San Jose, Stockton, and San Francisco. The county authorities have done nothing to disarm the American Legion bands who roam the highways at will. The governor applauds their actions. The National Guard in San Francisco, and the troops stationed at the Monterey Presidio are being held in readiness to send into these areas. National Guardsmen in San Francisco are receiving special instruction in “riot duty” for Watsonville.

Legion Clubs Japanese.

A Japanese family on a ranch were beaten up by Legion hoodlums. It is reported that the unarmed Filipino shot to death last week was killed by a machine gun in the hands of the American Legion thugs. An American was stabbed in San Jose when Filipinos resisted the attacks of the Legion. A Filipino club-house in Stockton was bombed last Tuesday.

Two Filipinos in San Francisco were beaten up by a gang, because they were accompanied on the streets by two American women who were their wives. “Police protection” was given by arresting the Filipinos who were beaten up, and letting the thugs get away.

Arrest Communists.

Authorities in Pajaro and Santa Clara Valley are looking for the Communists who openly distributed 5,000 leaflets urging the American and Filipino agricultural workers to unite and fight the farm bosses, and which were widely quoted in the San Francisco capitalist press. John Little of the Young Communist League, and Vane Dart of the Communist Party, were arrested in the Watsonville area last Monday, and held for questioning.

Every attempt is being made to prevent Communists from reaching the valley. International Labor Defense and Workers International Relief representatives have gone to San Jose to defend Filipino workers arrested there for resisting attacks, and give assistance to those workers in the hospitals who were beaten up by the American Legion.

Militia For Imperial Valley.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 2. The authorities in Imperial Valley, scene of the recent strike of 8,000 Mexican and Filipino agricultural workers, have requested the state government to send the National Guard into Imperial Valley to intimidate the workers there and prevent them from joining the Agricultural Workers’ Industrial League, which was organized during the strike. John R. Quinn, Commissioner of Military Affairs in the governor’s state council, and former head of the American Legion, which is murdering and attacking Filipino workers in the northern part of the state, received the request “because of Communist activities there” and will act on it shortly. National Secretary Miller of the Agricultural Workers’ Industrial League, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, is in the Imperial Valley directing the organization campaign for the agriculture laborers.

10,000 PROTEST TOBRERA MURDER. February 3, 1930.

Great Manila Meeting Demands Freedom

MANILA. Feb. 2 Ten thousand Filipinos, bearing wreaths denouncing the murder by American Legion machine gunners of a Filipino worker near Watsonville, and the bombing of Filipino club house in Stockton, Cal., attended a mass meeting here today.

The bourgeois politicians and Catholic clergy were out trying their best to drift the resentment of the Filipino masses into harmless courses. A priest named Jose Mercado delivered a public prayer for the repose of the soul of Fermin Tobrera, the man killed at Watsonville. Representative Thomas Confesor and Dean Jorge Bocobo spoke of independence for the Philippine Islands “but only by peaceful means.”

The real applause, however, showing the temper of the masses, greeted speakers who shouted: “The Americans were welcomed to the Philippines with open arms, but Filipinos are welcomed in California with coffins. Rise and seize the island!”

BOSS’ GANGSTERS BEAT FILIPINO IN CALIFORNIA. February 4, 1930.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Feb. 3. A gang of Legionnaires and Ku Klux Klansmen attacked and beat up a Filipino worker here today. He was Augustine Vallego, age 20, working as a bus boy in a cafeteria.

The American Legion is still parading the roads in the Santa Clara, Salinas, Watsonville sections, where Legion machine gunners killed a Filipino worker two weeks ago, leading to a great demonstration Sunday in Manila.

The sheriffs of various California counties are still trying to arrest all the Communists who recently distributed a leaflet calling on the Filipino and other workers to unite and fight their common enemy, the employers.

FIGHT MURDER OF FILIPINOS. February 5, 1930.

The New York Branch of the Anti-Imperialist League calls upon the workers of New York City to show their solidarity with the militant Filipino workers, who are being murdered by the California bosses’ race hatred schemes.

The League calls upon all anti-imperialists to demonstrate their indignation against the shameful race riots, by coming to a mass meeting to be Friday night, February 7, at Peters Hall, 217 Fulton St., Brooklyn. N.Y. News from Manilla, P.I., shows that the mass of the Philippine Islands have shown their indignation and have been having tremendous meetings against American imperialism. its policy of subjugation and murder of Filipinos in the island and in the homeland of imperialism.

The ruling class of the island has united all forces of reaction to try and sway the spirit of revolt into peaceful and submissive channels, but the masses say, “Rise and Seize the Island.”

The same spirit of revolt is shown by the Filipino youth in this country. The New York organization, the Filipino Youth is calling upon the sympathizers and fighters against imperialism come to the demonstration and parade to be held Saturday, Feb. 8, at 11:30 o’clock at the Battery Park.

2000 IN ANGELES DEMONSTRATION. February 7, 1930.

Defend Filipino Toilers–Struggle With Police

Today at 8 p.m. there will be held a mass protest meeting against the butchering of Filipino workers in California and to unite Filipino and American workers for a fight for Filipino independence, under the auspices of the New York Branch of the Anti-Imperialist League.

The Filipino Youth for the Independence of the Philippines has arranged a parade and demonstration for Saturday, February 8, at 1.30 p.m. at the Battery. All workers are urged to come to this demonstration and unite with the Filipino workers in their struggles.

LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 6. A huge demonstration of some 2000 worked was held at the city Plaza Sunday, Feb. 2 at 2 p.m. A large number of Filipino and Mexican workers and many other nationalities responded to the call of the Communist Party for a demonstration of solidarity with the Filipino workers and in protest against the attacks on them that had been organized by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.

About fifty workers gave their names to the committee gathering names for the Communist Party. Among these names at least twenty were Filipinos.

The situation with regard to the attacks on Filipinoes organized by the respective Chamber of Commerce, American Legion groups and other reactionary forces continues to be just as tense.

DEMONSTRATION FOR FILIPINOS. February 8, 1930.

Fight Against Murders–For Independence

The New York Branch of the Anti-Imperialist League calls upon jail workers to join the demonstration and parade to be held today at 1.30 at Battery Park. The demonstration is called to protest against the murder of Filipino workers who have been the most militant in the recent agricultural workers strike in the Imperial Valley, California.

The League declared: “That the vicious race riots being conducted by the American Legion and sanctioned by the government in California is only a part of the general attack on the working class of this country, and upon the masses in the colonies.

“We call upon the workers to come and participate in the mass demonstrations, and use all class methods to stop this discrimination and fascist blood shed of militant workers regardless of color or race.”

FILIPINOES JOINING COMMUNISTS’ FIGHT AGAINST CAL. TERROR. February 11, 1930.

Scores of Filipino and Mexican Workers Joining Agricultural Union and Party–Protest Meeting Against American Legion Terror Held Last Tuesday in Frisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 10. Reports from the area where the American Legion and employers’ thugs have been waging a murderous crusade against Filipino workers weeks, state that scores of Filipino and Mexican workers are joining the Agricultural Workers’ Industrial League and the Communist Party in Watsonville, Castroville and Salinas.

A hundred applications have already been received by organizers of the Trade Union Unity League and of the Communist Party throughout the valley, where an active campaign is being conducted.

A protest demonstration last Tuesday night, against the murder of Steve Katovis, and against the American Legion fascist attacks on the Filipino workers, was held at Third and Minna Street, with hundreds of workers attending, and twelve workers joining the Communist Party.

At the end of the demonstration, the workers marched to the Workers Center at 145 Turk St., carrying banners. There Ella Reeves Bloor, touring the country for the International Labor Defense, spoke on the Gastonia textile workers and Illinois miners’ struggles. C. Campas, one of the Filipino leaders of the agricultural workers’ strike recently conducted in Imperial Valley, also spoke.

Last Sunday night, Harvey and Campas, recently from the strike field, spoke at the Workers Center to a well-attended meeting on the Imperial Valley strike. Further meetings for Filipino defense are being held this week in San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 10. A big protest meeting in Workers Center Hall last night gave defiance to the American Legion and fruit and vegetable ranch employers’ persecution of Filipino workers.

With the police present, but unable to dampen the enthusiasm of the workers for united action by American and Asiatic agricultural workers, American, Negro, Chinese, and Filipino speakers called on all workers to join the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League and struggle. Five in the audience joined the Communist Party at this meeting. Marie Prohor was arrested for distributing Communist leaflets to Filipino workers yesterday.

A mass meeting organized by Filipino workers in Oakland (just across the bay from San Francisco) was addressed by C. Campos, a leader in the Imperial Valley strike, and J. Studevant, Oakland T.U.U.L. organizer, on the attacks on the Filipino workers and the great agricultural laborers’ strike in southern California. At this meeting, three Filipino workers in Oakland industries joined the T.U.U.L.

SPIES FAN RACE HATE IN CALIF. February 13, 1930.

Shooting, Stabbing and Boycott Are Methods

The California employers, irritated at the organization of Filipino, Mexican and other foreign-born workers by the Trade Union Unity League, are continuing by every art known to foment racial antagonisms to keep these workers divided.

After weeks of attacks by the American Legion and K.K.K. elements on the Filipinos, the Japanese and Filipino workers are being incited against each other, and the Mexican and Chinese workers are being urged into the fratricidal conflict.

T.U.U.L. Calls For Union.

One Mexican was stabbed at Laverace last night, and an American youth was shot in the foot. A Mexican section gang worker was shot and killed at Sacramento, and the authorities have arrested and will try to convict Wong Sung a Chinese cook. Agents provocateur played a big part in these affairs, and are working up a boycott of Filipinoes on Japanese and vice-versa, in Stockton.

The T.U.U.L. and the Communist Party are distributing leaflets and holding street meetings, warning the workers not be led into this racial conflict, which the bosses desire, and to unite together as workers, without regard to race, and fight the common enemy.

Sabath Offers $5,000 Pay for Dead Filipino. February 19, 1930.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. A bill to provide $5,000 for payment to the heirs of Fermin Tobera, 22-year-old Filipino, who was killed by American Legionnaires attacking Filipino workers, near Watsonville, Calif., last month, was introduced ‘today by Representative Sabath, Democrat, Illinois. Sabath in his speech admitted that the killing of Tobera was without provocation. He stated that his bill was dictated by the fact that the islands are an American colony, and implied that probably the resentment of the Filipinos could be bought off for $5,000.

Filipino Workers To Be Starved Out. February 19, 1930.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Chambers of Commerce throughout central California have ordered all ranch owners to stop hiring Filipino workers in the harvest fields, in an attempt to starve them out and drive them from the country, because they defended themselves against American Legion fascist attacks in the recent boss-inspired race riots. Another Filipino was beaten up in San Francisco by the 100 per centers.—FRISCO WORKER.

Filipino Students Out on Strike; Protest the Calif. Murder, Insults. February 22, 1930.

At a mass meeting where the story of the American Legion murder of the Filipino worker in California was related, 2,770 students of the Manila North High School struck yesterday, and today are picketing the school. Only about 50 scabs entered the class room.

Bitterly Exploited, Filipinoes Find All Bosses Alike in Cal. March 1, 1930.

SALINAS, Cal. The Filipino workers in this country are bitterly exploited. They are mostly employed in agriculture, hotels and restaurants, etc., and are working under the most unbearable conditions.

In the Imperial Valley, Salinas, Watsonville and other agricultural centers we find the Filipino workers working long hours for low wages, as, for instance, the lettuce pickers in the Imperial Valley, who are making 26 cents an hour.

We have some Filipino bosses, who, under the screen of “countrymen,” mislead us and exploit us—in some instances even worse than the American bosses. In Idaho Falls, for instance, 500 Filipino workers—working under a Filipino contractor in the beet fields—are slaving 12 hours a day for from $3.50 to $4.

Fight Against Discrimination

We Filipino workers, who are brought to this country under false promises of “good conditions” and equality as American citizens, find that all this propaganda is only away to mislead us. For example, the recent riots in Watsonville and Stockton show up American imperialism and “Good Will.” These riots were organized by the Chamber of Commerce together with the American Legion and misleaders of the A.F. of L.

Another example is the recent happening in Los Angeles, where a Filipino worker and a white working girl went to the city hall for a marriage license, and being refused this license under the excuse that Filipinos are considered as belonging to the Monogolian race—and, therefore, cannot associate with white girls.

We realize today, more than ever before, that the only way to gain our independence is through a united front with the American workers—all fighting together for the defeat of American imperialism. Thus will we be able to establish a Workers and Farmers Government in the Philippines.

Organize Into the C.P. and T.U.U.L.

We Filipino worker’s realize today, more than ‘ever, that the way to better our conditions is through organization. The last strike in the Imperial Valley proves that the Filpino workers are willing to fight for better conditions. A few hundreds of us are already members of the Agricultural Workers Industrial League—and this is only a start.—Filipino Agricultural Worker.

‘The Anti-Filipino Race Riots’ by Wm. Schneiderman from The Daily Worker. March 1, 1930.

THE recent American Legion attacks on the Filipino workers in California has brought to the attention of the Party the long-neglected question of organizing the workers of colonial origin, particularly on the Pacific Coast where a huge population of Filipino, Oriental, and Latin-American workers is to be found in the large industrial centers as well as in the agricultural fields. In California alone, there are close to half a million such workers. facing sharp race discrimination and unbelievable exploitation by the bosses. These unorganized workers have shown the ability to fight and great militancy in strikes.

The immediate background of the boss-inspired race riots was the strike of nearly 8,000 Filipino and Mexican agricultural workers in Imperial Valley, which has its repercussion in Northern California as well. Attempts were made to import scabs from as far north as Stockton without success. Stockton alone has a population of over 15,000 Filipino workers. California has about 200,000 Filipinos. It is therefore no accident that the Filipinos became the object of organized attacks by armed hands of the American Legion in Watsonville, Salinas. Castroville, Stockton, and elsewhere. Not only has it been the deliberate policy of the bosses to foment race antagonism against the Filipino agricultural laborers, but also to create friction between the latter and the Mexican workers. Wages were cut down by pitting one nationality against another. Propaganda was spread about that one group was taking away the jobs from the other, and vice-versa. Over a year ago, during a strike of 500 Mexican agricultural workers in Castroville, attempts were made to use Filipinos and Americans as scabs, and when the attempts failed, the ranch owners had to give in and the strike was won.

The recent campaign of terror and murder carried on by the American Legion for several weeks against the Filipino workers had the tacit consent of the ranch owners, and was given official sanction by the State Government, which asked the Legion to “keep order,” doing nothing to prevent the attacks until the Filipinos retaliated and began to fight back. army

Then the National Guard and the regular threatened to enter the riot area unless the local authorities established “peace.” The seven Legion men arrested for the murder of Fermin Tobera, Filipino laborer, are now described in the press as “erring youth,” preparing the way for dismissing the murder charges against them.

The Filipino bourgeois reformists and nationalists played their usual role. In the face of murderous attacks, they asked the Filipino workers to be “peaceful.” The funeral of Tobera was turned into a priest-chanting affair, led by a Filipino priest who had turned police informer during the riots, and who was instrumental in the arrest of Communists in the valley. Moncada, chief faker of the Filipino nationalist movement in America, was busy pinning medals on the officials of the

imperialist government which is oppressing the Filipino people. Manlapit, once a militant strike leader, has deserted the working class and is silent on the race riots.

The entrance of the Communist Party into the situation at the height of the attacks, and its appeal to unite and fight the bosses, distributed to all the workers in the Pajaro Valley, at a time when martial law practically prevailed, had a tremendously favorable effect among the agricultural workers of all nationalities, as did the protest demonstrations held in San Francisco, Oakland. and Los Angeles, and the raising of the slogan for complete independence of the Philippines. The establishment of an Agricultural Workers Industrial League in Pajaro Valley was the immediate organizational result, with farm committees established on large ranches, following the example of the Imperial Valley strikers.” The best and most active elements among the Filipino workers are joining the Party. With the coming of the asparagus-picking season in the north, and the cantaloupe season in Imperial Valley, the prospects for a successful organization campaign and a strike of agricultural workers on the ranches is favorable. The Party must redouble its efforts to wing over the exploited Filipino, Mexican and Oriental workers.

THE CRISIS HITS THE NORTHWEST. Editorial March 13, 1930.

resent world crisis in capitalism resulting in the speed-up, wage cuts and unemployment has hit the Northwest section of the country with a bang. Thousands of workers are marching the streets of the cities here.

Already the lumber mills that have reopened in Gray’s Harbor after a period of shutdown, have exceeded by 10 per cent production of lumber products in the first week, than they have orders for. The mills have slashed wages and have increased the hours of labor upon resuming production.

Conditions amongst the lumber workers are miserable, and the militancy of workers is growing from day to day. Seeing what the bosses are about to face as a result of this wholesale speed-up, wage cuts and unemployment, they are resorting to the old game, to divide the working class by inciting to race riots.

The attacks upon the Filipino workers resulting from the strike of the fruit worker? In California was the fore-runner of the general attack of the capitalists upon all the workers on the Pacific Coast. The Filipino workers have been brought into the lumber mills in the Grays Harbor section because of their agility, swiftness and youth in order to place them behind the machines in the lumber mills. Now that the bosses have no more use for the workers, the local capitalist press, mouthpiece of the lumber barons are commencing to incite the white workers against the Filipino workers to whom they endeavor to attribute the misery of the white workers. In this way the bosses are trying to turn the eyes of the white workers away from the real cause of their conditions, which is the capitalist system and the bosses, and egging the white workers on to attacks against their Filipino brothers who are faced with even worse conditions than the white workers.

These attacks upon the Filipino workers, who are the most exploited and oppressed section of the lumber workers, is part and parcel of the whole imperialist policy of the American bosses. Thus the bosses attack the Filipino workers and exploit them to the utmost on the Pacific Coast and keep them in suppression in their home country in the Philippine Islands.

Already the Ku Klux Klan are commencing to burn their crosses on the hill tops as warnings to the Filipino workers who are being terrorized wherever they move. The American Legion and the Ku Klux Klan are the chief instruments through which these attacks led by the local press, are made against the Filipino workers.

The I.W.W. has degenerated into a reactionary organization and aids the bosses at every opportunity by attacking the Communists and refusing to take any action in behalf of the tens of thousands of unemployed workers in the northwest, but instead write their reactionary articles in the same tone as those appearing in the capitalist press and using the language of William Green of the A.F. of L. telling the unemployed workers that they should first get a job in order to be organized.

The Communist Party as the leader of the most exploited workers is already in the midst of the struggle together with the Trade Union Unity League and the National Lumber Workers Union is organizing councils of the unemployed and are holding demonstrations in behalf of the unemployed workers. March 6 was only the beginning of our drive.

The Communists are the only ones who are exposing the imperialist attacks against the Filipino workers as part of the imperialist plans for a world war, for the attacks against the Soviet Union, and keeping the colonial masses under the iron heel of American imperialism. The Communist Party calls on all workers to unite with our Filipino brothers in common struggle against the Klan, the American Legion, and the whole capitalist system, to defeat the imperialist war plans and to defend the Soviet Union, and is actively engaged in the organization of workers defense corps, consisting of both Filipino and white workers.