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Show ANTI-FILIPINO ARTICLES , CAUSE OF PRINIER S I HIKE MANILA P. U July 31. Llnotyp J operators of Manila s three American .newspapers the Bulletin, i.'ablc New and Times, refused to work yesterday In protest against alleged slanderous Assertion the newspapers Sprinted .against Filipinos and their aspirations for Independence. As a result the pa-I pa-I pers will appear tomorrow abbreviated abbrevi-ated and without advertisements. The three ruwxpupers printed arti-cles arti-cles setting forth opinions that the. lillplnos as n race were not prepared :to accept Independence from the I'mt-cd I'mt-cd States. The llnotypers served the following notice upon the publishers. As aorktngmen. and above all as Filipinos who love nntl revere our most sacred name aa such, being wllfull) 'and maliciously offended b slander -loua assertions against Filipinos and our aspiration tor llbert and Inde-i Inde-i ' ridence, successively published since tho arrival of memkrt of congiess. we earnestly protest against these articles arti-cles for we regard them aa malicious, libelous, slanderous and misleading, and which tend to create opinions contrary to the facta and prejudicial to the Filipinos. As a sign of earnest pro-tsjsj pro-tsjsj vs.. absi.iiij from working in your shop." oo |